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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pizzathehutt1
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Posted Nov 4, 2022
In reply to eSkiSo:

Thank you very much for the update and for posting it on GitHub.

I have one request - to set up the file structure of the .zip file on GitHub to include the Skada folder (like how it is set up on Curse for Skada if I download the file directly from this website). That's what allows me to unzip all of the addons that I install manually into the same folder (\World of Warcraft\_retail_\Interface\AddOns). I would like to be able to do the same with the updated Skada .zip file on GitHub.

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Posted Oct 26, 2022
Please don't make me use the bloated, poorly designed mess that is Details..

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Posted Oct 26, 2022
After prepatch today not working at all. No any errors, but skada`s window is absent... I can call window with skada setting through command line, but nothing useful happens...

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Posted Oct 26, 2022
In reply to BloodyFess:

I've fixed Skada for Dragonflight.

- Updated AceLibs

- Fixed SpecializedLibBar-1.0.lua that prevented addon to load

File: github.com/eSkiSo/Skada/releases/download/v1/Skada.zip

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Posted Oct 26, 2022
In reply to BloodyFess:

I've fixed Skada for Dragonflight.

- Updated AceLibs

- Fixed SpecializedLibBar-1.0.lua that prevented addon to load

github[.com]/eSkiSo/Skada/releases/download/v1/Skada.zip

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Posted Sep 14, 2022
After a little monkey bug fix on the lib part Skada seems working fine for Dragonflight. I have no clue what im doing no clue if this work in the future month. Plz Zarnivoop, Funkehdude, nebula169, help us, its to hard to abandoned this simple masterpiece. We cant live whitout him. Thanks for all the good moments.

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Posted Oct 2, 2022
In reply to IArsene:

Can you share what fix you did?

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Posted Aug 29, 2022
Farewell. Another old friend has left my Addons folders. It's been a while, but we all have to move on, eventually.

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Posted Nov 28, 2021
I may need to soon switch to another addon, sad to say. Skada still functions for the most part but it's been over a year since the last update and, with the soon-to-be on PTR Patch 9.2.0, the addon will only depreciate further.

It's not an easy thing to let go. I've been using Skada since the days of Throne of Thunder, when the Thunder King boss fight forced a switch from Recount due to the latter causing severe encounter issues. Never looked back after that.

So long, and thanks for all the numbers.

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Posted Aug 6, 2021
Seems to be completely broken and abandoned. Bugs all over the place with this. The worst being it popping up when it isn't meant to and not recording any data at all when it's meant to. Time to move on to another dps meter looks like.

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Posted Jun 23, 2021
skada is gone on curseforge app, and its not showing in game anymore even though i have the addon installed.

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Posted Feb 28, 2021
seems this issue has been around for awhile ... https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/skada/issues/616

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Posted Feb 13, 2021
Something is borked. It keeps activating the skada window even when it's not meant to. E.g. changing zones will reactivate it even when i'm solo and I have the option to have it hidden when solo.

Edit: Figured it out. Turns out if you have both "Hide in pvp" + "Hide while solo" ticked, it breaks the addon and it activates the window when solo everytime you change zones or reload etc. Addon appears to be abandoned.

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Posted Dec 30, 2020
Skada seems to have problems with the 2nd pet of any other bm hunter in my party or raid. It simply doesnt record the dmg of them

Plz fix

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Posted Dec 5, 2020
Why is skada marked as abandoned... it no longer shows up in search results on curse.

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Posted Dec 5, 2020
In reply to morfraen:

yeah, having the same problem

hope this gets fixed soon

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Posted Dec 6, 2020
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+ 1

This is the case with many addons.While they are being updated....... FOR RETAIL! Pfffffff////

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Posted Dec 7, 2020
In reply to Gexegq2:

Skada already works for retail and was updated for 9.0.2, it was marked abandoned after that though seems to be fixed now.

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Posted Nov 29, 2020
Is there any way to stop Skada from automatically turning on all the time when not in a group?

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Posted Nov 2, 2020
Is it possible to show spec icon instead of class or role?

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