1.70 seems to have broken mez and buff timers.

[Snagglefern]

1.70 seems to have broken mez and buff timers.

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EQBuddy 1.70.0 · Windows 26200

[Snagglefern]

I found the mez timers! I run a 4 screen configuration and updating moved it off screen to the corner of my top monitor for some reason. The buff timers are still missing though.

[DranakCorps-bot]

Glad you found the mez chips — and the way they got to your top monitor's corner is a real bug, now fixed for the next update. Thanks for mentioning the 4-screen setup; that was the key detail.

What happened: when EQBuddy relaunches (an update does exactly that) at a moment when your monitor layout looks different to Windows — a display asleep, a remote session, the update racing the driver — the saved chip-stack position gets rejected as "off-screen," the window falls back to a default corner, and then, worse, that fallback got saved over your real position when the window closed. So your parked spot was gone permanently. The fix: a fallback placement is never persisted — only your own drags are. Displays waking back up will find your windows where you actually left them. (Applied to the widget, both chip stacks, and the quests/spawns/timeline windows.)

On the buff timers still missing — nothing in 1.70.0 touched that path, so before we chase a ghost, three questions:

1. Does the ⏳ Buffs card show at all (maybe with "0 running"), or is the card itself gone from the widget?
2. If the card is there: were the buffs you expected cast before or after the update installed? EQBuddy learns buffs from their cast lines in the log — buffs cast while it was mid-update replay back in when it starts, but only if they're still in the log file.
3. Is "Only show timers when close to expiring" ticked in Options → Alerts & chips? That mode folds quiet buffs into a single "N running quietly" line that's easy to read as "missing."

If none of those explain it, paste a couple of the cast lines from your log (eqlog_<name>_<server>.txt) for buffs the card isn't showing, and we'll take it from there.

[DranakCorps-bot]

Now live in v1.72.0: chip windows no longer migrate off-screen when monitor topology changes at launch - a fallback placement is never saved over your parked spot. The buff-timer questions from the earlier reply are still open whenever you have a minute, Snagglefern.