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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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_ForgeUser4859805
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Posted Mar 30, 2011
Healers badly need a damage meter that can parse damage-taken-per-second. In my experience, even if I'm blasting at full throughput and people are dying to threat loss - total damage taken won't provide useful information. The person taking unneccessary damage dies faster, so he might even wind up with LOWER overall damage taken.

'lol no heals?' - flip to damage taken per second - You took an average of 11k DTPS. You're not the tank. My efficiency rotation does 6k. Please don't break aggro.

Not a single damage meter has this option! recount comes close but only shows a real-time graph of raidwide dtps. All you'd have to do is add another mode that divides damage taken by the player's activity time. I know activity time is already recorded.

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Posted May 4, 2011
A damage taken per second number has been added on the alpha version. Note that this is just as simple as Skada's "DPS" numbers. Activity time is simply first time action was done/taken until last action was done/taken. No arbitrary accounting for pausing in action.

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Posted Mar 22, 2011
Is there any way to pause data collection without disabling Skada completely and reloading the UI? When I am in really large battles in Tol Barad, for example, Skada impacts my framerate pretty severely. I have tried /skada toggle, and I have the option set which says data collection will be paused while hidden. This does hide the window, but Skada still collects data in the background. I can see that it did when I toggle it back on again later. I would prefer that Skada didn't collect any data at all when I do battleground PvP. Thanks in advance for help:)

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Posted Mar 21, 2011
I fixed a bug with mode displays that contain icons:

In the BarDisplay you kind of hack it and do:

if icon then
bar:ShowIcon()
end

But what you should do is supersede and ShowIcon on the bargroup itself, so I modified the CreateBar function in BarDisplay with:

if icon then
if not window.bargroup:IsIconShown() then
window.bargroup:ShowIcon()
end
elseif window.bargroup:IsIconShown() then window.bargroup:HideIcon() end

Which fixes the width bug (the bug is the bar hangs off by a width of the icon) in icon displays, so the former icon check is no longer needed.

Hope this helps.

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Posted Mar 21, 2011
Love your work. But many people have a square minimap and the button is overlapping it.
Please add in free drag placement functionality.
Thank you.

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Posted Mar 16, 2011
I've recently switched to Skada from using recount/ omen and much prefer the look and usability of the addon, one question I am seriously missing the DoT report from Recount, will this be implemented anytime into Skada as a stand alone report?

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Posted Mar 11, 2011
Can this be made so we can make the bar width larger than 400? Playing on 1920x1080 without scaling my UI down a ton and I am not able to get the bars as big as I want them. Using recount until I can make them fit my ui :(

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Posted Mar 9, 2011
Can you help elemental shamans to show real dps on raid memres's Skadas? ^.^
I mean, that our fire elemental (guard) counts in shaman's damage done only in shaman's skada, on other raid\group members fire elemental counts separately. Can you change the addon to count fire elemental in shaman's damage everywhere?

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Posted Mar 11, 2011
I could never figure it out. Went back to Recount.

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Posted Mar 3, 2011
Can someone help me please. I can't get skada to default to "total" while in a dungeon. It keeps defaulting to "current fight" and I have to change it every time to "total" Kinda annoying. Thanks.

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Posted Feb 26, 2011
Absolutely the best addon i have used in a long time, Heaps better then Recount and alot more Accurate.

Thankyou heaps

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Posted Feb 26, 2011
Any chance of getting this working (in an alpha release or something) for the 4.1 PTR?

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Posted Feb 23, 2011
Is it possable to change the orientation so that the bars display vertically rather than horizontally?

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Posted Feb 19, 2011
My Shadowy Apparitions and others, do not seem to be merging with their owners. I don't know if this has been addressed or not.

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Posted Feb 19, 2011
i was messing with skada and i hit hide icon or something and now i cant pull it back up on my screen if someone can someone help me?

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Posted Feb 19, 2011
i was messing with skada and i hit hide icon or something and now i cant pull it back up on my screen if someone can someone help me?

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Posted Feb 14, 2011
I haven't tried to configure my skada in a while, so I can't vouch for any of the errors listed below... but my problem is a bit different. It seems that it is blocking the blizzard UI from allowing me to erase a glyph when using dust of disappearance. I'll click on a glyph from the list on the right, and click on the slot/used glyph that I want to replace. It will ask for confirmation, but then the old glyph doesn't 'disappear' and there is a confirmation window telling me I need to disable some addon in order to do this. I reload my ui and skada is missing (so assuming that is the problem).

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Posted Feb 13, 2011
Also, can you change the "Hide in PvP" option to "Hide When Player Target"? BGs can have NPCs that obey threat.

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Posted Feb 13, 2011
Clickthrough feature does NOT work with background enabled.

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Posted Feb 10, 2011
With patch 4.0.6 this addon no longer saves or loads profiles. This is similar to what happened to Quartz where profiles weren't being saved or loaded because it was being confused by Drain Life's removal. I'm assuming this is the same thing that is happening to Skada and will be fixed shortly.

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Project ID

17718
Created

Feb 12, 2009
Last Released File

Feb 14, 2026
Total Downloads

39,515,764
License

MIT License

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