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 Nov 11, 2026Thank you for bringing it to Forever, used your Buff Bars extensively through Classic and TBC.
My biggest issue however is the loss of filtering specific buffs/auras/enchantments to specific groups. For example, I had a group for Raid Buffs (like Ony or WCB) & Auras, a separate Group for Potions, and another group for typical 30 min buffs (which are now 60 in Forever). It made it easy to keep track what was missing.
Am I correct in saying that the ability to assign specific buffs/auras to a specific group is no longer available?
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Posted Nov 11, 2026Thanks for the work!
Can you add an option for a group to not show tooltips, and also make it "click through"-able?
I want to display important auras in the middle of the screen.
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Posted Nov 11, 2026Is there a way to have both the default buff icons (for keeping track of long term buffs) and then the buff bars buffs for the short term/important buffs?
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Posted Nov 10, 2026Thanks for getting this working in forever and keeping it going in retail. We used to be able to set a min duration for spells on a bar. Are you planning to bring this back or should I go about sorting out these short duration spells in a different manner?
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Posted Nov 10, 2026@Sir_Bearington_the_GrVIII Sadly Blizzard's aura containers only allow for a max duration filter and not it's inverse. 😢
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Posted Nov 12, 2026@Elkano Ahhh, dang! Thanks for letting me know!
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Posted Nov 10, 2026Installed the add-on, there are no errors that I can see. I created my own layout but it's won't update on UI to match. It won't even change to the "Blizzard (Preset)" either. It seems stuck on "Classic (Preset)". This is in WoW Forever.
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Posted Nov 10, 2026@britannicny Did you switch the groups to the new layout as well?
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Posted Nov 11, 2026@Elkano It wouldn't let me delete the comment or reply to it yesterday after I posted. Unfortunately, I found the place to update the setting way down on groups list of options eventually. I just missed it when I scanned through the settings. I chalk that up to the headache I had all day. Thank you for responding to my inquiry. It is appreciated!
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Posted Nov 7, 2026Thank you so much for your work!
In the Classic version, there was an option to make the bars expand upward from the title bar, but in the Forever version, I can't find that option anywhere. I'd appreciate any tips.
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Posted Nov 8, 2026@user_8awrh650uuykx4wu set a BOTTOM anchor point for your group (so its lower edge stays in position, a BOTTOM position for the title and a flow direction towards the TOP.
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Posted Nov 10, 2026@Elkano thank you very much
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Posted Nov 7, 2026anyone figure out how to change bar texture? i get no lua errors, and in the ebb config panel it updates correctly, but the bars themselves in the game doesnt change at all and keep the cyrlindlical bar that is default. i am specifically only using debuff bar in case that matters (and im trying to change to smooth / smooth v2 that comes with ellesmereui
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Posted Nov 8, 2026@Khelge Are you trying to change the preset layout? You will have to copy it first or simply save it as a new one. (just a guess that this might be the problem)
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Posted Nov 6, 2026does anyone know how to truncate spell names? some are really long and run way off the bar length
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Posted Nov 8, 2026@s4ntana not possible currently but already n my list to be looked at
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Posted Nov 5, 2026I've just tried installing the latest version in both Retail and Forever and I'm not able to make any changes to the styling/layout . Even when I'm swapping between the two default presets it's not changing either.
This is with a completely fresh configuration and I'm not seeing any errors in Bugsack.
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Posted Nov 6, 2026@bidaum Same. I just installed it and I can't edit any of the layout options.
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Posted Nov 6, 2026@bidaum Same here, can't edit. (Forever)
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Posted Nov 8, 2026@bidaum Are you trying to change the preset layout? You will have to copy it first or simply save it as a new one. (just a guess that this might be the problem)