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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Posted Oct 22, 2015I've tried using skada instead of recount several times, but as soon as i get into combat and take damge, my game crashes with a fatal exception error. I've tried using no addons but skada and it still happens. Help!
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Posted Oct 22, 2015this other small addon seems to be working for me http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/inspectfix
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Posted Oct 15, 2015Is it even possible to compare the dps of two players in different windows? It looks like if you have multiple dps or damage windows open and try and drill down in one window , the second window will drill down and show the same information as the first window.
Meaning if two windows are open and both are selected to damage and comparing two say dps of the same class, if you drill down on player A in window #1 but want to also drill down on window #2 to show the same strikes/spells/shots of player #B (for example comparing two frost spec death knight's damage) it will show the results of player #A instead, regardless.
I feel this is a limitation of the data collection and as such not a deal break, just would be very nice to be able to do this if possible.
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Posted Oct 13, 2015Shame it doesn't count stuns, not even as interrupts. I interrupted a whole bunch of mobs with Shadowfury but it doesn't count as an interrupt (even though stunning does interrupt) and there is no stun mode.
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Posted Oct 13, 2015That's because there is no combat log entry for stun interrupts. Complain to Blizzard.
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Posted Oct 11, 2015Hi I am interested in knowing how to REMOVE player names from the Skada Damage bars as well as other bars. I understand this is something that will need to be done in the LUA, can somebody please reply on how to do this? Thanks!
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Posted Sep 25, 2015scada's sync function drops fps on my pc to the ground. is there a way to disable this feature ?
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Posted Sep 25, 2015Skada does not have any sort of sync function.
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Posted Sep 25, 2015Skada does not take into account data that it does not see itself. Libsharedmedia has nothing to do with syncing.
15 fps with Skada and 55 without it does sound rediculous, and I have never seen or heard of such a thing. Skada should never affect your FPS to any discernible degree. You could try clearing your addon settings.
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Posted Sep 12, 2015All i do is pvp. I like using a dmg meter so i can have a small window open to always see where i am and how im doing. Ive just recently noticed that skada is not accurate at all for the rest of the team. This seems to be because it stops recording everyone when i am dead.
Is there a way to make it keep recording everyone else while i am dead?
if not then its kind pointless for me to use it.
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Posted Sep 6, 2015I have a persistent fight in skada that stays through my resets, how can i get rid of it?
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Posted Nov 4, 2015still have this issue, please help :)
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Posted Sep 4, 2015How do I move the Skada window around?
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Posted Aug 30, 2015Void Tendril damage (from Touch of the Void trinket) is not added to the player damage (as merged pet damage).
Just wonder if that is intentional?
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Posted Aug 20, 2015I have been trying to use the buff uptimes for an accurate representation of trinket and proc uptimes but skada always seems horribly innacurate when compared to logs at the end of the night. Is there a way to improve this accuracy or maybe a more accurate addon for this or something. It is maddening to try and quickly check uptimes between multiple people between pulls (not much time at all) only to have inaccurate data.
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Posted Aug 15, 2015I have two bugs with this addon and I tried fixing them myself, I dont know if this is the best way to do it though.
1: The tooltip sometimes covers the whole screen
Fix: In Skada.lua add GameTooltip:ClearAllPoints() to the dataobj:OnEnter() function
and the SetTooltipPositionFunction tooltip:ClearAllPoints()
2: If font outline is set sometimes names dont have it
Fix: In BarDisplay.lua at line 442 rename 'PLAIN' to 'OUTLINE'. There is probably a better way.
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Posted Aug 13, 2015Love this addon. Great work ... Thanks!
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Posted Jul 17, 2015The fonts got all weird, with little cuts inside the letters. I tried changing font and font size, but the problem persists, I can't read the text normally.
Any idea?
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Posted Jul 17, 2015Any known fix for hiding on login? I have hide while solo checked, but have to uncheck and recheck it each login on each toon.