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.
it is now popping up at random times for me and i have the hide when solo box checked.
i notice this happens when i enter a new zone
In reply to lurkemon:
So this is the only addon I have that can post stuff to chat. During Arena matches, if someone uses a trinket, it goes haywire and spams the trinket use like 5 times. I have the option for it to do so turned off as well.
You can add active saves buffs to the death log at the time of death
Is there anyway to add Enemy Dps in arenas/bgs? I would like to be able to compare my dps vs other players. Also class colors would be cool.
Thanks! :)
My skada is not working properly, does not show cures being done
Hi there,
Does Skada have an API to set window size externally (via other addon)?
Hi there,
Does Skada have an API to set window size externally (via other addon)?
I would like to request a way to make different windows that I made to have the same size so they can be symmetrical next to each other.
Hi There Devs,
Is there a way to have a longer parse history in any settings you offer? I'd like to check back on fights that may be a week or two out in game rather than offsite. Currently it operates on a set number of fights stored into the memory of the log files.
I understand this would probably cause more memory usage. But was wondering if it was a possibility as a separate entity for those willing to use more memory for a longer period of parse history.
Thank you,
Kixx
I am also experiencing a delay of about 1/2 second every time I enter combat from skada.
I am an Outlaw Rogue using Vanessa VanCleef as my combat ally (in the Legion Shore PVE areas). During every battle, when both Vanessa and I are doing damage to the enemy, all damage from Vanessa is being lumped under my total damage (instead of showing 2 separate lines with damage for each of us in the DPS graph display).
When I join a party with another player (Warrior) who uses a combat ally in the same zone, then there are 3 lines total being shown in the DPS graph display = one for me (which includes my combat ally) and a second with only the Warrior and a third with only "Iron Dwarf" = how I see the combat ally of the other player. Thus it seems to recognize the Iron Dwarf as a separate player (and does not combine its damage with the Warrior).
I would like Vanessa (or any other combat ally I might use) to work the same way. I am hoping there is a simple setting I can change to get this working properly? The only similar setting I can find (under General Options) = Merge Pets, which does not seem to have any impact (which makes sense, since combat ally should not be a pet)
I saw this issue with current version (1.7.2) as well as previous versions, so either I have always been using the wrong settings, or its always been broken? Either way, this is NOT a new problem caused by the latest release ... I would greatly appreciate a solution here, so that I am not thinking my DPS is higher than it actually is when doing PVE. Thanks,
Skada seems bugged atm, every time I enter combat I get a short 0.5s freeze and it happens only when skada is on, when I turn it off everything is fine.
Hey there,
Slight issue with the latest version, although I'm not sure what that issue is. No LUA message to tell of a problem, but I have noticed that sometimes (typically in PuGs on Argus) that the add-on fails to calculate the damage of everyone in the group
Not sure why this is happening, or what triggers it (as it's not every PuG) but I have noticed that in some groups that it fails to record on some people. No issue with the user - my damage is always recorded without problem - but even in smaller PuG I've seen people clearly doing damage but nothing showing
Hi there.
Love this addon and have used it for YEARS! Suddenly this morning, ALL of my skada modules are listed as DISABLED in red text, on all of my characters. Has something happened in a recent build or is it a conflict with other addons?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks!
I have now removed every single addon and just run skada on its own. I still have this problem :(
Probably you accidentally triggered a shortcut to disable them. You can check your settings and enable them again
There's small issue in Russian localization, damage module is called "Yрон" instead of proper "Урон", notice latin "Y" instead of cyrillic "У"
Then mode is confused, all mixed up. I wrote author he didn't answer.
Something like that hell.
http://imgur.com/a/8I0e6
I confirm the problem http://jpegshare.net/images/a1/a8/a1a8c7a4e96c77c7150e9bf3503eca11.jpg