99dps

A terminal DPS meter for classic EverQuest (Project 1999). It tails your live log, parses combat as it scrolls, and draws a themed real-time TUI — per-dealer damage, crits, specials, avoidance, spell timers, and a zone repop tracker.

It only reads the log file your client already writes. No memory reading, no client hooks, nothing injected into the game. Just the log.

What you get

• Live damage meter — per-dealer DPS/total/share, hit% and crit%, a rainbow share bar. Pets roll up under their owner. Your spell/DoT damage is credited to you (the client only ever logs its own non-melee, so it's yours).
• A panel that follows your class. Caster → spell timers + an Enemy column for what you've put on mobs (debuffs/DoTs/roots/CC). Melee → skills, cooldowns, and your own self-buffs. Hybrid → both. It reads your class from /who.
• Spell timers, grouped by who you cast on: buffs on you/allies (your own pinned to the top), debuffs/DoTs/roots on mobs, and a pinned CROWD CONTROL section for mez/charm/pacify. Two same-named mobs get their own timers, not one shared one. Countdown colors mean the same thing whether a buff lasts 30 seconds or 3 hours (orange ≈ last 5 min, red ≈ last min). Clicky-item buffs are tracked too (e.g. Black Fur Boots SoW, the White Lotus armor set).
• Mob Tracker — repop timers per kill using the zone's default spawn, split into your group's kills vs everyone else's. Click a row to fix a timer (saved per zone+mob).
• Specials & Avoidance — backstab/kick/bash totals and hit rates; dodge/parry/block/ riposte/miss for each defender.
• Shaman canni dance meter pinned to the damage panel — grade, combo, recast beat, best.
• Cooldown charge bars that fill left→right as an ability comes back up — Mend, the monk kick (Round → Flying by level) — plus feign-death and bind-wound indicators.
• Audio cues (optional) when your buffs are about to drop.
• Switch characters in-game and it follows the new log automatically. No restart.

Requirements

• A terminal that does truecolor (Windows Terminal, iTerm2, kitty, any modern one).
• Your EQ log file (eqlog_<char>_<server>.txt). Turn logging on in-game: /log on.
• spells_us.txt (ships with the client) for spell timers. Found automatically next to your log dir; without it the timer panel just stays empty, everything else still works.

Build & run

Go 1.25+.

go run ./cmd/99dps                 # fastest; auto-detects your EQ folder, asks once
go run ./cmd/99dps -logdir <path>  # point it at your Logs dir
make build                         # -> ./99dps

Log dir resolution, in order: -logdir flag → EQ_LOG_DIR → your saved choice → platform default → auto-detect (and it remembers what you pick). Override spells_us.txt with -spells <path> if it isn't where it's expected.

Windows: make windows cross-compiles 99dps.exe from any host (pure Go, no cgo). make dist-windows builds a friend-ready zip. See docs/windows-release.md.

Keys

↑ ↓ / click   select a fight        end       jump to the live fight
wheel         scroll the panel       t / tab   cycle theme
a             toggle audio cues       bksp      clear sessions
click a repop row to set its timer    q         quit

How it reads the log (and what it can't do)

EQ logs carry no entity IDs and never name the caster on spell damage. So:

• Two same-named mobs alive at once are identical text — the meter can't truly tell them apart. It uses sensible heuristics (a fresh re-cast vs a second mob, one death clears one timer) but it's a guess, not ground truth.
• There's no spell-DPS leaderboard, even for you. Spell lines say what was hit and for how much, never by whom. Your own non-melee is credited to you because your client only logs yours; everyone else's is invisible to you.
• The current zone is only known after you next zone in — no log line states it at startup.
• Repop times are zone defaults. Named/placeholder mobs differ; click to correct them.

Fights start and stop on their own

A fight closes when combat goes quiet longer than its own rhythm (an adaptive idle-out, not a fixed timer), so a frantic AoE pull and a slow tank-and-spank are each judged by their own cadence. Kills are punctuation — a multi-mob pull stays one encounter. Death, zoning, and camping hard-close a fight.

Dev

go test ./...        # all tests live next to the code
make lint            # gofmt + vet + golangci-lint + govulncheck

Standard Go layout: cmd/99dps/ is the entrypoint; everything else is under internal/ (combat, eqclass, loader, parser, session, gamestate, tts, tui). See CLAUDE.md for the architecture in depth.

License

MIT. Use it, break it, send a PR.