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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Zensunim
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Posted Jun 15, 2011
Due to popular demand, GTFO 4.6 has been released to support Skada! If there are any issues with the integration, please let me know. (Send me a PM or e-mail.)

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/gtfo.aspx

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Posted Jun 13, 2011
SkadaDeaths-r323
Deaths-死亡.lua:39: attempt to index field \"?\" (a nil value)

SkadaDeaths-r323
Deaths-死亡.lua:39: in function <SkadaDeaths
Deaths.lua:35>\nSkadaDeaths-r323
Deaths-死亡.lua:53: in function \"func\"\nSkada
Skada-r323.lua:1681: in function <Skada
Skada.lua:1581>\n<string>:\"safecall Dispatcher[13]\":4: in function <string>:\"safecall Dispatcher[13]\":4\n<in C code>\n<string>:\"safecall Dispatcher[13]\":13: in function \"?\"\nlibs
CallbackHandler-1.0
CallbackHandler-1.0-6.lua:92: in function \"Fire\"\nAdiBags-v1.4-beta-1-25-g4a17000
libs
AceEvent-3.0
AceEvent-3.0-3.lua:120: in function <AdiBags
libs
AceEvent-3.0
AceEvent-3.0.lua:119>

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Posted Jun 10, 2011
Under the absorbs and healing display, when you hover over a name (or click into a submenu), you only get the absorbs done by a player (meaning that for most classes it won't display anything - note it still shows their healing+absorb done, just not their healing breakdown by spell). Would it be possible to make it display both the absorbs and healing done by individual spells?

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Posted Jun 10, 2011
this addon allso bugs the glyph system in wow :P

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Posted Jun 14, 2011
Skada uses a very simple method for detecting combat start by default: when you enter combat. For a raid boss this is the instant anyone in your raid enters combat. This has the advantage of not using any resources at all while not in combat. For non-raids, there is an option called "Aggressive combat detection" which does a bit of trickery to detect combat earlier; consequently (and inevitably) also consumes more resources while outside combat.

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Posted Jun 9, 2011
I prefer to use Skada 10/10 times over Recount. But, unfortunately I am forced to revert back to Recount due to Skada not correctly displaying the full dmg for fights. Apparently (maybe just me) it doesn't start recording dmg until I land my 1st attack on the mob as opposed to when the tank 1st pulls.

If there is an option I did not check or if there a fix coming soon to this mod.
I would greatly appreciate it.

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Posted Jun 19, 2011
I thought so, and I went back to Skada. But every time I raid with my guild my skada dmg meter is always way off of what everyone else has using recount. Is this suppose to be happening? I thought all dmg meters were suppose to be accurate.

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Posted Jun 6, 2011
Using 1.2-33 from a couple days ago, I'm still getting these with a freshly reset data set. Triggered when trying to rez people after a raid boss.

1x SkadaDeaths-1.0\Deaths.lua:39: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
SkadaDeaths-1.0\Deaths.lua:53: in function `func'
Skada-1.2-33\Skada.lua:1680: in function <Skada\Skada.lua:1580>
<string>:"safecall Dispatcher[13]":4: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[13]"]:4>
<in C code>: ?
<string>:"safecall Dispatcher[13]":13: in function `?'
CallbackHandler-1.0-6 (Ace3):92: in function `Fire'
AceEvent-3.0-3 (Ace3):120: in function <Ace3\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:119>

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Posted Jun 9, 2011
Nope.

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Posted Jun 6, 2011
If I reset data, is there ANY way to retrieve it? I forgot that my data resets upon leaving a group, and never got to check my healing meters before leaving my raid :(

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Posted Jun 5, 2011
Does anyone know how to make skada show "total" instead of "current fight" dps by default. I hate having to change it every time I enter a new instance. Thanks.

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Posted Jun 5, 2011
very good and interesting addon but it seems to miss an importart feature. when i control my dmg i can see all my spells and olding mouse on them i can see maximum hit, minimum hit, average it for each one, but can't link them in any channel and if i push left click i see hit/crit and can link it but just the numbers and not the value. it could be nice if i could link the window i see olding mouse on single skill too.

tnx for help
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Posted Jun 9, 2011
Click the window's configuration button (there is only one button). From here you can report your current window's content, whatever it may be, to any channel.

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Posted Jun 9, 2011
problem is that there isn't a current window for maximum hit minimum etc, just a little scrren on mousover and can't link it.
i would that screen in a window linkable too

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Posted May 27, 2011
Hi there got new errors for you. i got about 2.389 then i turned off my bug grabber. as postet before, Skada is broken now.

u got these errors pm'ed. don't blame me for doing so, i ddon't like to registrate on XY sites, just to post some stuff to help.

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Posted Jun 2, 2011
wowace isn't a external site, its the same login as Curse, and the bug tracker is on curseforge, again a Curse site with same login.

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Posted Jun 3, 2011
You might be right. but which argument should a basic user force to not use the comfy way of the comment section below the download link? if an author truley cares about his addoncommunity, he won't take this comfortable information posting away from his own people.

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Posted May 26, 2011
Hi,

The current version of Skada keeps failing for me. It stops showing data after a couple of fights and will not mode switch (I have it set to show Threat during combat and Damage when out of combat), and the mode switching is the main reason I switched to Skada from Recount.

Reading over recent comments it seems I'm not alone in having issues, so I'm wondering if there is a fix in the works or what the status is regarding problems like this.

Thanks.

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Posted Jun 9, 2011
No, Skada has no Healing Taken mode. It would be fairly trivial to write one though. A guildie actually asked for it just the other day, so I may add one.

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Posted May 24, 2011
I can't find to se healing taken stats, is there anyway of doing this or something to add for the next version maybe? recount has it and it's imba, but I can't find it in Skada? Am I missing something?

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