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

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Posted Jul 7, 2009
I'm very happy with this addon, especialy coming from a Recount user. However, Skada doesn't distinguish between Heart Strike and a white attack, which kind of sucks for DPS testing purposes. Is there any chance of getting this fixed?

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Posted Jul 3, 2009
Waterfall menu is continuously difficult to battle, constantly disappearing on me. Recount had an "activity" feature which sort of let you check up on who is using what, is there any way you can add a window to check if people are using misdirects etc similar to how the interrupt window works.

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Posted Jul 2, 2009
Would it be possible to innately support more than 10 lines of data? I know you can easily change the figure in one of the files in the addon itself, but built in mod support is always better! Even if its just 1-10, 15, 20, 25 would be great. Thanks!

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Posted Jul 2, 2009
The SkadaAbsorbs module has some major flaws in it. I have fixed these flaws for my copy, and it now works perfectly. If you are interested in the fixes I have made, PM me and we can discuss it in detail.

Quick summary:
Complete absorbs are not the same as partial absorbs.
Damage absorbed from an unknown source (like Shadow Word: Death recoil) is not tracked.
Shields applied before entering combat are not tracked when you enter combat and take damage.

Let me know if you are interested.

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Posted Jul 1, 2009
I like the new menu on the bar in r246 but the menu goes off the screen sometimes.

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Posted Jul 1, 2009
better than recount, uses about 200kb less memory than recount

u can use for threat meter...... like omen and recount combined

BUT BETTER!

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Posted Jun 30, 2009
keep set option is giving me this error.
Interface\AddOns\Skara\Skada.lua:967 attempt to call method 'KeepSet' (a nil value)

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Posted Jun 30, 2009
I am dual-specced DPS/heal. Is there any way I can have the same "window" show DPS or Healing? I can understand if it's tough to make that automatic, but a click-to-switch would be awesome...

...unless I'm totally missing something here...

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Posted Jul 1, 2009
Not sure I follow you there. Just right-click once to get back to the mode list and choose Damage or Healing?

Or do you mean that you want a Skada window to automatically switch mode when you switch spec? Sounds interesting, if a bit lazy on your part. :)

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Posted Jun 28, 2009
I like your damage meter better than recount. It seems more accurate. But I would like to be able to re-size the window by pulling on the edges. And I would like to be able to separate my damage from my pet's damage for pet testing. Other than that a great addon.

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Posted Jun 25, 2009
Great add-on mate, my 1st and favorite

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Posted Jun 22, 2009
o.0

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Posted Jun 22, 2009
Sorry for another post, i forgot about the deaths view: is there any chance to add a second mode that does simply count the deaths and doesn't show the last few deaths in order? Also totems count seem to fill up my deaths-view …

Also it would be great to be able to see statistics for all data, boss data, defeated bosses data, trash data instead of just be able to see everything or only bosses. i do know trash is essentialy worthless but still it is interesting …

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Posted Jun 22, 2009
I am a happy user of Skada Damage Meter. Thanks for the great addon. I'd love to see EnsidiaFails-Integration, as their ulduar-fails are much more elaborated than Failbot, any chance on that one?

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Posted Jun 22, 2009
Open the configuration (from Interface->Addons->Skada, or the popup menu), and navigate to Windows->Skada->General options. Set mode in combat to Threat, and check the "Return after combat" checkbox. After combat the window will return to the mode you were in before entering combat.

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Posted Jun 19, 2009
well i just got this addon and i installed it like everyother addon but i cant seem to get it to pop up on my game screen. and i am not to sure how to get it to work

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Posted Jun 19, 2009
Did you install it correctly? The download should contain a number of folders called SkadaDamage, SkadaHealing, and so on. All these should be placed separately in your Addons folder.

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Posted Jun 16, 2009
sorry,when I into Mimiron Stage 2,I got this error message

LibFail-1.0-65 (Skada):320: Usage: UnitDebuff(\"unit\", [index] or [\"name\", \"rank\"][, \"filter\"])\nLibFail-1.0-65 (Skada):320: in function <...terface
AddOns
Skada
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LibFail-1.0
LibFail-1.0.lua:307>\nLibFail-1.0-65 (Skada):250: in function <...terface
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lib
LibFail-1.0
LibFail-1.0.lua:244>\n\n -

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Posted Jun 15, 2009
Strange, I can't reproduce the error. I deleted the window I had, and made a new one, no errors.

However, I cant move the frame around at all now. I tripled checked that lock window was unchecked, I checked the box, unchecked it, I cant move the frame.

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

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