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 Jul 22, 2009
v 1.2-17
Date: 2009-07-22 18:41:45
ID: 5
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\SkadaDamage\Damage.lua line 334:
attempt to index global 'self' (a nil value)
Debug:
[C]: ?
SkadaDamage\Damage.lua:334:
SkadaDamage\Damage.lua:326
SkadaDamage\Damage.lua:355: Update()
Skada\Skada.lua:1811: UpdateDisplay()
Skada\Skada.lua:322: DisplayMode()
Skada\BarDisplay.lua:88:
Skada\BarDisplay.lua:78
Skada\BarDisplay.lua:107:
Skada\BarDisplay.lua:91
Skada\BarDisplay.lua:208:
Skada\BarDisplay.lua:208

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Posted Jul 21, 2009
is there any way to link more than 10 lines to chat?

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Posted Jul 29, 2009
You can use the "/skada report" command to link more than 10 lines. In the next release the menu will let you link up to 25 lines.

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Posted Jul 21, 2009
When will pet merge be added? The addon is not very useful without this option.

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Posted Jul 20, 2009
hi there, thanks for keeping this addon going, its almost exactly what I was looking for as a alternate to Recount. Uses 10 times less memory and its not laggy at all. I only have one problem and its extremly minor but I cant find the soloution. In the background of the metre..when you look at all the numbers, lines and names..there is a faint white shadowy line going accross all the lines...in various positions..cant figure out how to get rid of it..i have it set to "outline" with a black background..i cant stand the changing colours i like it all one colour and that white bar is driving me nuts..any way of getting rid of it?

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Posted Jul 19, 2009
Hi! Thanks for this addon I love it much more than recount, Just one thing that is bugging me about it is that it keeps changing from Total Damage done to current fight. I have checked the options and I cannot find what I have set wrong. Any hints Thanks!

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Posted Jul 20, 2009
Click your damage count/summary line and that action will bring up breakdown you are looking for

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Posted Jul 19, 2009
I'm new to Skada and I really like the extra functionality it has over its rivals, that said there is one feature i'm missing (unless I just can't find it) and that's a breakdown of your dps that is available in recount. for example how much of your dps certain abilities counted for as well as the analysis of each of these - their hit, miss, crit, dodge, parry etc. If these figures are in this addon where are they and if not is it possible to implement them?

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Posted Jul 19, 2009
The "Damage Spell List" for Blood Death Knights is broken by Dancing Rune Weapon. DRW mimics the attacks of the DK and for some reason any attack that is used while DRW is up doesn't show up in the list. The total damage done is still accurate though.

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Posted Jul 19, 2009
zhTW.lua miss 2 line

L["Show menu button"] = "顯示選單按鈕"

L["Shows a button for opening the menu in the window title bar."] = "在視窗標題條上顯示一個按鈕以開啟選單。"

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Posted Jul 18, 2009
currently I'm missing the blocked dmg as def tank.

should be listed in the absorb module, but it isn't.

maybe it's just a bug and u gonna fix it soon, if not u can take this post as a suggestion.

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Posted Jul 18, 2009
Makes me very laggy since Tuesday. Disabled for now.

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Posted Jul 18, 2009
One of the things I really liked about assessment was the ability to show more than one window. Does skada have the ability to do that?

That way I could show healing AND damage, for example

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Posted Jul 18, 2009
Yes. You create new windows from the addon's configuration window.

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Posted Jul 16, 2009
Hello there! I got a little problem with skada, i cant find where i can disable showing percentage of damage and heal, i need a view like:
(Name) (Number of healed) (HPS, with out percent)

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Posted Jul 22, 2009
There are now options for enabling/disabling columns in the most relevant modes.

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Posted Jul 17, 2009
Just for your information - you can resize the window. It is done from the configuration. You can also see stats on each spell you have; left-click on yourself in the damage meter. Hold SHIFT at the same time to show who/what you damaged. Left-click once more for more detailed information. Right-click to get back to where you were.

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Posted Jul 13, 2009
i have been running this addon for a while. i dont really like them. first it says im 4th in DPS on my mage, 2 hunters that arent nearly as geared as i am are beating me. then it says im ahead. i cant resize the window. when i change characters i can see the meter from a raid i did with another character. im told its more accurate, but seeing people telling bugs, about things its not recording. i enjoy recount allot more, easier to read, can resize the screen, and even if it is a little off on DPS, you can still go in and see what your stats on each attack you used during a battle. with this skada.. there is none of that. to me, recount seems allot easier to use, with allot more information. that may be why it takes up more memory to use. because it has more then this little thing does. ill try skada again later when they have added allot more to it, so its more usefull.

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Posted Jul 15, 2009
Absorbs mode should include PW:S. Note that if there are multiple absorb effects on a target, the correct one may not be shown, as there is a fair amount of guesswork involved.

Inspiration is not tracked because it does not absorb, it just adds armor. Tracking that would involve very shady guesswork, which I will not do. Renewed Hope is a damage reduction buff to the raid and is not tracked for the same reason that damage from damage increase buffs (like Trueshot Aura) are not added to the players who supply the buff.

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Posted Jul 10, 2009
I recently noticed a problem with the Skada Meter. It doesn't include any Damage prevented. I'm a Discipline Priest, So this is very important in my opinion. I'd like if it could inculde damage prevented from Inspiration and Renewed Hope. The meter also doesn't include Power Word: Shield in under Absorbs. It only registers anything absorbed from Divine Aegis for me.

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