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 Apr 15, 2009
I would love to try this but I can't seem to find the line "isMine = UnitAura" in my .lua

Anyone else having this problem? Trying to raid is pretty tough with a stack of debuffs on your target that goes to the top of the screen. I'd love to hotfix it but I can't seem to put the code in on my own... I've tried a few locations related to that barset but nothing has worked so far.

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Posted Apr 15, 2009
A quick fix for the Self Cast Buffs:

1. Open ElkBuffBars.lua in Notepad
2. Find the line that contains "isMine = UnitAura". Note that there will be some code before and after this segment in quotes
3. After this line, add:

if isMine == "player" then
isMine = true
else
isMine = false
end

Save and reload your UI. This should work.

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Posted Apr 14, 2009
3.1 is out and a major problem I am having as a rogue is watching my targets debuffs. I was able to whitelist debuffs applied by myself only before 3.1 however in 3.1 it is listing all rupture debuffs on the target regardless of who cast them. Any help?

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Posted Apr 12, 2009
Elkano's does not show Aspect of the Dragonhawk, but it shows other hunter aspects. Any fix for this? :)

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Posted Apr 7, 2009
Hey this may be a noob question but is there a way to filter out other peoples debuffs and just show mine?

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Posted Apr 6, 2009
Is there away to turn off duplicate debuffs? I need to track my own debuffs on a target but I don't need to see every other rogues' debuffs.

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Posted Apr 2, 2009
I feel slow for asking this,
but I want to use the Mimimalistic setup. How would I go about doing that? I cant find an option to do so.

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Posted Apr 5, 2009
Have a look at this, may help you:

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Posted Apr 2, 2009
First of all, love your addon, it looks great and the interface/config is user-frienldy and quite foolproof.

However i struggle to find the function to let the addon notify me when buffs on me is about to expire (like flashing screen, sending me a text or play a sound). If the function isn't there would you consider implementing it in the future? thanks :-)

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Posted Apr 1, 2009
I'm joining the Furiosu request. I want create horizontal icon group without texts for timeless, and another one for weapon buffs/poisons, but there is missing the function for such thing. If you will consider to addd it in future, it will be great if it'll come with icon border color based on group collor, and icon countdown clock-like timer, like if you are waiting on skill refresh, if you know what I mean :)

With those few features it will be the ultimate buffs addon :)

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Posted Mar 27, 2009
is there a way to show the duration of buffs on party members? (such as renew, PW:S, or things of that nature)

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Posted Mar 30, 2009
only if you target/focus them and have set up groups for that

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Posted Mar 26, 2009
Guys, stop leaching on people's hard work. If you have a suggestion to make or a bug to report, use the ticket system or the forum. Otherwise the website will shut down like the old wowace.com after developers get pissed off enough to do it. Or access will be granted only through personal authorisation.

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Posted Mar 26, 2009
Hello, is there any option or way to make the buffs show in a horizontal order (instead of vertical up/down)? I'm basicaly interested in creating a new group specific to only totems, without text on it, only icons in a horizontal line but I can't find an option for something like this (was only able to create a vertical one without text as normal).

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Posted Mar 19, 2009
Can anyone tell me who to remove the fake ''debuff'' which is always active until you actually get some debuff? It's really annoying and i would like it to get removed.

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Posted Mar 23, 2009
Just untick "show anchor" in the buff frame.

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Posted Mar 19, 2009
Hello, is there an option to consolidate multiple copies of the same buff? For example, can I make it so that only one Unholy Aura shows up even if there are multiple DKs with it in raid? Thanks in advance.

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Posted Mar 17, 2009
May be a dumb question. But how do I move the frames/bars? Tried everything.

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Posted Mar 18, 2009
Right click minimap icon -> group settings -> whichever group you're trying to move -> show anchor. You drag it around by clicking on the anchor at the top of the buff frame, once that's hidden you can't move it unless you turn it back on.

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Posted Mar 15, 2009
If anyone else is annoyed by the bogus "Blessing of Demonstration" debuff/tench, you can simply open up the file EBB_BarGroup.lua and comment out the code. Add two hyphens at the start of the lines that look like this:
if self.layout.anchorshown and #data < 1 then
table_insert(data, DEMO_BUFF)
end

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