buff/debuff filters explained

[spamwax]

Given the changes since 12.1, my profile does not show some of raid/dungeon auras anymore.
Can you please provide some sort of explanation for each aura filter?

It seems some of these filters will have overlaps, for example, Relevant for your Class and Casted by me.
Do you have a recommendation for what to choose in order to mimic the the behavior of auras before addon purge (without cluttering/duplicating them?
Specifically I want to

• show important raid debuffs
• mechanic debuffs, like a player is soaking an orb, or they have a debuff making them un-healable (like the Vashnik fight)
• and dispells

[michaelnpsp]

I can't explain the filters, they are almost not documented by blizzard, the only documentation we have is: some comments from a blizzard developer in the Blizzard UI source code extracted from the game:

AuraUtil.AuraFilters =
{
Helpful = "HELPFUL", -- Include only helpful auras (buffs)
Harmful = "HARMFUL", -- Include only harmful auras (debuffs)
Player = "PLAYER", -- Include only auras that were cast by the player, or by the player's pet or vehicle
Raid = "RAID", -- Include only helpful auras the player can apply and harmful auras the player can dispel
Cancelable = "CANCELABLE", -- Include only auras that can be canceled by the player
-- NotCancelable ("NOT_CANCELABLE") was removed; use "!"..AuraUtil.AuraFilters.Cancelable ("!CANCELABLE").
-- A temporary fallback is provided by Blizzard_DeprecatedAuraFilters.
IncludeNameplateOnly = "INCLUDE_NAME_PLATE_ONLY", -- When set, auras that are flagged as being nameplate-only will be included. When not set, nameplate-only auras will be filtered out.
Maw = "MAW", -- When set, ONLY Torghast auras will be returned. When not set, Torghast auras will be filtered out.
ExternalDefensive = "EXTERNAL_DEFENSIVE", -- Include only auras that are external defensives
CrowdControl = "CROWD_CONTROL", -- Include only auras that have a crowd control effect (stun, fear, etc.)
RaidInCombat = "RAID_IN_COMBAT", -- Include only auras flagged to show on raid frames in combat. Combine with Player & Helpful to return self-cast HoTs
RaidPlayerDispellable = "RAID_PLAYER_DISPELLABLE", -- Include only auras someone in the player's raid can dispel (including helpful enrages on enemies)
BigDefensive = "BIG_DEFENSIVE", -- Include only auras that are big defensives
Important = "IMPORTANT", -- Include only auras that are flagged as important (helpful auras that show on enemy nameplates even if non-stealable)
Dispellable = "DISPELLABLE", -- Include only auras that are dispellable, regardless of whether the player's raid can dispel them
};

And from the the blizzard default raid frames source code, it seems that for debuffs they are displaying: Boss and Role Auras, and optionally excluding the dispellable debuffs.

[spamwax]

thanks for the information.
If a filter with Not is selected, for ex, "Not Dispellable by me", does it mean "show auras I can not dispel" or it means "do not show auras I can dispel"?
Also I am just curious what you use to show/highlight important fight mechanics

[michaelnpsp]

Maybe I'm missing something because for me the two sentences have the same meaning, because the latter implies the former.

I'm currently not playing wow only some occasional dungeon.

But it looks like selecting the filters is tricky because, it's up to blizzard now to decide which is important on each boss/encounter, and this can be subjective, some filters can work well for one encounter but no so well for another.

[spamwax]

• Let's say as a holy priest I cannot dispel poison, so "show auras I can not dispel" will display poison on frames.
• For "do not show auras I can dispel", my interpretation is that it will hide the auras I can dispel.

[michaelnpsp]

By default, with no filter selected, all auras are displayed.
If I don't show auras I can dispel, what is left? The auras I cannot dispel.

[spamwax]

I am also getting this warning for an Icons indicator:

That status is just one filter from the list:

[michaelnpsp]

If reloading the UI does not fix the warning, something must be wrong in the profile, or a bug occurring in some edge case. If you want you can send me your profile in text format (you can export the profile from general/profiles tab).

I forgot to explain, that probably you must add the "Not Sated debuffs" filter too, this hides player debuffs like: Exhaustion, Sated, Dungeon Deserted, etc.
Maybe It's more understandable if i replace "Not" by "Non-" for the reverse filters.

[spamwax]

• yea, I think my confusion was because I was comparing "List of Spell IDs to ignore" with Not/Non variations.
• Without reload, it randomly disappears and comes back! The reason could be that I had previously chosen "Is Boss or Role Aura" with "Not Dispellable"! And it may have triggered the bug.
• More importantly what I cannot show on my frames is the debuffs from raid boss! I have ran 3 LFR so far to test different combination of filters and non of the debuffs shows up on my frames. If I create a debuff status and do not select anything from the filter drop-down menu, will that show all debuffs or none?
• Here is my profile.

[michaelnpsp]

I you select no filter, you will see all debuffs. But you can add some filters to avoid displaying some debuffs not related to the encounter:
"Not Sated Debuffs" / "Not Casted be Me" for example.

The warning message is not related to changing the status filter, but i dont know how is possible to see the warning with only one debuff status linked to the indicator. The warning is displayed when buffs/debuffs are mixed with another non-aura statuses, for example in the screenshot below the warning is displayed because the dungeon-role icon was added to the list, and the new blizzard aura container only displays auras, it does not support displaying another things mixed with auras. In this example the warning message disappears after unchecking the dungeon-role status.

Anyway this message should be harmless, because displaying auras has priority over anything so even if the settings code thinks that another non-aura status is linked to the indicator, the buffs/debuffs are correctly displayed.