Skada Damage Meter

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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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zarnivoop
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Posted Jun 17, 2009
This is fixed 1.2-15.

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Posted Jun 15, 2009
Great addon, getting errors, and overall bugs:
Skada-1.2-14\Skada.lua:296: attempt to index local 'mode' (a nil value)
Skada-1.2-14\Skada.lua:315: in function `click'
Skada-1.2-14\BarDisplay.lua:99: in function <Interface\AddOns\Skada\BarDisplay.lua:91>
Skada-1.2-14\BarDisplay.lua:208: in function

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Posted Jun 15, 2009
Can you describe what you do to get this error?

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Posted Jun 15, 2009
there is an error wisdom in bg and wg

cant remember all , something about " ... class ... "

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Posted Jun 15, 2009
The DPS is not bugged. The calculation used is different from Recount, that is all. There is no "real" DPS measurement. Skada uses this very simple formula: damage done / time in combat. Time in combat is the time between the first and the last attack. Other damage meters may use another formula, perhaps accounting for people stopping combat mid-fight.

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Posted Jun 19, 2009
This is tragic as you have a far better interface than Recount.

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Posted Jun 19, 2009
I second that. I use dps to compare me to myself (if that makes sense in english). Total damage doesn't help me at all. I don't care whether the rest of the group did 10 billion damage, I just want to know whether I did good or not.

"Time in combat is the time between the first and the last attack."
Does this mean MY first and MY last attack? That would be ok. But I'm under the impression that it means somebodys (=the tanks) first and last attacks.
I usually get flagged for combat when the tank pulls. I start dps-ing several seconds later. I still might be looting while part of the group is fighting already ...

In skada my dps is about cut in half or less ... I can't compare it with anything. This makes this great addon nearly useless. What a pity.

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Posted Jun 29, 2009
DPS isn't really for comparing. You *could* do that much DPS, but you aren't so it doesn't matter. What matters is damage done for last fight; If I can do 8K DPS but I just throw a moonfire on the boss and stop, I'm utterly useless. Overall meters and meters during trash don't mean anything (which is why I love Skada's "Only keep boss segments"; you should not be looting stuff when a boss is pulled). If you want to be topping the meters then you attack when the tank does and you learn to ride the threat cap until the tank puts up enough threat for you to go all-out and you don't stop mid fight. Unless you're testing something (such as a new pet, or on a target dummy), or are doing a specific job for raid mechanics, Damage/Healing done for last fight is the only meter that matters.

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Posted Jun 15, 2009
Very nice. 'Cept the DPS is very bugged. Reports about half as much as the actual number for all members (was comparing it to Recount from another player).

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Posted Jun 13, 2009
Question: I have Skada normally minimized to a data broker (Fortress). However, the window keeps popping up every time I zone in and out of anywhere, or enter any instance. Is there any way to disable the popping up automatically?

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Posted Jun 13, 2009
I've been looking to try this for some time. And wow it's good. Having the ability to switch into a Threatmeter when Combat starts, as well as having a brilliant system of switching between modes.

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Posted Jun 12, 2009
This is a very nice meter - Thank You

I was in a group last night with one other person. When the other person started, the meter would not pick him up until I started. Even with me standing next to him, he never get on the meter if I did not cast. We were using the test dummy.

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Posted Jun 12, 2009
Having some errors pop up whenever I send a report to raid on dps, not just while in the hodir fight but any time I post it in any location. Frankly, its getting annoying. I'll post up the error message if it happens again after today's update. Hopefully it fixes it. >.<

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Posted Jun 8, 2009
Great addon, love the Deaths analysis.

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Posted Jun 8, 2009
mode switching is not working for me

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Posted Jun 5, 2009
There is an error showed in hodir's room.

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Posted Jun 4, 2009
I am unable to click on individual people and see the breakdown of their damage with version 1.2-9.

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Posted Jun 4, 2009
LUA errors during Hodir fight in Ulduar, other than that seems ok.

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Posted Jun 3, 2009
Getting some LUA errors with the newest update.

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Posted May 31, 2009
Date: 2009-05-31 13:44:34
ID: 4
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua line 581:
attempt to index local 'report_mode' (a nil value)
Debug:
[C]: ?
Skada\Skada.lua:581: Report()
Skada\Skada.lua:1151: func()
..\FrameXML\UIDropDownMenu.lua:563: UIDropDownMenuButton_OnClick()
[string "*:OnClick"]:1:
[string "*:OnClick"]:1

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