Tank Companion

Tank Companion

Tanking in Midnight is a different job. Patch 12.0 took the combat log away
from addons and made your own health, resources, absorbs, cooldowns and buff
timers "secret" while you're in combat. That's why so many tank addons have
spent this expansion quietly doing nothing, or throwing errors mid-pull.

TankCompanion was built after that change rather than patched through it.
Everything it shows comes from what the client still tells addons: what you
pressed and when, the timing of every hit you take, your stagger pool, and
Blizzard's own server-side damage meter. No combat log, no guesswork, nothing
that breaks the moment you zone into a key.

A HUD THAT KNOWS YOUR SPEC

Not a generic bar pack. Each spec gets what it actually needs:

  - Stagger meter with Light/Moderate/Heavy zones, tick size and purify
    prediction (Brewmaster)
  - Bone Shield stacks and a rune row (Blood)
  - Soul Fragments (Vengeance), Ironfur stacks (Guardian),
    Consecration position (Paladin), Ignore Pain absorb (Warrior)
  - Active mitigation bars, defensive and utility cooldowns with charges and
    proc glows
  - Live coverage: how much of the damage you're taking is actually mitigated,
    while it's happening

Four panels you can dock together or scatter. Full Edit Mode support, or
attach it to Blizzard's Cooldown Manager so it sits where your eyes already are.

WARNINGS BEFORE THE HIT, NOT AFTER

  - Tank buster incoming — and the name of the best defensive that will be
    ready for it
  - Your active mitigation has been down for too long while you're being hit
  - Heavy stagger with a Purifying Brew charge sitting there
  - Death review: exactly which cooldowns you still had when you went down

Works with DBM, and also reads Blizzard's own encounter timeline so you get
warnings without a boss mod installed.

A PRIVATE SCORE THAT TELLS YOU WHAT TO FIX

This is the part other tank addons don't do.

Every pull is scored across five things that are actually in your control —
mitigation coverage, avoidable damage, cooldown usage, survival and utility —
and you get a grade plus up to four plain-English insights:

  "Shield Block covered 62% of the time you were being hit; 14 of 58 hits
   landed without it."

  "Died at 1:12 with Last Stand and Shield Wall available."

The model is built to be fair rather than harsh. It knows every tank opens a
pull resource-starved, so the ramp before your first mitigation isn't counted
against you. It knows a Shield Wall isn't owed to a pull that never threatened
you. It knows some defensives are saved for a specific incoming hit rather
than rolled on cooldown, and judges those on whether something was up when the
hit landed.

You're compared against your own median over your last 20 pulls in that spec.
Never against other players. Nothing is ever transmitted, to anyone.

YOUR HISTORY, KEPT PROPERLY

A sortable log of every pull with full breakdowns. Filter by dungeon, boss or
spec. Scores are shared across all your tanks so you can see them side by
side, or narrow to just the character you're on.

Your pulls keep the measurements they were scored from, so when the scoring
model improves, your old pulls can be re-scored under it instead of being
stranded on an old one.

EVERY TANK SPEC

Blood Death Knight, Vengeance Demon Hunter, Guardian Druid, Brewmaster Monk,
Protection Paladin, Protection Warrior.

GETTING STARTED

Install and tank something. It configures itself from your spec and talents.

  /tc          your pull history
  /tc options  everything else
  /tc unlock   move the HUD

DBM and WeakAuras are optional; a WeakAuras and plugin API is included for
anyone who wants to build on it.