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I'm testing this addon as a potential replacement for Recount. Most of the people I run with run Recount, which is why I'm asking this question:

The damage reported cross realm by Recount and Skada are WILDLY different. They aren't remotely close. Skada typically reports much higher dps than Recount, and I'm wondering why this is. Specifics and not general 'it sees stuff Recount doesn't' will help, because as it stands, no one believes my numbers.

I'm currently running them simultaneously so I can figure them out, but when I first started, I noticed my dps jumped up quite a bit when only using Skada. (200 points, on my 78 Warlock who only does 1000 dps, so a 20% increase is quite a bit) When grouping, the increase is almost universal no matter class, although I have noticed some variances.

I can understand why some people are preferring this over Recount. Nicer numbers. Now the why, please.

I was reading further along, and saw a shammy reporting insane numbers. I happened to try this while soloing with my healing shammy, and the damage he was doing against single targets was equally insane. I was topping 10k dps, when I can't maintain 3k in instances, raid buffed. Recount reports my damage around 2k while soloing, which is realistic.

I've never tried this Addon, but I'm going to download it just to see what you guys are saying. At any rate, information like what is recorded here and from Recount should simply be parsed from the Combat Log.

I am getting the exact same issue, just testing on dummys Skada has my dps around 200 to 400 higher than Recount.

Just shadowbolting as an aff lock Skada had my dps at 2.5k when recount posted it as 1.6k (which is of course, the more exact one).

Perhaps its running them together that is causing the mix up? Either way right now Skada is showing universal dps increase.

I would venture to say that this would be due to the fact that Recount's DPS report is not particularly accurate. Even the maintainer of Recount admits this: "DPS is a poor measure..."

I have done a great deal of testing and have found that Recount's DPS numbers are sometimes off by more than 1k. If you don't trust what I'm saying, you can test it yourself. Grab a mod like Combat Timer that will show you how long a fight lasts. Reset Recount. Go find a mob, write down its total health. Kill it. Divide its total health by the number of seconds you took to kill it as shown by Combat Timer. That will be a rough estimate of your dps (it will actually be lower than real dps, since it's highly unlikely that you did exactly as much damage as the mob had health, but it's close enough for our test.) Now compare your number with Recount...I guarantee you that Recount's number will be lower than yours, which is already going to be lower than your real DPS since we're not counting "overkill" damage. Or if you want an even faster test, clear Recount and then go kill a critter. The "combat" will last one second, so your DPS should be equal to how much damage you did in that one hit. However, Recount's number will not show you something even close to that. For example, I cleared Recount and then my 80 ret pally hit a roach for 2100. That's a one second combat, which means my DPS should show as 2100. Recount said my DPS was 1080. In short, Recount seriously sucks for keeping track of real DPS values.

Hi, first of all great addon, I'll take this over Recount anyday!
I'm not sure whether this is a known bug, but I'm having an alignment issue. I don't have the Title Bar enabled, which results in the Bars being raised a bit over the top of the Background instead of Bars matching precisely with the Background. Also when I have both the Title Bar and Background enabled they seem to overlap. PM me if you need more details/screenshots. Keep up the good work!

Am never disappointed.
I feel like this is the best I can get as a DPS meter.
I will recommend to try this at lest once and u will never be disappointed.

Love the addon, cannot stand the bugs. In particular, the incorrect tooltips on mouseover.

End86 said:

Ive been using an add-on called Add-on Control Panel(http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/acp.aspx) which allows me to control add-ons withing the game and i couldn't help but notice Skada is listed as multiple pieces not one main add-on with plugins. IS there any way to get it nested?
EG
Skada
--Absorbs
--Crowd Control
--Damage
--ETC
--ETC

instead of
Skada
Skada [Absorbs]
Skada [Crowd Control]
Skada [Damage]
etc
etc

this will help in situations where i may want to disable skada fully with one click instead of many, also keeps the interface tidy.
Thanks!
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bump, please fix it

Hi Zarnivoop, sweet addon, longtime user.

Recently, I have been asked to heal as Disc on certain encounters, and since I like to look at performance metrics (heh), I was puzzled by the low amount of mana regen from Rapture.

As an example, in the Absorbs, I had 350k, but only 12k in mana returned from Rapture. That stuck me as very low.

I thought I would throw it out in the forums just in case its a bug, but I will also go and so some controlled testing and report further. Perhaps I am nubbing it up and not using the shield spam correctly.

Keep up the great work!!!

Hiya,
I've got a new feature request, or better I'm going to beg for it once more :)
Is it possible to add a Raid Total DPS Bar? I couldn't get an answer to my my request, in case I missed it, I apologize. Thanks in advance!
BTW, I do linke this addon, jolly good show, Zarnivoop.

And :)

I have an idea and I believe everyone would like to know what has changed in the program since version 1.2-21 that is the lasted listed changelog in curse client the curse website and wowace website. These changelogs haven't been updated.

no idea whats wrong.... skada is not reporting anything or showing anything... blank window :(

Plop, is there a way to see : Healing done (Enemy) Thx for reply.

skada doesn't work for european version. He's already to old for the 3.3 euro version and if i try to use this an old addon i cant'e send the rapport, just an lua error

got a error when trying to change modes in a fight

Date: 2009-12-13 10:04:33
ID: 2
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua line 308:
attempt to index local 'mode' (a nil value)
Debug:
[C]: ?
Skada\Skada.lua:308: DisplayMode()
Skada\Skada.lua:326: click()
Skada\BarDisplay.lua:99:
Skada\BarDisplay.lua:91
Skada\BarDisplay.lua:223:
Skada\BarDisplay.lua:223
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