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.
I switched from Recount to Skada ages ago, and imo it is far superior.
I like how you have rolled most of the individual parts into the one core.
The only request I could make is to inclued the Skada Jump module.
This bug is fixed in r566
hello, depuis quelques jours je n'arrive plus à éditer sur le canal raid ou groupe le dps de chacun, j'ai un message d'erreur qui s'affiche.
hello, since a few days I can no longer link to the raid channel (or group or else ) the dps of everyone, I have an error message that appears.
Hi, for the past few weeks (not sure exactly when it started) I've been unable to access the modes column. When I right click on the title bar all the way down to Fights and select any of the options, the next screen (Modes) is completely blank. I can't select Damage, DPS, Healing Done, Deaths, etc; there's just nothing there. I can still change the mode by clicking the icon in the title bar but that defeats the purpose of the fancy menus as well as it being slower.
This occurs even when Skada is the only running addon and it still occurs when I downgraded to a previous version of Skada. Not sure what's going on- if I'm just being dumb or if the addon doesn't like me anymore :(
Edit: I have since discovered that Skada works as intended on one of my realms but the problem above occurs on my other realm. What could possibly be different between them? I've reinstalled and this still persists :(
Sounds like a corrupted SavedVariables file.
If you're using Curse Client, logout, right-click the addon and choose "Delete Settings".
Otherwise, logout and Delete the files:
World of Warcraft/WTF/Account/<name>/SavedVariables/Skada.lua
World of Warcraft/WTF/Account/<name>/<server>/<character>/SavedVariables/Skada.lua
I really like the idea of this add on and its customization... I can't seem to get it to stay put. I've locked the window, tried different positions, but the thing is wiley I'm telling ya... can it be clamped to the screen?
I will even have a treat in my hand when I play if I could get it to stay for me... LOL
Should be fixed in r564
The positioning is broken in r564.
I am using ElvUI, with the "ElvUI AddonSkins" plugin, and using its 'Dual Embed' feature to show 2 Skada windows (dmg & heals) side by side, and docked to the lower right corner of the window.
Skada r654 breaks this functionality - it worked fine in r563 and earlier.
Do you use the same profile on multiple chars with different positions by any chance?
I am using seperate (per character) profiles for every addon.
Is there a way of placing the Skada meter ontop of the action bar. By this I mean, have it sitting on a layer above the action bar so I can see the skada data. I use the default action bars and there is a part of it with no spells which is where I'd like Skada to sit, but unfortunately all I can see is the stone griffin and the skada information hidden underneith.
then i change the bars font size and then i relogg the game it goes back to std size.. anyone knows the problem?
Hey, thanks for the great addon! I have been using it pretty much since it came out. One thing that my guildies and I have been noticing for about the last week is that the meters seem to be reading wrong. I started checking to see who was using recount vs skada and everyone using skada had some very odd meter readings. We noticed it mostly when we were doing Garrosh 25. For example...It was showing everyones dps at around 90-100k dps, and healing meters we would have everyone around 80-100k hps. When we compared to people using recount, the meters were correct. Is there any specific info I can submit to help figure out what the problem is? Thanks again!
This bug is now fixed in addon version 1.4-19.
Thanks to all for your patience and help in tracking this down.
Just updated skada. Thanks! My guild will be killing Garrosh tonight and I will let you know if everything worked out.
Hi, I've been using skada for years and I love the addon... But I noticed something a touch worrying...
Whils't I've just started playing a fire mage it does not track damage properly...
Pyroblast hits the target and leaves a LARGE dot on the target... Now Skada only shows the initial hits and the first 3 ticks of pyroblast... leaving out a HUGE portion of our dps if we are unlucky with procs.
Normally, the dot doesn't "really" need to be tracked because it lasts for 17.58 seconds (in my current gear) and pyroblast it typically refreshed a lot more often than that, however, if RNG is not on ourside and we don't get to cast it - your leaving out 40k dps throughout the expiration of the dot.
Sorry disregard this, tested against recount and it turns out WoW was putting me out of combat before the expiration of the dot. It's working fine
Skada: Pyroblast 496.7L
Recount: Pyroblast 192687 damage
Recount: Pyroblast(Dot) 304021
= 496708
Close enough :)
Hey just recently updated my skada now i have random white floating numbers on my screen, i can move them but i can get rid of it any help on this?
This sounds very unlikely to be caused by Skada. Try disabling all other addons.
If the problem persists, please post a ticket with complete information here:
http://www.wowace.com/addons/skada/tickets/
Sounds like the MageNuggets addon