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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nordveien
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Posted Jan 4, 2010
Rogue vanishing mid-fight counts as a start of a new segment. So the meters at the end are not accurate in the sense that they are displaying the data for the last segment only (if set to "Last fight").
Not sure if it works the same way for Feign Death, but it definitely poses a problem for rogues.

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Posted Jan 4, 2010
A little more on the issue:
I have a single window set up to show DPS out of combat and switch to Threat otherwise.
Since vanishing removes a rogue from the threat list, could it be that the described behaviour takes place only in this configuration?

I will try to test it some time shortly.

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Posted Jan 4, 2010
For the love of God:
- get pet/trap/snakes/firely/fart damage off my meters (put them with their owners)
- When swapping between threat and damage/dps/healing/whatever, and you are in "grow up" configuration, have the meters display the top of the list, not the bottom.

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Posted Jan 3, 2010
I had been using Recount for a while; didn't like the massive amount of memory usage it caused - not to mention the DPS numbers being dead WRONG every time. Seriously, how do I get top damage but 8th DPS? A guild mate told me about Skada, so I downloaded it and tried it out.

My favorite things:

- It fits perfectly with my UI, unlike Recount. I had to manually go into the Lua code of recount and reprogram it to work with my current UI.
- I've yet to see it anywhere near Recount's memory usage.
- Far more intuitive menu navigation.

However, when I tried to link the damage in chat today, I was a bit embarrassed. When I typed /skada report, it displayed the damage from the current fight. I tried to use the "mode" option by typing in "Overall," "Total," etc., but I couldn't figure it out. Because of the way I have my UI set up, I chose not to show the title bar, which means I'd use the slash command - yet I can't seem to make it work. Am I doing something wrong here?

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Posted Jan 1, 2010
I am having problems with Skada switching my settings from overall report to current fight. It will flip back and forth at times. When I open the skada menu the option to switch from current to overall, that bottom half is grayed out. What is causing this to happen?

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Posted Jan 2, 2010
For DPS, check the tooltip in the DPS mode. It will show the two variables, damage done and activity time. As for actual damage discrepancies, there should be none, other than what either meter measures is included in your test sample's window of time.

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Posted Jan 1, 2010
Can you explain why Skada shows different results compared to Recount?

Over the course of a 300 second testing period, Skada shows a 5% or more discrepancy in DPS alone, above Recount's. This may be attributed to using a different window of time to calculate average DPS, however, individual abilities are consistently reported as doing different amounts of damage which shouldn't be possible unless it's discarding information or simply not parsing it.

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Posted Jan 9, 2010
That reason for the discrepancy is simple: Recount is wrong about DPS almost 100% of the time.

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Posted Jan 10, 2010
I'm not worried about the DPS number itself (I understand activity time and a host of other variables will always produce a different result). My issue is that either Recount or Skada will ALWAYS have different values for total damage.

How is this possible? If I auto attack a training dummy for 300sec, there should be no question about how much actual damage I've done. Yet both mods record different numbers to the other. One of them has to be correct.

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Posted Jan 1, 2010
What happend with recount?
i need a damage meter so i´l try this one instead..

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Posted Dec 30, 2009
No errors. I reverted back 1.2-24 and everything works just fine. Its like 1.2-25 is only collecting Threat data and ignoring everything else. Wierd.

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Posted Dec 29, 2009
Only thing that seems to work with the new update is threat. None of the other meters are working. any one have similar issues?

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Posted Dec 30, 2009
Are you seeing any errors?

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Posted Dec 30, 2009
Yes, there is an "Absorbs" mode. Note however that just like Recount's version, it is based on guesswork.

There is also a new "Absorbs and healing" mode, combining healing and absorbs.

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Posted Dec 29, 2009
Will this count Priest shield in their healing? I know recount doesn't unless you get a separate addon called "Guess Absorbed".

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Posted Dec 28, 2009
Am I missing something? Hunters viper trap shows up on damagemeter and so does shammans elementals, is there a way to include their damage to their owners damage, so they dont end up separatly on the damagemeter.

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Posted Dec 29, 2009
Yeah, this is incredibly annoying in 5-mans. 1-4 are dps, 5-20 are vipers.

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Posted Dec 29, 2009
Right-click in the Skada window to see a list of available modes. If you have the SkadaThreat addon loaded, "Threat" should be one of those. You may have to scroll down to see it, using your mousewheel. As for greyed-out options, I am not sure why you get that. Try disabling all other addons.

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Posted Dec 26, 2009
How do you get this mod to show THREAT? The threat options are all greyed out ?

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Posted Dec 27, 2009
Any discrepancy between meters regarding "DPS" is usually down to different ways of calculating "DPS". Skada's is very simple and will in the next version be shown in a tooltip in the DPS mode. Damage done / your active time in combat.

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