What does it mean – Active Buffs?

Active Buffs refer to temporary beneficial effects currently applied to a character in World of Warcraft, often shown in the UI as icons with durations. These buffs can originate from abilities, consumables, trinkets, gear procs, raid auras, or environmental effects, and they play a vital role in enhancing damage, healing, defense, or utility during PvE and PvP encounters.

Monitoring Active Buffs is essential for maximizing class rotations, aligning cooldowns, and optimizing burst windows. For example, a Retribution Paladin may coordinate Avenging Wrath with trinket procs and potions to stack buffs for maximum damage output. Similarly, healers track buffs like Blessing of Sacrifice or Harmony stacks to time their strongest healing spells.

Addons like WeakAuras, TellMeWhen, and ElvUI are widely used to display, track, and alert players when critical buffs are active or expiring. Managing Active Buffs correctly is key to high performance in raids, Mythic+, and arena PvP.

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References

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