What do you mean with "off"? If both the timer and dmg done is the same then the math should only be off by 0-0.5 seconds.
My addon uses whole seconds (GetTimeStamp() method), FTC uses milliseconds I guess, so there will always be a small rounding error, but the longer the fight the smaller that error gets. 5 vs 5.4 seconds is a huge difference, 245 vs 245.3 is not

But the combat state handling isn't ideal at all anyways for now.

The API reports all names of players and special mobs with a "^??" at the end, that's also how I wanted to filter for players, but then I saw that mobs have it too. Forgot to filter it out for the main target display.

Only showing it while in combat or bringing it up when entering combat is easy.
Font selection/color was planned already, just removed it for this version because I just wanted to get it working at all.
Resizing probably needs me to change A LOT about how the panel works, I know it's possible though.


Yeah, the combat state is really a problem. I want it to track the complete fight regardless of when you die, and that the combat start and end are not just when you go in/out of combat but somehow also watches when the group starts/ends combat.

My current idea is some kind of "grace period" for entering and exiting combat, when no damage happens for x seconds it ended, but how would that work for the start? Maybe if damage happened x seconds before you're in combat it counts for the current combat.

But you have a point with that it tracks your real dps the way it works now, just in different fights (right?), but that isn't the point of this addon, I want it to track the complete group correctly. Maybe dps should work completely different and individual to people, i.e an individual combat time, but no clue how to implement that somewhat reliably.

But dmg/heal done should be enough for now to be at least able to compare

Edit: It's probably worth noting that the way this addon works feels like an oversight from ZOS, so I hope they don't take it away again when they realize this is now possible.

Also a question for you two, did you actually compare with the dmg/dps other see for themselfs, or just with what FTC etc shows for you? I want to be sure that tracking others actually works correctly. I can't do that myself as I don't know anybody that plays this game

The "system" used now just adds all hits together for every unit tracked everytime it updates (appprox. every second). That needs to be changed, it's the opposite of efficient

What do you mean by that? That people in the same fight with the same combat time have different damage numbers? If so, how big is the difference? Or did you filter by group/player without all other members appearing in the addon (only percentage is off, but not damage done)?

At least the absolute damage done should be the same or very close for everyone. Dps is dependant on the combat time, and percentage will be different when not filtering for the same thing or not all group members are "known" by e.g. healing. 2 healers that start combat at the same time and don't die should see the same or very close numbers for the group.

If possible please try forcing that by using the "infinity mode" (* button), that way all data collected after activation is forced into the currect fight. If everybody activates this before the fight the damage numbers have to be the same afterwards. Would be nice to get a positive answer to that, otherwise it would be useless working on improving anything

Good to know, thx

That was the problem

I made it save every single hit forever and just go through them every time the panel updates to get the new numbers.
In a long fight that could mean it would go through hundreds or thousands of dmg/heal events for every unit every second.

In the new 0.81 version it now puts every hit event in a queue and then goes through that every second and adds the new hits to the already done dmg/heal for each unit.
Now data won't pile up the longer the fight goes, only the hits that happend the last second will need to be processed. Even in huge fights that shouldn't affect performance now, but I honestly have no clue how "power hungry" it still could be. Maybe someone can try that and provide feedback.

I can pretty much confirm for myself that it's not, when fighting a single mob boss the combined dmg is approximately the mobs HP, with some overkill dmg. When healing a dungeon the dmg is always at least as much as needed to kill mobs.

The dmg/heal tracking works fine from my point of view. Next step is to improve combat start/end somehow.

Good to know

That's because right now the addon just uses the reported combat start and end of your character in whole seconds. With e.g. a 3.4s fight that would mean it uses 3s, which is a 13% difference, on long fights that becomes basically negligible though. But changing combat start and end handling is also on the todo list, same as this:

+ saving a fight permanently to look at it later or even after reloading the game.

If you're not the source or the target you only get following, didn't know abilityId is filled all the time until now though, you can get the name from it.



Working info is underlined, powertype is also working I think.
So target and source ID, ability ID, hit value and the number at the top which can be used to determine whether it's a normal hit, crit, heal, heal crit, hot etc.

For the combat state I'm fine with the start, at least in dungeons it starts as soon as someone in the group enters combat which is welcome, but the end also needs to watch the whole group. If you die it shouldn't end, but it should also not end if no damage happens in a few seconds like FTC does it, that can make 2 fights out of one. I'll probably combine the reported combat state with damage happening and monitor if the user dies. But it's just the dps that is affected immediately, so this isn't highest priority for me atm. Both dmg/healing done and the ranking works fine even if combat time is wrong.