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 Aug 5, 2012I think there is a folder that saves some options, but i dont know which, because I once deleted an addon, and when I reinstalled it, it had the same options. Can't tell you the folder though.
By the way: Recount's Healing display doesn't work at all for me. (tried it recently)
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Posted Aug 1, 2012It stopped working for me now in MOP :( Hope it will work again soon:)
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Posted Jul 30, 2012I am trying to test the effects of haste, mastery and crit on corruption ticks with my warlock on Beta.
I am noticing i only get information on the first 3 ticks even though it ticks 10 times. is there a way to adjust this?
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Posted Jul 25, 2012Is there a way to disable the "class icons" on the lefthand side of the meters from this latest update? I try to keep my UI as minimalistic as I can and I find these superfluous.
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Posted Aug 8, 2012Yes, there is an option for it.
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Posted Jul 20, 2012Auto hide does not work in PvP, terribly annoying, kindly remove in subsequent versions. Tested on a problem the client is absolutely clean, with no add-ons except Skada 3 PCs, the problem remains.
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Posted Jul 8, 2012When i place and lock skada, then log out, skada moves itself ipwards a good portion when i log back in, on all characters. Does it automatically move out from underneath things? I have all the default elements hidden, but it looks like skada is trying to avoid being under the defrault blizz action bar.
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Posted Jul 7, 2012The latest version is compatible with both the live game and Mists of Pandaria.
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Posted Jul 3, 2012Do you think skada will be updated for wow 5.0? Actually recount has been updated .. is there some internal build to test? I saw a raid streaming yesterday with a working skada version...
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Posted Jun 20, 2012Current fight no longer shows anything with the latest update. Just a blank window. No LUA errors.
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Posted Jun 15, 2012I just compared Skada and Recount with each other I realized something strange.
The overall damage done was slightly different from recount. As I compared the value with the combat log I saw, that Skada sometimes misses the first autohit when I don't use an ability.
Can somebody confirm this?
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Posted Jul 6, 2012Skada starts recording data when YOU enter combat. Recount starts recording when any PARTY or RAID member enters combat.
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Posted Aug 5, 2012thanks
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Posted May 9, 2012I don't see a bar width setting. It's overlapping a border texture I want to use.
Also, it would be cool to be able to change the class colors.
I looked through some code and found that you use RAID_CLASS_COLORS.
I'm not the greatest with reading code, but I understand that it calls the FrameXML/Constants.lua which defines RAID_CLASS_COLOR.
Can I just make a SKADA_CLASS_COLOR of my own inside Constants.lua that resembles the RAID_CLASS_COLOR, then change the rgb values in the new SKADA_CLASS_COLOR table and then change Skada.Classcolors to call SKADA_CLASS_COLOR instead of RAID_CLASS_COLOR?
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Posted May 9, 2012Even when I have skada ticked to not show in pvp, it still shows when I am in BG.
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Posted Apr 9, 2012i just changed from recount and i keep getting this error. im also using elv ui.
Message: ...ns\Blizzard_AchievementUI\Blizzard_AchievementUI.lua:689: Usage: GetCategoryNumAchievements(categoryID)
Time: 04/09/12 17:40:54
Count: 1
Stack: [C]: in function `GetCategoryNumAchievements'
...ns\Blizzard_AchievementUI\Blizzard_AchievementUI.lua:689: in function `AchievementFrameComparison_UpdateStatusBars'
...ns\Blizzard_AchievementUI\Blizzard_AchievementUI.lua:2669: in function <...ns\Blizzard_AchievementUI\Blizzard_AchievementUI.lua:2666>
Locals: (*temporary) = "summary"
Message: Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:270: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil)
Time: 04/09/12 17:49:34
Count: 2
Stack: [C]: in function `ipairs'
Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:270: in function `Reset'
Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:277: in function `Wipe'
Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:290: in function `DisplayMode'
Interface\AddOns\Skada\Menus.lua:377: in function `func'
Interface\FrameXML\UIDropDownMenu.lua:706: in function `UIDropDownMenuButton_OnClick'
[string "*:OnClick"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnClick"]:1>
Locals: (*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = "table expected, got nil"
= <function> defined =[C]:-1
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Posted Apr 7, 2012There is currently an issue with hunter pet's damage not being merged with a hunter if the pet has the same name as the hunter.
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Posted Mar 26, 2012The death module does not show treatment?
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Posted Mar 19, 2012como hago para dejarlo en español, si todo me sale en ingles pero en la capeta local se encuentra el archivo esES ???
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Posted Mar 13, 2012Is it possible that you can see the full name of the other servers in the list too?Example: (old) Recca (new) Recca-DunMurogh or Brainsux-Frostmourne