Elkano's BuffBars
EBB provides groups of (mainly) statusbar style indicators to show (de)buffs currently affecting your char or some other units (focus, pet and target). For the player, it can also show indicators for temporary enchants placed on their weapons.
For over 20 years, EBB has been a mainstay for both long-term and returning players (at least some) and reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated.
Two-in-One Download
For Classic WoW, the addon uses its older 2.x code base, for Mainline WoW (Retail and Forever) it is now based on Blizzard's AuraContainer; all in the same download file.
2.x based on UnitAura
Version 2.x was a total recode, initially based on the Ace2 framework, later ported to Ace3, which became necessary in order to support some of the longtime wanted and suggested features. It has served well for ~19 years (since June '07) and made it possible to show different groups of bars which can be configured in many ways. Each group can be assigned an individual look and filter settings. After setting up a group, its anchor can be hidden by alt-left clicking a bar or the anchor itself in order to lock the group in place.
Due to changes Blizzard made with WoW 4.x it's no longer possible to cancel buffs without the use of secure frames.
EBB v2 thus limits cancelling of buffs to out-of-fight since using SecureAuraHeader would have required a major code restructuring.
This will be coming in a later version.
3.x based on AuraContainer
This is once again a complete artisanal rewrite, which became necessary due to Blizzard making auras secret in combat. This also gave me the push to include some features I already wanted but never included before. And you can cancel buffs in combat again.
Layouts can now be shared between groups, support multi-line/-column alignments, and give you way more options than before. But it can also just look the same as it used to.
What did suffer from the change of underlying technology are some of the filter options, as Blizzard has intentionally broken those.
And I haven't added localization to v3, yet. So most texts are in English besides a few strings reused from the game client.
Settings
The settings can be accessed via chat (/ebb), LDB icon, or simply via the game settings.
Other Infos
In order to get additional bar textures and fonts for EBB simply install e.g. SharedMedia which is available for download under https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/sharedmedia
If you have bug reports or feature request, create a ticket: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/elkbuffbars/issues
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Posted Oct 11, 2013Hi,
thank you very much for this addon. I'm using it meanwhile for ages.
I have a question and i wasn't able to find an answer anywhere else. How can i stick different buff groups together? On some on my groups it's working on others it doesn't. What i want to have is some groups one over another and growing upwards if there are some buffs. e.g one procc group and over it a healing group. But i won't get it done that both grow up without being within each other.
Thank you for your help
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Posted Oct 17, 2013Thank you very much.
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Posted Oct 1, 2013Hi,
I use your bars to tank with and I use the filters to filter out all of the debuffs except the ones that require a tank swap. I noticed that the first time you do an encounter the debuff you want isn't in the filter list. Is it possible to manually add the debuff or something or do you have to have at least one encounter before elkano will pick up on it?
Also, is there anyway to hide the anchors and only show them when you're in combat?
Thanks.
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Posted Oct 3, 2013Besides editing the config files directly, there is currently no way to add a spell by name.
There is also currently no option to have the anchors only show in combat.
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Posted Jul 4, 2013I have been using Buff Bars for some time now (when Do Timers packed it in) and I have a question. I run a DK and is it possible to use Buff Bars to track how long the Horn of Winter will last for other members of my party?
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Posted Jun 17, 2013Sorry to bother but this has ben bugging me since MoP dropped :)
How do you get the stacks when dealing with Wild plants in Sunsong Ranch to show? I assume I am missing something obvious but it would be nich if someone could point it out to me :)
Brumfondl
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Posted Jun 18, 2013Create a group with vehicle as target. Currently, EBB doesn't switch the groups target when entering a vehicle and the plants count as such.
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Posted Jun 18, 2013Awesome. Worked like a charm.
Been using EBB for many years now and love it :)
Nrumfondl
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Posted Jun 8, 2013Just recently this addon has disabled the magnifying glass that tracks anything trackable. Any body else or is this just me?
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Posted May 23, 2013I have a recurring issue with mousing over any of the buff Bars.
I get the following issue;
42x Buffoon\Buffoon.lua:109: attempt to call global "GetNumPartyMembers" (a nil value)
Buffoon\Buffoon.lua:109: in function "SetUnitAura"
Buffoon\Buffoon.lua:150: in function <Buffoon\Buffoon.lua:150>
<in C code>
ElkBuffBars-r169\EBB_Bar.lua:104: in function "OnEnter"
ElkBuffBars\ElkBuffBars-r169.lua:381: in function <ElkBuffBars\ElkBuffBars.lua:381>
Any chance of a resolve ?
I have tried to re-install and completely wipe everything (including save file) but it still shows up.
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Posted May 23, 2013As you can see from the stack trace, it's not an error with EBB but with Buffoon (whatever that is). Most likely that addon is hooking the tooltip API to show a buff's tooltip and has not been updated for 5.2, thus is still calling a no longer existing function, i.e. GetNumPartyMembers.
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Posted May 21, 2013Hey Elkano, using your add-on since BC! Thanks for the awesome addon, can't be more thankful.
1 Question which is bothering me really much: Is there a possibility to "click away" or "remove" Buffs in Combat?
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Posted May 21, 2013not with EBB2 since it doesn't use the SecureAuraHeader (which doesn't support the sorting/filtering options). And since SecureButtons are locked in Combat I can't use those either... so if it's only some specific buffs you want to cancel I suggest using an action bar with /cancelaura macros.
EBB3 will support SecureAuraHeader groups (with limited sorting and no filters) but sadly that's the only part working in EBB3 so far... (I'm a bit too lazy I guess :/ )
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Posted May 22, 2013thank you so much for answering so fast! Was very helpful, im looking forward to see EBB3 :D
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Posted May 10, 2013long time user, but i had to disable EBB to get my tracking button back (couldnt stop tracking pets or start tracking mining nodes..it was annoying)
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Posted May 17, 2013The tracking buttons menu can be accessed via the tracking bar showing in EBB's default buff list.
You can also disable the hiding of the default tracking button in EBBs option.
So no need to disable EBB for that.
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Posted Apr 15, 2013Does anyone know how to get the farming buff/debuffs to show up? They still show up under my player frame for Dominance
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Posted Jan 12, 2013Hi I am using whitelist, everything works execpt Jade Spirit, any idea?
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Posted Dec 22, 2012Any chance of this being updated soon? :)
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Posted Dec 4, 2012If there are 2 or more of the same debuff.. Anyway to display only 1, the one with the longest duration?