Skada Damage Meter
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 Owner
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Posted Oct 22, 2014Hi there,
i got a problem with my Skada. It loads withput problems and worked on the beta realms too. But i can't get it to work on live realms after 6.0 was deployed. I can't change the display mode, it only shows "Mode" and doesn't show things like DPS, Damage, Healing and so on, thus making it useless.
Anyone can help me with this?
Greetings
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Posted Oct 21, 2014Hey there!
I think I've found a visual bug with the tooltip. Occasionally when you hover over any of the meters, the tooltip gets a lot bigger and covers the bottom portion of my screen.
Here's a visual of what it does: http://i.imgur.com/T3zY3UO.jpg
(Please excuse the markouts!)
It doesn't do it all the time, and seems to be random placement of your mouse when hovering over any of the bars in Skada.
Thanks so much and have a great day!
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Posted Oct 19, 2014Threat warning is not playing some sounds now.
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Posted Oct 19, 2014issue
Message: Interface\AddOns\Skada\modules\Deaths.lua:149: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'samount' (a boolean value)
Time: 10/19/14 16:30:19
Count: 4
Stack: [C]: ?
Interface\AddOns\Skada\modules\Deaths.lua:149: in function `func'
Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:1689: in function <Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:1603>
Locals:
what can i do ?
deactivate the modul - doenst help
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Posted Oct 19, 2014Could you by any chance open a ticket on wowace (development site) and attach a combatlog for this?
Edit: never mind, found it.
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Posted Oct 18, 2014Is there any way to enable server suffixes next to names in Skada?
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Posted Oct 16, 2014One good idea, skada spell damage self fixed window. This function already exists within the "SKADA" but would like to stay as a fixed window and not an option tab of damage, example: dps, damage, healing, etc., spelldamage (to know what this magic taking more damage) in the current encounter or total.
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Posted Oct 16, 2014Any way to see what spells have been dispelled and interrupted? Rather than just a count.
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Posted Oct 15, 2014I'm getting a Lua error related to deaths (the text said something about death, though i'm not sure if it was triggered by deaths or not)...of course it's always in combat so I keep closing it instantly. I'll try to remember to copy it and edit this post. :)
Edit: Darn, didn't happen again tonight. :( I'll keep an eye out tomorrow. I got it like four times on Garrosh before I posted here. :P
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Posted Oct 24, 2014Fixed in r574
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Posted Oct 14, 2014Well, I guess Skada is the only game in town now. Grats guys on being the first meter add-on to update. :)
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Posted Oct 13, 2014Is there a way to set a custom color for myself? I want to be able to see see myself at a glance.
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Posted Dec 16, 2014I would like this feature to! can you guys please add this.
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Posted Oct 8, 2014I prefer Skada over other damage meters except for one simple thing... just as severinachaos wrote:
I tend to put skada at the little "gap" in the lower left/right corner of the screen, so it doesn't take up space. The problem : the silver gargoyle from blizzard's UI overlaps Skada's UI.
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Posted Sep 2, 2014May I please have the macro command that would change the active profile?
Thank you
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Posted Aug 11, 2014request/suggestion:
would it be possible to "link" several skada windows together? situation: two skada windows. window A for damage, and B for healing.
if I switch to another fight in window A, I'd like for window B to mimic that behavier and show me that particular fight. (but B should still show healing but for fight I chose in the damage window)
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Posted Aug 12, 2014push, suggestion sounds awesome, gimme !
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Posted Jul 29, 2014Hello,
I have a question about the damage tracking in Skada, when I first start my dmg and pop all my CD's
I get a number around 350k. After all my burst damage is done I sit at my baseline dps @ 140k and let all my CD timers return. Once my CD's are ready to go I again pop them all to burst and instead of Skada picking it up the meter still sits at 140k, is there anything in the program/interface I can do myself to correct this issue?
Also Im sorry if this was asked/answered before in the comments but I could not kind it.
Thank you kindly,
S-Logik
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Posted Jul 30, 2014cant post the video in comments for some reason
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Posted Jul 30, 2014This is normal. Your DPS is an average over the entire fight, so it will always be highest at the start when you pop CDs. The longer the fight the less that popping your CDs will affect the running DPS number.