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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_ForgeUser812593
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Posted Jan 27, 2010
If you actually compute the real DPS (time yourself and stop after 60 seconds), you'll see they are both actually wrong.

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Posted Jan 26, 2010
does this addon work with a mac computer?

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Posted Jan 27, 2010
All addons are universal, just like the install discs and game itself.

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Posted Jan 25, 2010
I'm having the same issue as mentioned in an earlier comment -- after a while, fights become grayed out and unselectable. After much research, I found this very helpful curseforge post about Blizzard breaking UIDropDownMenu in the last patch:

http://forums.curseforge.com/showthread.php?p=295209

Would it be possible to update the addon with this fix? :)

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Posted Jan 24, 2010
Thanks for this addon

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Posted Jan 24, 2010
Perhaps I am just missing the obvious, but in cases of multiple death of a player I seem not to be able to select the first death. Any help?

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Posted Jan 21, 2010
A+HPS not displayed in absorbs and healing mode, could use a fix.

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Posted Jan 21, 2010
Got this addon as a disc priest for the merged absorbs/healing window and I dont know whats it counting, but its way off. Agroed a mob, casted a shield, recount guessed absorbs counted 7.6 k when it broke, which is about normal, skada counted 1.2 k. Repeated, sometimes it wouldnt count anything, sometimes partially. I would have loved a merged healing+absorbs window, but sadly this doesnt seem to work for this particular section.

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Posted Jan 19, 2010
Is there a way to merge the DPS of GUARDIANS (e.g. Fire Elemental as Shaman) with Masters DPS?

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Posted Jan 20, 2010
Just relog

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Posted Jan 16, 2010
I have 2 skada windows setup atm, 1 for threat and 1 for damage done. Sometimes(once every 2 weeks or so) the damage done stops showing up(dps doesn't show up either), even if I swap my threat window to damage done display. Anyone else has this problem?

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Posted Jan 16, 2010
only way to get the damage display back is to delete all skada settings manually

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Posted Jan 15, 2010
Fantastic Addon. Only thing I really wish it had is a set window size and scrollbars. Keep up the good work.

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Posted Jan 15, 2010
I have a damage window open, healing, and so forth. I use the skada: modes (current fight) for a overview. Any chance that the DPS number could be rounded or have the decimal formatted? Six decimals is hard to deal with with a smaller font.

Thanks

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Posted Jan 16, 2010
why is my fire elemental in here:
http://i49.tinypic.com/2u8b2f7.png
and not here:
http://i45.tinypic.com/j0kydl.png

please fix it :)

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Posted Jan 13, 2010
(Shaman) My Fire Elemental counts as another player/something on my meters.
Any way to merge his damage with mine?

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Posted Jan 13, 2010
Great addon !
It's possible in future version to implemented à function for wisp the stats to à tageted player without entering this name ?
Just à function same as recount "whisper to the target"

Thanks !

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Posted Jan 11, 2010
Where does the "You Will Die" sound clip come from?

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Posted Jan 14, 2010
It's from C'thun.
I used to have that sound clip (in the form of a script) built into my macro to pop all cooldowns/pots/trinkets.

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Posted Jun 24, 2010
Thank you!

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