Skada Damage Meter
Skada Damage Meter
Skada is a modular damage meter for World of Warcraft with various viewing modes, segmented fights, and customizable windows. It is designed for efficiency with minimal memory and CPU impact.
"Skada" is Swedish for "Damage".
Midnight Edition (WoW 12.0+)
This version of Skada is updated for World of Warcraft: Midnight and uses Blizzard's new session-based combat systems.
Features
- Midnight Optimized: Uses Blizzard's internal session data for performance and accuracy.
- Combat Reliability: Handles modern combat data restrictions for a stable experience.
- Updated UI: Includes new presets with smooth animations, gradients, and textures.
- Dynamic Elements: Alternating row colors, highlight overlays, spark effects, and icon scaling.
- LDB Integration: Compatible with Data Broker displays such as Titan Panel, ChocolateBar, and ElvUI.
- Extensible Architecture: The API allows developers to create additional plugins.
Usage
Getting Started
A default window is created upon first load. Access the configuration menu by clicking the cog icon on the window title bar or via the minimap button. Select Configure to access settings.
Multiple Windows
Skada supports multiple windows. Create new ones under the Windows section of the configuration panel. Windows can be:
- Bar: The standard customizable meter.
- Inline: A horizontal line for custom UI setups.
- Data Text: For LDB displays and minimal setups.
Navigation
- Left-Click: View more detailed information.
- Right-Click: Return to the previous view.
- Mousewheel: Scroll through lists.
- Tooltips: Hover over bars to see additional context and shortcut keys (e.g., Shift-click for targets).
Themes
Manage window designs with the built-in Theme Engine. You can import and export themes by using theme strings.
Versions
- Midnight (Default): For WoW 12.0+ using the Native API.
- Classic Version: The version for older WoW releases.
Support
If you find Skada helpful, consider supporting its development through GitHub Sponsors.
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Posted Mar 9, 2026Thanks so much for updating this for Midnight! I noticed the toggle show/hide state isnt remembered between logins so I changed line 1001 in the Skada.lua to the following. Hoping you can add this in a future release.
function Skada:ToggleWindow()
local showing = false
for i, win in ipairs(windows) do
if win:IsShown() then
showing = true
break
end
end
if showing then
for i, win in ipairs(windows) do
win:Hide()
win.db.hidden = true
end
else
for i, win in ipairs(windows) do
win.db.hidden = false
win:Show()
end
end
self:UpdateDisplay(true)
end
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Posted Mar 5, 2026Please add:
- Specialization icons in the Bars settings
- An option to change the size of icons in the Title bar (Buttons)
- A mouseover option for the Title bar and hides during combat,
- Rank numbers in General options only work for the main window, but not in the Tooltip, and doesn't work when clicking on player damage.
- There's no option to change the display order of columns in the main window. I'd like to see DPS, DMG, and PERCENT.
- The Tooltip also lacks the option to set the width and height or scale, or the option to change the font. It also lacks the option to enable the skill icon and information bar (like when clicking on character damage).
- The Tooltip only shows a maximum of 10 rows; this could be increased.
- Bars settings lack the option to disable the server name for other players or the option to display its shortened name
- I don't know if it's just me, but Skada doesn't display the window from the last fight, it just resets every time and shows an empty window
- when I select a saved fight segment, I don't see it, there is an empty window
- I remember that there used to be an option to save an entire segment, e.g. from a dungeon or from the entire raid
- no segment summary with the name of the completed dungeon
Update
During the fight, both windows switch to current fight mode
Solution
- add an option to permanently set the mode of the selected window in the Mode switching > Combat mode > Damage > then allow you to select the mode, e.g. Current or Total.
Another nice solution would be to put a hard limit on the display of rows in the created window.
E.g. 5 rows or 4 rows (without healer on the DPS, Damage list) - in Dungeon / M+ mode
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e.g. 10 rows visible in Raid mode
Why so? Because in this situation it is easier to configure bars/rows in each window you create. Everything would be set perfectly, it would avoid a situation in which, for example, due to sloppiness in the configuration, I see 4.5 rows or 5.5, etc.
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Posted Mar 2, 2026Great to have Skada back! One minor annoyance I'm noticing is that it won't stay on "Total" damage after I select it. It always wants to go back and display "Current Fight" no matter how many times I tell it not to.
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Posted Feb 28, 2026appreciate continually trying to keep this addon going.... my issues...
1.color of class keeps changing for no reason. I'm paladin, so should be pink, i get hunters green sometimes then reverts back, without touching a thing.
2. Clicking reset skada, removes settings back to current fight from total
3. total (segment) doesnt stay 'saved' log out after few hours then back in, its reverted to 'current fight'
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Posted Feb 27, 2026Really appreciate the efforts that have gone into updating this for the Midnight changes, I'm sure it wasn't simple. I've used Skada for as long as I've had a damage meter installed and am glad it's made the jump.
There are still a few lingering issues I've encountered:
- The size of the bars don't dynamically update during combat, they all fill the entire space. Only after combat has ended are they resized based on damage contribution.
- The breakdown of damage by spell similarly doesn't show during combat, it only fills in after combat ends
- Previous segments are all empty, only the current fight and total show anything for me
- Very minor, but class icons (and colours) can occasionally get jumbled up and show beside the wrong player
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Posted Feb 24, 2026Hi Zarnivoop,
First, thank you for keeping this addon updated! It’s been my go-to damage meter ever since I started playing WoW and I really appreciate the continued updates.
I’m running into a UI layout issue that started recently (transitioning from the last patch of TWW to the current patch). The horizontal spacing between the data columns (%, DPS, Total) has increased significantly, which now leaves very little room for player names.
- Current Issue: [https://i.imgur.com/UlDWRpR.png] (Columns are spaced too wide)
- Desired Look: [https://media.forgecdn.net/attachments/106/633/skada-legion.png] (From the addon gallery)
Is there an existing setting to adjust the width or padding of these individual data columns? I haven't been able to find one in the current menus. Alternatively, is it possible to anchor the player names to the left of the bar and the data columns to the right (as shown in the gallery image)?
Thanks for your time and all your hard work!
Kind regards,
Sjieke Gast
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Posted Feb 27, 2026In reply to SjiekeGast: Yeah, it gets even worse if you reduce the width a bit more than on your screen. I see some values, but everything is mixed up and barely readable.
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Posted Feb 28, 2026In reply to SjiekeGast: I wish we could get the old look, It was a lot better than the current one.
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Posted Feb 28, 2026In reply to SjiekeGast: The columns are improved in 2.0.7. Admittedly the change to more ordered columns (from last year's revamp) has caused some issues. Perhaps I will add a toggle for reverting to the legacy format.
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Posted Feb 22, 2026Uninstalled Details, installed Skada 2.0.4. Doesn't show any information whatsoever - just a blank window (and yes I unlocked it to see that it was expanded). I also can't get it to toggle between "Current" and "Total" (stuck on current). Uninstalled Skada 2.04, reinatalled Details (which works perfectly fine).
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Posted Feb 22, 2026In reply to iwawashi: This issue is fixed in 2.0.6.
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Posted Feb 22, 2026You did indeed sir! Everything is working perfectly now. Thank you so much!
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Posted Feb 19, 2026big fps drops while using addon
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Posted Feb 21, 2026In reply to Mamzy: Yup. Had to disable it to stop it destroying my fps.
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Posted Feb 21, 2026In reply to Mamzy: This is resolved in 2.0.4.
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Posted Feb 19, 2026Hi, it was amazing to see that Skada is alive. As mentioned in other posts, it’s way better than Details.
But as also mentioned in other posts, my CPU is being killed by Skada... which makes sense :P lol
It’s peaking at 80% of my CPU and almost freezing my screen.
This happens only during combat in groups, not when playing solo, where it shows less than 1% usage.
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Posted Feb 19, 2026In reply to Karkasnoks:
In reply to my own comment, the behavior changed today. I don’t know why, but when I log in with a toon, Skada starts hogging the CPU like crazy, about 2–3% each refresh, topping up to 80%... I saw this behavior on every new toon I logged in with. If I do a /reload UI, Skada is not shown in the resource meter in the menu, implying use reduced below 1%.
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Posted Feb 19, 2026In reply to Karkasnoks: Please see if 2.0.3 fixes these issues for you.
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Posted Feb 20, 2026In reply to zarnivoop:
Hey, thanks for the update.
It improved a lot, but only if I reload.
First log in, the increase rate of CPU usage lowered, but at the end, it peak again at 80% of CPU usage and my fps are low, just 35.
After a reload ui my fps went up to 120 and skada it's not even show in the short list of cpu ussage %.
Average CPU usage went lower, yesterday it was about 60%, today peak at 40 and average was about 20%
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Posted Feb 15, 2026Hi, Is it possible to make It look like the picture skada-legion.png, with total damage done first, dps and %?