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.
The weird thing is my Recount was showing my monk tank as top healing most fights in Highmaul while my boyfriends recount on his pc wasnt doing it. Thats the only reason I switched to Skada and Skada is doing it to. Maybe yours isnt but mine was and Skada still is. He switched to Skada right after I did and his skada isn't doing it either. I don't know what is going on. I've checked in the options and made sure everything was the same as his. Did Highmaul last night again and sure enough monk tank was usually within the top 3 healers listed on most fights.
I'm sticking with Skada because I like it better so if no one is haveing this problem with recount then whatever. I honestly thought it was a problem with skada/recount on my pc alone until I came here and saw some others mention they are having the same issue.
You may want to check to see if Staggered damage "removed" with Purifying Brew counts as a heal. Since Staggered damage becomes a DoT, Purify (removing the DoT) might be registering as healing instead of prevention/absorbtion.
Same issue the heal is listed as "Stance of the Sturdy Ox".
Something is wrong with skada healing and Brewmaster monks. Our monk was topping the healing charts on Skada for somereason with his attack.
Combat log showed the correct values after looking at it later that night.
There was a fairly significant error in 1.4-26, which had healing by absorption for melee swings shown as "Attack". This has been corrected in 1.4-27.
This bug still exists, but does not seem to effect everyone. Myself and a few other raiders often see my monk at or near the top of the meter with Stance of the Sturdy Ox doing the bulk of this healing. A couple of our healers see me below all the actual healers and do not see that spell at all. On Butcher recently this has been rather amusing as my brewmaster is often well ahead of all the healers on my Skada due to the absurd amounts of stagger. The only logical thing I can see is that Skada is, for some, registering stagger as healing. Quite possibly becuase we can purify and remove it as has been previously mentioned.
This is because Stagger is technically an absorb like any other, and Skada was recently changed to handle Blizzard's new fancy SPELL_ABSORBED events. In the current alpha the Monk's special absorbs are once again ignored.
I actually enjoyed seeing how much dmg I staggered. Do you think you could have an option to be able to see it somewhere?
Absorbs are possibly off in skada (or recount) as they are now wildly different to each other.
Recount has roughly double the values skada is showing (pws and cow).
Since the last updates the healing seems to be off for disc priests. People who haven't updated to the latest version tell me I'm doing 35k hps, but on my Skada I see that I'm only doing 18k dps. There seem to be an issue with Paladins as well. His healing had a difference of 10k hps on my meters.
It's not showing Clarity of Will.
Hello! I started to use your addon just a few days ago, and i like it much more then recount at least for one reason: fps. But in recount there is very convinient to analyze and compare overheal, couse i can see what spell overhealed and amount of ticks. In skada i can see overheal of specific spell only in "healed" mode, and it's unconvinient, couse i can't see all picture in one list.
Hi, I have a problem using Elvui and Skada together: Each time I reload my ui, or log in my char, Skada removed to it's old place. I want to have it a little bigger - more wide - in the right chat window of elvui. I can do this, but after every reload or relog, it's resized. Is it possible to keep the size and place with elvui?
Hi, I want to know if it is possible to show pet's damage in the normal damage window and how can I do it. (like if they were players)
Thanks
I have skada hidden when I am solo. Works well, but I noticed that it pops back in after every pet battle I do. Any chance this could be worked on? Thanks!
"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! :[ " quote from chymaira . I am having this same issue please help!
Is there a way to count "Primal Tenacity" and "Tooth and Claw" absorbs from guardian druids? Warcraftlogs site does that and since all site and skada do is parse combat log i guess there should be a way to account for these abilities in skada also.
Ko'ragh absorbs magic damage and doesn't show caster DPS.
i cant get my skada to save segments beyond the current one to save my life. ive tried all the oiptions and none of them make a diffrence.
Having the same problem