Introduction

BuffMonitor is similar to BuffBars; it shows a progress bar for each buff on your character that you are interested in. It is simpler and less configurable than BuffBars, but it has one advantage:

When a buff expires, it doesn't disappear from BuffMonitor. So it helps you remember which buffs you need to use in the future.

This patch adds a useful feature to BuffMonitor: It adds a quickslot to each buff bar. You can drag an item or skill there, so you don't have to remember which skill/item corresponds to each buff.

For example, I can't ever remember which foods are "cooked", "trail", or "fortifying", so I put the relevant food item in the quickslot. When the buff expires, I don't have to figure out which food I need; I just click on the quickslot next to the buff timer.

Installation and Startup

To install:

• The easy way is to use Plugin Compendium. Just select "BuffMonitor with Quickslots" under the "Add New Plugins" tab, click "Add", and it will automatically install BuffMonitor with this patch.
• Or, you can do the installation manually:
  • First, you need to install BuffMonitor. This patch cannot stand alone without that plugin. Unzip the archive and drag the "PTweety" folder into your "Documents/The Lord of the Rings Online/Plugins" folder. (If you have not previously installed any plugins, you will have to first create the Plugins folder.)
  • Next, download this patch and unzip it. It also contains a "PTweety" folder, which you should drag into the same place as before. You will be prompted to overwrite files; answer yes.

To load the plugin, use the game's built-in Plugin Manager. This can be found in the "^" menu, at the bottom of the screen. Click the icon, then choose "System" and then "Plugin Manager".

When the Plugin Manager opens, find "BuffMonitor" in the list on the left side. Click "Load" to load the plugin. (You should also see "BuffMonitor with Quickslots" there, but the patch should not be loaded directly.)

If you would like the plugin to load automatically each time you login, choose your character's name in the "Automatically Load For" pulldown menu.

Configuration Notes

To create a window, open the Plugin Manager, select BuffMonitor on the left, and click the "Options" tab at the top.

To add effects to the window, right-click the window to first add a bar, then add an effect to it.

When entering effect names, remember:

• The effect names are case-sensitive.
• You can use a partial effect name, such as "Battle Lore" instead of "Minas Ithil Battle Lore", so you won't have to change it when the next kind of "Battle Lore" is added to the game.
• If the effect name contains a hyphen, you need to replace it with "%-". For example, "Honey-cake" becomes "Honey%-cake", and "Light-oil" becomes "Light%-oil".
• In general you can use any valid Lua pattern-matching string, but the above are the only important things to know for the average user.

For each BuffMonitor window, you configure whether it shows only in combat, only out of combat, or always. This is useful to separate pre-combat buffs (e.g. food) from the buffs that you need to monitor while in combat.

There is also a "Lock quickslots" option, so that after you are finished configuring the quickslots the way you want them, you won't accidentally modify them.

See the BuffMonitor home page for more details.

Known Issues

• Loading this plugin with different client languages (English, German, French) is likely to corrupt the settings file. So don't do that.
• The quickslots can get "stale". For example, if you drag a stack of Battle Lore scrolls into a quickslot, it may stop working once that stack is used up, even if you still have more Battle Lore scrolls in your inventory. Unfortunately, I don't know how to fix this, and the only workaround is to drag the new stack into the quickslot.

Revision History

• (10-Feb-2020) Version 1.1.4: Added Plugin Compendium support.
• (9-Feb-2020) Version 1.1.3: Release notes are here.
• (10-Mar-2020) Version 1.1.2: Release notes are here.
• (5-Mar-2020) Version 1.1.1: Release notes are here.
• (3-Mar-2020) Version 1.1.0: Initial release