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 Feb 15, 2014It works just fine for me.
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Posted Feb 6, 2014I've been playing around in an attempt to minimize my UI. This has lead to a nice cut-down in addons, however, one is still eluding me: I want to get rid of GTFO. I don't have sounds on, leading me to be able to replace it easily with EBB if only I could figure out how to show negative auras. Initially I thought I could solve it with the following settings:
1) Make a new group
2) Set group to target player, Type: Debuffs only.
3) Timeless Debuffs: Blacklist
And leave it at that. Well, that didn't work. I only get timeless actual debuffs on myself (Ghost when I'm dead, Ancient Miasma on Malkorok etc), but I'm not getting the actual negative auras I want to see (standing in fire on Ordos, Noxious Poison pools on The Fallen Protectors, stupid resonating amber on the Klaxxi Paragons trash etc).
Now, I realize that a solution is to instead whitelist regular debuffs and find the debuffs I care about, however, that's not really what I'm looking for- I just want the group to show me the debuff (scaled to show a massive icon) whenever I'm a tard and step in something, anything, that applies a negative aura on me.
I think the problem may be that, despite it showing in the UI as a timeless debuff, it's actually got a hidden timer of sorts that's reapplied every x milliseconds to count ticks and shit, but I'm not sure. So, in conclusion, is there anyone out there with the knowledge of how to change the settings of my bar-group to filter out all debuffs with a visible time-remaining thing and show me ALL debuffs that act like auras?
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Posted Feb 5, 2014I accidently put to hide the minimap icon and now I cannot find it anywhere to edit the bars. It's not in the Addon tab under Interface, its not on the minimap, what do I do? :/
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Posted Feb 5, 2014try: /ebb hide
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Posted Jan 27, 2014How do I hide the buffs during pet battles?
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Posted Dec 20, 2013I have recently noticed that the EBB minimap icon overwrites the standard minimap "search" button (the one that allows you to display flightmasters/mailboxes/repair vendors/etc). Is there something that I am doing wrong with regards to this? With EBB disabled, I can see the "search" button. With EBB, I no longer get the "search" button.
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Posted Dec 21, 2013That's actually a feature of EBB from the time when you could only have a single type of tracking enabled.
Your default buff group shows a "tracking" buff that provides the same functionality as the button on the minimap did and thus this button is being hidden by default. You can however disable this hiding in EBB's options.
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Posted Dec 10, 2013Am I doing something wrong or this not work with Jade Spirit.... the buff you get from the weapon enchant. Its working with all my other trinkett props.... just Jade Spirit doesn't seem to show?
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Posted Dec 10, 2013Does the buff show up in Blizzard's display?
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Posted Dec 11, 2013Yea it shows normally in the Blizz display... as do all my other procs. I't didn't appear in the Elkano list until the first time it procced but has ever since. Still even though its selected in the list it wont display when it proc's, dispite Elkano's working with my trinkett proc's fine.
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Posted Dec 11, 2013The filter list only shows spells that are currently active in any filter or have been seen this session, that's why it only showed up in the list after the first proc.
As for why it's not showing up, I can only guess that something isn't configured correctly, yet.
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Posted Nov 14, 2013Is there update for 5.4? Want to make sure before I download it..
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Posted Nov 19, 2013I've been using it on 5.4 without problems, don' t think it needs an update.
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Posted Nov 27, 2013The point of "is there update for 5.4" is more like "is there people maintain this addon or not".
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Posted Oct 22, 2013Was also looking at Dewdrop stuff and came across LibDropdown-1.0 . Not sure how useful it would be to this project.
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Posted Oct 21, 2013I've used EBB for a long time and simply love it. One suggestion can you please port it finally over to ACE3. Because I have to have ACE2 installed just for this one. I tend to install needed libraries for addons. Instead of have x number of the same library for required addons. The only addons I had that used ACE2 were BigBrother and EBB. I eventually uninstalled BigBrother. simply because it wasn't as useful for myself. While EBB still provides exactly what I need. I know you could say just install the regular version, not the no lib one. But I hope you just update it to using ACE3. So no need to have a extra development framework loading. Regardless if its installed seperately or included. Thanks and thank you for a great addon.
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Posted Oct 13, 2013Hey, small question. I love your addon and i've been using it for a long time, but for some reason i can't seem to see some buffs in your addon, like the buffs my raid gives me, any idea what's going on?
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Posted Oct 12, 2013use two groups: one showing only this buff and one with timeless buffs blacklisted
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Posted Oct 12, 2013Hi,
I've been trying to wrap my head around how to make the buffbars show only one timeless buff: Presence of Mind, since its a dispellable/spellstealable timeless buff that matters (mount, auras etc dont matter in pvp).
If I was to whitelist I would have to mark all self cast spells in the game plus Presence of Mind.
If I was to blacklist I would have to mark all timeless buffs except Presence of Mind.
I even tried overriding Presence of Mind to be a debuff and whitelist only Presence of Mind but Presence of Mind wouldnt show up when I hovered over debuff whitelist so I couldnt mark it.
What to do?
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Posted Oct 12, 2013- set both groups to grow upwards
- move the upper group (the one that will be changing position), release it so its anchor is sitting just at the end of the other group
then it should snap on release and stick to the other group
There is no visual indication or snap during movement though :(
if this fails, changing the saved variables with an editor should work, too *hides*