CombatDash vs EQL Meter
CombatDash
combatdash.comEQL Meter
github.comSide by side
| Figure | CombatDash | EQL Meter |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Game Damage Meters | 7.7 (#5) | 7.7 (#7) |
| License | CombatDash is described as a free, MIT-licensed, unofficial community plugin. | The repository identifies EQL Meter as MIT licensed. |
| Purpose | CombatDash gives LOTRO players a glanceable view of damage, incoming damage, healing and time to defeat during combat. | EQL Meter tails EverQuest Legends character logs, tracks fights in real time, and displays DPS in a main window and click-through overlay. |
| Support | The maker links to Discord as a community contact channel. | The README directs feature ideas and questions to GitHub Discussions and bug reports to GitHub Issues. |
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In their own words
CombatDash
CombatDash is a free, MIT-licensed community plugin for The Lord of the Rings Online on Windows. It gives creep-class players a glanceable combat dashboard showing incoming damage, received healing, outgoing healing, damage per second, effective damage per second, and time to defeat. The suite also includes five toggleable HUDs and three information windows. Class indicators use icons, LEDs, and bars for class-specific stances, stacks, and countdowns. The Fights window presents historical encounters as graphs and statistics sheets and includes a raid board assembled from chat posts. The Map window marks keep ownership, gates, sightings, port points, and rally points with clickable travel markers. The Heals window shows up to 24 members and reads cooldown broadcasts from the Sender. CombatDash describes interoperability with CombatAnalysis and PvMP+ through machine-readable chat posts. Installation involves downloading a release from LoTROInterface, unzipping it into the LOTRO Plugins folder, and loading it with the in-game Plugin Manager. It supports combat-log import and session history.
EQL Meter
EQL Meter is a free desktop app for EverQuest Legends that reads character log files on the player’s machine and tracks fights in real time. It shows damage per second (DPS) in its main window and a click-through overlay, which lets the game remain playable underneath. The overlay appears above the game only when it is running windowed or borderless. Combat views include combined results across multiple mobs, an ability breakdown, and a DPS chart; the main meter also has DPS, Heals, Raid, and Loot tabs. When the in-game `/who all raid` roster is known, the Raid tab provides group DPS information. The app runs on macOS and Windows, needs no account or cloud backend, and is MIT licensed. It checks GitHub for releases on startup and offers an in-app update check and installation. A guide is available for Mac players running the game in a Parallels virtual machine. The Mac app is not yet notarized by Apple, so first launch may require clearing macOS quarantine in Terminal.