SimpleMeters

SimpleMeters is a lightweight, stock-style damage meter for WoW Classic Era 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 toggles all panels
• /smsm 1 creates a new bar panel
• /smsm 2 creates a new text panel
• /smsm help shows command help

Compatibility

• Classic Era (1.14.x branch)
• Burning Crusade Classic (2.5.x, interface 20505)

Author: paul@thatkoala.com