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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_ForgeUser3257424
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Posted Nov 5, 2009
hi,

The hide when in battleground doesn't works for me atm, the windows displays everytime a new fight ends, and it's annoying to have damage meter on when pvping.

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Posted Nov 4, 2009
Hey there, its a great addon! keep up the good work, unfortunately some bugs still occur in the latest release.

i can not reproduce it but every now and then skada's threat module shows everyone except me, the MT. its very annoying due to the fact that even a /reload does not solve it. i encountered this misbehavior in ulduar at first a few months ago and its still a "feature" in all actual encounters anub'arak or onyxia it doesn't matter, i even encounterd it in the scarlet event thingi ;)

second bug: the damage meter does not always automaticaly show up after fightend. the battle is over and approx. 10 seconds are needed to get dmg informations. or it completely refuses to switch to the dmg module and stays in threat.

third or second.5:
sometimes the automatic switch between threat and another module after fight does not function.

the last one (maybe only a feature request):
while pausing or rebuffing i trie to look up some things but, if someone enters the instance or disconnects/connects in the raid all context menus disappear. is there a possibility to fix this behavior?

regards

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Posted Nov 2, 2009
Anyway to get Skada to remember the previous setting of Total or Current on windows? It's really annoying having to set it to show "Current" every session.

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Posted Oct 30, 2009
hey there, is it oossible to disable or change the color of the background for each bar? I have a kgpanel behind the bars and it doesnt look nice with the seperate background of the bars

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Posted Nov 2, 2009
I noticed the issue last night with the tooltip showing info for a different raid member when hovering over a bar in Skada. It seemed to fix itself after dying and zoning back into the raid instance.

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Posted Oct 27, 2009
I've encountered 2 bugs since switching from Recount.

1. If I logoff or DC midfight I lose the ability to see damage done to particular enemies. It displays total damage done and damage done by ability fine, but the damage done to enemies is blank.

2. Sometimes when I hover over someone it displays the info for someone else.

Anyone else run into these issues?

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Posted Oct 17, 2009
Is there a way I can change the options or something so it doesn't report all 25 people in the raid when someone asks for the meters?

Thanks

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Posted Oct 26, 2009
Yep... I'd LOVE to use this addon. But for this very reason I can't :(

Hope it gets fixed!!! Sooooooooon!!! :)

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Posted Oct 13, 2009
My only problem is that it ALWAYS displays the damage and healing with the lowest on the screen, and I have to sit there scrolling up to the top. This is especially annoying on fights like the Faction Champions in ToC 25, where there can be over 100 different sources of damage. Which brings another question, is it possible to set skada to combine pets/totems/etc into the player dps/damage?

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Posted Oct 11, 2009
Is this still actively developed?

Was looking promising for a while but it now seems quite static, remaining unchanged despite there being a couple of annoying bugs...

... such as the fact that when I use Skada's threat display, quite often it will display threat bars for everyone except myself. Whether this happens or not appears to be quite random.

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Posted Oct 13, 2009
Yes, it is still being developed. As for your problem, I have not encountered it myself. Please post a ticket if you start seeing any pattern to it.

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Posted Oct 9, 2009
It would be nice to have an option to not show decimals. When people do 10000 dps it really doesn't matter whether it's 10000.1 or 10000.2 and the decimals just waste space.
Still a good addon though ;)

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Posted Oct 6, 2009
I love the addon. I was wondering if it was possible to add the ability to monitor mana used?

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Posted Oct 4, 2009
Awsme addon..

Also, for ALL THESE KIND OF MESSAGES:
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Posted Oct 4, 2009
I have the same issue as Kelem, it conflicts with the hide as solo option, either one on their own works fine but with both skada comes up in pvp

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Posted Sep 29, 2009
Actually what I was looking for was a meter for my tank to check after a fight the % of dmg avoided/ blocked/ parried/ dodged/ missed etc. - if it's not within capabilities of this addon can anyone point me in the right direction?

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Posted Sep 13, 2009
autohide in pvp works fine for me, what puzzles me tho is that skada consistently reports around 200-500dps less than recount, the percentages are the same but the dps is always lower why is this ? i don;t wanna go back to that memory hog which recount is. also that would mean installing omen again and no mode switching D:

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Posted Sep 9, 2009
My death logs don't actually log anything, they only seem to be showing when the person died as a time. Also, sometimes when I click on a person in the damage/healing etc list, it will show another person rather than the one that I actually clicked. Any info on this?

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Posted Oct 3, 2009
Fixed in r271
http://static.wowace.com/content/files/379/752/Skada-r271.zip

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Posted Sep 7, 2009
always get same error when trying to report deaths:

[2009/09/07 20:11:15-362-x1]: Skada-1.2-21\Skada.lua:618: bad argument #2 to 'format' (string expected, got nil)
Skada-1.2-21\Skada.lua:618: in function `Report'
Skada-1.2-21\Skada.lua:1178: in function `func'
Interface\FrameXML\UIDropDownMenu.lua:563: in function `UIDropDownMenuButton_OnClick':
<string>:"*:OnClick":1: in function <[string "*:OnClick"]:1>

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