Damage Meter (including pets damage)Follow

Good day all! What is the best damage meter to use that will also keep track of a pets damage? I have switched from KLH to Omen for threat meters and abolutely love it. Now I just need a good damage meter...

Cool thanks for the info. I'll definately give that a whirl. I was hoping there was something that would keep track of it while in the instance and would be linkable to chat as well. I did my first Outlands instance yesterday and had to hear it from the rogue who linked the damage meters in chat every 3 fights. He was up by alot because it wasnt tracking mine and the other hunters pet damage. Of course he thought he was the almighty God anyway and just kept on and on. On my rogue, I never linked meters unless asked and mainly used it to keep track of my progress, which I can't do as well with what I have now.

I use Recount as it not only tracks damage, but heals, overheals, deaths pretty much whatever you want. In fact one one recent ZG fun run I made it my mission to break every single sheep I saw. Recount handily has a "CC Broken" tracker so I was able to tell everyone how I did :)

Wouldn't recommend this on a proper raid though, although you can use it to see who keeps breaking your traps. It also can merge pet data, but I think most of them can do that. it's just most non-Hunters and Warlocks don't bother.

Edited, Feb 11th 2008 9:12am by Rasen

i had SW stas but got rid of it and now use the small red box dmg meter as i found it a lot easier to get along with and it only needs to take up a tiny bif of your game screen.

i never see hunters damage make rogues/fury warriors/locks squirm, even with pets merged

I am tempted to lose my pet and train another one just to do this. Maybe this would even have its advantage in PvP/Arena...at least with the targeting issues.

Edited, Feb 11th 2008 1:23pm by jbowler

I find opposite to be true. The only way rogs, wars, locks reach same lvl as hunter is when they are t6 lvl.

Damagemeters is great for solo play, since it's really simple. However, for doing instances, SW stats is more reliable. It syncs data with the other people in the group that use it, so the numbers are more accurate. Also, with SW stats, if you hover over your name in the window, it'll give you a basic break-down of your damage similar to WWS.

SW Stats.

Pet data can be merged or viewed separately and it syncs between everyone in a group or raid who is running the addon. Most accurate meter I've seen so far, recount runs a close second.

WoW Web Stats (WWS) probably has the most extensive stat listing available but it requires several people to be parsing their combat logs for maximum accuracy; It also requires someone to prepare the logs and setup the reports afterwards. Its a tool best used by raiding guilds as opposed to quick 5 man pug runs.

i was on ym warrior in kara, against maiden and the BM hutner was 15% below me on dmg.

it was ym 1st time in kara on my warrior, with only 2 epics and BM hunter was near full epic.

same on Attuemen

obv on curator he beat me, as its a bit difficult to run after the sparks
but it was only by 3%

I use Recount as well. WWS is great of course...but it's best when a few of you are running it in a raid.

It's all well and nice to say you out dps'ed a BM hunter and he was all epiced out compared to you, but it is all so situational none the less.

Maiden stuns everyone outside of her aura throughout the fight whilst the whole time you get to run around and wail on her butt with little to no interruptions. These stuns can be right at the start of a rapid fire or trinket pop, and gimp the hell out of the hunter’s dps.

Curator fight, you maybe chasing flares but he might have been shooting them too, just he was not jumping in front of it, dose not mean he wasn't helping take it down.

That said, he could have just sucked the big one and not even know what a shot rotation was, use his pet, have strength enchants on all is epics, etc... But all very situational.

Recount is the best damage meter, imo. Think of it as a mini, in-game WWS parse. Tons of feedback, shows exactly what abilities people are using, and so on. Realtime DPS graphs, if that's your thing, and it merges pets but also shows them as a separate character, if you want it to.


I had a hunter do that last night in arena. Screwed up Proximo's targeting system nicely, and /tar macros would mess up as well.