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 Feb 15, 2010
make sure you have that specific fight selected. if you have overall, then you won't see anything more than what you described. you have to for example select the Lady Deathwhisper encounter that you just wiped on to see the death log

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Posted Feb 18, 2010
Ah, that's it exactly. Thanks for the help, I can get rid of recount entirely now.

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Posted Feb 20, 2010
This works for me on single death during an encounter. In case of multiple deaths, I was not able to view the info for each death but only for the last recent.

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Posted Feb 5, 2010
Really great addon you've made, but I can't figure out one thing. The death log never displays any actual data except the time of death. If I click through the menus to the death logs, first I get a list of everyone who's died and the time, but clicking into the individual records just gives me that info again. Whatthepho at 0 health and the time, but none of the steps leading up to death.

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Posted Feb 4, 2010
i like this addon because I can arrange DPS and threat on one single meter. however, I noticed it only records DPS while i am in combat. I looked for options and couldnt find anything. I also would like to record others nearby DPS while im not in combat. This addon seems to lack the configurable options recount has, or am I completely missing something?

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Posted Feb 18, 2010
The author has stated that this is the way that he wishes to calculate DPS. Why would you calculate DPS when you are not DPS'ing. As to your other request I have no clue.

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Posted May 2, 2010
For some reason Skada stops recording my DPS about 5 seconds after i stop attacking, I guess it thinks I drop from combat - even while my DoTs continue to to tick (up to 20 seconds) this is re-creatable everytime at the training dummy. (note at the training dummy I actually DO drop from combat while my DoTs are still ticking.) It leads me to believe skada is not accurate and explains the huge disparity between Skada and Recount everyone sees.

I also want to calculate DPS of others while i am out of combat(i.e. at training dummy) while I am observing/training/teaching other guild members the spell or attack rotation... I need to see thier DPS in real time.

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Posted Feb 4, 2010
Had a situation last night where the DPS bars in a 5-man kept showing the same damage after switching from threat mode. Almost like it froze data for a while. I had to reset Skada then it did ok. Any idea what that was?

Same issue as xxyz below - doesn't swap from threat to dmg.

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Posted Feb 2, 2010
Great addon, I love that the individual tracking areas are optional, so we don't have to track EVERYTHING and bog down our systems.

The only problem I have with is is that when you set it to expand upwards, it starts at the bottom of the list when in a 25m raid. That means mid-fight I see the BOTTOM of the list, aka, the damage the healers are putting out. And I have to scroll up to the top EVERY time I want to see who got top damage done. Kind of annoying. I'd like it to display the top of the list even if expanding upwards.

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Posted Feb 1, 2010
Well is there a way to get a total dps for the all raid like with recount. It's really usefull to have this information with all the fights that are pretty tight on the enrage timer. If you know you raid dps is 115k and you need 135k to down the boss before enrage then you can move on instead of wiping all night.
The total would be just add all player dps... I'm guessing it should be fairly easy to add.
Great addon otherwise.

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Posted Jan 27, 2010
I have Skada and Recount running at the same time...the damage done seems to be accurate.

however, DPS on Skada is never close to the DPS shown on Recount...why's is that?

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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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