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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Posted Oct 13, 2010
This seems to just be an across the board meter issue, but Paladin Mastery shields and Druids Efflorescence aren't registering. Don't know if there is anything that can be done about it, just thought I'd make it known.

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Posted Oct 13, 2010
I'm glad you updated. I was afraid I'd have to go back to Recount!

Does anyone know the best way to reach the developer re: bugs?

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Posted Oct 13, 2010
Update please.

btw when I try to reset data, it won't reset data from a regular Gundrak when my mage was lvl 77.

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Posted Sep 14, 2010
Hi, great addon by the way. Any chance to get buffs (rather than only debuffs) uptimes in the next version? other than that, great and light addon, love it!

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Posted Sep 24, 2010
Stop being terrible and do more DPS.

Problem solved.

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Posted Oct 28, 2010
There is an option in the "General" section called "Aggressive combat detection" now, which through various shenanigans attempts to detect combat earlier. The default Skada behaviour is very clean and simple and perfect for boss encounters, but this can be useful for a) 5-mans and b) slackers.

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Posted Sep 2, 2010
I would like to keep using this, but it needs to record DPS even if I'm not DPSing. I get bitched at all the time, because my DPS doesn't show high enough on Recount but rocks on Skada. Fix this or I'm uninstalling.

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Posted Sep 3, 2010
I apologize to everyone else for this flame...sometimes people really get under my skin when they are rude.

Seriously dude? This guy is taking the time and effort to put this addon out for people, pretty much for free, and you're going to give him ultimatums and try to force him to make a change? If I was the author, I'd quickly tell you to take a hike. Why not instead thank the author for his/her time and effort, and politely suggest a change or upgrade for a future patch and see if they think it is useful and doable. If you don't like that idea, go learn some LUA programming and make the changes yourself.

Plus, it sounds like to me you are the one in the hot seat. You don't like using Recount because when your DPS is on there, you look like a gimp wimp, but you like your DPS on Skada...you look like your DPS is better by comparison. It sounds to me like you ***NEED*** to keep using Skada, like it or not, or put up with the griping; at least until you get better gear or learn to play your class more effectively.

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Posted Sep 7, 2010
I am with you he was rude & inconsiderate.

To the mod creator: I would like to see that there is an update soon. I don't want to use recount cuz it's too intensive fer my needs, and am always looking feer a nice lite add on to try or to run that gives above add on a run fer their money.

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Posted Aug 26, 2010
I'm wondering if a measurement that I call rescue could be added. I think it would be important to see the healers that are saving the players close to dying. e.g. How many heals hitting when player is below 20% health. Total healing done sometimes does not paint the true picture of who is performing.

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Posted Aug 24, 2010
Reinstalled this a number of times, but its not reading DPS or anything, many lines are greyed out. Going back to recount for the time being, heads up if theres anything wrong with or its just me. I just download, config and enjoy.

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Posted Aug 19, 2010
Hi,

Always I want to report the Data I receive this Error:

2x Skada-1.2-27\Skada.lua:593: attempt to index local 'report_mode' (a nil value)
Skada-1.2-27\Skada.lua:1171: in function `OnAccept'
Interface\FrameXML\StaticPopup.lua:3473: in function `StaticPopup_OnClick':
<string>:"*:OnClick":1: in function <[string "*:OnClick"]:1>

Locals:
window = nil

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Posted Aug 11, 2010
I really like this addon, but a few weeks a ago i had to "repair" wow, and afterwards it didn't work. I have reinstalled it a few times now, and the only moduls working are "threat" and "fail".

help would be appreciated

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Posted Sep 3, 2010
I'm not sure what this idea is worth, but depending on how many addons you are running, it may solve your issue. Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling an older version? It could be something in your folders too. Try to rename your WTF to WTF_old and rename your INTERFACE folder to INTERFACE_old, and log all the way out of the game and restart the game. This will make the game recreate the default INTERFACE and WTF folders as if it were a new install of WOW. Install this addon by itself and quit out of the game again and restart again with only that addon. See if the addon works this way. If this doesn't work, log out of WOW, delete the new INTERFACE and WTF folders, then rename your old folders to their original names, and your interface and settings will be as they were when you started.

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Posted Aug 10, 2010
This just started ... the menu options of mana gained, overhealing, threat, and total healing are greyed out and unclickable by window buttons. I can set them to show using bar mode.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Posted Aug 3, 2010
I see a few other comments about pet merging, but the only spec I've had that problem with is Enhancement Shaman. I main a Warlock and my pet merges with me just fine, our Hunter's pet merges with him just fine, but I always see a "Fire Elemental Totem" down at the bottom of the meters, keeping his numbers way off. I love everything else about Skada, but is there any way to fix this issue? Would hate going back to Recount.

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Posted Aug 1, 2010
Skada tracks debuff uptime which is great, is there a way to make it track buff uptime? Like weapon procs?

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Posted Jul 31, 2010
Extra sorting fix: to also make Skada sort your abilities the correct way, comment out (place -- in front of the line) lines 189 & 191 of BarDisplay.lua in your Skada directory.

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Posted Jul 30, 2010
Here is the solution for everyone who wants to fix the sorting bug with bars in "grow up" mode, i.e. seeing the bottom 10 of the list, instead of the top 10. Open up BarDisplay.lua the Skada directory and put -- in front of lines 265, 267, 323, 330-333. That should fix it. Enjoy!

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Posted Jul 30, 2010
Skada just wont stop "counting" when a boss is down, causing the dps display to drop for like 5 seconds after the fight making it horribly inaccurate... guess i switch to a different meter again

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