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.
Dno if you have found a way to avoid it, since its an old post.
If you have moveanything installed you can disable the gryphons
Should be fixed in r564
Hi! I've been having a strange issue with this addon. I am used to place the window (which always appears on the top left corner of the screen by default) at the bottom right corner of my screen. With two of my characters (a shaman and a hunter) it stays there with no problems, but for the rest of my characters it just reappears on the top left corner every time I log in with any of them, and I didn't seem to find any option in the Config section that could fix it. Why could this be happening?
Thanks!
Please submit a bug report with complete information here: http://www.wowace.com/addons/skada/tickets/
Today i decided to install skada instead of recount, which i have used for years.
however, with skada as soon as i get into combat WoW gets a crit error and closes. No matter which character i use, upon entering any kind of combat i get kicked out of the game with a crit error.
I removed skada and not had a crit error since.
any suggestions? i wanted to change to skada so i can have both damage done and healing showing during raids.
Thanks.
Is there any way to get Skada to show damage taken minus self healing? Would be good for evaluating raid members' survivability skill usage.
I have the same question. If it's not possible, I'll have to switch back to Recount :-/
How do I make skada show healing ticks? For example Recount shows that over a fight my Healing rain ticked say 800 times, but I can't figure this out on Skada
Not too long ago I switched from Recount to Skada and I have been loving the change. One thing, though: On the bars, Recount used to show the player's realm name next to their character's name. Skada does not do that, sadly. If the author of this addon sees this or if someone out there who knows how to write this stuff would be so kind, I would *really* like to see that functionality added one day.
Woot! it's working ;)
Actually before I did my first post I was looking in wow files if I could find the "saved data" of Skada but I couldn't! thx Oscarucb!
Yo,
Alors j'ai un "petit" problème avec Skada depuis plusieurs mois qui fait que je l'utilise plus mais je voudrais m'y remettre:
A chaque fois que je me connecte sur un de mes persos j'ai le message suivant " Votre ordinateur n’a pas assez de mémoire pour charger les paramètres de l’add-on suivant. Veuillez désactiver quelques add-ons" en parlant de Skada bien sûr. J'ai trouvé un post qui explique ce problème mais pas tellement comment le résoudre http://eu.battle.net/wow/fr/forum/topic/7713901834
Avant tout fonctionnait bien et du jour au lendemain j'ai eu ce message. A savoir qu'à chaque reconnection tout ce que j'ai modifié juste avant n'est pas sauvegardé, j'ai beau faire des raz de données, quand je me reconnecte je peux encore voir le dps de fights que j'ai fait y'a 5 mois...
J'ai test avec et sans les autres addons que j'utilise (Elvui, gatherer, weakauras, recount, dbm etc) ca ne change rien, même quand skada est mon seul addon j'ai ce message...bug or what?
Sounds like a corrupted SavedVariables file.
If you're using Curse Client, logout, right-click the addon and choose "Delete Settings".
Otherwise, logout and Delete the files:
World of Warcraft/WTF/Account/<name>/SavedVariables/Skada.lua
World of Warcraft/WTF/Account/<name>/<server>/<character>/SavedVariables/Skada.lua
I switched from Recount to Skada ages ago, and imo it is far superior.
I like how you have rolled most of the individual parts into the one core.
The only request I could make is to inclued the Skada Jump module.
hello, depuis quelques jours je n'arrive plus à éditer sur le canal raid ou groupe le dps de chacun, j'ai un message d'erreur qui s'affiche.
hello, since a few days I can no longer link to the raid channel (or group or else ) the dps of everyone, I have an error message that appears.
This bug is fixed in r566
Sounds like a corrupted SavedVariables file.
If you're using Curse Client, logout, right-click the addon and choose "Delete Settings".
Otherwise, logout and Delete the files:
World of Warcraft/WTF/Account/<name>/SavedVariables/Skada.lua
World of Warcraft/WTF/Account/<name>/<server>/<character>/SavedVariables/Skada.lua
Hi, for the past few weeks (not sure exactly when it started) I've been unable to access the modes column. When I right click on the title bar all the way down to Fights and select any of the options, the next screen (Modes) is completely blank. I can't select Damage, DPS, Healing Done, Deaths, etc; there's just nothing there. I can still change the mode by clicking the icon in the title bar but that defeats the purpose of the fancy menus as well as it being slower.
This occurs even when Skada is the only running addon and it still occurs when I downgraded to a previous version of Skada. Not sure what's going on- if I'm just being dumb or if the addon doesn't like me anymore :(
Edit: I have since discovered that Skada works as intended on one of my realms but the problem above occurs on my other realm. What could possibly be different between them? I've reinstalled and this still persists :(
I really like the idea of this add on and its customization... I can't seem to get it to stay put. I've locked the window, tried different positions, but the thing is wiley I'm telling ya... can it be clamped to the screen?
I will even have a treat in my hand when I play if I could get it to stay for me... LOL
Should be fixed in r564
The positioning is broken in r564.
I am using ElvUI, with the "ElvUI AddonSkins" plugin, and using its 'Dual Embed' feature to show 2 Skada windows (dmg & heals) side by side, and docked to the lower right corner of the window.
Skada r654 breaks this functionality - it worked fine in r563 and earlier.