Forever Simple Enemy Buffs

Forever Simple Enemy Buffs puts an enemy's buffs on their nameplate as a row of icons, in fights too, with the time left on each. See the shield, the Free Action Potion or the Sprint on every enemy around you, not just your target. In game it is listed as Forever Enemy Buffs.

Blizzard's own nameplate shows a buff only when you can steal or purge it, or when the game marks it important, and on Forever it marks none. The target frame shows them all, but only for one enemy.

What it shows

• Buffs only. A row of icons on each plate, above or below it as you choose; never debuffs.
• On each icon: the spell, a swipe for the time gone, the time left and the stack count. Its border takes the buff's type colour, magic blue.
• Hover an icon for Blizzard's tooltip. Clicks go through to the plate, so you still target as usual.

Borders by buff type

• Every typed buff (the default): every magic, curse, poison or disease buff gets a border in its type's colour, so magic shows blue. Buffs with no type, such as Sprint, keep a plain black edge.
• Purgeable only: just the buffs your character can dispel or steal.
• Off: black edges only.

Pick it under Icons, Border, or in the Target's buffs bar gear menu.

Presets

• PvP (a new install starts here): enemy players' and their pets' buffs of a minute or less, such as shields, immunities, Evasion or Sprint. Fortitude, armors, forms and auras stay off. Creatures get no row.
• Purge: only what your character can dispel or steal, on every enemy, ending soonest first.
• Dungeons: creatures' buffs without the never-ending ones most creatures carry.
• Show all: every buff on every enemy plate.
• Undo puts back what the last preset changed.

Filters for every kind of buff

Each filter is set separately for enemy players, enemy creatures and friends:

• Buff types: Magic, Curse, Poison, Disease and no type.
• Show, Only or Hide: purgeable buffs, buffs cast by a player, buffs you can cast, boss buffs and buffs Blizzard marks for every plate.
• Longest buff (10 seconds to an hour), never-ending buffs and most icons per plate (1 to 12).
• Friends' spell list: hide listed spells on friendly plates, or show only those.

Which plates

• Every plate, your target only, or your target and focus; optionally only in fights.
• Enemy players, minions, hostile and neutral creatures, friendly players, minions and creatures, and creature ranks, each on or off.
• Icon size, order (ending soonest, ending last, newest, oldest, by name), above or below the plate, and the gap.

Target's buffs bar

Off by default. Your target's buffs on a bar of their own, with the same filters, in fights too. Unlock it to drag it, size it by its corner and change it from its gear.

What it cannot do, and why

• No picking enemy buffs by name. In a fight the game hides an enemy's auras from addons. This addon never reads them: Blizzard's own aura code draws the icons, and it accepts spell lists only for buffs on friends. That is why enemy filters go by type, length and flags.
• Free Action Potion can only be found by its length, so the PvP preset keeps buffs of a minute or less.

How to use it

• Settings are in Options → AddOns → Forever Enemy Buffs (or /fenemy).
• At the top of the settings page, Unlock to move shows the Target's buffs bar so you can place it any time, and Show on screen plays sample buffs.
• Pick a preset, then change any row under it.
• /fenemy status says how many plates show buffs and whether this build can draw them.

Works better with

These addons are optional. The Forever Simple PvP addons are made to run side by side in battlegrounds:

• Forever Simple Battleground Timers: Every battleground countdown as a bar: bases, flags, the gates and your next resurrection.
• Forever Simple Targets: Every enemy and ally in a battleground in class colours, with health bars and the flag carrier; click a name to target that player.
• Forever Simple Spy: Enemy players near you, with alerts, a Nearby list and kill-on-sight watchlists.
• Forever Simple DR: How far each crowd-control category has diminished on enemy players, on your target and their nameplates.
• Forever Simple Cooldowns: Timers for enemy cooldowns, started by the crowd control that lands on you.
• Forever Simple Battle Map: Your battle map key opens a flat, resizable battle map with flags, graveyards and your group.

Feedback: bugs and ideas are welcome in the comments. Include a screenshot or the steps, and your class.