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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_ForgeUser41876
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Posted Jun 22, 2009
Can you tell me how to merge my debuff with buff?, i am able to do this in the past but now i dont remember how to do that again?

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Posted Jun 23, 2009
Depends on what you mean by merging them:
- show them in the same group (with no means to distinguish them): just select both BUFF and DEBUFF for that group
- anchor the debuff group to the buff group: just move the debuffs close under the buff group and they should stick

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Posted Jun 13, 2009
I don't know if I am just breezing past the tool I am looking for, but I wanted to do 2 group bars, one for target buff and one for target debuff. It keeps track of friendly targets buff/debuffs but not enemy units? Any help here?

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Posted Jun 12, 2009
Recently my EBB has become centered on my screen upon Log-in. When I move it I get this error.

ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\ElkBuffBars\ElkBuffBars.lua line 975:
attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'comp_y' (a nil value)
Debug:
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
ElkBuffBars\ElkBuffBars.lua:975: StickGroup()
ElkBuffBars\EBB_BarGroup.lua:151: StopMoving()
ElkBuffBars\EBB_BarGroup.lua:125:
ElkBuffBars\EBB_BarGroup.lua:125

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Posted Jul 25, 2009
Is there a limit to the number of things EBB can learn? Potent Pheremones shows in my buff list when it's active, but it doesn't appear in the filter list of any of my bars - not even the one it shows in during the fight. I haven't looked for Conservator's Grip in my debuff list, but again it doesn't appear in the filter options in any one of my bars.

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Posted Jun 8, 2009
Thank you for creating this addon is very usefull ^^

Can you implemt a function that track buff like sacred shield or judgment to the target that even if I change the target the bar continue track it?

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Posted Jun 4, 2009
Hey, First time giving your addon a go, and its clear and simple.

I would like to know if there is a way for when hoving over a buff/debuff to have an option for anchoring the info box to where the mouse is. I.e when hoving over buffs under your charater the box comes up where the mouse is, is there an option in your addon for this so it can so the same?

Thanks in advance

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Posted Jun 2, 2009
The filter is bad. I only have a few things I could set for the Blacklist or the Whitelist. Also I cant filter the buff Hot Streak (Mage) which would be very nice to see.
I dislike the options. Why not make a window for the option? It's much more clearly as this menu style.
Apart from that I like Elkano's Buffbar one of the best I know.

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Posted Jun 10, 2009
You only see buffs/debuffs in the filter that you have been buffed with since logging on.
Once chosen on any filter, they stay available in the lists.

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Posted Jun 1, 2009
Is theres a way to set up this wonderful mod to show a target debuff bar? Specifically I was looking for a way to show a timer on how long Paladin consecration has left to run?

TIA

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Posted May 27, 2009
Is there a tooltip font change option with this addon?

I ask because I changed the font for Group 1 and 2 to Arial Narrow. And now my tooltip font has changed to Arial Narrow also. Is this a bug? Or is there some option I changed which I can no longer find?

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Posted May 26, 2009
Feature request:
-Timer options for time remaining on spells could be improved. I want a simple option to display whole seconds followed by fractions of a second to two decimal places. No text please, no minutes. Compact!
-Horizontal growth. Why are the Buff bars limited to growing only up or down? I'd like to make use of the horizontal space on my screen more efficiently.
-I'd like to be able to filter for debuffs/buffs cast on a target that have been cast by me only. For instance, tracking Living Bomb on my current target will display all living Bombs on the target, when I just want to see my own.

I love your mod, please keep up the good work!

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Posted May 24, 2009
I can't thank you enough for creating such a great addon. So many buffs and debuffs to keep an eye on when raiding, and this makes that possible.

I have a request. I use several groups to make it easier to see the buffs I have, one of these groups is for consumables and another for self buffs. This makes it really easy to see if I am slacking on my raid buffing ;) and when I need to re-use my consumables. I currently have to filter each elixir, scroll and flask etc (and well fed ofc) individually to each group, and separate out my self buffs in the same way.
Is it possible to add options to the filter menus to allow easier separation of consumables, and of buffs castable by the character?

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Posted May 20, 2009
is it possible to highlight buffs/debuffs, that soon disappear in some time e.g. <5secs or so..?

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Posted May 20, 2009
ebb_bargroup.lua:93:<unamed>:SetPoint():trying to anchor to itself

How to fix this? I can't even see the bars anymore.

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Posted May 15, 2009
I've been trying to make two additional groups to easier monitor occasional buffs like Greatness, Unholy Strength etc. ans debuffs on my target. I've made the group, turned on Buffs (default) and White List under Filtering as well as marked the buffs in the White List. It doesn't work.

I've tried tons of other stuff aswell, restarted WoW and basically everything I could think of.

Is this a known issue or am I simply doing something wrong or is it possible I've got a corrupt version?

Thanks!

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Posted May 13, 2009
this is absolutely terrific. i was just wondering tho... is there a way to make it so that they can go from left to right as opposed to up and down?

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Posted May 10, 2009
hey there

Is it possible to hide a bar(group) if you are out of combat? if not, would be great if you could implement that :)

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Posted May 8, 2009
Since EBB shows a tracking bar of its own, the minimap icon for tracking is hidden by default. Just disable its hiding in EBB's options.

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Posted May 8, 2009
thanks

I tried to config directly from the sample of addon and not from /ebb config.

finished problem.

and congratulations by your addon, is very good.

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