Skada Damage Meter

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Skada is a modular damage meter with various viewing modes, segmented fights and customizable windows. It aims to be highly efficient with memory and CPU.

"Skada" is Swedish for "Damage".

Note: I took a tiny break from WoW (a decade), but recently started playing SoD. Be aware that this addon may not quite work yet.

Usage

When you first start using Skada, there will be a window created by default. This window can be extensively customized in Skada's configuration panel; click the little cog icon to access a menu, and then click Configure. Depending on your user interface, there may also be a minimap button allowing quick access to this menu.

Skada supports multiple windows. To create a new window, click Windows in the addon's configuration panel. There are three built-in types of windows - Bar, Inline, and Data text. Bar is the classic damage meter window, and is very customizable. Inline shows the meter in a horizontal line, which can be useful for integration in custom user interfaces. Data text shows just one item at a time, and can also be displayed by any LDB display addon, such as Titan Panel, ChocolateBar, or ElvUI.

In the normal Bar window, you can left click on specific items for more detailed information, and right click for less details. At the very "top" is the list of all saved fight segments. Some data modes have several detailed information views. In this case you choose alternate views by holding certain keys pressed while clicking. For example, in Damage mode, you can Shift-click a player to see what enemies the player caused damage to. Tooltips will display how to reach the different views.

You can also use window buttons for selecting fight segment and mode directly.

Scrolling in Skada is done with the mousewheel.

Plugins

Skada is easy to extend, and there were once many extra plugin addons out there that add functionality. However, there are unlikely to be any maintained ones currently.

There is a page with API information here.

Reporting issues

For now use comments.

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zarnivoop
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Posted May 4, 2011
Reset your data and it should be fine. The Deaths module was changed around a bit and old (pre-4.1) data confuses it.

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Posted Apr 29, 2011
It seems that skada is not saving the border thickness for my windows. It defaults them to 16 no matter what I do.

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Posted Apr 29, 2011
Could you bring back the feature that changed between different reports every couple of seconds?

you selected which ones you wanted it to show and it would toggle every 15 seconds or so.

that was a very nice feature.

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Posted Apr 28, 2011
Is there a reason that death log takes up 8 mb?

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Posted Apr 27, 2011
Getting this error at the end of boss fights, using the latest version:

1x SkadaDeaths-1.0\Deaths.lua:44: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
SkadaDeaths-1.0\Deaths.lua:58: in function `func'
Skada-1.2-32\Skada.lua:1762: in function `?'
CallbackHandler-1.0-6 (Ace3):147: in function <...Ons\Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:147>
<string>:"safecall Dispatcher[13]":4: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[13]"]:4>
<in C code>: ?
<string>:"safecall Dispatcher[13]":13: in function `?'
CallbackHandler-1.0-6 (Ace3):92: in function `Fire'
AceEvent-3.0-3 (Ace3):120: in function <Ace3\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:119>

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Posted Apr 27, 2011
I find a automatic mining addon,with 4.1.0 patch
www.aionktzbot.org
I appreciate all the hard work you've put into it.Very simple.

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Posted Apr 27, 2011
Yo,
fix Skada please.
I hat Recount.

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Posted Apr 26, 2011
Update fixed the frame rate issues. But now it seems that pet damages is not being recorded? Neither my imp nor felhunter are included in my damage done.

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Posted May 1, 2011
Not for me.

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Posted Apr 27, 2011
doesnt work.

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Posted Apr 26, 2011
4.1 seems to have broke the addon. Could anyone confirm or deny this?

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Posted Apr 26, 2011
yep its broke

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Posted Apr 26, 2011
Change line 1661 in Skada.lua to this:

function Skada:COMBAT_LOG_EVENT_UNFILTERED(event, timestamp, eventtype, hideCaster, srcGUID, srcName, srcFlags, dstGUID, dstName, dstFlags, ...)

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Posted Apr 9, 2011
Please fix the shadowy apparitions are not displaying to other people except their master shadowpriest!:(

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Posted Apr 7, 2011
hi, is it possible to make skada able to view the spells that are interrupted? not just the number of interupts, but detail of who interrupted which spells.

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Posted Apr 3, 2011
Is there any way I can link the damage meter numbers into chat without typing them?

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Posted Mar 30, 2011
Healers badly need a damage meter that can parse damage-taken-per-second. In my experience, even if I'm blasting at full throughput and people are dying to threat loss - total damage taken won't provide useful information. The person taking unneccessary damage dies faster, so he might even wind up with LOWER overall damage taken.

'lol no heals?' - flip to damage taken per second - You took an average of 11k DTPS. You're not the tank. My efficiency rotation does 6k. Please don't break aggro.

Not a single damage meter has this option! recount comes close but only shows a real-time graph of raidwide dtps. All you'd have to do is add another mode that divides damage taken by the player's activity time. I know activity time is already recorded.

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Posted Apr 10, 2011
All you have to do in that case would be to look at the last 10 second report for their death in recount... if they're taking melee from the boss or damage from a mechanic they're failing to, it will show it.

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Posted Apr 18, 2011
Looking back at the last 10 seconds of life after the fact is absolutely nothing like watching damage taken per second in real-time. You obviously didn't get what Zakaluka15 was talking about.

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Posted May 4, 2011
A damage taken per second number has been added on the alpha version. Note that this is just as simple as Skada's "DPS" numbers. Activity time is simply first time action was done/taken until last action was done/taken. No arbitrary accounting for pausing in action.

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