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.
Mark of the Hidden Satyr isnt showing up in the Damage Calculation
Yea, I'm also waiting for a solution on this! Looking at Skada, recount and detals 3-4 times a day to see if there is any updates now :D I mean, I know I do more damage than is shown, but who cares unless everyone else know I'm doing it? :D
Yeah would like to know if this is something that is fixable :\ , i think blizzard coded the enchant a bit weird, it summons a invisible npc that casts the proc.
Skada has been showing a lot of inconsistent results between players in the same party.
If you're doing one of the Legion dungeons, and not everyone is the same level that is likely the cause. I'm not sure how the scaling works exactly, but I believe that all damage is scaled to your level before the server sends that data back to you.
So if you have 2 people in the same dungeon, but at different levels, they will report different results. However, the % of damage contribution SHOULD still be exactly the same.
All of a sudden today My skada is showing half the dps that is being done for myself and each member of my group in a dungeon. I closed wow. Updated. Still same result. I uninstalled it and redownloaded the addons etc and STILL same issue. Odd thing is my recount is ALSO only showing half the dps during current fights. My girlfriend and two buddies are all running skada and recount right next to me and all of theirs read the same which is double of what mine reads. Any ideas?
I was just testing on a training dummie and my dps after just attacking for like 5 sec starts at just over 100k and then skada immediately drops to about 50 then fluctuates around 50k just doing a couple of abilities. Its literally cutting dps display in half. Very odd
Having the same issues but only on certain characters. It shows about half damage for myself and anyone in my party on 3 of 5 characters. Is it possible there is an issue with the combat log and registering artifact weps for some specs/classes?
It's hard to say why there is no HPS mode (same as DPS with nicknames and current DPS without any total damage done and percentages) Add this tribe please
Can we get a damage mitigation section that tracks things like ignore pain, iron bark and other tank cooldowns. Would let you see how well the tank is using cds. An additional positive is warriors who Stan in fire and use ignore pain will not top healing meters.
Doesn't track Risen Skulker from other DKs most of the time. It randomly does then stops.
Anybody having issues with Skada window showing whenever you change zone?
Even though I'm solo and have the option ticked to hide it still pops up
yes, it pops out even when hide when soloing every time i use portal or similar zone jump spell like trueshotlodge hawk teleport from dalaran, but not hearthstones
Guess there's no fix for it then
Any way to change the font? and to increase font size. Options are very scarce in the config - googling it obviously talks about previous version because I don't see any settings for it.
If you expand the "Windows" in the configuration, and then choose your window, there will be a whole lot more options. :)
Finally figured out the bug I've been having with Skada. If I swap realms without relogging, Skada completely breaks. Doesn't display names or anything on bars. Just one or two blank bars and then nothing, no matter how many people are in group.
I believe I have the same problem. It happens even if I switch toons on the same realm. How did you fix it?
Same here.
nothing works.
Sometimes when multiple GBoMs on a target, for example when I had 3 GBoMs on me (2 other paladins and my own) it apparently wouldn't register my damage for my own but would count it for theirs, saw it on Warcraft Logs which had my damage with GBoM about the same as Skada.