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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wyr3d
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Posted Sep 8, 2017
Probably you accidentally triggered a shortcut to disable them. You can check your settings and enable them again

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vorchun
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Posted Aug 30, 2017
There's small issue in Russian localization, damage module is called "Yрон" instead of proper "Урон", notice latin "Y" instead of cyrillic "У"

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Posted Aug 30, 2017
Then mode is confused, all mixed up. I wrote author he didn't answer.

Something like that hell.

http://imgur.com/a/8I0e6

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Posted Aug 31, 2017
I confirm the problem http://jpegshare.net/images/a1/a8/a1a8c7a4e96c77c7150e9bf3503eca11.jpg

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Posted Aug 25, 2017
So i'm currently experiencing some weird problem with LUI+Skada in which whenever i Join a raid group my Skada instantly hides itself though LUI still has the module as being turned on. I have to click to turn off DPS, and then turn it back on to make the skada window appear. I've looked through the settings and cant find anything that should be causing it. Anyone having similar problems or know how to solve it?

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Posted Aug 12, 2017
In some videos the names in the raid interface do not match the names in Skada.

What is this mod?

Example:

https://www.wowprogress.com/video/164863-kil-jaeden-mythic-memento-warrior-dd-pov

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_ForgeUser1509571
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Posted Aug 19, 2017
That would be Details, not Skada :)

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Posted Jul 24, 2017
I dont get the damage from Kil'Jaedens Buning Wish to show up in Skada. It does show in Recount however (running both addons at the same time for testing). Tho it doesn't always no-show, but most of the times...

Anyone else got this issue?

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Posted Jul 16, 2017
How does the blizzard services whisper work? Whenever I try to whisper someone on my list a skada chart, it just says "Skada: Error: Whisper target not found". I've tried their bnet tag, their tag without the # behind it, their real name, etc, but it still refuses to locate the target

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Posted Jul 21, 2017
This is most likely because the author STILL hasn't added the ability to recognize what realm a person is playing from, it is still a MAJOR problem compared to anything else. I am thinking your whisper target is because they are from a different realm, and frankly Skada is TOO STUPID TO KNOW THAT.

I often would like to look someone up to see their build when I play with them and they are doing great. The only way you can do this is WHILE YOU ARE STILL IN THE GROUP, start typing "/w name" and the name of that person will come up with the realm after their name. IF YOU LEFT THE GROUP ALREADY YOU CAN'T DO IT. So again, Skada is very stupid this way.

Recount doesn't do this. You roll your mouse on a name and it shows the proper Name-Realm like it's supposed to.

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Posted Jul 15, 2017
The interrupt module hasn't worked for me for years - anyone know why? I've started using Details because its interrupt counter works for me.

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Posted Jul 14, 2017
and i get this

Message: Interface\AddOns\Skada\modules\FriendlyFire.lua:4: Usage: NewModule(name, [prototype, [lib, lib, lib, ...]): 'name' - Module 'Friendly Fire' already exists.
Time: 07/14/17 20:08:24
Count: 1
Stack: Interface\AddOns\Skada\modules\FriendlyFire.lua:4: Usage: NewModule(name, [prototype, [lib, lib, lib, ...]): 'name' - Module 'Friendly Fire' already exists.Interface\SharedXML\SharedBasicControls.lua:204: in function `origErrorHandler'
...rface\AddOns\TradeSkillMaster\Debug\ErrorHandler.lua:317: in function <...rface\AddOns\TradeSkillMaster\Debug\ErrorHandler.lua:300>
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
...y\Externals\curse\svn\Ace3-AceAddon\AceAddon-3.0.lua:270: in function `NewModule'
Interface\AddOns\Skada\modules\FriendlyFire.lua:4: in function `?'
Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:2907: in function <Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:2884>
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:9: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:5>
(tail call): ?
...y\Externals\curse\svn\Ace3-AceAddon\AceAddon-3.0.lua:558: in function `EnableAddon'
...
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:9: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:5>
(tail call): ?
...y\Externals\curse\svn\Ace3-AceAddon\AceAddon-3.0.lua:558: in function `EnableAddon'
...y\Externals\curse\svn\Ace3-AceAddon\AceAddon-3.0.lua:651: in function <...y\Externals\curse\svn\Ace3-AceAddon\AceAddon-3.0.lua:636>
[C]: in function `LoadAddOn'
Interface\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:420: in function `UIParentLoadAddOn'
Interface\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:515: in function `TimeManager_LoadUI'
Interface\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:1069: in function <Interface\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:966>

Locals: <none>

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Posted Jul 15, 2017
This is because you have the external Friendly Fire addon installed.

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Posted Jul 13, 2017
The last update (two hours ago as of this post) now produces the following Lua error:

Date: 2017-07-13 16:36:43
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: AceLocale-3.0: Skada: Missing entry for 'Shows damage done on players by friendly players.'
Debug:
Skada\Skada.lua:2931: AddLoadableModule()
Skada\modules\FriendlyFire.lua:1: in main chunk
Locals:
None
AddOns:
(Truncated)

Thanks!

Matt

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Posted Jul 13, 2017
seconded and confirmed

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Posted Jul 13, 2017
Seeing this as well

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Posted Jul 14, 2017
Actually, I can't even update my version. I get the error below (using twitch):

Error:

Unable to get file: AddonID: 17718, FileID: 2450433

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Posted Jul 13, 2017
Just did a tos raid finder with 2 dmg metters on. On skada one of the other 3 bm hunters had 69 main pet kill commands and his hati had 129 kill commands:)). Ofc his hati should have had the same amount as the main pet. Looked at my main pet and hati, i was missing 23 hati kill commands and same with 2 other hunters (different amounts) . So that hunter was given randomly some of the other hunters' hati dmg that was previously showing separately. It no longer shows separately on the metter hati , it just goes to some random lucky player in the raid that has his dps boosted nicely. I only checked kill comand but probably there were other amounts of several hati damages that went to him too. No offense intended but this has become beyond ridiculous.

L.E. Actually it used to show separately mostly beast cleave, now it's worse than before the update.

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Posted Jul 25, 2017
For Skada to properly record BM hunters I think you need to delete this section from the Interface\Addons\Skada\modules\Tweaks.lua file:

-- Hati (7.0, BM hunter artifact) if band(srcFlags, PET_FLAG) ~= 0 then lastpet.timestamp = timestamp lastpet.srcGUID = srcGUID elseif srcName == 'Hati' and not assignedhatis[srcGUID] then if lastpet.timestamp == timestamp then local owner = Skada:GetPetOwner(lastpet.srcGUID) if owner then Skada:AssignPet(owner.id, owner.name, srcGUID) assignedhatis[srcGUID] = true end end end

Just go in and delete all of those lines.

From there it should record properly if everyone dismisses their pets and resummons them (so the Hati are summoned too) while you are in the raid/party, so that Skada sees the SPELL_SUMMON events.

The problem is that the Hati are NPCs and not pets, so it's very difficult or maybe impossible for Skada to know who they belong to unless it sees them being summoned. The combat log lines don't associate the Hati with the player at all, and as far as I know there's no way to query an NPC's owner.
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Posted Jul 12, 2017
After the the latest update to fix Hati issues, I encountered a bug I've never run into before. I hearthed halfway through our raid last night, and when I came back, my Hati damage wasn't tracked by Skada for myself or any users for the rest of the night. Hati did NOT show up as a separate line on the damage meters, he was just totally missing. Of course, logs did show my full damage including Hati.

I'm pretty sure the issue started after my hearth, but not 100% certain.

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