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 May 12, 2010
This has probably been asked a bunch of times, but can you merge pets? I really hope so... Don't feel like going back to Recount.

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Posted May 10, 2010
Not a bad addon but no thanks, gonna stick with recount+omen for now. I should spend a few more hours tweaking around with skada tho. Im sure if i spend some more time i can configure it to work a little better... i hope.

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Posted May 24, 2010
How do you get recount to paste on to the chat?

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Posted May 9, 2010
I am going to give this addon a try. Ive used recount for a long time, before that... damagemeter! Anyway i noticed some fancy functions that grabbed my attention. Hope i can replace recount and that other addon using this one.

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Posted May 6, 2010
Does anyone know how to make Skada default to "Damage Total" instead of "Damage Current Fight"? I always have to manually set it to Damage Total every time I log in. I'm sure there's a setting I'm missing somewhere. Thanks!

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Posted May 2, 2010
thanks so much for updating this addon, soooo soo much :)

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Posted Apr 30, 2010
is it possible to check the amount of friendly fire done in skada? I really need this feature but I can't find it ~__~

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Posted Apr 28, 2010
Is anyone else having a problem with the skada menu not allowing you to switch your window between each fight or total data? For the last few weeks the lower portion of my menu has been grayed out no matter where I am or what I am doing and it's getting very annoying. I have uninstalled, reinstalled to no avail. Please, any suggestions?

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Posted Apr 28, 2010
I'm having the same issue across all my toons. Any fix for this yet?

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Posted Apr 27, 2010
I am having a problem (or maybe missing where to set it) where the dmg done being displayed is not being added from a Shaman's totem (searing totem is an example) or his elemental. It's there on the meter but its not being merged.

Anyone able to help with this?

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Posted Apr 27, 2010
i love this addon so much. it is so much better than the bloated recount and omen combo. I'll go through an entire 25man raid and skada's mem usgage will be around 3-4mb while recount would be upwards of 25-30. Thanks for the updates and keep it going :D

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Posted Apr 23, 2010
Anyone know how to change the color of the title bar? Where is says "Skada:Modes" or "Skada:Fights"?
thanks in advance

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Posted Apr 28, 2010
Mirror Images is fixed in the latest release, though it requires that you use the "Raw threat" option. I'll get it fixed properly one of these days.

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Posted Apr 20, 2010
Is there a possibility that Skada can be used to monitor out of group and out of combat?

I would like to see what randoms around me do on dummies without being in their group and being in combat myself.

Also the fade/mirror image issue noted below, we use fade and our bar is removed. Does not help tanks and people like me pulling agro ><

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Posted Apr 18, 2010
Date: 2010-04-18 09:51:44
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua line 606:
attempt to index local 'report_mode' (a nil value)
Debug:
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
Skada\Skada.lua:606: Report()
Skada\Skada.lua:1170: OnAccept()
..\FrameXML\StaticPopup.lua:3448: StaticPopup_OnClick()
[string "*:OnClick"]:1:
[string "*:OnClick"]:1
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Gatherer, v3.1.14
GathererDBWowhead, v1.0.2009-12-09
GearScore, v3.1.15 - Release
Mapster, v1.3.8
QuestHelper, v1.3.11
RogueFocus, v1.3.0
Skada, v1.2-26
SkadaAbsorbs, v1.0
SkadaCC, v1.0
SkadaDamage, v1.0
SkadaDamageTaken, v1.0
SkadaDeaths, v1.0
SkadaDebuffs, v1.0
SkadaDispels, v1.0
SkadaEnemies, v1.0
SkadaFailbot, v1.0
SkadaHealing, v1.0
SkadaPower, v1.0
SkadaThreat, v1.0
SlideBar, v3.1.14 (<%codename%>)
BlizRuntimeLib_enUS v3.3.3.30300 <us>
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Posted May 4, 2010
should just take this feature out of your addon if it ain't working each realease was hoping for this too but it never gets fixed.

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Posted Apr 17, 2010
I love Skada, but please fix the "hide in PvP" mode. Currently that option doesn't do anything. 1kW, BG oder Arena... it always shows even though the option is activated.

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Posted Apr 14, 2010
Like the mode, my only complain is that I use my UI at 10% (smallest size). Which makes skada completely unreadable. I was not able to locate a scaling option in the config anywhere. So until that's implemented, back to recount for me.

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Posted Apr 14, 2010
What about having it auto switch from one mode to another upon death? ie Threat -> Deaths

Other potential events to switch on: Death, Release, OOC, Item Looted, Aggro

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Posted Apr 11, 2010
Switched to Skada recently and love it. Only minor complaint is that every time I log into WoW, my bar settings are reset to default. It's kind of a pain to have to go in and change the bar texture every time.

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