Archive for November 21st, 2008:
Addon corner: Buffalo
In this week’s addon corner, I am taking a look at buff displays. When I rebuilt my UI, I wanted something that offers me a lot of screen estate. Most buff displays use bars, which I have used for a long time, but I wanted something more minimal. That’s how I ended up with Buffalo.
At first glance, Buffalo looks exactly like the default buff frame, with the important difference that you can move buff, debuff and weapon buff frames whereever you want them. I use three horizontal lines as display, right underneath my Fortress Data Broker blocks. All you get is an icon for the buff/debuff, and the time underneath it. Buffs that run out you can set to flash as a warning. Buffalo can be skinned using ButtonFacade, if you like eye candy.
My only request would be to have a more visual cue when a buff completely falls off, I keep running around without a weapon buff on my shaman way too often, but I am using TellMeWhen now, which btw is totally awesome as buff/debuff/proc reminder.
If highly flexible buff bars are more your thing, I still wholeheartedly recommend Elkano’s BuffBars. Caulle over at Tankspot has done a video tutorial how to set it up if you don’t like bars and including filters and the whitelist system, pretty nice.
