Skada Damage Meter
Skada Damage Meter
Skada is a modular damage meter for World of Warcraft with various viewing modes, segmented fights, and customizable windows. It is designed for efficiency with minimal memory and CPU impact.
"Skada" is Swedish for "Damage".
Midnight Edition (WoW 12.0+)
This version of Skada is updated for World of Warcraft: Midnight and uses Blizzard's new session-based combat systems.
Features
- Midnight Optimized: Uses Blizzard's internal session data for performance and accuracy.
- Combat Reliability: Handles modern combat data restrictions for a stable experience.
- Updated UI: Includes new presets with smooth animations, gradients, and textures.
- Dynamic Elements: Alternating row colors, highlight overlays, spark effects, and icon scaling.
- LDB Integration: Compatible with Data Broker displays such as Titan Panel, ChocolateBar, and ElvUI.
- Extensible Architecture: The API allows developers to create additional plugins.
Usage
Getting Started
A default window is created upon first load. Access the configuration menu by clicking the cog icon on the window title bar or via the minimap button. Select Configure to access settings.
Multiple Windows
Skada supports multiple windows. Create new ones under the Windows section of the configuration panel. Windows can be:
- Bar: The standard customizable meter.
- Inline: A horizontal line for custom UI setups.
- Data Text: For LDB displays and minimal setups.
Navigation
- Left-Click: View more detailed information.
- Right-Click: Return to the previous view.
- Mousewheel: Scroll through lists.
- Tooltips: Hover over bars to see additional context and shortcut keys (e.g., Shift-click for targets).
Themes
Manage window designs with the built-in Theme Engine. You can import and export themes by using theme strings.
Versions
- Midnight (Default): For WoW 12.0+ using the Native API.
- Classic Version: The version for older WoW releases.
Support
If you find Skada helpful, consider supporting its development through GitHub Sponsors.
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Posted Jul 10, 2016I wish skada had support for the option of spec icons as well as class icons. I would love to instantly see what spec someone is on the charts!
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Posted Jul 2, 2016My skada window resets to the wrong position after /reload. I was able to find a breakpoint at 439 for the "x" value in the config file. As long as the actual window position is 439 or lower, it works. As soon as the value would get 440 or bigger, skada saves a wrong value to the file.
Then I made the file read-only and tried to set the position manually. ["x"] = 439 works fine. ["x"] = 440 sets the window several hundred pixels too far.
Similar behavior for the y-value.
I'am using a resolution of 3840x2160 with an uiscale of 0.35555...(pixelperfect) if that matters somehow.
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Posted Jun 17, 2016Would be possible to make an option to make your own bar always visible? For example I'm low in dps and given the window size my bar wouldn't be visible, with this option the bottomest bar would be replaced with the one representing me with the usual number showing my actual ranking.
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Posted Jun 12, 2016Hi on skada when you set border for skada window bar overlap on those borders is there way to keep bar inside the window rather then overlapping to make it look clean
For example you can see what i mean
[img]http://i.imgur.com/pyxKYG4.png[/img]
As you can see top 2 bars are overlapping on white border on left and right so it got me wondering is there way to keep those bars inside window borders
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Posted May 31, 2016I just realized Affliction Lock damage is counting all damage done to Soul Effigy into the total. Is there a way to make it ignore the damage being done to effigy?
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Posted May 21, 2016My skada was still working well before the realm merging to icecrown but afterwards, it didn't work so i DL the 1.4-33 version but it still doesn't work (it says out of date) how to fix this?
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Posted May 11, 2016Will the unstable felshadow emulsion trinket be included in heal meters any time soon? No one really pays attention to the weakaura for it.
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Posted Apr 28, 2016Hey! i have a problem...
everytime i hit a new target my damage meter just reset...
even if i change to "total damage" it go back to "DPS current fight" how do i fix it?
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Posted Apr 29, 2016/skada config => Windows => Mode Switching
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Posted Apr 19, 2016currently dueling a guild mate outside orgimmar, my arcane mage vrs his prot warrior, he is in party * not raid *, skada is recording the damage he is taking, but showing a 0 for my damage done? works normally on the rest of my toons, do i need to tick a setting or just reinstall the app?
after returning to garrison i tested on dungeon training dummy and it seemed to be recording accuratley, each spell had a damage increase and appeared on the list
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Posted Apr 18, 2016Can someone help me with a silly little issue I keep having. Certain characters of mine have a problem where the position of their Skada keeps resetting after I change it when I switch characters. Skada is not set to read only anywhere that I can tell, but I also don't know all of the places where settings are saved.
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Posted Apr 3, 2016The "Hide When Solo" option doesn't seem to work consistently? It still displays the window unfortunately.
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Posted Mar 23, 2016I'm not sure if Skada already does this, or another mod might, but is there a setting in Skada to record/report unnecessary damage taken, i.e., people are standing in the wrong place? The total damage taken could be used to infer this, but it might be nice to have a raid/instance message that called out people for taking more than some % fraction of their health from damage that they should be avoiding?
Thanks for your time.
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Posted Feb 13, 2016I'm having an issue with two of my characters, where no matter where I put the dmg meter as soon as I close the game, they return to being on top of my minimap. All of the other toons, it will stay where it's put. I've removed the saves for those toons in the WTF folder, and it changes nothing. I've copied the profiles from other toons, and it still happens.
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Posted Feb 9, 2016When playing my enhance shaman my meter will say I did such and such damage but on everyone elses meter it says its lower then it says on mine. While on my hunter however I dont have this issue. I have updated the addon recently and still same issue. Its not a range issue because even the other melee show me as lower on thiers then it shows on mine. On Xhul there were 3 melee whos damage was higher on my meter but on logs all of them were lower which is why i thought it was a range issue but on Killrogg another melee saidhis meter was the same as the ranged meter showing my damage was lower than mine. Anyone know why and how i can fix this?
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Posted Feb 8, 2016Every time I use Skada, the longer it takes to logout my char. As long as waiting about 10~20 seconds to log out. So, I have to delete the file Skada.lua so I can change chars/exit game without the horrible delay.
Is there any way to block Skada from saving that file, or not keep logs at all? It's very irritating having to wait more and more to change characters every time I use Skada...
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Posted Feb 8, 2016/skada config
General Options
Data Segments to Keep: 1
You may also want to enable some of the automatic Data Resets
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Posted Jan 23, 2016For some reason my skada meters dont correspond with warcraftlogs. Is there any known problem that could cause this? Any other specific type of addon messing with this or something?
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Posted Jan 27, 2016There is no addon that can 100% accurately report what direct log aggregation can. Recount, Skada, TinyDPS, Details, etc will all report something different than direct logs.
Aside from that, there is also another reason the DPS will be off. When WarcraftLogs adds up the damage, the DPS is a direct average, dividing by total encounter time. Addons use different calculations to display DPS, such as Skada and Details using "effective" time. There will always be margins of error concerning combat log capture and display.
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Posted Jan 12, 2016Shift Click on for example me to show which mobs i damaged just doesnt work :/ it shows nothing. Could someone help me?