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".

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 very easy to extend, and there are many extra plugin addons out there that add functionality, such as:

Skada Graphs: Adds graph display systems to Skada
Skada DPSplusHPS: Useful add-on for Disc Priests.
Skada Chat Frame Integrator: Integrates Skada in any chat frame.
SkadaScroll: Provides additional options for scrolling the bar displays
Skada Avoidance and Mitigation: Helps tanks benchmark their damage reduction performance via avoidance and mitigation
Skada for Tanks: Adds information useful for evaluating a tank's performance
Guild Skada High Score: Let's you compare a guild's performance.
Skada_FriendlyFire: Display friendly fire damage done by players
Skada Player Score: Generate combined performance scores for players.

There is a page with API information here.

Reporting issues

Suggestions and bug reports here. Bug reports in comments will be deleted.

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_ForgeUser6232268
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Posted Jan 2, 2011
It doenst show the *total* when im in dungeon and attack few mobs and kill it, skada will reset everything... I try to set it to *total* but it keeps going to *current fight*
How can I solve this ?

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Posted Jan 1, 2011
Anyone know how to make Skada threat sounds only go off in an instance?

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Posted Dec 30, 2010
I have talked to few locks on my realm and whether (and this is with both skada and recount) locks dps is being misreported atm..sometimes it is including the pets and sometimes it isn't (imp, felguard etc)....this can make a difference in locks dps by at least 2-3k, but atm it seems the blame is coming back on us unless the raid leader can see reason and is smart and can see this is happening... The first time I noticed this is when someone linked the meter, and my doomguards dps came up, but no imp, I changed pet, they linked again and no felguard. Can this please be fixed

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Posted Dec 28, 2010
I want to use the history feature, last 10 fights or so showing.
But it only shows the mob name and time, no DPS or HPS options...

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Posted Dec 22, 2010
@Maxemiss same thing here, I actually came in here to ask the same.

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Posted Dec 13, 2010
My skada is no longer keeping segments of fight anymore. It either does Total Overall fights (all of them together) or Only the current fight. I can not look at past fights anymore? Deleted and redownloaded anything else i should do?

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Posted Dec 10, 2010
Looks like Skada is dead, which is a shame. :(

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Posted Dec 11, 2010
Visit the WowAce.com development site, linked above. There is a new alpha version, uploaded yesterday. Skada is still being actively developed.

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Posted Dec 2, 2010
Is this going to be updated to fix whispers?

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Posted Dec 2, 2010
I can't seem to figure out how to get test bars so I can position the window precisely on the screen where I want it... does this addon not have that option?

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Posted Dec 1, 2010
I get now the error that skada is causing an internal error (trying to do something that is only allowed for the blizzard UI). im using damage & threat modules.
it occures whenever i want to replace a glyph

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Posted Nov 30, 2010
Request: Since Skada already tracks and saves dps and healing done by each ability could you please tell us how to send our personal text data from Skada's grid to a cast button/macro? I'd like to know what average damage/healing to expect before I click an ability.

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Posted Nov 30, 2010
Hi when i try to /w someone my dps i get this error and it stops working?? :(

Date: 2010-11-30 13:01:08
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua line 1170:
attempt to index global 'this' (a nil value)
Debug:
[C]: ?
Skada\Skada.lua:1170: OnAccept()
..\FrameXML\StaticPopup.lua:3490: StaticPopup_OnClick()
[string "*:OnClick"]:1:
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Posted Nov 30, 2010
Skada window options now showing up. Under Window all I see is Skada. I can't change the width of the window which prevents me from actually seeing much information.

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Posted Nov 29, 2010
Is it possible to increase the maximum bar width beyond 400? Now Blizz have improved the widescreen resolution pixel mapping I have more screen space to play with, and could use a wider Skada to fill the space it's in.

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Posted Nov 27, 2010
Can a totals line be added to the top of the damage window to see total raid damage? Is this possible now? I couldn't find it in the options.

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Posted Nov 17, 2010
Loving Skada so far. :) One question ... I was really looking forward to automatic mode switching (awesome idea BTW), but I don't see a threat mode on the mode list in 1.2-30, nor do I see a separate module to download for it?

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Posted Nov 17, 2010
Fire elemental is still listing as a separate entity of damage when it should be added on to the Shaman's damage.

Using r309

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/9132/skada.jpg

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Posted Nov 13, 2010
My Destro warlock's Nether Ward is not counting on the "Absorbs" or "Absorbs and Healing" pages. Bug? I want to see how much its actually helping me!

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Posted Nov 10, 2010
Having the same problem as others ... segments not saving, only current and total. Tried to find Boogi78's fix and couldn't seem to find it. Will this be fixed in the future? Thanks for all the work, great addon :)

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