Expiration is a player death analysis mod. It tracks your group members and records combat events about them. When a player dies, the combat history leading up to their death is saved for later review.

History

The original Expiration arose a few years ago out of a thread on Elitist Jerks discussing how to best learn from player deaths during the actual attempts. Thus, a simple proof-of-concept death tracking mod was created and it was soon followed by a number of other mods in the same vein. After not touching the original for a while, it was picked up and maintained by Shadowed, another addon author (Much thanks for keeping it working in the interim!). Recently, my role as a tank has once again caused "Why did I die, and who was healing me?" to become a pressing question. And so, I rewrote Expiration from scratch with a plan!

Basics

At its heart, Expiration does three simple things:

Tracks your group members' combat events

When an interesting combat event happens to you or someone in your party or raid, Expiration saves information about that event. "Interesting" generally means an event that could have been instrumental in their death; so while you will see a monster attacking you, you will not see your attacks back.

Saves snapshot reports of combat on death

When you or one of your group members dies, Expiration saves a snapshot of the last 30 seconds (user configurable) of combat for that player. These snapshots are further grouped into fights based on combat and what dealt the most damage.

Displays and filters death reports

Opening the Expiration user interface lets you browse saved death reports by fight or by player. Selecting a report will take you to the report page, which displays a list of the events in the report. Each column can be shown/hidden or moved around via the interface. The 'Ability' column will let you see spell tooltips and link spells into chat. It will also let you filter out specific types of events for specific spells; for example, you can hide when players gain/lose Rejuvenation, but not the ticks that heal them. This is useful for cutting down on the unimportant information in a death report.

Usage

Simply run the mod and it will capture death reports automatically. You can configure how many seconds of history to report and how many fights to keep in the Blizzard addon configuration panel.

Chat commands via /expiration or /exp

/exp - Shows the Expiration user interface
/exp fights - Browse death reports by fight
/exp players - Browse death reports by player
/exp config - Show Blizzard configuration page
/exp help - Show help message

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