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 Jul 26, 2016With the current EBB v2 code base, sadly there is not.
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Posted Jul 20, 20162.5.0 - r188 is out as beta, let me know if you find any remaining bugs.
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Posted Jul 20, 2016Cheers for updating your AddOn !!!!
This Lua-error i still get:
2x ElkBuffBars\ElkBuffBars-r185.lua:388: attempt to index global 'ConsolidatedBuffs' (a nil value)
ElkBuffBars\ElkBuffBars-r185.lua:388: in function `HandleFrame_Blizzard_BuffFrame'
ElkBuffBars\ElkBuffBars-r185.lua:377: in function `PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD'
ElkBuffBars\ElkBuffBars-r185.lua:327: in function <ElkBuffBars\ElkBuffBars.lua:296>
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:9: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:5>
(tail call): ?
...ceBigWigs\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0-12.lua:558: in function `EnableAddon'
...ceBigWigs\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0-12.lua:651: in function <...ceBigWigs\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:636>
[C]: in function `LoadAddOn'
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:391: in function `UIParentLoadAddOn'
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:414: in function `CombatLog_LoadUI'
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:995: in function <FrameXML\UIParent.lua:891>
Locals:
nil
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Posted Jul 20, 2016A YUUUGE Thank you! ;)
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Posted Jul 21, 2016Working like a charm, no more errors, thank you for quick update.
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Posted Jul 21, 2016I'm getting something similar:
Date: 2016-07-21 20:43:39
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\ElkBuffBars\ElkBuffBars.lua line 388:
attempt to index global 'ConsolidatedBuffs' (a nil value)
Debug:
ElkBuffBars\ElkBuffBars.lua:388: HandleFrame_Blizzard_BuffFrame()
ElkBuffBars\ElkBuffBars.lua:377: PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD()
ElkBuffBars\ElkBuffBars.lua:327:
ElkBuffBars\ElkBuffBars.lua:296
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:9:
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:5
(tail call): ?
...ddOns\ElkBuffBars\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:558: EnableAddon()
...ddOns\ElkBuffBars\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:651:
...ddOns\ElkBuffBars\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:636
[C]: LoadAddOn()
..\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:391: UIParentLoadAddOn()
..\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:482: TimeManager_LoadUI()
..\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:993:
..\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:891
Locals:
None
AddOns:
Swatter, v5.21f.5579 (SanctimoniousSwamprat)
ElkBuffBars, v2.4.2-185
BlizRuntimeLib_enUS v7.0.3.70000 <none>
(ck=73)
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Posted Jul 20, 2016Will you be updating this for legion? I've used this mod since it came out and i'd feel lost without it!! Please do!
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Posted Jul 20, 2016Even though I have been hardly playing lately, I have no intention to drop support.
So YES, I will be updating.
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Posted Jul 20, 2016Cheers! <3
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Posted Jul 20, 2016Thanks!
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Posted Jul 20, 2016Thank you for continuing support! This is the best mod I've found for buffs hands down and have been using it for years.
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Posted Jul 20, 2016awesome
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Posted Jul 20, 2016sweet Thanks Elkano for all your hard work and keeping this addon alive.. LOVE it.
Do have 1 question. is there away to set up a bar for mob/boss that will show only removable buffs/debuffs/enrage ?
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Posted Jan 31, 2016The addon just shows what the API provides with weapon buffs being a different API from usual buffs. IIRC, most item procs show up as usual buffs so if that's the case for the proc you're looking for and you want it highlighted, just create a new group, whitelist it there (you'll need to have it proc once this session in order to show up in the menu) and blacklist it in the normal buff group.
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Posted Jan 30, 2016I am sure you have been asked this before, but how can you create a group for Tinket RPPM proces? The "weapon buffs" doesnt trigger for trinket procs.
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Posted Oct 18, 2015Would be nice if this addon could track DRs on target/focus/etc. Or am I asking too much?
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Posted Oct 18, 2015I'm not aware of any API for that nor am I doing much PvP, so highly unlikely at the moment.
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Posted Sep 29, 2015You fixed the time format.
Omg, I love you!
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Posted Aug 10, 2015The settings window, filter section, for each bar is not showing the existing min/max times, and as soon as you hit return on a new value, it disappears too. As far as I can tell, the time limits are working normally, just not being displayed.
Also, is there any chance that the settings window could show the group names instead of the group numbers? It'd save having to search through them or look at the Broker button's menu every time you want to amend a group.
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Posted Sep 18, 2015This was a bug related to AceconfigDialog-3.0, which didn't like numeric return values :/ should be fixed in r186.
I also added a new way to access a group's options, which should make finding the right one a bit easier for the moment. Showing/updating the names is likely a bit trickier due to the way I handle options, will have to test some stuff.