SimpleMeters

SimpleMeters is a lightweight, stock-style damage meter for WoW Classic Era, Season of Discovery, and TBC Classic.

It is built to stay fast and readable during real dungeon and raid play: clean panel options, focused damage metrics, and low-overhead updates that do not get in the way of gameplay.

Project Overview

SimpleMeters tracks damage in three practical modes:

• Total: cumulative damage since last reset
• Fight: current encounter damage
• Boss: saved boss-fight snapshots for quick review

The addon supports two visual styles so you can choose what fits your UI layout:

• Bar panel for compact visual comparison
• Text-only panel for minimal footprint and quick scanning

Why It Is Lightweight

• Damage-only scope keeps parsing and rendering focused.
• Combat updates are filtered and throttled to avoid noisy UI churn.
• Rendering is kept compact and stock-UI aligned, with no external libraries or heavy visual systems.
• Data is prepared once and reused across panels, which helps maintain smooth behavior in combat.

DPS Integrity

SimpleMeters is designed so DPS remains practical and stable:

• Overkill is excluded from effective damage totals.
• Fight timing ends on fight-finish logic instead of continuing to drift after the real damage window.
• Total/Fight/Boss views all follow the same core timing principles so numbers remain consistent.

Commands

• /smsm or /smsm help shows all commands available
• /smsm show shows all SimpleMeters panels
• /smsm hide hides all SimpleMeters panels
• /smsm toggle shows or hides the available SimpleMeters panels
• /smsm 1 creates a new bar panel
• /smsm 2 creates a new text panel
• /smsm minimap or /smsm map toggles the minimap button

Compatibility

• Classic Era and Season of Discovery (1.15.8, interface 11508)
• Burning Crusade Classic / Anniversary progression (2.5.x, interfaces 20505 and 20506)

v0.41 Patch Notes

v0.41 is a lightweight reliability and UI polish release focused on keeping SimpleMeters dependable during real dungeon and raid play.

• TOC compatibility is prepared for Classic Era / Season of Discovery interface 11508 and TBC Classic interfaces 20505 and 20506.
• Combat data is saved more safely during logout, zoning, and longer fights.
• Damage attribution is stricter for group members, pets, guardians, reactive damage, and self-damage edge cases.
• Boss mode keeps player rows in the main meter and shows boss history in a fixed attached popout.
• Row DPS text uses 348/s formatting instead of (348/s).
• Tooltips separate player abilities, pet abilities, and pet totals.
• Slash commands now include explicit show, hide, toggle, and minimap controls.
• Header controls and damage rows were polished for a cleaner stock-UI feel.
• Damage row borders now draw over the bar fill, improving the rounded-edge look.

Release integrity:

• SimpleMeters-v0.41.zip SHA-256: 60542aa39041d4b5ddc78d4dffbadbcfd374ef618a5126bb556754273b31007a

Author: paul@thatkoala.com