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.
The healing looks like it's showing as a negative. Scroll all the way down the heals and you see it as a reverse bar that spans the bottom of the window.
I have similar problem as well. Skada does not show priest's healing after first attempt on Xavius.
Got the exact same problem on my holy priest on Xavius. It is so frustrating. I had no problems on the other boss fights in EM. So I guess its a Xavius and Holy priest combination bug?? Hope they will fix this soon...
If I play on my dps all day, skada works great. Once I switch to my restro druid and mess around, skada will stop working at some point. Only way to fix is to create a new profile and copy over from an untouched template (another profile) of when it worked. It seems it does something to the saved profile and renders it unusable.
Im having the same issue for my holy priest. It seems to happen pretty randomly. The dps meters work perfect but when im in holy I will frequently disappear from mine and my guildies skada meters. I thought it might be caused by the fact the my player name has a weird alt code o in it but mabye its just the holy priest thing. Please fix!
Hi,
Any chance "Enemy Damage Done" could contain more information? As in, click on the enemies to see what abilities did most damage for them (PvP purposes)? Well, the dream would be an option to include the enemies next to allies in the Damage Done tab. A PvP friendly mode so to say.
Additionally, could you add an option to switch to "Current Fight" in combat and back to "Total" outside of combat? Would be lovely. This type of thing can be included in the "Mode Switching" menu you already have.
Thank you!
I was just wondering if I have somehow disabled something to make it not show total damage properly?
This is what I would like mine to look like : https://i.gyazo.com/66986339c6d4bfd69f16595ab94a2961.png
And this is how mine looks : https://i.gyazo.com/0a724d95aa9b907c4591e1c17e4bb08b.png
I think what I'm asking is for the damage numbers to be rounded properly. When I get into the millions, it's never shortened. (Like the 4.43M in your pic)
Sorry if this doesn't make sense, and thanks :)
Skada isn't correctly displaing subtlety rogue damage because it records all of Akaari's Soul damage (talent from the artifact weapon) as a separate person instead of belonging to the sub rogue's damage.
Im not sure why this is happening. But on my healing charts (ive only seen it on the healing chart), it is duplicating some of the ranks and using them out of order.
http://imgur.com/a/fFT96
As you can see in the screenshot, it is counting 1,3,2,3,4 instead of 1,2,3,4,5
Any option or setting to lock Skada on "total" damage, its switching between current fight and "total" damage. Suggestions?
Is it possible to keybind skada windows separately? Right now it toggles both my healing and dps windows, and I'd like to be able to hide just the healing one when it's not needed.
I tried having both windows up and closing the healing one only. That way I could toggle the windows easily with my broker button to bring the healing one back up as needed, but Configure>Close did not do what I thought it would. Am I missing the close button somewhere or can I only toggle all windows together.
Swapping profiles all the time is a bit tedious.
Skada (nor recount) is correctly keeping track of a certain trinket proc.
The trinket in question is Portable Manacracker http://www.wowhead.com/item=137398/portable-manacracker
Below you will find a pretty self-explanatory picture showcasing the problem. I'm not sure if this is a problem with the mod or actual game it self.
http://imgur.com/a/g68us
Hi,
in Skada if I use "Damage: Current Fight" and hover over players, it shows their top abilities.
however
if I use DPS: Current Fight, it doesn't.
Is there a way to show abilities for DPS: Current Fight?
This will be in the next release.
Could you maybe add an option in Skada to disable any auto-showing?
It seems to ignore the current ones...
I selected "hide, if solo" and "only boss fights"
Each time i am joining a group - skada opens
Each time i am leaving Dalaran with a flight master - skada opens (even when i am not in a group!
Thats annoying! Fix it please. I only need this Addon in a Dungeon or Raid.
I'm having the same issue.
Oftentimes without even joining a group it pops up and I have to open the options window and UN-check then RE-check the "hide if solo" option to get it to hide again.
Try UNselecting "Hide in PVP" option, it seems it is responsible for random appearences when changing a zone. At least for my warlock it no longer shows up every time when I leave my Order Hall.
I'm currently tracking down all the places where this happens, some of which are only when other "hide" options are selected too.
For example, when combat ends with the "hide in combat" option. Change Skada.lua:1443 or thereabouts from
if not win.db.hidden and self.db.profile.hidecombat then
to
if not win.db.hidden and self.db.profile.hidecombat and (not self.db.profile.hidesolo or IsInGroup()) then
Also, when pet battles end. Add
if not Skada.db.profile.hidesolo or IsInGroup() then
...
end
around Skada.lua:1097–1101 or thereabouts.
I posted about this a few years ago but it's apparently not very high priority, so we might have to keep fixing it manually after every update.
Hi. Im playing Warlock affliction. Skada shows my dps 245k but my team mates see 160k. I thnk it didnt count soul effigy. Pls fix it
As a ret paladin my dps keeps going down if I have died during a fight. I believe it is because I have active buffs on people like Greater Blessing of kings on a tank. I know our lock has his dps ticks down but that makes more sense since he still has an active dot on the boss.
So don't know if there is a way to stop that as I can see pug groups possibly kicking for low dps even if I die due to things out of my control.