Skada Damage Meter

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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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_ForgeUser18218720
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Posted Nov 4, 2016
Skada is currently resetting itself to a 'new fight' every minute or so while attacking a test dummy in spite of damage being consistent the entire time.

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Posted Nov 2, 2016
Is there a way to make Skada start recording things in "real time"? (the same way WarcraftLogs does) -- instead of only start recording when I do damage. Would be really awesome if there were some sort of option to change its style of recording since many would consider it to be more "accurate" (because it won't miss recording things like e.g. when the fire mage pulls and since you're melee and haven't attacked yet, it won't show/record the damage that the fire mage or hunter just did). Thanks!

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Posted Oct 31, 2016
Is there a way to see the "Incoming DPS" to each party member? As a healer I was wondering that maybe it would be useful to be able to see who is receiving the most damage in the last seconds, to see if a player could be left with a small HoT or if it needs a more aggressive healing.

I'm still trying to figure out if it make sense strategically speaking thought.

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Posted Oct 31, 2016
Does Skada provide a API for querying raid damage? I'm thinking of creating an addon to estimate fight duration, as I can't seem to find one and this is proving to be crucial for SPriests this expansion. If not, is there any chance this can be integrated into Skada?

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Posted Oct 30, 2016
hi,

love the addon for ages :) but pls add the option to show skada only infight. i helped myself by editing the hidecombat arguments in Skada.lua... (the only show out of combat option)

keep up your good work ;)

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Posted Oct 28, 2016
With the new patch 7.1 ive been getting problems when i try to queue to battleground it makes me dissable the Addon before i can actually queue

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Posted Nov 2, 2016
Quote from deathomeon >>

With the new patch 7.1 ive been getting problems when i try to queue to battleground it makes me dissable the Addon before i can actually queue

Tried this addon last night. It worked for a few random bg's, then all a sudden I get this popup saying this addon is accessing a feature only allowed by the blizzard interface, and it must be disabled which cause a /reload ui to enter the random bg que.

Seems it is bugged for whatever the latest patch is,,

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Posted Oct 27, 2016
Hey there.

Love the addon.

Here some LUA errors.

1x [ADDON_ACTION_BLOCKED] AddOn 'Skada' tried to call the protected function '<unnamed>:Hide()'.
!BugGrabber\BugGrabber.lua:573: in function <!BugGrabber\BugGrabber.lua:573>
[C]: in function `Hide'
FrameXML\WorldMapActionButton.lua:58: in function `Clear'
FrameXML\WorldMapActionButton.lua:67: in function `Refresh'
FrameXML\WorldMapActionButton.lua:19: in function `SetMapAreaID'
FrameXML\WorldMapFrame.lua:418: in function <FrameXML\WorldMapFrame.lua:381>
[C]: ?
[C]: ?
[C]: in function `Hide'
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:2358: in function `SetUIPanel'
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:2385: in function `MoveUIPanel'
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:2416: in function `HideUIPanel'
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:2090: in function <FrameXML\UIParent.lua:2082>
[C]: in function `SetAttribute'
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:2884: in function `HideUIPanel'
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:2850: in function `ToggleFrame'
FrameXML\WorldMapFrame.lua:242: in function `ToggleWorldMap'
[string "TOGGLEWORLDMAP"]:1: in function <[string "TOGGLEWORLDMAP"]:1>

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Posted Oct 26, 2016
Playing a beastmastery hunter. Seems to work well for myself, but other people see Hati's damage as a separate line item from my hunter's.

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Posted Oct 27, 2016
They need to go into the config and check "Merge pets" under the "General Options" tab. Then all pet damage will be merged with the owner.

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Posted Oct 31, 2016
Merge pet is enabled, but I see both Hati under the hunters damage data, AND as a separate entity. And the data for the separate Hati and the Hati merged data on the hunter are not the same numbers.

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Posted Oct 25, 2016
Uhh i cant seem to move the window now? Its just stuck in the middle of the screen and if i go to default profile it just goes to the top right under my map and i cant move it..

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Posted Oct 25, 2016
Skada window still appears while solo at every zone change.

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Posted Oct 25, 2016
please fix for 7.1

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Posted Oct 25, 2016
@Whiskeyshamz

It would be very helpful if you supply combat log of this, along with rough pointers on when it happens.

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Posted Oct 18, 2016
Holy Paladin: pls add Light of the Martyr to the heal stats!

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Posted Oct 15, 2016
Skada is Great but @Legion

Segment list does not work, why?

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Posted Oct 14, 2016
Hi, about "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."
I'm using ElvUI and would like to set up a panel for Raid DPS, but it isn't on the DataText list, there's just "Skada" for options etc. Am I missing something?

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Posted Oct 13, 2016
I was running a dungeon with a friend of mine, I was showing on my skada 4.40mill at 53.6k dps and my friend is showing me at 9.24mill at 112k dps and we were not standing that far apart . why would this be? we both have version 1.5-11

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Posted Oct 21, 2016
Are you or your friend by any chance a warlock?

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