v1.16.0 - comparable group numbers, recovered heals, overlay tray + hotkeys

Download

EQLCompanion.exe — one file, ~42 MB, nothing to install. A .sha256 is published beside it.

Windows will warn you it does not recognise the publisher (the file is unsigned): More info → Run anyway. Install guide.

Upgrading? Replace the .exe — your data folder beside it is untouched.

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Group numbers you can compare. An ally's pet used to fold into its
owner's damage row, while your own pet is shown apart from "You". So this
app's view of a groupmate was them plus their pet, while that groupmate's
own copy split the two — for any pet class the two readouts could never
agree. Since comparing figures with someone else running the same tool is a
main reason to have it open in a group, an ally's pet now gets its own row
and the numbers reconcile.

Heals that were never counted. Two forms were silently dropped: heals
logged without a trailing by <Spell> (common for direct heals), and
healers whose names are not player-shaped — mobs, with lowercase multi-word
names. On the 90MB log this project is developed against, other_heal went
from 26,730 to 45,638 events. Roughly nineteen thousand heals were
happening and never counted, most of them mobs healing themselves, which is
frequently the reason a fight is not ending. Unattributed heals still count;
they group under a "Direct heal" row instead of a spell name.

Third-person casts. "A froglok novice begins casting Inner Fire." is the
only warning before a mob lands something, and only your own casts were
parsed before. First person is "begin" and third is "begins", so the two
cannot collide. They appear in the ledger and per-encounter, so you can see
what is being cast at you and by whom. The vendored test fixture gained 14
events from this alone.

Overlay: a tray icon and global hotkeys. The overlay has no title bar
and is click-through most of the time, so once hidden — or dragged
off-screen — there was nothing left to click, and every control needed a
window that is never focused while you play.

Keys	Does
Ctrl+Alt+O	show / hide
Ctrl+Alt+C	compact mode
Ctrl+Alt+↑ / ↓	opacity
Ctrl+Alt+X	force interactive (no Scroll Lock needed)

The tray icon offers the same plus Reset position, the rescue for an
overlay dragged off the edge. Windows 11 tucks new tray icons into the ^
overflow until you drag one out.

Also

• The release build now self-checks the overlay's own dependencies. The
  overlay is a child process the server smoke test never reaches and its
  tray fails soft, so a missing packaged import would have shipped silently
  — the way the spell-line table did in 1.15.1.