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.
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Posted Feb 13, 2014Strangely, I have the opposite problem. For me it always reverts back to current fight. For dungeons I'd rather it be on total.
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Posted Nov 11, 2013I really love Skada, But one problem I have been having is that while it is active I can't get into Battlegrounds. It would be cool if you could address this sometime. Its a bit of a pain to go from a BG and have to log off to use Skada in a dungeon. Thank you in advance.
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Posted Jan 12, 2014Well until that's fixed you could download AddonControlPanel, which lets you enable and disable addons with just a ReloadUI, instead of having to log out.
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Posted Nov 7, 2013Hello there!
I really love Skada but there's one thing I really miss:
Is it possible to show not only the player name but also the realm they're from?
thanks
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Posted Nov 11, 2013LibBossIDs-1.0 was last updated Sep 13, 2013. Just because Curse doesn't show Alpha versions it doesn't mean that there are no updates. Skada has the updated version embedded. If you use disembedded libraries you should know what you do (hint: Don't just use Release versions).
CallbackHandler-1.0 and LibStub don't need any updates, they are working perfectly fine with the latest WoW. No one will just update the interface version number in the toc file for a library because - again - it is assumed that someone who uses disembedded libraries knows what he does.
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Posted Nov 7, 2013Is it possible to not make this addon dependent on the Lib BossIDs-1.0? I ask this because Lib BossIDs-1.0 is way out of date being last updated for 4.3 on January 14 2012.
Heres another addon that claiming Skada is dependant on it but way out of date Lib CallbackHandler 1.0. This addon was last updated for 4.0.3a on January 14 2011.
Another one is LibStub being last updated for 5.0.4 on August 27 2012.
Keep in mind that I didnt install Skada till ToT came out to replace Recount increasing laggness and lag issues and that im trying to get all my addons up to date but constantly seeing the same ones all the time out of date and would like to remove the said addons thats over 1 year out of date but cant if others are dependant on them.
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Posted Dec 4, 2013Im sorry sir/ mam but you are very wrong. I went directly to their webisite and it even says Lib Boss IDs last updated as the date i first posted. Also Skada did not update it when i first posted it since world of warcraft still said it was out of date that is why i went to the website directly to check.I even uninstalled both and reinstalled them and it still said the first posted update. Also I have no clue what disembbed librares are.
Addons need the patch update still requardes if they ware working correctly that way when a person looks at the addons ingame it doesnt say they are out of date and there fore make it harder for game masters to say its because your addons are out of date or its your UI.
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Posted Nov 5, 2013Everything is good about it except:
1) no UI overlay settings (cant change ui Layer position - cant make it higher than main WoW UI.)
I have a 1920x1080 screen an i used to put reount on the left of skill slots under chat window. But there is that "statue" of a raven on the end that covers skada window. I cant bring skada higer than statue.
2) no way to move around positions in a list of bars. For example i want only DPS and Damage made. They a re war apart i have to scroll the list and look for them all the time. Insted i could have placed them one after another and switch quikly
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Posted Nov 4, 2013I Have tried everything to get this to work, but all I get is a box with no data in it. All I did was install it :/
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Posted Nov 4, 2013is it possible to not get skada up when doing pet battles? its kinda annoying when i do a pet battle and skada pops up
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Posted May 15, 2014This was fixed in 1.4-13
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Posted May 18, 2014This is what profiles are for. See the profile sub-menu in /skada config
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Posted Nov 4, 2013Is it possible to have separate configs for 5 mans/scenarios and Raids? Maybe by installing skada twice or something and changing something in the config? I like a big list of dps in raids and a smaller one in parties, it looks a bit silly to have a big skada in 5mans and scenarios if you know what I mean. Thanks!
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Posted Oct 31, 2013Seems Skada is sort of broken. Every time I log out, the next time I log in I need to reload Skada or else it won't collect any data.
Any reason why this is happening? Might be worth telling that I have a 'damage' tab and a 'healing' tab.
Guess it's back to Recount..
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Posted Nov 3, 2013if you have had skada for a long time , id reccomend deleteing it and reinstalling , as the changes made over the years might have built up errors for you. also try doing a ui reset. Skada is workign I assure you.
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Posted Nov 4, 2013I've had Skada for a week now, since I added a second window it requires me to reload the ui everytime after I log out. Any idea what's up? If you think it's something with my Skada I suggest you google the problem, more people like me with the same problem.
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Posted Nov 3, 2013Have it post to instance when it does that. If you're in LFR it is instance.
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Posted Oct 30, 2013Skada won't link damage into raid chat...it says not in raid group. ;D
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Posted Oct 26, 2013Hi there,
I got a little problem with skada, when I check the option " Hide When solo" , when I go for a dungeon or raid..the window doesn't appear..but skada is collecting data..how can I fix this?