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 6, 2021Seems to be completely broken and abandoned. Bugs all over the place with this. The worst being it popping up when it isn't meant to and not recording any data at all when it's meant to. Time to move on to another dps meter looks like.
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Posted Jun 23, 2021skada is gone on curseforge app, and its not showing in game anymore even though i have the addon installed.
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Posted Feb 28, 2021seems this issue has been around for awhile ... https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/skada/issues/616
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Posted Feb 13, 2021Something is borked. It keeps activating the skada window even when it's not meant to. E.g. changing zones will reactivate it even when i'm solo and I have the option to have it hidden when solo.
Edit: Figured it out. Turns out if you have both "Hide in pvp" + "Hide while solo" ticked, it breaks the addon and it activates the window when solo everytime you change zones or reload etc. Addon appears to be abandoned.
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Posted Dec 30, 2020Skada seems to have problems with the 2nd pet of any other bm hunter in my party or raid. It simply doesnt record the dmg of them
Plz fix
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Posted Dec 5, 2020Why is skada marked as abandoned... it no longer shows up in search results on curse.
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Posted Dec 5, 2020In reply to morfraen:
yeah, having the same problem
hope this gets fixed soon
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Posted Dec 6, 2020In reply to morfraen:
+ 1
This is the case with many addons.While they are being updated....... FOR RETAIL! Pfffffff////
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Posted Dec 7, 2020In reply to Gexegq2:
Skada already works for retail and was updated for 9.0.2, it was marked abandoned after that though seems to be fixed now.
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Posted Nov 29, 2020Is there any way to stop Skada from automatically turning on all the time when not in a group?
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Posted Nov 2, 2020Is it possible to show spec icon instead of class or role?
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Posted Oct 14, 2020O HELL YES !!!! Thank you for the Pre-Patch update !!!!
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Posted Jul 29, 2020Can skada show me ungrouped people DPS, which is a feature im missing from details, actually the only feature.
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Posted May 6, 2020Yeah I only just realised this recently for Hunters its far from accurate, used Skada for as long as I can remember, never had any issues's but recently had to switch to Details because of this issue, still have Skada installed and still believe its is the best most efficient meter but on My Hunter main it simply is useless.
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Posted Jun 19, 2020This is very demanding. How about being nice to the people volunteering to write this addon
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Posted Apr 6, 2020Is there a way to hide empty fights?
For example I like to look at some fights while questing and often pull mobs just for a second and no fighting happens. Happens on my druid all the time in flight form.
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Posted Feb 22, 2020In the reports you can see like...
training dummy ( 1m 30s )
but I would love to see in the window title bar the current fight time, as i can only see how long i was hitting the training dummy for, after i finnished
please forgive me if there is already and option for this that i missed
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Posted Feb 4, 2020Skada appears to choke on the Hunter Talent "Animal Companion." Even with "Merge Pets" selected, Skada lists a least some of the damage the Animal Companion pet does separately. The problem is exacerbated by Skada listing it in a continually growing list of the same pet on different lines.
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Posted Aug 29, 2019OK, I've tried using Skada Damage Meter during combat in Classic and I can't figure out how to get it to display actual damage, aka dps. All I can seem to get it to display is something about GTFO Alerts. I ran though all of the Options I could find and nothing seemed to work. I realize this addon isn't claiming here on Curse that it works in Classic, but it has been reported elsewhere (Icy Veins) that it does.
EDIT: Finally found out that the "Skada" mentioned on Icy Veins for Classic was actually Skada_Classic which is not available on Curse/Twitch evidently. It is available on WoW Interface Addons: https://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info25146-SkadaClassic.html
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Posted Aug 28, 2019Using Skada version 1.7.6 in Classic. Everything seems to work OK so far without entering combat yet. While setting up Skada, I somehow managed to open a version window. I don't know what I did, and I can't seem to make it come up again. However, the window that opened gave the current version of Skada as "1.6.7" instead of "1.7.6."