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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Posted Sep 30, 2012
Same for me :)

Message: SkadaDeaths-1.4-3\Deaths-Deaths.lua:98: attempt to concatenate a nil value
Time: 09/30/12 21:53:13
Count: 3
Stack: Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:1417: in function <Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:1317>
[string "safecall Dispatcher[19]"]:4: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[19]"]:4>
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[19]"]:13: in function `?'
...que\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:92: in function `Fire'
...AddOns\Bartender4\libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:120: in function <...AddOns\Bartender4\libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:119>

Locals: <none>

There ya go

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Posted Sep 26, 2012
Just started getting an error:

Message: SkadaDeaths-1.4-3\Deaths-Deaths.lua:98: attempt to concatenate a nil value
Time: 09/26/12 02:21:31
Count: 9
Stack: Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:1417: in function <Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:1317>
[string "safecall Dispatcher[19]"]:4: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[19]"]:4>
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[19]"]:13: in function `?'
...ore\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:92: in function `Fire'
...\AddOns\DataStore\libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:120: in function <...\AddOns\DataStore\libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:119>

Locals: <none>

This only just started on Live when in combat with Osul Mist-Shaman in Townlong Steppes.

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Posted Sep 26, 2012
The Deaths module is famous for generating nil errors; you're better off just deleting that sub-module and installing a specific death event watcher.

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Posted Sep 26, 2012
I've posted a patch to do that here:

http://www.wowace.com/addons/skada/tickets/289-hide-during-pet-battles/

I don't know when/whether the author checks those tickets, but it's not hard to add to your local copy.

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Posted Sep 25, 2012
Is there some way to make Skada hide during pet battles?

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Posted Sep 22, 2012
Amazing addon, been using it all my WoW game-time. Could'nt play without it.

I've been encountering a problem where the "Current Combat" function of the addon displays the "Total" instead of the individual encounters. It seems to be happening at random, generally a reset or reload ui fixes it.

Orjo

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Posted Sep 17, 2012
Feature request; add slash commands for show/hide. Not just toggle. Awesome mod, so much better then recount!

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Posted Sep 14, 2012
There is a way to make Skada profile dual spec-profile switching?

Would be great to use different windows' profile configurations when switching from healer/dps spec and viceversa

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Posted Sep 14, 2012
What're the chances you could addon an option for commas in the DPS count? Seeing 50,000 is a lot more visually appealing than 50000.

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Posted Sep 12, 2012
I keep getting Skada being blocked by Blizzard and cannot remove glyphs or talents without turning Skada off.

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Posted Sep 18, 2012
Same

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Posted Oct 10, 2012
Quote from TWISTEDBULLET »

I keep getting Skada being blocked by Blizzard and cannot remove glyphs or talents without turning Skada off.

Experiencing the same thing, anyone know of a temporary fix?

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Posted Sep 11, 2012
I'm running 1.4-3 and still can't seem to change the fonts in either the title bar for header. What am I missing??? It's way too small for me to see.

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Posted Sep 6, 2012
My skada seems to have started recording a fair amount of decimal places for healing/ healing + absorbs etc. Is there a way tochange this.

Thanks

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Posted Aug 31, 2012
I deleted WTF folder, then started WOW.

Skada window would not close anymore.

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Posted Aug 31, 2012
Am I the only one who is getting just ridiculous lag using this addon since the latest update? Not sure what to do about it..

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Posted Aug 31, 2012
Spirit Shell seems really buggy. I was spamming Greater Heal on a tank with Gushing Wound on the tank and Spirit Shell on myself, and it wasn't showing up on Skada as healing done at all.

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Posted Aug 29, 2012
how can we chance fount size? its too small on my screen

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Posted Aug 29, 2012
Seems like uptdated :) thank!

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Posted Aug 28, 2012
WTB a update for Skada! Recount sucks!

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