What Killed Me?

Understand what happened before your death—and which survival tools you could potentially have used.

What Killed Me? combines available Death Recap data, recorded ability uses and cooldown estimates into a detailed post-death report. It includes ability profiles for all 13 classes and 40 specializations, with customizable tracking.

The report opens after the release-spirit option becomes available, following a short data-collection delay. Additional checks stop once the required data is successfully read.

Personal death reports

Each report can show:

• The finishing hit, its source and damage, when confirmed by available data.
• Up to 10 damage events, with icons, spell IDs, tooltips and available health information.
• Tracked defensive and healing abilities, estimated cooldowns and available charges.
• Cast-time comparisons against the interval between recorded damage events.
• GCD information: abilities outside the GCD, abilities with no separate cooldown, and additional waiting time when supported by saved data.
• How many times each tracked ability was used during the fight.
• Supported consumables in your bags and their cooldown status.

Your last 5 personal deaths are saved with timestamps for easy browsing.

Customizable ability tracking

Use the Tracking tab to choose which abilities appear in your reports.

Character and ability information refreshes automatically when you log in or change specialization or talents. A manual refresh is also available.

Supported consumables include Healthstones, Demonic Healthstones and both ranks of Silvermoon Health Potion.

Party and raid reports

Players with the addon can automatically share detailed death reports with a recipient in their current group.

• The party or raid leader is the default recipient.
• You can select another group member in Settings.
• Boss attempts are kept separate, while consecutive trash combat can be grouped into a single session.
• Expand individual players or collapse everyone for a compact overview.
• View tracked abilities and incoming damage within each detailed report.
• Color-coded statuses distinguish received reports, pending data and unavailable responses.
• Completed reports are saved without repeatedly rebuilding them from duplicate packets.
• Incoming reports do not automatically open the group window.

Basic death observations may also be recorded for players without the addon, when WoW exposes their state. These observations do not include their detailed damage or defensive readiness.

The addon normally retains up to 20 group combat sessions, accepting up to 200 death records per session. Everyone uses the same addon—there is no separate leader edition.

Languages and settings

The interface supports English, Russian and Ukrainian.

New users are offered a language choice on first launch. The Settings tab contains both language selection and the report-recipient dropdown. Changing languages offers an interface reload.

Known group-report labels are translated into the recipient’s selected language. Spell and item names use the recipient’s game client language when available. Unrecognized text and names may remain unchanged; exports preserve the original received data.

How estimates work

When WoW hides cooldown information, the addon can estimate readiness from saved parameters and observed ability uses. The model assumes initial combat readiness and updates its calculations as abilities are used.

Dynamic resets, cooldown reductions and temporary effects can affect accuracy. GCD calculations distinguish observed waiting time from a conditional full-base-GCD scenario.

Potential availability is not a guarantee of survival. Resources, movement, crowd control, targeting and reaction time are not fully modeled. Death Recap may also be incomplete or outdated.

Controls

• Left-click the minimap icon: personal reports.
• Right-click: group reports.
• Drag: reposition the icon.

Reporting bugs

If an ability, cooldown, charge count or another value looks incorrect, click Export and send the complete data to the support chat, preferably as a .txt file.

Include what happened, what you expected, and your addon and game versions. Mention any spirit form, resurrection or interface reload. For group issues, include both the sender’s personal export and the recipient’s group export when possible.

A screenshot alone may not contain enough information to investigate the problem.

Reports use in-game addon messages; no external reporting or translation server is used. Delivery depends on WoW’s communication restrictions. Exports may contain character names, realms, identifiers, talents and combat records—review them before sharing publicly.