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 8, 2016/skada config
General Options
Data Segments to Keep: 1
You may also want to enable some of the automatic Data Resets
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Posted Jan 23, 2016For some reason my skada meters dont correspond with warcraftlogs. Is there any known problem that could cause this? Any other specific type of addon messing with this or something?
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Posted Jan 27, 2016There is no addon that can 100% accurately report what direct log aggregation can. Recount, Skada, TinyDPS, Details, etc will all report something different than direct logs.
Aside from that, there is also another reason the DPS will be off. When WarcraftLogs adds up the damage, the DPS is a direct average, dividing by total encounter time. Addons use different calculations to display DPS, such as Skada and Details using "effective" time. There will always be margins of error concerning combat log capture and display.
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Posted Jan 12, 2016Shift Click on for example me to show which mobs i damaged just doesnt work :/ it shows nothing. Could someone help me?
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Posted Jan 3, 2016I would really like this. I'm rarely anywhere near the top of the meters - but i don't want to have to have a massive damage meter on my screen just so i have a chance of being there.
As far as I can tell, no other meter addon does this. Would love to see this added to Skada :)
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Posted Dec 1, 2015I recently switched to Skada from Recount and find Skada works better for me, and was wondering if there is a way to make the title bar button icons larger. I run at high resolutions and the buttons are just a might small for me to click easily. (I'm a little shaky because of medication) Thanks for a get addon.
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Posted Nov 29, 2015Is it posible to always show me no matter where I am in the list, so my data is always shown in the bottom line?
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Posted Nov 11, 2015Hello. Is there any way that i can modify the fonts and size of my skada text in the window that count the dps and all my stuffs? i mean, those letters are too small for me..
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Posted Oct 25, 2015Although it has the option, how do we send the meters to a friend thru WHISPER, not WHISPER TARGET, since this one may need you to target the person in question, and the other, I presume, you could send even thru realID friends. Didn't find anything about that anywhere.
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Posted Oct 22, 2015I've tried using skada instead of recount several times, but as soon as i get into combat and take damge, my game crashes with a fatal exception error. I've tried using no addons but skada and it still happens. Help!
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Posted Oct 22, 2015this other small addon seems to be working for me http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/inspectfix
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Posted Oct 15, 2015Is it even possible to compare the dps of two players in different windows? It looks like if you have multiple dps or damage windows open and try and drill down in one window , the second window will drill down and show the same information as the first window.
Meaning if two windows are open and both are selected to damage and comparing two say dps of the same class, if you drill down on player A in window #1 but want to also drill down on window #2 to show the same strikes/spells/shots of player #B (for example comparing two frost spec death knight's damage) it will show the results of player #A instead, regardless.
I feel this is a limitation of the data collection and as such not a deal break, just would be very nice to be able to do this if possible.
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Posted Oct 13, 2015Shame it doesn't count stuns, not even as interrupts. I interrupted a whole bunch of mobs with Shadowfury but it doesn't count as an interrupt (even though stunning does interrupt) and there is no stun mode.
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Posted Oct 13, 2015That's because there is no combat log entry for stun interrupts. Complain to Blizzard.
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Posted Oct 11, 2015Hi I am interested in knowing how to REMOVE player names from the Skada Damage bars as well as other bars. I understand this is something that will need to be done in the LUA, can somebody please reply on how to do this? Thanks!
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Posted Sep 25, 2015scada's sync function drops fps on my pc to the ground. is there a way to disable this feature ?
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Posted Sep 25, 2015Skada does not have any sort of sync function.
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Posted Sep 25, 2015Skada does not take into account data that it does not see itself. Libsharedmedia has nothing to do with syncing.
15 fps with Skada and 55 without it does sound rediculous, and I have never seen or heard of such a thing. Skada should never affect your FPS to any discernible degree. You could try clearing your addon settings.
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Posted Sep 12, 2015All i do is pvp. I like using a dmg meter so i can have a small window open to always see where i am and how im doing. Ive just recently noticed that skada is not accurate at all for the rest of the team. This seems to be because it stops recording everyone when i am dead.
Is there a way to make it keep recording everyone else while i am dead?
if not then its kind pointless for me to use it.