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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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_ForgeUser3352719
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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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Posted Feb 9, 2011
With my main i can't see my dps meter,interrupts or whatever but as soon as i log with one of my alts Skada works fine. Any idea of how can i solve this problem?

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Posted Feb 8, 2011
I'm guessing this just broke with the latest patch, but I can't seem to resize my skada window anymore.

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Posted Feb 8, 2011
I've been really loving this addon for quite a while, one addon doing three + jobs for me FTW. Although there is one thing it seems to lack for me. You have an option to hide it in combat, is there any way you could add an option to hide it out of combat and show it in? Right now I can kinda achieve that, but I have to edit the code in my UI every time I update it. I know of quite a few people who would also love an update to do that too.

Keep up the good work! :D

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Posted Feb 7, 2011
Just switched from recount and I really like how easy it is to browse between all the various modules compared to recounts menu based system.

One thing I would like to see added is an option for comma separated numbers. At the moment if somebody in my group is doing 18941 dps it's not as easy to read as 18,941 dps is.

It would also be nice if you could customise the modules you have visible in the main summary (perhaps there's a way to do this already but I can't find it). So instead of giving a summary of everything, you can just select the ones you want. For example I'm not overly interested in healing/total healing because it's all covered inside healing & absorbs. I'm also using the ensidiafails module so the standard fails isn't too important. DPS is kind of covered by damage. Plus there's a bunch of other modules that I'm not particularly interested in such as Threat, Enemy Damage done/Taken (in fact these 2 dont seem to be working atm). If I could customise my view it would be much easier to navigate which judging by your simple and effective UI is something that you value.

Thanks for the great addon <3

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Posted Jan 27, 2011
Is it possible to have it display HPS on the Tital Panel plugin while having it display DPS in the main window?

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Posted Jan 25, 2011
hey guys... is there any option to make Skada to always show player's damage in the list?

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Posted Jan 24, 2011
Is there a way to merge Guardian of the ancient king healing to the paladin's healing?

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Posted Jan 18, 2011
one of my all time favorite mods but i am having an issue with the cc announcement
ever since cata it wont record or announce cc breaks while in 5 mans or raids but it works perfectly while in pvp, any clues?

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Posted Jan 18, 2011
As of Tuesday Jan 18, 2011, Skada is giving me a small lag spike every time I enter or leave combat. I went through each individual addon relogging and removing from my addon folder and narrowed it down to only this addon causing the issue.

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Project ID

17718
Created

Feb 12, 2009
Last Released File

Jul 23, 2026
Total Downloads

39,728,597
License

MIT License

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