Elkano's BuffBars

Table of Contents

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

Comments

_ForgeUser192288
- Join Date: 1/3/2007
- Posts: 0
- Member Details
#1384 _ForgeUser192288

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Sep 27, 2010
will there be an update for 4.0.1 ?

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
GalvinW
Curse Premium
- Join Date: 8/28/2005
- Posts: 56
- Member Details
#1393 GalvinW

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Oct 4, 2010
I spoke to the author last week he said he's working on a 4.0 version with GUI options. Unless I misunderstood him :)

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser1461775
- Join Date: 10/20/2008
- Posts: 0
- Member Details
#1386 _ForgeUser1461775

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Sep 30, 2010
You rock...that was it...

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser1461775
- Join Date: 10/20/2008
- Posts: 0
- Member Details
#1381 _ForgeUser1461775

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Sep 25, 2010
Any ideas on this one:

1x AceLocale-2.2-91094 (ElkBuffBars):487: AceLocale(Grid): Translation "Text to display on text indicators" does not exist.

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
Elkano
Community Moderators
- Location: Germany
- Join Date: 3/28/2005
- Posts: 536
- Member Details
#1383 Elkano

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Sep 27, 2010
I'd guess it's an error with Grid. EBB only loaded AceLocale first so that's why it's mentioned in the error.

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser4124343
- Join Date: 9/14/2019
- Posts: 0
- Member Details
#1378 _ForgeUser4124343

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Sep 23, 2010
im having a rather annoying problem when switching which bar group i want. i have 2 different sets; a bar for only my diseases and a bar for buffs associated with my gargoyle for PvE, and ill switch those 2 out for a ful range or buffs and another bar for debuffs for PvP. I just created the PvP bars and whenever i turn them off they still show up, which is insanely annoying when theres a huge list of debuffs on a boss covering up an immense portion of my screen. how can i fix this?

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
Forge_User_24095349
- Join Date: 4/28/2006
- Posts: 6
- Member Details
#1377 Forge_User_24095349

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Sep 23, 2010
It seems to be bugged in 4.0. The buffs are still displayed but I couldn't get the anchors to show etc. I ended up disabling the addon...
An update would be greatly appreciated :)

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser2212108
- Join Date: 4/7/2009
- Posts: 0
- Member Details
#1375 _ForgeUser2212108

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Sep 18, 2010
It would be pro if there was a way to cause the bars to preform a new set of bars beside it's default position, to prevent a vertical spam of bars submerging over your UI, ie. Sunn Viewpoint Art.

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser4498269
- Join Date: 9/14/2019
- Posts: 0
- Member Details
#1372 _ForgeUser4498269

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Sep 13, 2010
Is there anyway to set specific color bars for each ability? So for example when I get the Slice and Dice buff... it is yellow timer bar. Then when I use Blade Flurry... it is an orange timer bar.

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
Forge_User_03078178
- Join Date: 2/19/2010
- Posts: 3
- Member Details
#1366 Forge_User_03078178

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Sep 6, 2010
gwarp go to
http://www.wowace.com/addons/elkbuffbars/
There you can create tickets and send PMs to the author
(which I am not :-)

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
minarii
- Join Date: 7/24/2007
- Posts: 0
- Member Details
#1364 minarii

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Sep 4, 2010
Hello, i have cataclysm beta acess.
Of course EBB has lots of problems,but i would like to do something in order to improve it.
Plz contact reix8800(a)gmail.com.

Yours,
EBB Lover

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser1156330
- Join Date: 9/14/2019
- Posts: 0
- Member Details
#1362 _ForgeUser1156330

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Sep 4, 2010
ok having a problem while lvling a new shammy i decreased the size of the buffs but sell faast wpn buffs as rockbitter wpn stay the same big size as the debuffs how can i remove those tipes of buffs from showing?

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser3091820
- Join Date: 9/14/2019
- Posts: 0
- Member Details
#1359 _ForgeUser3091820

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Sep 1, 2010
Hey Elkano!

Thanks for this fine addon which I use in all of my UIs for as long as I can remember.

Recently I found problem though. I want to create a group that only shows the target's self cast buffs. Is that possible?

The reason for this specific kind of filter is that I want to know when a mob casts an important buff and make it stand out in a huge bar. On the other hand I dont want to have 50 huge bars if my target is a raid buffed player.

Maybe you can give me some advice.

Greetz
Mooqi

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser4306902
- Join Date: 4/13/2010
- Posts: 0
- Member Details
#1357 _ForgeUser4306902

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Aug 31, 2010
Is it possible to filter debuffs by type? ie. only show debuffs i can cure. Thanks.

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser2210146
- Join Date: 4/7/2009
- Posts: 1
- Member Details
#1348 _ForgeUser2210146

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Aug 22, 2010
Hey love this addon but i've recently discovered something. I used to use a minimap addon with this so it was never a problem, but recently i switched addons around an dhave discovered that elksbiffbars removes the tracking button from the minimap. i diabled ALL my addons aside from this one to doublecheck and when i logged back in the tracking button wasnt there. it's ofc not a massive thing and my previous button addon seemed to override this option, but i was wondering if it was too much trouble to have both the button and the option in addon as i like to use the tracking button on the minimap. I also disabled tracking from the filter options but it still didnt restore the tracking button. just wondering if it was something simple enough to change. Im currently using chinchilla map and cant get it to override this thanks for any help!

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser3932914
- Join Date: 1/29/2010
- Posts: 0
- Member Details
#1350 _ForgeUser3932914

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Aug 22, 2010
Which minimap addon you using?

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
Elkano
Community Moderators
- Location: Germany
- Join Date: 3/28/2005
- Posts: 536
- Member Details
#1351 Elkano

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Aug 23, 2010
the easiest way to solve this problem would be to use EBB's build in option to not hide the minimap tracking button ^^

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser2411868
- Join Date: 9/16/2019
- Posts: 0
- Member Details
#1333 _ForgeUser2411868

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Aug 9, 2010
Thanks for all your work on this buff/debuff timer addon! It is the only addon i have found that does everything i need it to. And very easy to setup. However, im having an issue (and it's only with this addon) where when i log in, the timers are not "active". That is, it only displays the "blessing of demonstration" and nothing else. However when i go to turn on display lua errors the timers begin to work correctly and i can turn "display lua errors" back off again with no problems until i logout and back in again. Not a major problem, and may be another addon causing this. I am not tech savvy enough to fix this or determine why its happening. Any way i can fix this? Thanks for your time.

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
GalvinW
Curse Premium
- Join Date: 8/28/2005
- Posts: 56
- Member Details
#1324 GalvinW

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Aug 3, 2010
Not sure if this was asked. But any way this can use a graphical UI instead of menu's. One of the problems is the white/black lists get so long they don't fit on the screen anymore. I really hate menus much harder to use than a GUI :)

Thanks for the update. Wasn't sure if this was still supported.

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser556980
- Join Date: 6/26/2019
- Posts: 0
- Member Details
#1323 _ForgeUser556980

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Aug 2, 2010
Im kind of newb at posting but here it goes!
Elkano i love your addon with all my heart,

Is its possible to do what i've shown in the picture below on diagram B, im pritty sure its impossible to do(after like 5hrs playing with the addon setup) just wondering if you would be able to add this function into the later patches, IT wud make this addon completly PIMP. like a "Number of Colums, 1,2,3,4,5 etc" or somthing like that.

[URL=http://img8.imageshack.us/i/ebb.png/][IMG]http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/5879/ebb.png[/IMG][/URL]

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/5879/ebb.png

p.s i dont know wich URL to post so i did both.

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
To post a comment, please login or register a new account.