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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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_ForgeUser2563291
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Posted Mar 31, 2010
Turn them off in your addons menu at your character screen

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Posted Apr 1, 2010
Thanks

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Posted Mar 31, 2010
You have to look at Healing & Absorbs, combined.

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Posted Mar 30, 2010
Does Skada not calculate Shield into my healing or is there a way to do this or do I have to look at Absorbs separately. Am I crazy and missing it?

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Posted Mar 30, 2010
Using your addon in PvP as recount sucks for telling me who of my foes deals more dmg. But I have a small problem. I clicked "Class color bars" and it show correctly in DPS/Damage mode for my allies, but not for the foes..

Is there any way besides hacking Enemy Damage done ?

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Posted Mar 30, 2010
Wtb an edit button!!!

Using your addon in PvP, because recount sucks for telling me who of my foes deals more dmg. <--- This what my first sentance meant really!!

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Posted Mar 28, 2010
My one problem with Skada is a tiny aesthetic issue. When configuring the menu, I like everything to be transparent (mostly) save for the bars. The problem with Skada's bars is that if I choose "use class colors" the transparency stops working. Also, it's impossible to make what I call the the "frame bars," or the semi-transparent part of the bars that fill up, fully transparent. The reason I say this is because if I'm showing damage or threat (which I usually am), the top person is always full, since they're the standard everyone else is compared against; so I don't really need the background "frame bar" telling me what percent full a bar is (since just at a glance it's obvious comparing it against the top bar). So, in short, AWESOME add-on, but I was wondering if it would be possible to add the feature to make what I've been calling the "frame bars" transparent, as well as enable transparency when "use class colors" is selected. I don't know if I've been clear, but this is just a minor suggestion :)

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Posted Mar 28, 2010
I guess I should call it the "bar frame" instead of the "frame bar," but hopefully you can figure out what I mean.

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Posted Mar 28, 2010
Is there a way to customize the size of the windows? Or to hide one window but keep another up? I like to have the threat window up while in heroics/raids, but not when I'm soloing or just running around in towns. Also the sizing of the windows would be a nice addition to this addon. I already love it, and couldn't see me going back to recount.

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Posted Mar 21, 2010
Skada seems to differ from Recount by a large margin. Is there a setting i need to make?

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Posted Mar 19, 2010
I tried Skada, and was enjoying it, especially the switching to threat while in combat, and back to damage afterward. This allowed me to stop using both Recount and Omen, I was very happy at first. Then I won my Heartpierce. I wanted to find out how much energy the proc was gaining me, and was very saddened to find that Skada does not track energy gains. Please add energy gain tracking for all us rogues. As a thank you we will dismember your enemies, and possibly toss a TotT your way.

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Posted Mar 28, 2010
Actually Skata's recording format is far more accurate these days than Recount. However, people see bigger numbers and go "ooohhhh pretty". Recount was done by Cryect who left the add-on at patch 2.4. Elsia who now maintains it even notes they only fix things where needed. However, through the many patches data display and collection has changed. And Recount is slowly falling behind in this regard. So you talk about something being more off ... that would be Recount's data compared to Skada. Not to mention Recount had everything under the sun that most people never used. Bulky overused concepts that few used. Skada is geared toward more realistic and applicable practices. An simply a add-on worth its praise.

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Posted Mar 28, 2010
Not to mention if you don't like an add-on .. fine don't use it. Don't go littering its page with silliness.

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Posted Mar 18, 2010
Every single time this is linked after a boss fight, everything is so off compared to recount. I think Skada constantly calculates your damage, even after you die with DoTs...but recount stops when you die. Or something along those lines. That's why skada is always so much lower then recount users. I hate it, and the absorbs seem not right imo.

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Posted Apr 27, 2010
Absorbs are estimated. As blizzard stated, they have yet to send all the info for absorbtion to the game client.

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Posted Mar 14, 2010
Is there a way to simply auto turn it off when solo kicking around anywhere, kinda was trying few options but not working as intended. I mean "Hide when solo" option is not working for me, after every fight in solo mode, window pops up.

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Posted Mar 12, 2010
My main is a warlock and have a pet all the time. Skada Threat fires off constantly, so I turned it off when solo. However even in a 5-man, the flash/sound happens all the time - like's it's monitoring threat against my pet instead of the rest of the party. Is there a setting that fixes this? I had to disable all threat warnings as it got annoying.

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Posted Mar 12, 2010
How can I set it to always view total damage instead of actual fight?

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Posted Mar 11, 2010
Can the Mode Switching also have a feature to change the number of bars displayed while in the switched mode? If in combat I have it switch to show threat, it would be nice to be able to collapse it to say the highest three people rather than everyone at once.

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Posted Mar 8, 2010
I've moved from recount/omen to skada and love it but there is one thing I find annoying.

When set to reverse bar growth during a fight I have to scroll up to see the 1st, 2nd, 3rd.... people which really isn't convenient. Can this be changed so that it displays properly with the lowest people out of sight?

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Project ID

17718
Created

Feb 12, 2009
Last Released File

Feb 14, 2026
Total Downloads

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License

MIT License

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