Based on Buffwatch++, which has been maintained since wow vanilla 1.6.0
Buffwatch is a buff monitoring tool for all classes which lets you easily and clearly keep track of any buffs on yourself or your party/raid, and also allows you to quickly recast your buffs at the click of a button.
You choose which buffs you want to monitor and Buffwatch lets you know when they have run out, with clickable buttons to recast them.
Buffwatch can be used to :
- Keep an eye on buffs that you want to keep up during a dungeon/raid (eg. Paladin blessings, AI, Battle Shout, Flasks, Food)
- Making sure you keep your Aura in range of your party, or vice-versa
- Tracking other peoples buffs (eg Soulstones), perhaps as a Raid Leader
How to use :
- Make sure the buffs you want to monitor are on the relevant players
- Tick the checkbox next to each player which locks those buffs to the player (alternatively tick the checkbox at the top to lock them all)
- Hide the buffs you are not interested in, using the following methods :
- Alt-Right click to remove the selected buff
- Alt-Left click to remove all buffs apart from the selected one
Any players that are locked and have no monitored buffs can be hidden by toggling the Hide Unmonitored arrow in the top right
Buffs that have expired will turn red, clicking on them will recast the buff on the player (if you have the spell and are in range)
Buffs for players that are dead or offline will turn grey
Other features :
- Locked buff settings are saved between sessions or players joining/leaving your group
- Left click a player name to target that player
- Right click a player name to assist that player
- Right click the Buffwatch header for options/help
- Filter on buffs your player can cast or buffs you have cast
Type /buffwatch or /bfw in-game for further info.
Cooldown Spirals : Classic doesn't support reading buff durations on other players the same as retail, but Buffwatch does support LibClassicDurations. If you want to see cooldown spirals for other players you can install this addon library.
OmniCC Users : Direct control of OmniCC cooldown text for Buffwatch within the options panel was removed in retail v8.08 due to changes to the way OmniCC works since WoW 8.0. Cooldown text options in Buffwatch now only relate to Blizzard's own cooldown text functionality, if you have that enabled.
If you wish to affect the way OmniCC cooldown text appears within Buffwatch, or if you wish to hide them, you should now use OmniCC's group functionality
https://github.com/tullamods/OmniCC/wiki/What-are-Groups%3F
Follow the instructions in the link above, creating a group in the OmniCC options with whatever name you wish (e.g. Buffwatch), and in the rules panel add BuffwatchFrame
You can then affect the way the OmniCC cooldown text appears within Buffwatch using this groups display and text style/position options.
Hide unmonitored doesnt hide players you dont have checked.
Please Advise
In reply to E_V0lve:
It's intended to work that way. If you want to hide a player, check the box and remove their buffs (quickest way if they have more than 1 buff is to Alt-Left click then Alt-Right click on one of their buffs). They will stay hidden until you choose to show unmonitored again.
Alt-Right click doesn't remove buffs for me. Why is that?
In reply to Tayfun369:
I don't know, it should. The only situations I can think of is if you don't have the player with the buff locked (ie you need the checkbox next to their name ticked), or
with Alt-Left Click when there is only 1 buff remaining, but alt-right click should always remove what you click on if the buffs are locked in with the checkbox.
Can you describe the situation a bit more?
If it is neither of those things then it likely means you are getting a script error,
you can type the following command in game to enable showing errors :
/console scriptErrors 1
and the following to hide them again :
/console scriptErrors 0
Alternatively if you want a better view of the lua errors you can install BugGrabber and BugSack (The retail versions work fine with Classic)
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/bug-grabber
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/bugsack
any way to add all buffs like for priest inner fire
In reply to StaticEddy:
Currently the only way to add buffs is for players to have the buff on them, uncheck the box next to their name and make sure the filters in the options allow the buff to show. I had started work on a way to add buffs directly to locked players through a context menu, but had to put that down to add in buff ranks, buff durations and temporary weapon enchants which probably ended up taking 50-100h to get working correctly. I also have a number of requests to add certain features, but it's all a case of picking something that I can find the time to take to completion.
If anyone has been getting seemingly random errors when joining or adding people to a party/raid, please try the beta 1.14b1 and see if this fixes it for you.
I found a potential issue that I have no real way of testing, but that may be what has been causing some people to reports errors and it appear fine for others, so the only way to know if for people to try it and see.
I believe in the following scenario an error would occur prior to 1.14 :
Great addon. Is it possible to have a sound play when a tracked buff is expired?
In reply to Xaarell:
Not currently, although I have another small addon that I wrote for myself that makes sounds for certain points in my DPS rotation that I could easily transfer over to do this in a future version. Will need to see what the standard library of sound effects is though, as for that one I made my own and included them with the addon, but I'd rather rely on existing ones that everyone will already have.
It is only showing buffs for people in my group.. even when set to "Raid" in Group Mode and ive tried the three different choices under Sort Order aswell.. :/
Really hope i can get this to show raid buffs.. since i would like to track both greater and normal Fire resist potion as an example. :)
Is this possible?
In reply to CaligoDK:
I must admit, I never tested the addon in a raid group. The addon was based on the retail wow version at the time, and I didn't see any reason why that part of it wouldn't work in classic. Without a sub and no classic PTR available, I'm kinda stuck at the moment for working on it, but will try and get someone I know to take a look.
In reply to Pupp3h:
Atm the addon only shows my party as well but as soon as I /reload it adds everyone else up to 40 people
In reply to alicev89:
Thanks for the info. I did get a friend to try this out who raids occasionally, and he said it worked perfectly fine for him after describing the issues you have both reported. I will probably have time to resub in the next week or so as work dies down for the Christmas period and be able to try some stuff out myself.
In reply to Pupp3h:
A friend has tested some more over a number of raids and came back with : "I can't reproduce the error, done 1 Onyxia and 7-8 AV, whatever I turn the addon from (solo/party) over to raid after invite, it works just fine"
Would you be able to test again, but where the only addon you have enabled is Buffwatch? It may be that you have some other addon running that is conflicting and causing this problem.
In reply to Pupp3h:
Another friend of mine came back with an error report which I think happens sometimes when someone joins a raid group, and might be the same issue you are seeing when you join a raid. I'm trying to work through and figure out what series of events might cause it to occur before I'll be able to fix it.
your addon worked great like a month ago... now constantly ERRORS and breaks... pls fix i prefer it over pallypower
In reply to gbrah:
Do you mean the patch yesterday (1.12) has broken things, or the patch from October 11th (1.11) ?
I will need much more detail on the errors you are getting since I have not been getting any, nor people I know that use the addon, so I currently have nothing to go on.
you can type the following command in game to enable showing errors :
/console scriptErrors 1
and the following to hide them again :
/console scriptErrors 0
Alternatively if you want a better view of the lua errors you can install BugGrabber and BugSack (The retail versions work fine with Classic)
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/bug-grabber
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/bugsack
It would be amazing if there was an option to blacklist some buffs, so they never show up if you don't want them to. Would save a lot of time as a Raid Leader who wants to be able to see every ones buffs but not personal buffs like Mage Armor or Inner Fire.
Great addon and thank you for posting. It would be very helpful to have an option to hide the addon frame unless in a group, and unless in a raid. I don't see much use for the addon while solo-ing since I can always just check my own buffs, so I would like it to disappear until grouped up. Thanks!
In reply to goatriderbsa:
yeah that could be done as an option. For now if you want to manually hide and show it you can type: /bfw toggle