SimpleMeters

End of the road: 29 September 2026

I will no longer be working on SimpleMeters.

My focus for World of Warcraft is now fully on World of Warcraft Forever, which includes its own simple built-in games meter.

SimpleMeters still works for Vanilla Classic and the other versions listed below, but this is the end of the road for me and there will be no further updates.

Thank you to everyone who used it. See you all in WoW Forever.

Paul

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)

v0.5 Patch Notes

v0.5 focuses on responsive resets, a more flexible compact layout, and smoother long-session performance.

• Reset now clears Total, Fight, and Boss displays immediately without requiring a tab change.
• Roster refresh no longer errors when loading existing saved combat data.
• Dungeon reset prompts now use Blizzard's localized reset-success format and require existing meter data and a stable world state.
• Reset fully discards old actor and spell tables, reducing stale-data overhead in long sessions.
• The minimum panel width is reduced from 240px to 220px while preserving safe spacing for tabs, rows, and header controls.
• Periodic combat persistence now updates only changed actors and spell metadata.
• Unchanged boss history is no longer rebuilt every five seconds during combat.
• Quiet combat periods avoid redundant ranking rebuilds while fight timeout and persistence checks remain active.
• Unused UI and lookup code was removed as part of a focused maintenance pass.

Release integrity:

• Download SimpleMeters v0.5
• SimpleMeters-v0.5.zip SHA-256: dac6c41ee256b31a2bb8323c53287135a0b72418d0cb0aed7164848767218eee

Author: paul@thatkoala.com