Skada Damage Meter
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.
anyway of adding how much damage you negate with purifying brew?
I love this addon, it is a lot lighter then Recount, which helps my FPS. However I have had to stop using it. Since patch 5.4 it appears to be incompatable with Deadly Boss Mods. When I am running both, Skada blocks DBM's warnings, and timing bars. Since my Guild requires DBM, I had to remove Skada and go back to Recount, until a fix can be found.
i can't able to change font in skada, some one can help me?
Thanks
Is there a way to make Skada not clickable during combat without making it disappear during combat?
I have a similar problem, but mine only works on one toon. No mattrer what I do, it doesn't present any data except for the toon I set it up on.
My skada has stopped displaying on ONE character on ONE server for me. It only has the top bar and looks different than normal. It has the options buttons but when i deal dmg nothing shows up, it doesnt even have any options under the mode. Ive reinstalled it, deleted it from that characters WTF folder etc, what can i do to fix this, i really dont want to have to use recount....
Most likely you have a badly configured or corrupted profile. Open "/skada config", go to the profiles menu, select the "Default" profile and hit "Reset Profile".
Skada show the Tier 16 Shaman 2 piece set absorb form Earthshield to the Tanks segment.
Nature Barrier or something .
Can you advise if this is something you can adjust to show as the shaman's healing not the tank as I would like this corrected too...
Thanks,
I have two window setup, one for heals and the other for DPS. My problem is I can get them to show but they both don't work until I reload my screen. (/reload) Any ideas?
that is ok to see the damagemeter, but not ok in the Petbattles, if an function inside to disable skada in petbattles? When not, then possible something to make?
mfg
I'm having the same issue as the_only_viper, in SoO fights aren't saving, I only get options from current fight and total. Everything works normally in ToT, I get new segments for each boss.
Tried deleting and reinstalling and it didn't fix it. My friends say that theirs is working normally.
Hi,
Updated to latest release, but still fights don't get saved in SoO. Only can see current fight, and the saved fights are only from ToT.
Any way to fix this?
Thanks :)
Giving Skada a try, been a recount user for years.
Couple things which dont work well. Choosing the skada menu to choose item to display in bar window does not adjust, so the window on my screen is near the top and choosing the menu the list goes off the top of the screen so I cannot see most of the data items. I have to move the window to the bottom of the screen to choose another item to display (e.g. switching from DPS to damage)
Using a tooltip for spell damage details; This is so much better in recount in terms of presentation. In a separate window with breakdown of spells and percentages. The Skada Tooltip version is poor by comparison and not having in a separate window really makes it painful to use.
Otherwise, I like the display and the performance, just needs more graphs and detail window options. :)
Hello. I am trying to locate an addon that can perform a simple calculation that takes into account a player's Average ItemLevel before reporting Damage results on a meter. It can even be something as simple as Damage/Ave iLvl, and then Rank the results for reporting. In this manner a Raid Leader can actually identify how each person is performing, regardless of their gear.
Because we all know that players will get better as their gear gets better, so current meters that treat everyone as an equal by just reporting the numbers incurred are actually not very meaningful, as they are tracking results (which is gear-driven) rather than performance (which is knowledge & skill driven). I was wondering if Skada can currently do this, or if you have plans to incorporate a feature like this in the near future? Thank You :)
I can't find the mode switching option anymore. Has it been removed or am I blind? Edit: I've found it. Looked three times for it before I posted the comment. :D
How do i link it in chat?
idk why but skada doesnt show the buff uptime of tempus repit (legendary meta for caster sinister primal diamond). does anyone know how to fix this?
One of the most important addons to raid successfully and to reconsider its own damage output, resulting damage, done healing and other useful information - at least for the raid leader. Kudos to the author!
If I have both the "Hide when solo" and "Disable while hidden" options checked, then Skada won't collect any data at all when in a dungeon finder or LFR group. But if the "Disable while hidden" box is unchecked, it works fine. Not sure if this only happens just with random queue groups, or with pre made groups also, I've only noticed it in random groups.