CombatDash vs Warcraft Logs

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.

Warcraft Logs provides combat analysis for Blizzard's World of Warcraft MMO. Users can record combats, upload reports, and analyze activity in real time; its client monitors combat logs and sends new events to the site as they appear. Reports can be kept in a personal log space or shared in a guild area. Analysis views include Analytical, Events, and Combat Replay. Public boss logs are ranked using measures such as damage per second and healing per second, while guilds and teams can be ranked for fight speed and execution. Linking a Battle.net account gives the service access to a user's characters and guilds. Users can claim characters and hide their parses from public view and listings. A free plan is available. Paid plans include Silver at $2 a month, Gold at $5 a month, Platinum at $10 a month, and Archon Alchemical Society at $25 a month. Gold provides 9,000 API points per hour and access to logs over two years old; Platinum provides 18,000 API points per hour and guild archive access for all guild users.