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 Apr 1, 2025New update. Now the bar text is in right position when i switch to scroll the bars from right to left.
But when i switch the Bar text to class color, the dps color is only white.
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Posted Mar 31, 2025Can you add please an option to change white current dps color to class color?
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Posted Apr 1, 2025In reply to GreyFoxGer: This is fixed in 1.10.2.
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Posted Mar 31, 2025I uploaded an image for you to see the overlap of text. This is with elvui embed in right chat frame. Please fix this. https://ibb.co/GvKz347c
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Posted Mar 31, 2025In reply to mariuscostache3: Is this with the default ElvUI settings?
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Posted Apr 1, 2025In reply to mariuscostache3: This should be fixed in 1.10.2. Column widths now take into account the font size used.
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Posted Mar 28, 2025Nothing major but in delve instances Brann's (companion) damaging abilities displayed under your character. FYI.
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Posted Mar 27, 2025Yes, the numbers, percent, dps are overlapping. Please fix.
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Posted Mar 30, 2025In reply to mariuscostache3: Fixed in 1.10.1.
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Posted Mar 30, 2025In reply to zarnivoop: it's better, but in some configurations it's still happening. Can we have a column spacing option or maybe some kind of syntax editor with spacers for the infos shown in the bars please?
Btw thank you for the hard work 🙏
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Posted Mar 26, 2025The "Hide when solo" option hasn't worked for a long time.
I was hoping the latest update would fix it, but no.
I always have to go into Config, untick the box, then tick it again to make it go away... until next time.
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Posted Mar 26, 2025heyy !! the numbers, percent, dps anda dmg is overlaping, how can i fix it? TY
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Posted Mar 25, 2025Getting below error, I was inspecting the data after a myhtic dungeon run. It seem there is a "GTFO alerts" data in skada but it was empty, I guess it couldn't be updated. I could disable it if there is an option for it.
7x Skada/Skada.lua:2502: attempt to index local 'datasetItem' (a string value)
[Skada/Skada.lua]:2502: in function 'FormatValueText'
[GTFO/GTFO_Skada.lua]:95: in function 'Update'
[Skada/Skada.lua]:2548: in function 'AddSubviewToTooltip'
[Skada/Skada.lua]:2601: in function 'ShowTooltip'
[Skada/BarDisplay.lua]:178: in function <Skada/BarDisplay.lua:174>
Locals:
self = <table> {
defaults = <table> {
}
windowdefaults = <table> {
}
db = <table> {
}
total = <table> {
}
classcolors = <table> {
}
baseName = "Skada"
versions = <table> {
}
char = <table> {
}
defaultModuleState = true
last = <table> {
}
options = <table> {
}
orderedModules = <table> {
}
displays = <table> {
}
resetoptions = <table> {
}
modules = <table> {
}
getsetlabel_fs = FontString {
}
enabledState = true
cleuFrame = Frame {
}
defaultModuleLibraries = <table> {
}
name = "Skada"
}
datasetItem = "5.78M"
value1 = true
bool1 = 3
value2 = true
bool2 = nil
value3 = nil
bool3 = nil
(*temporary) = "attempt to index local 'datasetItem' (a string value)"
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Posted Mar 30, 2025In reply to user_dsz474rbfji4nhru: This should be fixed in 1.10.1.
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Posted Mar 25, 2025when i switch the direction from the bars (from right to left) the complete bar text is in the same place and not readable. Name, dps, Dmg. etc. all at the left orner of the bar. When i enter the options menu and make some changes (doesnt matter which one) thx text is in right position. but when i start again with damge the complete text again on the left side of the bar.
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Posted Mar 30, 2025In reply to Iari: Right-to-left orientation is fixed in 1.10.1.
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Posted Mar 19, 2025Bugged. At some point it will lose the ability to show the damage and dps you and others do. That will no longer show or be an option. Instead, it will list everything else besides your damage/dps to be viewed.
However, logging out and back in will eventually reset the addon and allow you to select and see it again.
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Posted Mar 16, 2025Gettiong error in-game. I have my meters set for DPS and threat. I log in and they are changed and I can't change it back using the configure options. I end up doing a couple UI resets to get it to work.
2x Skada/modules/Damage.lua:21: attempt to compare number with nil
[Skada/modules/Damage.lua]:21: in function <Skada/modules/Damage.lua:20>
[Skada/modules/Damage.lua]:608: in function 'FormatSetSummary'
[Skada/Skada.lua]:2108: in function 'UpdateDisplay'
[Skada/Skada.lua]:460: in function 'DisplayMode'
[Skada/Skada.lua]:1663: in function 'RestoreView'
[Skada/Skada.lua]:2278: in function 'AddMode'
[Skada/modules/Damage.lua]:593: in function <Skada/modules/Damage.lua:592>
[C]: ?
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Posted Mar 8, 2025Skada's reset feature only seems to delete current encounter and the overall, but it doesn't remove the recent segments (the last 30 boss encounters for me).
Also, if the numbers of damage done column are over a hundred million, it cuts in on the dps column more and more.
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Posted Mar 31, 2025In reply to DarkLimpan: The reset is fixed. The columns are allegedly not entirely fixed yet.