Elkano's BuffBars
EBB provides groups of statusbar style indicators to show (de)buffs currently affecting your char or some other units (currently focus, pet and target). For the player, it can also show indicators for temporary enchants place on it's weapons.
Due to changes Blizzard made with WoW 4.x it's no longer possible to cancel buffs without the use of secure frames. Currently EBB limits canceling of buffs to out-of-fight since using SecureAuraHeader would have required a major code restructuring. This will be coming in a later version.
Version 2.x is a total recode based on the Ace2 framework which became necessary in order to support some of the longtime wanted and suggested features. It's now 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. EBB can be configured via a dropdown menu which is accessible via chat (/ebb config), FuBar plugin or (for the group settings) by right clicking the groups anchor. 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.
In order to get additional bar textures and fonts for EBB simply install SharedMedia which is available for download under http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/sharedmedia.aspx
If you have bug reports or feature request, create a ticket: http://www.wowace.com/projects/elkbuffbars/create-ticket/
You can also check my thread at the WoWAce forums: http://forums.wowace.com/showthread.php?t=5290
The most recent development version of EBB is available directly from the WoWAce SVN via http://www.wowace.com/projects/elkbuffbars/files/
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Posted Feb 5, 2026In reply to Elkano: Yep 2.7.7-217. Sorry, I mean that the debuff bars don't show up at all. For example, when I bubble, forbearance does not show up as a bar at all, see pic: https://ibb.co/6cVvDQcj
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Posted Feb 8, 2026In reply to StrangelandTV: Same. I even went into Kriegval's rest, and turned off "Hide Blizzard Buffs".
Blizzard UI shows I've got 99 stacks of Smothering Shadows. EBB only shows "Blessing of Demonstration"
Version r217-alphha
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Posted Feb 8, 2026In reply to StrangelandTV:
Maybe those were turned into private auras, which aren't even exposed to addons at all.
But since I'm hiding the debuff frame, and more auras have been flagged as private, I should look into adding some sort of display for them. But I can pretty much only tell the game "show something over there" 😒
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Posted Feb 8, 2026In reply to Elkano: ok got it, thanks. But wait what do you mean you are hiding the debuff frame?
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Posted Feb 8, 2026In reply to Elkano: That, or add an option to only hide the buff frame and debuff frame separately?
Either way, looking forward to having it back up and running again once the kinks are all worked out.
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Posted Feb 10, 2026In reply to StrangelandTV:
Turns out that when I did the partial fix fr sorting, I had a small c&p upsi 😅
Debuffs should be working again in r218.
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Posted Feb 11, 2026In reply to Elkano: cool thanks, looks to be working now. Are there issues in combat though? I don't seem to get any buffs or debuffs working properly when in combat. Either don't see new ones or existing ones are just the wrong time.
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Posted Feb 4, 2026so happy to see updates, thanks bud
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Posted Feb 3, 2026I keep getting this error on login and the addon doesn't work.
1x ElkBuffBars/EBB_BarGroup.secrets.lua:39: attempt to perform indexed assignment on local 'ElkBuffBars' (a nil value)
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Posted Feb 5, 2026In reply to Toptek:
That would indicate one of the files didn't load correctly.
Was there another error shown? especially regarding ElkBuffBars.lua
Are you using the normal version with embedded libraries (some of the libraries wont load as stand-alone addons anymore in midnight as they weren't updated but still work fine embedded)?
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Posted Feb 3, 2026Would there be a way to put time remaining in to minutes / seconds as quickly looking its a pain to work out how long left currently :)
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Posted Feb 3, 2026In reply to Twist3d6907:
Still waiting on Blizzard to implement means for formatting secret times.
It's the best I could give you at the moment ...
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Posted Feb 1, 2026I'm so glad Elkano's still the best :-)
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Posted Jan 30, 2026TBC-Anniversary
22x ElkBuffBars/ElkBuffBars.lua:385: attempt to index field 'db' (a nil value)
[tail call]: ?
[ElkBuffBars/ElkBuffBars.lua]:385: in function 'OnProfileEnable'
[ElkBuffBars/ElkBuffBars.lua]:305: in function <ElkBuffBars/ElkBuffBars.lua:304>
[C]: ?
[Ace3/AceAddon-3.0-13/AceAddon-3.0.lua]:66: in function <Ace3/AceAddon-3.0/AceAddon-3.0.lua:61>
[Ace3/AceAddon-3.0-13/AceAddon-3.0.lua]:523: in function 'EnableAddon'
[Ace3/AceAddon-3.0-13/AceAddon-3.0.lua]:626: in function <Ace3/AceAddon-3.0/AceAddon-3.0.lua:611>
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Posted Jan 30, 2026In reply to westi_de:
22x ElkBuffBars/ElkBuffBars.lua:217: attempt to call global 'GetAddOnMetadata' (a nil value)
[tail call]: ?
[ElkBuffBars/ElkBuffBars.lua]:217: in function <ElkBuffBars/ElkBuffBars.lua:213>
[C]: ?
[Ace3/AceAddon-3.0-13/AceAddon-3.0.lua]:66: in function <Ace3/AceAddon-3.0/AceAddon-3.0.lua:61>
[Ace3/AceAddon-3.0-13/AceAddon-3.0.lua]:494: in function 'InitializeAddon'
[Ace3/AceAddon-3.0-13/AceAddon-3.0.lua]:619: in function <Ace3/AceAddon-3.0/AceAddon-3.0.lua:611>
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Posted Feb 3, 2026In reply to westi_de:
Use the r215 beta for TBC
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Posted Jan 30, 2026In combat!!!
331x Blizzard_FrameXMLUtil/AuraUtil.lua:53: bad argument #1 to 'unpack' (table expected, got secret)
[tail call]: ?
[C]: in function 'unpack'
[Blizzard_FrameXMLUtil/AuraUtil.lua]:53: in function <Blizzard_FrameXMLUtil/AuraUtil.lua:33>
[tail call]: ?
[ElkBuffBars/ElkBuffBars.lua]:1190: in function 'ScanData_UnitAura'
[ElkBuffBars/ElkBuffBars.lua]:954: in function <ElkBuffBars/ElkBuffBars.lua:951>
[C]: ?
[Ace3/AceBucket-3.0-4/AceBucket-3.0.lua]:69: in function <Ace3/AceBucket-3.0/AceBucket-3.0.lua:67>
[Ace3/AceBucket-3.0-4/AceBucket-3.0.lua]:83: in function 'func'
[Ace3/AceTimer-3.0-17/AceTimer-3.0.lua]:57: in function <Ace3/AceTimer-3.0/AceTimer-3.0.lua:50>
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Posted Jan 27, 2026# Status Update 2
I've just uploaded an initial Alpha that should no longer throw errors.
As expected, this comes at the cost of a lot of features.
So you might want to copy your profile to a new one and disable e.g. some of your groups if you relied heavily on filtering.
You can grab the Alpha here: https://www.wowace.com/projects/elkbuffbars/files/7537041
But make sure to read the changelog 🫣
Regarding the coffee, while I appreciate the sentiment, in this troubling times there are likely still a lot of people near you that are way worse off than I am for various reasons (maybe even you yourselves or some of your loved ones). So please put a smile on their faces instead, first. 🥰
On a side note, I'll likely not have much time to work on this for the next week or so.
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Posted Jan 28, 2026In reply to Elkano:
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I temporarily vibe-coded patches that fixed the sorting for me again and changed the timing so it shows me hours, minutes, seconds in the condensed format, seems to work well for now, but will look forward to your proper beautiful fixes eventually instead of these ugly hacks I have now! :)
This is the addon I almost missed the most when I was forced to use the default aura icons haha
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Posted Jan 31, 2026In reply to ahnberg: Oh go on then, care to share this information with the rest of the class? :D