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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_ForgeUser1943737
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Posted Nov 18, 2009
The selfcast works great for selecting the buffs I cast.

But I can't figure out how to show only and all of the buffs on me that I didn't cast.

If there is a way to make a group that shows all buffs on me that I didn't cast, I'd love to know. Could you tell me what the filter settings should be set to? If this can't be done, please tell me that as well, so I'll stop trying to figure it out :)

WRT the 5 min, I did mean the max cast time. It does work great for selfcast. I only mentioned the time because I wanted a group for "Not Selfcast and maximal>5 min"

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Posted Nov 18, 2009
I tried to make this a reply to Elkano's reply to me (just below this one), but I did it wrong, and added it to the top of the tree.

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Posted Nov 18, 2009
A guildie set me straight. I thought selecting selfcast blacklist mean make it selfcast as long as it wasn't on the black list.

For anyone else reading this, filter->selfcast->blacklist means filter out the selfcasts. Obvious once it was explained.

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Posted Nov 17, 2009
This addon may be just what I was looking for, but I'm stuck on the following.
I want every buff on me to show up in one of my 4 groups.
selfcast, >5min
selfcast, <5min
Not Selfcast, >5 min
Not Selfcast, <5 min

Similarly, for target debuff groups I want in one group
Immolate I cast
and in another
Immolates others have cast

Is there a way to filter for buffs/debuffs I didn't cast?

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Posted Nov 17, 2009
Alternately, a way to filter "All buffs/debuffs that aren't in groups 1, 2, 3"

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Posted Nov 18, 2009
Did you try the "selfcast" filter? ;)
WRT the 5min, if you mean maximal buff time it works, if you mean current it doesn't.

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Posted Nov 10, 2009
any chance of broker support in the future. I would like to do away with Fubar2Broker as it uses a lot of memory.

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Posted Nov 9, 2009
is it possible to configure it to show in tolltip from who is a buff/debuff?

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Posted Nov 10, 2009
I suggest installing Utopia, too.
That one will not only add the person who cast the buff to the tooltip but also adjust the tooltip based on talent bonuses.

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Posted Nov 3, 2009
I hid the buff bar and i want to bring it back how do i do that?

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Posted Nov 3, 2009
sorry i shuld read sorry!

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Posted Dec 2, 2009
I installed EBB, found it wasn't what I wanted, but when I choose not to load it, I find that my buffs aren't showing at all, even without EBB loaded. How do I revert my game back to the way it was before I installed EBB? I just want it back to normal.

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Posted Nov 2, 2009
Is it possible to make the bars go vertical? i spent like 20 mins messing with all the features trying to find a way to do it and i couldn't, basically I'm just trying to make 1 single white listed buff come up on a bar vertically next to my target frame.

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Posted Nov 1, 2009
Im having serious issues with this addon, at first it was not refreshing the time on buffs / debuffs at all, it would update when you changed the tracking settings but would remain the same after that(4 mins remaining on buff 5 minutes after it had actually expired).
It also was not saving settings at all between sessions, so a carefully set up frame would be completely gone if i re-logged.
Now it has progressed to me being completely unable to change the settings, if i try to change tracking or anything in the config, it just doesn't register than im clicking it, only the text entry boxes work.
Have reloaded wow and tried re-installing the addon to no effect.

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Posted Nov 1, 2009
It also, for some reason, does not appear on ACP.

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Posted Nov 2, 2009
No, but once 3.3 is live I'll look into supporting the new buff filtering stuff in case I find the time to do so.

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Posted Oct 31, 2009
Any way to make the buff list hidden on combat except temorary buffs like battleshout bloodlust/heroism or something? Love the addon 5/5

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Posted Oct 30, 2009
When I use this mod, the tracking button on the minimap disappear. how can I enable it again? Ofc it pops up again when I choose not to use this mod, but I love it :d

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Posted Nov 2, 2009
The button is hidden by default since EBB mirrors its functionality in the tracking bar. If you still want the button, just disable hiding it in EBB's options.

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Posted Oct 29, 2009
I'm having a problem with filtering self debuffs on target only. For instance, as a rogue, I see all other rogue's rupture's and poisons on the target. Am I missing a setting for this to work properly?

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