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.

Comments

_ForgeUser1354418
- Join Date: 10/16/2008
- Posts: 0
- Member Details
#553 _ForgeUser1354418

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Jan 1, 2010
Can you explain why Skada shows different results compared to Recount?

Over the course of a 300 second testing period, Skada shows a 5% or more discrepancy in DPS alone, above Recount's. This may be attributed to using a different window of time to calculate average DPS, however, individual abilities are consistently reported as doing different amounts of damage which shouldn't be possible unless it's discarding information or simply not parsing it.

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser101691
- Join Date: 6/10/2006
- Posts: 0
- Member Details
#567 _ForgeUser101691

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Jan 9, 2010
That reason for the discrepancy is simple: Recount is wrong about DPS almost 100% of the time.

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser1354418
- Join Date: 10/16/2008
- Posts: 0
- Member Details
#572 _ForgeUser1354418

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Jan 10, 2010
I'm not worried about the DPS number itself (I understand activity time and a host of other variables will always produce a different result). My issue is that either Recount or Skada will ALWAYS have different values for total damage.

How is this possible? If I auto attack a training dummy for 300sec, there should be no question about how much actual damage I've done. Yet both mods record different numbers to the other. One of them has to be correct.

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser2111721
- Join Date: 7/25/2019
- Posts: 0
- Member Details
#551 _ForgeUser2111721

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Jan 1, 2010
What happend with recount?
i need a damage meter so i´l try this one instead..

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser820563
- Join Date: 5/27/2008
- Posts: 0
- Member Details
#545 _ForgeUser820563

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Dec 29, 2009
Only thing that seems to work with the new update is threat. None of the other meters are working. any one have similar issues?

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
zarnivoop
- Join Date: 4/25/2008
- Posts: 185
- Member Details
#547 zarnivoop

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Dec 30, 2009
Are you seeing any errors?

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser820563
- Join Date: 5/27/2008
- Posts: 0
- Member Details
#550 _ForgeUser820563

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Dec 30, 2009
No errors. I reverted back 1.2-24 and everything works just fine. Its like 1.2-25 is only collecting Threat data and ignoring everything else. Wierd.

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser122471
- Join Date: 7/25/2019
- Posts: 0
- Member Details
#544 _ForgeUser122471

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Dec 29, 2009
Will this count Priest shield in their healing? I know recount doesn't unless you get a separate addon called "Guess Absorbed".

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
zarnivoop
- Join Date: 4/25/2008
- Posts: 185
- Member Details
#546 zarnivoop

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Dec 30, 2009
Yes, there is an "Absorbs" mode. Note however that just like Recount's version, it is based on guesswork.

There is also a new "Absorbs and healing" mode, combining healing and absorbs.

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
Whalephant
- Location:
- Join Date: 3/23/2005
- Posts: 1
- Member Details
#543 Whalephant

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Dec 29, 2009
Yeah, this is incredibly annoying in 5-mans. 1-4 are dps, 5-20 are vipers.

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
martinboy1974
- Location: Randers
- Join Date: 1/22/2008
- Posts: 150
- Member Details
#538 martinboy1974

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Dec 28, 2009
Am I missing something? Hunters viper trap shows up on damagemeter and so does shammans elementals, is there a way to include their damage to their owners damage, so they dont end up separatly on the damagemeter.

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
ImBadAtFightingGames
- Join Date: 3/5/2005
- Posts: 0
- Member Details
#534 ImBadAtFightingGames

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Dec 26, 2009
How do you get this mod to show THREAT? The threat options are all greyed out ?

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
zarnivoop
- Join Date: 4/25/2008
- Posts: 185
- Member Details
#542 zarnivoop

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Dec 29, 2009
Right-click in the Skada window to see a list of available modes. If you have the SkadaThreat addon loaded, "Threat" should be one of those. You may have to scroll down to see it, using your mousewheel. As for greyed-out options, I am not sure why you get that. Try disabling all other addons.

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
zarnivoop
- Join Date: 4/25/2008
- Posts: 185
- Member Details
#549 zarnivoop

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Dec 30, 2009
The "DPS" mode now shows the calculation used. Please check this if you think the "DPS" values are incorrect, and if you still think they are, specify if the damage done or the activity time is wrong, and supply a combat log to back this up.

For the record, any class can easily achieve 10k DPS. Simply use all your cooldowns in a fight that lasts 10 seconds. My hunter could probably do 20k. This was just to illustrate a point; "DPS" does not mean anything outside of its context.

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
zarnivoop
- Join Date: 4/25/2008
- Posts: 185
- Member Details
#535 zarnivoop

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Dec 27, 2009
Any discrepancy between meters regarding "DPS" is usually down to different ways of calculating "DPS". Skada's is very simple and will in the next version be shown in a tooltip in the DPS mode. Damage done / your active time in combat.

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
gollyG3
- Join Date: 7/14/2006
- Posts: 0
- Member Details
#530 gollyG3

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Dec 23, 2009
I'm testing this addon as a potential replacement for Recount. Most of the people I run with run Recount, which is why I'm asking this question:

The damage reported cross realm by Recount and Skada are WILDLY different. They aren't remotely close. Skada typically reports much higher dps than Recount, and I'm wondering why this is. Specifics and not general 'it sees stuff Recount doesn't' will help, because as it stands, no one believes my numbers.

I'm currently running them simultaneously so I can figure them out, but when I first started, I noticed my dps jumped up quite a bit when only using Skada. (200 points, on my 78 Warlock who only does 1000 dps, so a 20% increase is quite a bit) When grouping, the increase is almost universal no matter class, although I have noticed some variances.

I can understand why some people are preferring this over Recount. Nicer numbers. Now the why, please.

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
gollyG3
- Join Date: 7/14/2006
- Posts: 0
- Member Details
#531 gollyG3

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Dec 23, 2009
I was reading further along, and saw a shammy reporting insane numbers. I happened to try this while soloing with my healing shammy, and the damage he was doing against single targets was equally insane. I was topping 10k dps, when I can't maintain 3k in instances, raid buffed. Recount reports my damage around 2k while soloing, which is realistic.

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser1050917
- Join Date: 8/19/2008
- Posts: 0
- Member Details
#532 _ForgeUser1050917

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Dec 24, 2009
I've never tried this Addon, but I'm going to download it just to see what you guys are saying. At any rate, information like what is recorded here and from Recount should simply be parsed from the Combat Log.

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser1294371
- Join Date: 10/15/2008
- Posts: 0
- Member Details
#533 _ForgeUser1294371

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Dec 25, 2009
I am getting the exact same issue, just testing on dummys Skada has my dps around 200 to 400 higher than Recount.

Just shadowbolting as an aff lock Skada had my dps at 2.5k when recount posted it as 1.6k (which is of course, the more exact one).

Perhaps its running them together that is causing the mix up? Either way right now Skada is showing universal dps increase.

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
_ForgeUser101691
- Join Date: 6/10/2006
- Posts: 0
- Member Details
#552 _ForgeUser101691

View User Profile

Send Message

Posted Jan 1, 2010
I would venture to say that this would be due to the fact that Recount's DPS report is not particularly accurate. Even the maintainer of Recount admits this: "DPS is a poor measure..."

I have done a great deal of testing and have found that Recount's DPS numbers are sometimes off by more than 1k. If you don't trust what I'm saying, you can test it yourself. Grab a mod like Combat Timer that will show you how long a fight lasts. Reset Recount. Go find a mob, write down its total health. Kill it. Divide its total health by the number of seconds you took to kill it as shown by Combat Timer. That will be a rough estimate of your dps (it will actually be lower than real dps, since it's highly unlikely that you did exactly as much damage as the mob had health, but it's close enough for our test.) Now compare your number with Recount...I guarantee you that Recount's number will be lower than yours, which is already going to be lower than your real DPS since we're not counting "overkill" damage. Or if you want an even faster test, clear Recount and then go kill a critter. The "combat" will last one second, so your DPS should be equal to how much damage you did in that one hit. However, Recount's number will not show you something even close to that. For example, I cleared Recount and then my 80 ret pally hit a roach for 2100. That's a one second combat, which means my DPS should show as 2100. Recount said my DPS was 1080. In short, Recount seriously sucks for keeping track of real DPS values.

Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
To post a comment, please login or register a new account.