Elkano's BuffBars

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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 28, 2008
How do you separate the debuff bar and the buff bar?

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Posted Nov 28, 2008
Best way to put it back to default is to delete the saved variables file. I don't think there is any other easy way (besides setting everything up by hand from scratch).

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Posted Nov 27, 2008
For some reason on my alt, I accidently pressed something on the minimap button and it messed it up. I then removed and made a new group hoping that it would be at its DEFAULT settings.

But when I went on my shaman, I noticed that I didn't have windfury on, but it said I did on my character screen.

When I tried to apply the TeNCH thing, it came back to normal, but it was right next to the other buffs, while before it was seperate from the others, and they were purple (this time the weapon buffs were blue).

Anyway I could put it back to a default elk?

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Posted Nov 26, 2008
Blame Blizzard, they somehow broke the event. It doesn't fire when you leave cat form :/

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Posted Nov 25, 2008
i have used this mod since well as far as i can remember, love it.

i have noticed a problem since last patch. some buffs, like my DK aura and tracking ability's(mostly on my druid when switching from mining to humanoid tracking) are not being updated on the buff bar. the bar seems to get stuck on some of those buff's.

i had mining tracker up last night and it was still showing humanoid until i reloged.

not sure what would cause that.

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Posted Nov 25, 2008
Is there any way I can stop the bars from snapping to the minimap? I have SimpleMiniMap there, and even when I've moved it out of the way, I can't place the bars exactly where I want because there's an area of about 40 square pixels where the bars move of their own accord if I drop them there. It's very frustrating.

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Posted Nov 26, 2008
Bargroups only stick to other bargroups. So mabe you have another bargroup in that possition?

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Posted Nov 26, 2008
try the whitelist instead of the blacklist

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Posted Nov 23, 2008
is there an easier way to make a buff bar for proactive things like art of war. without going through the blacklist and clicking off every single buff in the game? i cannot find an option to blacklist all, and uncheck what i want.

thx

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Posted Nov 24, 2008
Canceling forms (and vehicles I think) is protected and thus can't be done via EBB.
Or are there any other buffs you can't cancel?

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Posted Nov 21, 2008
I really want to use this mod but I require the ability to click of certain buffs, but this addon does not allow me to, can some one help plz?

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Posted Jan 5, 2009
I can not take off buffs. And these are buffs I can usually take off like path of ice.

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Posted Nov 21, 2008
it doesn't seem to detect my deathknight's presence? am i doing something wrong? it won't show up on the buff bar

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Posted Nov 21, 2008
DK's Presences aren't buffs.

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Posted Nov 21, 2008
so i suppose they don't work like auras? cuz those show up

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Posted Nov 21, 2008
ya they sort of work like auras i guess. except the presences arent buffs they just do the stuff it says it does and isnt a buff like the auras are. ya sort of complicated i guess but i see my own logic lol

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Posted Nov 19, 2008
Still looking to how set the scale of the buffbars
Looks like a little big for my eyes
In the previous versions, there was the /eb scale X commanda
Can't find it now
How do I proceed to change the overall scale of the elkano buff bars?

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Posted Nov 19, 2008
Awesome. I had played around with it but just didn't get all the setting right. Thanks a million.

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Posted Nov 18, 2008
Is there a way to show Icon with just the time next to it without the bars?

Such as: [ICON]2:30

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Posted Nov 19, 2008
sure, you'll just have to set it up correctly:
- disable status bar and background bar
- set topright text to hidden
- set topleft text to timeleft
- set topleft text align to right (if you want)
- adjust width

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