Forever Meter

Threat, damage, healing and damage taken meter that keeps working in combat on WoW Forever.

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📊 10 modes in one window

Threat · Damage · Healing · Absorbs · Damage taken · Enemy damage taken · Avoidable damage taken · Interrupts · Dispels · Deaths

Click Menu or right-click the title to pick a mode and a session: current fight, overall, or any fight kept by the game.

🆕 New in 1.17 and 1.17.1

1.17.1

• Reset only clears the numbers: each window keeps the view chosen in the Menu, so Overall stays on Overall and Current stays on Current.

1.17

• Report to any channel: /fm report 5 guild, say, party, raid, instance or whisper <name>. In a dungeon finder group, the report goes to instance chat by default. Works for death recaps too.
• Themes: classic, flat, glass and compact set texture, font, bar height and opacity in one click.
• Minimize a window to its title bar with the button left of the gear. Click again to restore it.
• Hide outside instances: windows show again when you enter a dungeon, raid or battleground.
• Threat first: threat leads the Display menu and mode cycling.
• New commands: /fm mode <mode> [N], /fm theme, /fm rowheight, /fm bgalpha, /fm autohide, /fm instanceonly, /fm autoreset.

Full list in the Files tab.

🚀 Quick start

1. Install ForeverMeter, then restart the game the first time. New textures and fonts load only at startup, so /reload is not enough.
2. A window opens on login. Click Menu or right-click the title to pick a mode and a session.
3. Make it yours: click the gear in the title bar, or type /fm options. Type /fm for the full command list.

⚡ Why ForeverMeter?

WoW Forever looks like Classic, but it runs on the modern game engine. That engine forbids the combat log to addons, so meters built on it stay empty. ForeverMeter reads Blizzard's own server-side meter (C_DamageMeter) and the game's threat API instead.

• ✔ Bars update in combat, for every mode.
• ✔ Threat against bosses: when the game hides the numbers, each bar shows your threat status (aggro, insecure aggro, above the tank).
• ✔ Pure Lua, no libraries required.

🧰 What you get

• Threat warning, visual and sound, above an adjustable threshold. No sound when MuscaUI already warns.
• Up to 4 windows, each with its own mode, session, size, lock and bar colour. Windows snap to each other.
• Per-spell breakdown on click, top 5 spells on hover, spell-by-spell comparison of two players.
• Death recap: time of death and last hits taken.
• Your own bar always shown, with your real rank, even below the visible rows.
• Per-window display: DPS, bar text, my bar only, no title bar, big number (a plain DPS counter).
• Chat report and copy as text for Discord.
• Options panel: themes, bar textures, six bundled fonts, LibSharedMedia support, text columns, bar height, background opacity, scale.
• Automation: show only in combat or in a group, hide outside instances, reset on a new instance or group.
• Key bindings, addon compartment button, test mode (/fm test).
• 11 languages: enUS, frFR, deDE, esES, esMX, itIT, ptBR, ruRU, koKR, zhCN, zhTW.

🎯 Limits

⚠ Works, with limits

• In combat, names and amounts are "secret values": the game lets addons show them, not compare or add them. Bars keep the game's order. Percentages, the breakdown and the comparison fill in once combat ends.
• Threat against some enemies (bosses especially) is secret in combat: bars show the threat status without numbers.
• A report line with a name hidden by the game cannot be sent: the whole report then stays in your own chat window.

✖ Does not work

• When the game hides the threat status too, the window says "unavailable" instead of showing a wrong number.
• The options panel cannot open during combat: it opens as soon as combat ends.

🔄 Updating from an older version

Install the latest version, then /reload. Your windows and settings are kept. If a texture or font looks missing, restart the game.

• Skipped a version? Read the changelog of each version you skipped.
• Lua errors, or a window no longer behaves as before? Install the previous version again from the Files tab, and report it on GitHub or CurseForge with the text of the error.

⚖ License and credits

• ForeverMeter © 2026 dldvlpr, released under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. Full source: github.com/dldvlpr-addons-wow/threatMeter.
• Bundled fonts are under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
• No warranty. This addon is provided as is, without warranty of any kind, as stated in the GPL v3.
• Not affiliated with or endorsed by Blizzard Entertainment. World of Warcraft and WoW Forever are trademarks of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.