Better Deaths

Thank you to the Punish team for publishing my plugin!
Special thanks for Boss Mods for providing IDs and valuable information for the replays.
Thank you to WTFDIG for the collaboration for DMU tools.

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Better Deaths

Understand the wipe. Make the next pull count.

The pull ends, someone asks "What actually killed us?", and suddenly everyone has a different theory.

Was mitigation missing? Did a shield expire? Did two hits land almost together, or was the player already too low before the mechanic arrived?

Better Deaths gives you something to check instead of another guess. It turns captured deaths into clear, in-game reviews, with the fatal hit, health, shields, effects, and the events that led there together in one place.

Built with savage and ultimate progression in mind, this free, open-source Dalamud plugin helps you investigate while the pull is still fresh. Whether you are leading a static, working through a mitigation plan, or figuring out why you were the one on the floor, you can get into the details without leaving the game.

More Than the Fatal Hit

- See how the death happened. Inspect incoming damage, overkill, HP, shields, mitigation, and debuffs. Follow the lead-up through captured damage, healing, recent actions, and status timers to see what the final hit alone would miss.
- Revisit the pull, not just the latest death. Browse saved attempts and return to earlier deaths after another pull or a plugin reload.
- Ask "could we have survived that?" Select available mitigation and estimate how it would have changed the fatal hit against the recorded HP and shields.
- Watch the moment unfold. Death Replay (beta) brings captured positions, waymarks, active effects, and supported mechanic overlays into a replay you can pause, scrub, and inspect.
- Take a closer look at mechanics. The built-in WTF.DIG Analyzer supports selected Dancing Mad (Ultimate) mechanics, using a local pull or an FFLogs report link.

Your Fight, at a Glance

- Keep damage in view. The optional DPS Meter shows personal DPS, total damage, damage share, and expandable ability breakdowns. It includes nearby captured players and alliance members, with identified pet damage attributed to its owner. The floating meter follows the live fight or most recent result while saved encounters remain available for review.
- Make the widgets fit your setup. Use the Death Widget, DPS Meter, or both. Choose Normal or Concise display, add the meter columns you care about, and drag them into your preferred order. Each widget has independent background opacity and icon-size controls.
- Share the useful part. Send a death recap, available mitigation, or a what-if outcome to chat, with a preview before you post. Local recap links open locally recorded data; they do not upload or transfer a pull to another player.
- Keep it personal, or keep it anonymous. Choose from multiple color themes, adjust Review presentation, and redact displayed player names throughout the meter and review. Chat previews follow your selected name and branding settings.

Spend less of the reset trying to reconstruct what happened, and go into the next attempt with something concrete to work on.

Death reviews work inside duties. The DPS Meter also records overworld combat, automatically saves finished encounters, and offers an overworld-only manual reset. PvP capture is not supported.

Installation

Requires XIVLauncher with Dalamud enabled. This is a plugin, not a gear or texture mod; do not install it through Penumbra or TexTools.

1. Add the following custom repository URL in Dalamud's plugin settings:

https://puni.sh/api/repository/nainai

2. Open the plugin installer, find Better Deaths, and install it.
3. Use /bd to open Better Deaths.

Commands

- /bd or /betterdeaths: Toggle the main window.
- /bdw: Toggle the Death Widget.
- /bdm: Toggle the DPS Meter widget. Hiding it does not stop recording or reset damage.
- /bdr: Save and reset the active DPS encounter in the overworld. Unavailable inside duties; saved encounters are kept.

Data and Limitations

Pulls and damage encounters are saved locally. Name redaction affects what is displayed, not the original names stored in local files. Choosing an FFLogs source contacts an external service to retrieve that report; Better Deaths does not automatically upload your captured pulls.

Replay and what-if results depend on the data your client captured. Some damage-over-time contributions are estimated. The meter currently exposes personal DPS; rDPS, aDPS, and nDPS columns are unavailable.

Website: https://nainaiowo.github.io/better-deaths/

Help: https://nainaiowo.github.io/better-deaths/help/

Source and issues: https://github.com/Nainaiowo/better-deaths