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".
Note: I took a tiny break from WoW (a decade), but recently started playing SoD. Be aware that this addon may not quite work yet.
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 easy to extend, and there were once many extra plugin addons out there that add functionality. However, there are unlikely to be any maintained ones currently.
There is a page with API information here.
Reporting issues
For now use comments.
Can you please fix the fact that BM Hunters have Hati displayed separate to their DPS? It is incredibly frustrating being constantly kicked from pugs for being 'lowest dps' when you are in the top 5, because Hati has decided to show everyone he is an individual who deserves to strip you of 80-140k dps on the meters. So your 500k turns into 420k-360k instead and you look like trash, so of course the group gets rid of you.
When you pug, people don't care to look into it, or consider that Hati is separated. No one bothers to scroll down. They kick you and get on with it. It's incredibly frustrating and disheartening to be kicked all the time because of something that isn't your fault.
EDIT: to clarify, even when you have 'merge pet damage' active, Hati is still shown separate. Have tried to troubleshoot with guild members using this addon, and have even seen other BMs on my skada showing the same issue.
This seems important enough to voice your concern in http://www.wowace.com/addons/skada/tickets/
When on earth is that damn random skada pops up gonna get fixed. There's absolutely NO reason whatsoever that it should pop up when taking a fp from dalaran, or when taking the portal from dalaran to SW. IT's damn annoying
The reason I don't care for this is that it does not show me the realm of any given player in the damage list. I often want to look at another character in my class on the armory that did better than me and see how they are built so I can try to improve.
But SKADA ONLY GIVES YOU THE NAME AND NOT THE REALM of the player, making it very hard to look them up.
I would have thought that at the LEAST it would show the full name-realm when I run a report, but NOPE it doesn't.
Every other addon that I know of that would indicate a player name works correctly with name-realm except this one.
Recount does not do that. It gives you the full name-realm as it should.
ok, stupid question, how do i change scale size ? cuz my skada is BIG !
Is it possible to show name-realm in the window or in a toast when you hoover the mouse over a player name?
Hello Zarnivoop
Since all the Links are not working to give you a suggestion i post it here.
Could you maybe consider adding a Option to position the Skada Windows with X and Y Sliders ?
This would really help very picky Players (like me^^) to align the Window perfectly.
Thx for considering and keep up the good Work.
Just updated Skada in I dunno how long and now it's doing something really weird... It used to be that the 'Skada: Modes' list was always in a set order, and sometimes, I would have to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the list to look at some arbitrary metric that I needed at the time. Since I've updated, the 'Skada: Modes' list is no longer a static order, it keeps shifting.
As far as I can determine, it's been set up so that whichever module is clicked the most is moved to the top and the others get shifted down. While this is probably nice for some people, I really would like to find a way to set it back to a static list. Partly because when I click through the menus, my default is to hit the 2nd option twice for Current Fight and DPS, but now, I get a random metric, since DPS has moved to the top. Also, when I want to go find that arbitrary metric that I use maybe once a month, I have to look through the entire list to figure out where it is instead of relying on the memory of where it is.
TL;DR: How can I revert my 'Skada: Modes' to a static order that doesn't change based on use history.
There is an option for sorting the mode list alphabetically.
I `m using Skada and Titan Panel. Skada works fin but shows nothing in the information bar. It only says "Skada: n/a" ... I tried dmg, dps ... nothing works.
Thanks
Got a problem.. Is there anyway to merge the damage from Lava Burst and Lava Burst overload in the spell list? so it doesn't show Lava Burst and the overload lava burst separately? same with lightning bolt and elemental blast? i noticed that it merges the damage from Flame shock direct damage and the DoT damage into one spell, and know it was like that in the past, so is there an option to turn that on again? thanks
Hey!
I wonder it would be possible to show damage taken but only within a certain time frame (say last 10 seconds)?
Would it be possible to add a Fury gained listing for Havoc DH?
Just repeating the bug that skada keeps showing up despite having ticked the option "hide when solo", often after you port somewhere.
Same here, its very annoying.
It shows up all the time even when i have the option checked that it should not.
And i cant fint a option to just have it show when i click the button manually.
I've been getting a lot of disparity between my skada meter and other's skada meters in my guild while we're raiding. We checked and we're all up to date, but mine seem to show lower numbers than theirs. Is there a setting in the configuration I might have changed to cause this? A bug? Then numbers in raids and dungeons seem to be wonky as well and it never used to have that different feel to it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
I've been seeing the same thing. My Skada meters are almost always different from my guild members in both Mythics and raids. There isn't anything consistent with it either. For some party/raid members, my numbers are lower than others skada meters, while at the same time others are higher. It's not consistently lower or higher across the board.
Is there an option in skada that shows at what point in a parse your highest DPS was? I tried installing the graphs plugin but that shows it live and I am unable to scroll back in time. Not sure if this is possible with skada but I thought id ask since it would be useful for measuring effective burst
Hi,
I miss clicked and pressed "dismiss" when the tooltip of new features for 1.6.5 popped.
I would like to know what they changed, or maybe restore that tooltip in-game. How is it possible?
Thanks!
hi,Zarnivoop
I am a sublety rogue and suffering from the damage separated (Teammates cannot see it that akali's soul not conclude in total damge). we have already asked it since 7.0. it stll not fix till 7.15. Can you check and fix it asap? thank you very much
Regard