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 Jan 11, 2018So this evening i started getting this error from one of the EBB libs, i think it's conflicting with something on the newest update of Bagnon, but any help to get this resolved so I can use my 2 favorite addons would be greatly appreciated! This is the entire bug string from my bugsack:
35x ...ElkBuffBars\libs\LibGratuity-3.0\LibGratuity-3.0-90042.lua:235: C stack overflow
...ElkBuffBars\libs\LibGratuity-3.0\LibGratuity-3.0-90042.lua:235: in function <...ElkBuffBars\libs\LibGratuity-3.0\LibGratuity-3.0.lua:227>
...ElkBuffBars\libs\LibGratuity-3.0\LibGratuity-3.0-90042.lua:235: in function <...ElkBuffBars\libs\LibGratuity-3.0\LibGratuity-3.0.lua:227>
...ElkBuffBars\libs\LibGratuity-3.0\LibGratuity-3.0-90042.lua:235: in function <...ElkBuffBars\libs\LibGratuity-3.0\LibGratuity-3.0.lua:227>
...ElkBuffBars\libs\LibGratuity-3.0\LibGratuity-3.0-90042.lua:235: in function <...ElkBuffBars\libs\LibGratuity-3.0\LibGratuity-3.0.lua:227>
...ElkBuffBars\libs\LibGratuity-3.0\LibGratuity-3.0-90042.lua:235: in function <...ElkBuffBars\libs\LibGratuity-3.0\LibGratuity-3.0.lua:227>
...ElkBuffBars\libs\LibGratuity-3.0\LibGratuity-3.0-90042.lua:235: in function <...ElkBuffBars\libs\LibGratuity-3.0\LibGratuity-3.0.lua:227>
...ElkBuffBars\libs\LibGratuity-3.0\LibGratuity-3.0-90042.lua:235: in function <...ElkBuffBars\libs\LibGratuity-3.0\LibGratuity-3.0.lua:227>
...ElkBuffBars\libs\LibGratuity-3.0\LibGratuity-3.0-90042.lua:235: in function <...ElkBuffBars\libs\LibGratuity-3.0\LibGratuity-3.0.lua:227>
...ElkBuffBars\libs\LibGratuity-3.0\LibGratuity-3.0-90042.lua:235: in function <...ElkBuffBars\libs\LibGratuity-3.0\LibGratuity-3.0.lua:227>
...ElkBuffBars\libs\LibGratuity-3.0\LibGratuity-3.0-90042.lua:235: in function <...ElkBuffBars\libs\LibGratuity-3.0\LibGratuity-3.0.lua:227>
...ElkBuffBars\libs\LibGratuity-3.0\LibGratuity-3.0-90042.lua:235: in function <...ElkBuffBars\libs\LibGratuity-3.0\LibGratuity-3.0.lua:227>
...ElkBuffBars\libs\LibGratuity-3.0\LibGratuity-3.0-90042.lua:235: in function <...ElkBuffBars\libs\LibGratuity-3.0\LibGratuity-3.0.lua:227>
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(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:9: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:5>
(tail call): ?
DataStore\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0-12.lua:558: in function `EnableAddon'
DataStore\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0-12.lua:651: in function <DataStore\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:636>
[C]: in function `LoadAddOn'
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:421: in function `UIParentLoadAddOn'
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:444: in function `CombatLog_LoadUI'
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:1100: in function <FrameXML\UIParent.lua:995>
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Posted Jan 30, 2018In reply to Vavictus:
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Posted Jan 31, 2018wasn't notified about Vavictu's post until your reply but have been in contact with him a few days ago via PM, so I'll drop (parts of) my reply in here, too.
I should also note, that for me, EBB is indeed running fine without error. But from looking at Bagons repository, it doesn't seem to be using LibGratuity-3.0, but maybe one of the plugins does.
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Posted Jun 17, 2017Since 7.2.5, Blizzard buff icons keep coming back even when 'Hide Blizzard buffs' is checked in the EBB options.
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Posted Jun 18, 2017Can't reproduce and there was no change in code (neither mine nor Blizzard's) that should have cause this. So my best guess is some other addon messing with them, too.
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Posted Jun 20, 2017Thanks, I'll go through my addons and diagnose.
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Posted Mar 19, 2017I would suggest to extend the "condensed" time format to display days (for buffs like the archeology buff or the Un'goro event buffs).
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Posted Feb 22, 2017Can you Please Update this Addon to 7.1.5 or 7.2 .
PLEASE
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Posted Feb 24, 2017Is there anything broken (besides outdated TOC), that would need a fix?
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Posted Feb 24, 2017Yes, you can not adjust it by right-clicking, no menu opens.-
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Posted Apr 7, 2017I have the problem that i cant deactivate any buff while infight (a.e. When i use Iceblock with my mage, i cant click the iceblock away and have to wait until it runs out of time)
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Posted Jun 13, 2017In the last week or two, EBB is not hiding Blizzard buff frame when receiving a new buff, causing me to have to go into the options and turn off and on the "hide blizzard buff frame" option.
Not sure what changed in the last few weeks, but ever since 7.1.5 this has been happening regularly.
Love your mod, please update it asap!
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Posted Jun 13, 2017Just tested, working normal for me. Did you try if any other of your addons is causing that problem, e.g. by only running EBB?
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Posted Jun 14, 2017After the patch today a lot of my addons are not working, between them: EBB...
Most of my addons profiles are gone and they keep resetting when i log-out and in; even when i just reload, any clue?
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Posted Jun 16, 2017Since patch 7.2.5 went live, my Well Fed food-buff doesn't seem to appear on EBB anymore. Tried with several toons, with several Legion-foods. The "Food & Drink" shows up, but not "Well Fed".
I solved it before even posting this. Turned out the Well Fed buff were white listed as well as black listed. No idea what caused that to happen. O_o
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Posted Dec 15, 2016Hey! Thanks for the great addon been using it since wrath!
I recently came back for legion and with my new UI design I was wondering if its possible to set max debuffs to track?
I have the anchorpoint pretty close to the bottom of my screen and when I go to raids or world bosses there are so many debuffs that they hit the bottom of my screen and then starts building upwards and above the anchorpoint covering a lot of my screen and basicly turning out very ugly.
So the easy fix for me would be to set max debuffs or have it so that debuffs even if they went offscreen wouldnt "push the anchorpoint" upwards.
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Posted Dec 4, 2016Not sure if i've covered all options in configuration.
Is there any options to "merge" buffs and debuffs?
I know I can put them together, but they are mixed and sorted by "time".
Can it be sorted by type first and then by time?
Thxs
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Posted Dec 4, 2016Just use two separate groups and stick them together like it's done in the initial config.
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Posted Dec 4, 2016I'll give it a try, thank you for the quick answer!
Cheers!
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Posted Dec 4, 2016Yap, it works! Thank you!