Changelog

1.9.1

• Settings open again on patch 1.15.9. Clicking Settings did nothing and threw an error. The patch changed how addons open their options page - it now needs a numeric category ID, and HST was handing it a name.
• Opening settings during combat no longer throws a "blocked" error. The game protects the options panel in combat, so HST now just says to try again after the fight.
• Updated for game version 1.15.9.

1.9.0

Season of Discovery & non-Hardcore support

• HST now adapts to the game version. On Season of Discovery and other non-Hardcore realms it hides the permadeath-only bits and leans into combat:
  • Famous Last Words, the Memorial, and death recording are skipped.
  • The survival / death-proximity stats (Closest Call, Nearest Death, Panic Moments, Untouched Streak, Clutch Saves, Safety Tools, Drowned, Pet/Party Deaths) are hidden and no longer tracked - they don't mean much when you respawn (and Closest Call / Nearest Death used to get stuck at 0 after a death).
  • "Time Alive" is shown as "Time Played."
• Hardcore is recognised from the realm ruleset or a running Hardcore addon, so community-Hardcore players keep the full feature set.

Fixes

• In full-width bar mode (with screen-adjust on), the top-center displays now sit below the bar instead of overlapping it - the centered event bar (e.g. Season of Discovery's Ashenvale progress) and the battleground / objective score display.
• Players Saved no longer keeps a list of names - just the running count.
• Minimap button sits cleanly on the ring at the right size, with a hover glow, and scales with the minimap instead of drifting off the edge when it's resized.

1.8.0

New stats

• Best Loot - the best blue or epic item you've looted from an open-world kill or chest, with where you found it. Dungeon/raid loot, quest rewards, crafted items, and anything below rare quality don't count - it's a self-found "best find."
• Safety Tools Used - how many hardcore panic buttons you've burned: Limited Invulnerability / Free Action / Living Action potions, Flask of Petrification, and target dummies.
• Items Crafted - lifetime count of things you've crafted at a profession.
• Top Profession - your highest profession skill right now, across all professions.
• All four are off by default - turn them on from the Mini Panel settings page (Survival, Profession, and Wealth sections). The full window always lists them.

Mini panel

• The full-width bar can now be a custom width and nudged left/right - handy if you stream an ultrawide game but capture a narrower window. Set a width, then center it.
• New Stats: Left / Center / Right option for which way the stats fill the bar (start at the left and grow right, start at the right and grow left, or stay centered).

Full window

• The close button is now a themed X that matches the rest of the window, and What's New moved up next to it.

Fixes

• Toughest Foe now only counts enemies you actually killed (it used to update just from trading blows). Your existing record is kept.
• Pet Deaths now detect reliably from the death itself, so a pet dying is always counted - and reviving or re-summoning a pet never miscounts.

1.7.0

Fixes

• Fixed an addon conflict that could block the Looking For Group listings. The settings dropdowns no longer use Blizzard's shared dropdown system, which was tainting the Group Finder's search.
• /hst reset no longer resets the minimap button (on/off + position).

Mini panel

• New full-width bar mode - a Titan-style bar across the top of the screen instead of the stacked panel (Mini Panel -> Display -> Full-width bar). It auto-fits as many stats as will show, stacks neatly below TitanPanel, and has an optional Adjust screen toggle that pushes the minimap down so the bar doesn't cover it.
• The Mini Panel settings page is reorganized: an always-visible Display section (mode, size, opacity, in-combat timer, highlight) above compact, themed tabs for the stat categories.

Onboarding

• The welcome window is now an interactive carousel - preview a comic splash and turn it on right there, with stat-icon and splash-art visuals.
• New What's New panel that pops once after an update, re-openable via /hst news or the full window's button.

Chat

• Auto record announcements are tagged [HST] and reworded to read as plain addon reports; the guild clutch line reads as a broadcast ("...just survived a battle with only 4% HP left").
• The /hst share summary reads better (no tag - you send it yourself).

Full window

• Mak'gora now always shows on the Account tab (it's account-wide), even at 0/0.

1.6.0

Splashes

• New art: WHAM! and CRACK!, plus a cleaner WOW! (replaced the old watermarked one).
• Visual art picker — click a slot's art thumbnail in settings to choose from a gallery of every splash image, instead of reading a text dropdown.
• Comic splashes are now off by default — turn them on with "Show comic splashes" in the Splashes settings. The default slots are preset (POW! on crit, BOOM! on melee, ZAP! on ranged), so it works the moment you enable it.

Fixes

• /hst reset no longer resets your splash duration or the "random art on every crit" toggle.

1.5.1

New stats

• Gold Spent, Total Damage Done, Jumps, and Biggest Ability Hit — physical "yellow" abilities (Sinister Strike, Aimed Shot...) split out from Biggest Spell, which is now magic-only.
• Account milestones (account-wide): Highest Level reached, Level 60s (how many of your characters have hit max level), and Characters Drowned.

Memorial

• The death memorial is now an account-wide roll of fallen heroes — browse the list, click any name to read their card, and Share it. Empty until your first death (and it roots for you to keep it that way). Open via the skull button on the full window or /hst memorial.

Splashes

• New "Random art on every crit" mode: a random art + sound at one of your six positioned spots, every couple of seconds.
• Splash sounds now play on the Sound Effects channel (set the volume via the game's Sound Effects slider); the per-slot Sound dropdown replaced the global checkbox.

Quality of life

• Minimap button (left-click: full window, right-click: settings, drag to move).
• /hst share posts a one-line stat summary to chat.
• Mini panel now abbreviates big numbers (1k / 1.5k / 1.2M), plus Show all / Hide all buttons on the Mini Panel settings.
• Full window: Time Alive moved to the header, tighter rows, and sections organized into Combat / World / Account tabs so it stays a sane height.

Fixes

• Biggest Melee / Ranged / Spell / Ability records track non-crit hits (crits go to Highest Crit); DoT ticks no longer count as crits or hits.
• The integrity check is versioned, so adding new tracked stats never false-flags an existing character as edited.

1.5.0

A big update — new stats, a redesigned full window and settings, and an anti-fake records-integrity check.

New stats

• Healing: Biggest Heal, Total Healing (effective, overheal excluded), and Players Saved (a direct heal on a critically-low party member).
• Wealth: Gold Earned (lifetime income), Gold Looted (coin off kills/loot), and Bags Looted (containers looted off corpses/chests — vendor buys don't count).
• Biggest Spell Hit — your largest single direct spell hit (DoT ticks excluded).
• Pet Killing Blows — split out from Killing Blows, tracked separately.
• Highest Fall now ranks by % of your max HP at impact (raw damage shown as detail), so it's meaningful across levels.

Records integrity (anti-fake)

• The full window now shows a Stat resets count that survives the reset itself.
• An integrity check stamps the saved file on logout and verifies it on login; if the SavedVariables were edited outside the game, the character is flagged. Catches casual file edits — a deterrent, not unbreakable tamper-proofing.

Interface & settings

• Redesigned full window: balanced two-column layout, icons, color-coded danger bar, per-stat explanation tooltips, and "new!" highlights on fresh records.
• Quick Settings popup (the Display button) with live scale and background-opacity sliders for both the mini panel and the full window.
• Settings regrouped into Mini Panel and Full Window sections with per-stat visibility by category.
• Stats you enable on the mini panel now also appear in the full window, even in sections it would otherwise hide for your class.
• Marching-ants highlight on a mini-panel row that just set a record.

Announcements

• Two separate streams: new personal bests to party / say after a fight you survive (never raid, per-fight cap), and an opt-in guild line only for genuine clutch survivals (≤5% HP), rate-limited and never fired from the grave.

Splashes

• Six configurable comic-splash slots — each with its own art, trigger stat, sound, position, and on/off.

Other

• Renamed to Hardcore Stat Tracker (/hst, with /hcstats and /hc aliases). Old HCStats saved data migrates automatically.
• Stat-honesty pass: every label and tooltip now matches exactly what is tracked.