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.
I turned off "Save only Boss Segements" and now it saves everything. I wish I could get it to save only boss segments again.
Anyone else having the problem where the skada box moves itself? I'll put it in the bottom right corner, change toons, and it's on top of the mini map. I'll move it on that toon to the bottom right corner, change back to the original toon i was on and it's back on top of the mini map... Yes, I've "locked" the window when I place it and no there is no one specific character it does it on, it does it on all of them. Started doing this in 6.0 and have been waiting to see if there's a fix since then. Please help! :[
Developer or developers her "skada" and simply a masterpiece, and I come again with another idea to leave your finest addon. Any chance of putting a toggle option on and off for each window to keep your perssonagem at the top and the rest of the list as soon continue down normally 1> 2> 3> ...
Thank you !!!!!
Since WoD I'm using Skada embeded in ElvUI, but the addon doesn't save any segments anymore.
Anyone an idea how to fix this?
Hi, is there any way Skada would also include absorbed damage on npc?
Neither of the following absorbs are being recorded on <Healing> Training Dummy in Garrison, while they are recorded with recount:
Power Word: Shield,
Divine Aegis,
Spirit Shell,
Clarity of Will.
Hi'd love to see a role icon instead of the class icon, what do you think about it ? Could it be something you'll add in the future ?
Hi there, love the damage meter, and have used it for quite a while. As others have noted below however, with 6.0 it has stopped saving boss segments. This is due to a change in GUID format, where it's now a plaintext string, not a hex string. I made the below change to my local copy, and it's saving boss segments again:
This is not the only change necessary for recognizing WoD bosses however; most of the IDs in LibBossIDs for WoD Dungeon bosses are incorrect, as were some MoP encounters. I'll have a final list of those ready in a couple days, and post it both to the LibBossIDs project page, and here if you'd like it.
Enterprising readers could update their own files by using this script:
in a macro while targetting a boss, then edit Skada/lib/LibBossIDs-1.0/LibBossIDs-1.0.lua to include "[#####] = true," somwhere between line 31 and the '}' at the end, where ##### is the number that macro gave you.
Been having an issue lately where Skada will not keep boss segments and only shows current fights. Once I go to the next fight the previous numbers are lost in the nether.
For some reason, Skada will "disappear" when I zone into a WoD dungeon. /skada toggle does nothing, but /skada toggle a 2nd time shows it. It also does not save any boss damage (clicking on the Segment Icon only shows Total and Current options)
not sure what the issue is? Any non-WoD zone shows and keeps fine. Not sure how to maybe reset skada without deleting my whole WTF folder which I don't want to do?
I've noticed that the CC Break announcements don't work anymore. Is this intentional?
I was so about to type that same thing lol..
Druid mastery is Primal Tenacity is the name of it if you all needed to know
http://www.wowhead.com/spell=155784/primal-tenacity
Would love to be able to see this info. Is there a plugin to Skada that will show it perhaps?
Is there anyway for skada to show the absorbs from guardians mastery, Tooth and Claw, and the Colossus weapon enchant?
The current version appears to be introducing a tremendous amount of lag at the start of a raid boss encounter. took me almost 5 seconds to get anythinggoing.
Is there any way to inset the bars? It looks really bad when you try to put a border around the window and the bars overlap the border.
Is there a way to merge Damage done and Enemy damage done together in one window?
Hi. can anyone help me?
I want to write 2 macros for report damage and healing. For damage i use /skada report instance current damage 6 and its work fine.
But when i try to report healing in the same way it still reporting damage.
I'm getting an error when trying to click on on-use quest tracked items with the default UI. With Skada as the only active addon, it gives the bliz blocked addon warning with any on-use item.
Same issue here. No error, but with Skada disabled everything works fine. Something is blocking using quest items from the quest list.
Hi there,
i got a problem with my Skada. It loads withput problems and worked on the beta realms too. But i can't get it to work on live realms after 6.0 was deployed. I can't change the display mode, it only shows "Mode" and doesn't show things like DPS, Damage, Healing and so on, thus making it useless.
Anyone can help me with this?
Greetings