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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zarnivoop
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Posted Jan 16, 2017
Try this: open Skada's configuration, click "Profiles", and then choose to reset your profile.

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Posted Jan 15, 2017
after since i updated to new patch addon is not working, addon is loaded but it dont show any options in interface > addons or any icon on minimap and not even commands working. addon is active and i tried both manual downloading it and using curse client but still same problem.

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Posted Jan 12, 2017
since last patch skada wont "reset" between fights so "current fight" always show overall damage

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Posted Jan 14, 2017
Hopefully this will get a fix.

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Posted Jan 9, 2017
getting negative numbers for total healing with % in brackets, total heal and heal are both -'s ,% in main screen is -

loving the addon ty

edit :I did another lfr with the same settings and didn't get the - numbs

edit2: t happened in the The Rift of Arn,think massive amnts of healing caused it

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Posted Jan 8, 2017
fyi r719-alpha errors

2x AceLocale-3.0-6: Skada: Missing entry for 'How often windows are updated. Shorter for faster updates. Increases CPU usage.'
Skada\Options-Options.lua:513: in main chunk

2x AceLocale-3.0-6: Skada: Missing entry for 'Update frequency'
Skada\Options-Options.lua:512: in main chunk

Locals:
nil

Thanks

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Posted Jan 6, 2017
Thanks for updating to support RealUI.

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Posted Jan 6, 2017
Just did update and complete reinstal and Skada won't unlock it windows to move or adjust their size. Could use some help.

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Posted Jan 5, 2017
Same issue here, Skada is not working at all. Shows no info at all. No options to show ANYTHING. Edit" I'm on the latest version.

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Posted Jan 5, 2017
Message: Interface\AddOns\Skada\BarDisplay.lua:401: bad argument #2 to 'format' (string expected, got table)
Time: 01/05/17 03:23:01
Count: 1
Stack: [C]: ?
[C]: in function `format'
Interface\AddOns\Skada\BarDisplay.lua:401: in function `Update'
Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:334: in function `UpdateDisplay'
Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:2031: in function `?'
...AddOns\ElvUI\Libraries\AceTimer-3.0\AceTimer-3.0.lua:53: in function <...AddOns\ElvUI\Libraries\AceTimer-3.0\AceTimer-3.0.lua:48>

No display on bars. Major bug. Re-installing did nothing. Deleting cache did nothing.

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#2392 Posted Dec 30, 2016

Use version: 1.6.1

Often jump out of two errors, as follows:

5x Skada\BarDisplay.lua:63: attempt to call method 'SetButtonsOpacity' (a nil value)
Skada\BarDisplay.lua:63: in function <Skada\BarDisplay.lua:62>

3x Skada\BarDisplay.lua:67: attempt to call method 'SetButtonsOpacity' (a nil value)
Skada\BarDisplay.lua:67: in function <Skada\BarDisplay.lua:65>

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Posted Jan 6, 2017
You are using RealUI, right? If so, this should be fixed with 1.6.3.

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Posted Dec 28, 2016
Not a major bug but since r705 (pretty sure it was this one since notes said you changed BarDisplay.lua and I bet that's where the bug would be) the Skada window has started to lock itself in mouseover, so to speak. If I move the mouse over it, especially the upper part, the menu buttons on top right may still be lit up when I move the mouse away. Even if I use my keybind to close it and open the window again.

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Posted Dec 26, 2016
Addon is broken, Game restart helps nothing...

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Posted Dec 26, 2016
Uncheck "Install Libraries Separetely" in the Curse updater and try again.

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Posted Jan 1, 2017
No it's not broken. You may need to re-install the mod or get the latest version.

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#2384 Posted Dec 25, 2016

Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:8: Cannot find a library instance of "LibBossIDs-1.0".
Count: 1

Call Stack:
[C]: ?
[C]: in function `error'
Interface\AddOns\DBM-Core\Libs\LibStub\LibStub.lua:23: in function `LibStub'
Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:8: in main chunk

fails to load skada

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Posted Dec 25, 2016
They moved a few files around.

Try to restart the game completely that worked for me.

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Posted Dec 25, 2016
After today update i get spam with amazing many errors... please backroll...

Date: 2016-12-25 21:49:02
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua line 8:
Cannot find a library instance of "LibBossIDs-1.0".
Debug:
[C]: error()
!Swatter\Support\LibStub.lua:23: LibStub()
Skada\Skada.lua:8: in main chunk
Locals:
(*temporary) = "Cannot find a library instance of "LibBossIDs-1.0"."

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After today update i get spam with amazing many errors... please backroll...

Date: 2016-12-25 21:49:02
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua line 8:
Cannot find a library instance of "LibBossIDs-1.0".
Debug:
[C]: error()
!Swatter\Support\LibStub.lua:23: LibStub()
Skada\Skada.lua:8: in main chunk
Locals:
(*temporary) = "Cannot find a library instance of "LibBossIDs-1.0"."

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Project ID

17718
Created

Feb 12, 2009
Last Released File

Aug 9, 2025
Total Downloads

39,445,500
License

MIT License

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Skada Damage Meter

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