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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_ForgeUser2398823
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Posted Jul 3, 2011
I do not have the skada button on my mini map on my pally --- I do have on the other characters--
What is wrong?

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Posted Jul 3, 2011
i miss a Strata option.... :( i want to put windows in the background. IF there is one allrdy, pls let me know where it is, cause i cant find anything...

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Posted Jul 1, 2011
Only problem i have found and it is MAJOR... unless your starting the fight... it wont start anything... wont even bring in the old data to show actual placement... until this is fixed im going back to recount

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Posted Jun 29, 2011
Seems to be very broken with 4.2 -- I get unusable lagtime during fights unless I turn this off.

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Posted Jun 29, 2011
No metter what I do, STILL getting this:

Date: 2011-06-29 15:29:55
ID: -2
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\SkadaDeaths\Deaths.lua line 39:
attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
Debug:
(tail call): ?
SkadaDeaths\Deaths.lua:39:
SkadaDeaths\Deaths.lua:35
SkadaDeaths\Deaths.lua:53: func()
Skada\Skada.lua:1680:
Skada\Skada.lua:1580
Skada\Skada.lua:1725:
Skada\Skada.lua:1724
[string "safecall Dispatcher[15]"]:4:
[string "safecall Dispatcher[15]"]:4
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[15]"]:13: ?()
...UD3\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:92: Fire()
...ce\AddOns\ArcHUD3\Libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:120:
...ce\AddOns\ArcHUD3\Libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:119

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Posted Jun 29, 2011
Just changed to Skada because recount is broken due to 4.2, and I am SO glad I did. Skada is infinitely better than recount. Thank you so much dev!

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Posted Jun 27, 2011
Hello, I have been bothered by an ongoing problem with this addon long enough to make a post here! This is my favorite damage meter addon and I defend it and stand by it to the death, but it has one problem with one of the raiders in my group. He is a hunter, named Birt, and his pet is also named Birt. Because of this, for some reason Skada considers them both hunters and both separate players, so I always have to add the numbers of the two Birts on my list to get Birts actual DPS.

It would be awesome if this addon accounted for hunters that had a pet with the same name as them, and combined them into one as it does for hunters with other pet names. I assume that isn't too hard of a fix - it has just been overlooked. Thanks!

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Posted Jun 24, 2011
can someone please tell me how i can change the opacity of Skada?

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Posted Jun 24, 2011
how can i change the opacity of skada?

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Posted Jun 20, 2011
It's important cuz a priest have to keep Empowered Shadow (buff) in order to hold 8% damage buff.

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Posted Jun 19, 2011
We can get Buff Uptime too?

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Posted Jun 15, 2011
Due to popular demand, GTFO 4.6 has been released to support Skada! If there are any issues with the integration, please let me know. (Send me a PM or e-mail.)

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/gtfo.aspx

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Posted Jun 13, 2011
SkadaDeaths-r323
Deaths-死亡.lua:39: attempt to index field \"?\" (a nil value)

SkadaDeaths-r323
Deaths-死亡.lua:39: in function <SkadaDeaths
Deaths.lua:35>\nSkadaDeaths-r323
Deaths-死亡.lua:53: in function \"func\"\nSkada
Skada-r323.lua:1681: in function <Skada
Skada.lua:1581>\n<string>:\"safecall Dispatcher[13]\":4: in function <string>:\"safecall Dispatcher[13]\":4\n<in C code>\n<string>:\"safecall Dispatcher[13]\":13: in function \"?\"\nlibs
CallbackHandler-1.0
CallbackHandler-1.0-6.lua:92: in function \"Fire\"\nAdiBags-v1.4-beta-1-25-g4a17000
libs
AceEvent-3.0
AceEvent-3.0-3.lua:120: in function <AdiBags
libs
AceEvent-3.0
AceEvent-3.0.lua:119>

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Posted Jun 10, 2011
Under the absorbs and healing display, when you hover over a name (or click into a submenu), you only get the absorbs done by a player (meaning that for most classes it won't display anything - note it still shows their healing+absorb done, just not their healing breakdown by spell). Would it be possible to make it display both the absorbs and healing done by individual spells?

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Posted Jun 10, 2011
this addon allso bugs the glyph system in wow :P

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Posted Jun 14, 2011
Skada uses a very simple method for detecting combat start by default: when you enter combat. For a raid boss this is the instant anyone in your raid enters combat. This has the advantage of not using any resources at all while not in combat. For non-raids, there is an option called "Aggressive combat detection" which does a bit of trickery to detect combat earlier; consequently (and inevitably) also consumes more resources while outside combat.

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Posted Jun 19, 2011
I thought so, and I went back to Skada. But every time I raid with my guild my skada dmg meter is always way off of what everyone else has using recount. Is this suppose to be happening? I thought all dmg meters were suppose to be accurate.

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Posted Jun 9, 2011
I prefer to use Skada 10/10 times over Recount. But, unfortunately I am forced to revert back to Recount due to Skada not correctly displaying the full dmg for fights. Apparently (maybe just me) it doesn't start recording dmg until I land my 1st attack on the mob as opposed to when the tank 1st pulls.

If there is an option I did not check or if there a fix coming soon to this mod.
I would greatly appreciate it.

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Posted Jun 6, 2011
Using 1.2-33 from a couple days ago, I'm still getting these with a freshly reset data set. Triggered when trying to rez people after a raid boss.

1x SkadaDeaths-1.0\Deaths.lua:39: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
SkadaDeaths-1.0\Deaths.lua:53: in function `func'
Skada-1.2-33\Skada.lua:1680: in function <Skada\Skada.lua:1580>
<string>:"safecall Dispatcher[13]":4: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[13]"]:4>
<in C code>: ?
<string>:"safecall Dispatcher[13]":13: in function `?'
CallbackHandler-1.0-6 (Ace3):92: in function `Fire'
AceEvent-3.0-3 (Ace3):120: in function <Ace3\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:119>

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Posted Jun 9, 2011
Nope.

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