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 Feb 13, 2016I'm having an issue with two of my characters, where no matter where I put the dmg meter as soon as I close the game, they return to being on top of my minimap. All of the other toons, it will stay where it's put. I've removed the saves for those toons in the WTF folder, and it changes nothing. I've copied the profiles from other toons, and it still happens.
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Posted Feb 9, 2016When playing my enhance shaman my meter will say I did such and such damage but on everyone elses meter it says its lower then it says on mine. While on my hunter however I dont have this issue. I have updated the addon recently and still same issue. Its not a range issue because even the other melee show me as lower on thiers then it shows on mine. On Xhul there were 3 melee whos damage was higher on my meter but on logs all of them were lower which is why i thought it was a range issue but on Killrogg another melee saidhis meter was the same as the ranged meter showing my damage was lower than mine. Anyone know why and how i can fix this?
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Posted Feb 8, 2016Every time I use Skada, the longer it takes to logout my char. As long as waiting about 10~20 seconds to log out. So, I have to delete the file Skada.lua so I can change chars/exit game without the horrible delay.
Is there any way to block Skada from saving that file, or not keep logs at all? It's very irritating having to wait more and more to change characters every time I use Skada...
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Posted Feb 8, 2016/skada config
General Options
Data Segments to Keep: 1
You may also want to enable some of the automatic Data Resets
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Posted Jan 23, 2016For some reason my skada meters dont correspond with warcraftlogs. Is there any known problem that could cause this? Any other specific type of addon messing with this or something?
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Posted Jan 27, 2016There is no addon that can 100% accurately report what direct log aggregation can. Recount, Skada, TinyDPS, Details, etc will all report something different than direct logs.
Aside from that, there is also another reason the DPS will be off. When WarcraftLogs adds up the damage, the DPS is a direct average, dividing by total encounter time. Addons use different calculations to display DPS, such as Skada and Details using "effective" time. There will always be margins of error concerning combat log capture and display.
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Posted Jan 12, 2016Shift Click on for example me to show which mobs i damaged just doesnt work :/ it shows nothing. Could someone help me?
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Posted Jan 3, 2016I would really like this. I'm rarely anywhere near the top of the meters - but i don't want to have to have a massive damage meter on my screen just so i have a chance of being there.
As far as I can tell, no other meter addon does this. Would love to see this added to Skada :)
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Posted Dec 1, 2015I recently switched to Skada from Recount and find Skada works better for me, and was wondering if there is a way to make the title bar button icons larger. I run at high resolutions and the buttons are just a might small for me to click easily. (I'm a little shaky because of medication) Thanks for a get addon.
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Posted Nov 29, 2015Is it posible to always show me no matter where I am in the list, so my data is always shown in the bottom line?
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Posted Nov 11, 2015Hello. Is there any way that i can modify the fonts and size of my skada text in the window that count the dps and all my stuffs? i mean, those letters are too small for me..
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Posted Oct 25, 2015Although it has the option, how do we send the meters to a friend thru WHISPER, not WHISPER TARGET, since this one may need you to target the person in question, and the other, I presume, you could send even thru realID friends. Didn't find anything about that anywhere.
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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.