Hiding buff icons when teamed?


Carnifax_NA

 

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Hello,

when running for example, my Kin Def, I really want to keep track of my teamates SB status (I am in the camp that likes to use SB to keep my team buffed up). However I am not very good at tracking "time expired since last buff applied x 8"

I know that I can expand the players Buff icons using the side arrow in the Team GUI window.

However I do have trouble when I have 8 great long lines of Buffs stretching across my screen trying to pick out the SB buff. Especially so if I am using my laptop.

Is there anyway I can hide all buff icons except the SB one, or any combinations I may want to see? Ideally I would like to reduce the Buff Lines to one or two icons.

More in hope than expectations! Thanks


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Originally Posted by jacktar View Post
Is there anyway I can hide all buff icons except the SB one, or any combinations I may want to see? Ideally I would like to reduce the Buff Lines to one or two icons.
Unfortunatly I don't believe there is. I was thinking much the same thing the other day, I would like to be able to track only MY buffs on teammates.


 

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Do you use herostats? it gives a pretty good readout of time remaining & will change color as the buff is about to expire. when I am running a buff character, I typically dont watch the timer I just make sure that the list stays green & make sure that none of my teammates drop off the list

www.herostats.org


 

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AFAIK you can only turn off Auto Power displays. As mentioned, though, Hero Stats is a good way to keep track.


 

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Have a look at the link in my Sig for an Option Menu for doing this. You can hide not only Auto Powers, but Toggles too which is a great help I found.

A quick and dirty Macro version for doing it across the board :

/macro HideAll "optionset buffsettings 1052688"
/macro ShowAll "optionset buffsettings 0"
/macro HideTeam "optionset buffsettings 4864"


I think that should do it, all you should then see are non-auto Buffs with a duration on them. The HideTeam one is the one I usually use as that's the main offending window in terms of Icon Spam.

I haven't found a way to just show buffs you have applied though.


 

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Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA View Post
Have a look at the link in my Sig for an Option Menu for doing this. You can hide not only Auto Powers, but Toggles too which is a great help I found.

A quick and dirty Macro version for doing it across the board :

/macro HideAll "optionset buffsettings 1052688"
/macro ShowAll "optionset buffsettings 0"

I think that should do it, all you should then see are non-auto Buffs with a duration on them.

I haven't found a way to just show buffs you have applied though.
Nice


 

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Here's a slightly fuller explanation I have on the buffsetings that I got from some poster on these forums, don't recall who.

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Add up all the options you want and use that /optionset command.
Code:

1 status window hide auto
2 status window hide toggles
4 status window no blinking
8 status window no stacking
16 status window numeric stacking
32 status hide buff numbers
64 status stop sending buffs
128 --
256 group window hide auto
512 group window hide toggles?
1024 group window no blinking
2048 group window no stacking
4096 group window numeric stacking
8192 group window hide buff numbers
16384 group window stop sending buffs
32768 --
65536 pet window hide auto
131072 pet window hide toggles?
262144 pet window no blink
524288 pet window no stacking
1048576 pet window numeric stacking
2097152 pet window hide buff numbers
4194304 pet window stop sending buffs
I use /optionset BuffSettings 4880, which sets the status and goup windows to numeric stacking and blink on, turns of auto and toggle powers for the group window and seems to set the icons for both to be a bit larger (not sure which number does that).


 

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Actually what does "Stop Sending buffs" do?

Does it basically disable buffs in the window or do ones you generate yourself still work?

Must check this later on


 

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Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA View Post
Actually what does "Stop Sending buffs" do?

Does it basically disable buffs in the window or do ones you generate yourself still work?

Must check this later on
I don't know if the ones you generate still work, but from the patch notes when it was added:

A couple small additions to help improve performance for dial-up users:
* Added Option to disable combat numbers on power buff icons
* Added Option to disable sending buff information altogether

edit: oh yeah, added the info from Shadow State to the wiki


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Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA View Post
Actually what does "Stop Sending buffs" do?

Does it basically disable buffs in the window or do ones you generate yourself still work?

Must check this later on
I tried it while logged onto the beta server and it does the same thing as the "Do not Send Buffs at all" options, which is to say, all of the icons on my Status Bar disappeared. I would think the idea is that the server stops telling you what buff is on you, but the Combat Attribute window doesn't seem to be affected so I don't really see the point. I wasn't on a team so it might make more sense under that situation.