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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Elkano
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Posted Jan 23, 2009
EBB doesn't come with any hardcoded spell names. So that's at least nothing I have to fix :)
In order to get the "new" spell on your whitelist, just have a paladin buff you with it in order to have it show up. EBB will only list spells that affected someone being tracked or those already on a black-/whitelist.

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Posted Jan 22, 2009
Is there any ways to make the icons in the 'minimlistic setup' appear horizontally instead of vertically?

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Posted Jan 22, 2009
Im wondering if there is a way to get a group to show both target debuffs and self buffs based on black/whitelist. Currently i can only figure out how to do either target or self, but i have seen others that have been able to do both in what looks like one group. Am i just missing something really obvious?

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Posted Jan 22, 2009
two groups with the 2nd anchored to the first

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Posted Jan 21, 2009
If this has been answered elsewhere I'm sorry, but I can't find the answer: is there a way to show only the debuffs I apply? It's not helpful when there are 4 other rake, faerie fire, mangle (etc) bars ticking down, and I can't tell which is mine. Same with heals- is there a way to show only my rejuv, renew, etc? Thanks!

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Posted Jan 22, 2009
set the selfcast buffs filter to whitelist

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Posted Jan 27, 2009
You rock, thanks!

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Posted Jan 21, 2009
Ok i have used this addon forever and its by far my favorite buff addon, im just wondering if there is a way if, asking anyone really, there is a way to make the buffs go horizontal instead of vertical

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Posted Jan 21, 2009
I very much love this addon however I'm having a problem. I recently reinstalled all my mods but for some reason I cannot get it to permanently hide the anchor on a bar I've created. I can click on "Show anchor" and it goes away but next time I log in it's back again. I have created a new bar exactly like the old one (It's a player buff bar but I only want temporary combat buffs to appear, i.e. Hot Streak and Now is the Time!) but every time I log back in there's the anchor again. It's a minor issue to be sure but it's slightly annoying and reminds me that I really don't know what I'm doing with this mod. :) Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please make it go away! :)

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Posted Jan 21, 2009
Doesn't seem to want to allow mining now... weird.

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Posted Jan 21, 2009
Any reason why I can not get the Grip buff from the Hodir's Spear Daily quest to show up?

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Posted Jan 19, 2009
I was using SimpleBuffBars for a while, but there is an anchoring issue (with bars Growing Up) with that mod so I'm back to Elkano. :) Hopefully a slightly more straightforward config setup is in the works, but the existing one isn't bad. One thing I did like about SimpleBuffBars was the auto-filtering by class type... basically "caster" buffs do not get displayed for a melee class, etc. That was nice to have for big raids with lots of buffs :)

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Posted Jan 19, 2009
When I get a lot of buffs, they go right off my screen. First they ignore my viewport and go down beyond that. Then the list hits the end of the screen and I can't see all of my buffs/debuffs.

Is there a way to specify a maximum number of items and have Elk's (or any other buff mods?) start a new column? I can't find anything in the options.

Ideally, I'd like to tell the addon that it can use X pixels or it is allowed up to Y icons per column. After that it would create a new column. As I put my buffs on the right side of my screen, having the option for the new column to be left of the first would also be great.

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Posted Jan 17, 2009
how do you move it if you unchecked the title bar on the right click options?

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Posted Jan 17, 2009
not title bar, the show anchor check mark.

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Posted Jan 19, 2009
that's why it's called anchor and not title bar ^^ it's the one you move to move the bars, so simply have it shown again, move it and hide it again.

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Posted Jan 16, 2009
I just meet this addon but got to love it very quickly :)
Just a little question: is there a way to turn off "Blessing of Demonstration" if I have a group with an ancor ON (I want to see the titlebar) but no actual buffs? (for debuffs, or mounts & stuff like that).

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Posted Jan 17, 2009
It feels related to the amount of people/things/buffs/debuffs in the raid. I have only seen it once or twice in a 10man raid but I get it really often in wintergrasp raids or 25man Naxx.

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Posted Jan 23, 2009
i have the same problem: pitbull, quartz & elkano are not useable until ui reload. ag_unitframes for example is useable..

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Posted Jan 12, 2009
I'm getting a weird bug that I only encounter during raids, all bars stop depleting really reacting in any way and sometimes disappear. It includes Quartz, SpellReminder, Pitbull and of course ElkBuffBars but EBB is the only one throwing errors. Basically I get spammed with:

"Elkano's BuffBars: [EBB] ERROR (EBB_Bar:OnUpdate) 17 - Inspiration - 3446.064000 / 15.000000"

As an example, it's not just that spell in specific, it's the tabard, moonkin aura, really just any aura. I haven't been able to pinpoint where it's coming from so I'm wondering if anyone else is having this problem. It really came out of no where I don't remember changing any mods.

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