Showing active effects on screen?

Danikat · February 2015

Is there an add-on available that will show, on screen, what active effects are currently on my character? Things like food/potions I've consumed, poison etc. without a bunch of other stuff on screen as well?

I've found a few mods that include this, but they all seem to be fairly 'big' combat UI mods that add a lot of bars and info I don't want and which isn't worth having just for this one little thing. (I'm fine with downloading something that offers other options, as long as I can turn off all the parts I don't want.)

Ideally I'd like something a bit like the condition, boon etc. display in GW2 - little icons next to your skill bar that provide extra info when you hover over them. But I'm not fussy about the specifics.

danno8 · February 2015

Danikat wrote: »

Is there an add-on available that will show, on screen, what active effects are currently on my character? Things like food/potions I've consumed, poison etc. without a bunch of other stuff on screen as well?

I've found a few mods that include this, but they all seem to be fairly 'big' combat UI mods that add a lot of bars and info I don't want and which isn't worth having just for this one little thing. (I'm fine with downloading something that offers other options, as long as I can turn off all the parts I don't want.)

Ideally I'd like something a bit like the condition, boon etc. display in GW2 - little icons next to your skill bar that provide extra info when you hover over them. But I'm not fussy about the specifics.

FTC can. And you can shut off all the bars and scrolling text and other stuff.

Just FYI, no buff tracking in ESO is perfect since the API doesn't technically give out the information. The addons that show you buff length are just approximating how long they last and in general can't take into consideration things like passives that make them last longer, or the fact that your target has died or other stuff.

Garkin · February 2015

danno816_ESO wrote: »

FTC can. And you can shut off all the bars and scrolling text and other stuff.

Just FYI, no buff tracking in ESO is perfect since the API doesn't technically give out the information. The addons that show you buff length are just approximating how long they last and in general can't take into consideration things like passives that make them last longer, or the fact that your target has died or other stuff.

Actually you can take in accout passives - function GetAbilityDuration returns duration with all passives and bonuses taken in account.

Game itself provides information about buffs which lasts 30s or longer. All other buffs are tracked by FTC or Srendarr using workarounds - they will just watch for button press and then set up timer. There is no way to make this tracking really accurate, but it really helps with watching when you have to renew your DoTs etc. If you are serious about endgame PvE this is must have.

Danikat · February 2015

Thanks both.

I'll try out FTC when I get home. I had seen it mentioned before, but about 50/50 as something that's really useful and something that adds loads of screen clutter, but it's good to know each bit can be turned on and off as needed.

At the moment I mainly want it for food and potion buffs. A lot of them are quite long, about 30 minutes, so I find myself using it, going off exploring and then getting caught out when it ends. I have a very short memory for some things so by then I'm thinking of the extra health/magicka/stamina as normal and have no idea why it suddenly drops off.