Skada Damage Meter

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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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_ForgeUser7735604
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Posted Sep 1, 2016
Doesn't track Risen Skulker from other DKs most of the time. It randomly does then stops.

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Posted Aug 31, 2016
Anybody having issues with Skada window showing whenever you change zone?

Even though I'm solo and have the option ticked to hide it still pops up

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Posted Sep 5, 2016
yes, it pops out even when hide when soloing every time i use portal or similar zone jump spell like trueshotlodge hawk teleport from dalaran, but not hearthstones

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Posted Sep 5, 2016
Guess there's no fix for it then

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Posted Aug 29, 2016
Any way to change the font? and to increase font size. Options are very scarce in the config - googling it obviously talks about previous version because I don't see any settings for it.

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Posted Aug 30, 2016
If you expand the "Windows" in the configuration, and then choose your window, there will be a whole lot more options. :)

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Posted Aug 29, 2016
Finally figured out the bug I've been having with Skada. If I swap realms without relogging, Skada completely breaks. Doesn't display names or anything on bars. Just one or two blank bars and then nothing, no matter how many people are in group.

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Posted Sep 1, 2016
I believe I have the same problem. It happens even if I switch toons on the same realm. How did you fix it?

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Posted Sep 3, 2016
Same here.

nothing works.

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Posted Aug 28, 2016
Sometimes when multiple GBoMs on a target, for example when I had 3 GBoMs on me (2 other paladins and my own) it apparently wouldn't register my damage for my own but would count it for theirs, saw it on Warcraft Logs which had my damage with GBoM about the same as Skada.

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Posted Aug 28, 2016
Discovered a bug:

If in a group with a priest, who then duels and mind controls any player, for the remainder of that group, including resetting UI, the mind control victim will show as their DPS, and the DPS of the victim will not show up at all as their own individual.

Screenshots Puushed below.

http://puu.sh/qRk4t/c795d2d3b3.jpg

http://puu.sh/qRk3O/9f73c98b44.jpg

Will submit a log if I remember after.

EDIT: Log showing how it should be represented.
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/fdcTkFDzwV9XZaYb

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Posted Aug 27, 2016
Hello,

Army of the Dead takes and keeps Greater Blessing of Might damage as it's own, and it is not assigned to the casting Paladin.

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Posted Aug 27, 2016
Also, if related. When 2 Ret Paladins are in raid, with the same targets Greater Blessing of Might'd, it reflects the amount of hits incorrectly.

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Posted Aug 28, 2016
If you could supply a combat log of this (as a ticket on WoWAce preferably), that would be helpful.

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Posted Aug 27, 2016
Hi, is it possible to show in threatmode the threat from players who are not in group/party?

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Posted Aug 27, 2016
If i load skada my keybindings menu get corrupted, weird text an chars.

Is someone else having the same problem?

I had to delete the bindings.xml file to fix this

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Posted Aug 28, 2016
Quote from talpax >>

If i load skada my keybindings menu get corrupted, weird text an chars.

Is someone else having the same problem?

I had to delete the bindings.xml file to fix this

Yep, I have the same problem. Pretty fucking annoying.

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Posted Aug 27, 2016
Hi there,

Just quick question, since the latest update ive found that skada is running at upwards of 15mb memory.

Has anyone else found this, and what could have caused this as that is seriously heavy :s.

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Posted Aug 27, 2016
This is likely because I accidentally changed the default number of saved fight segments to 20, from the previous 10. It will be changed back in the next release, and until then you can just change this yourself in the configuration.

Also, if you're short on memory, you can always just disable those modes you are not interested in - they will then not save any data.

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Posted Aug 27, 2016
Ah ok, thank you. I will take a look at this and see.

I just like to keep my memory usage low given the heavily customised UI :s.

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