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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_ForgeUser199501
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Posted Feb 26, 2009
nice nice nice addon!
i got the same error every now and then as thedrama

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4) When in left-click on Skada minimap icon to hide stats, and after some time click again to back it, it looks like title merged with first player name: http://www.picamatic.com/show/2009/02/23/10/12/2407694_460x243.jpg

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some wishes: - reporting via the minimap button would make things sooo much easier. i have no space for macro's or i don't want to learn the commands from the top off my head. so reporting to various channels (/s /g /o /p /r and /whisper to partymembers/raidmembers/random [fill in name]) would be great. take a look at violation to get inspired.
- see which boss the damage was for. only see all and current now. that's sometimes a little confusing.
- i wish skada would have an option to hide itself, until you mouse over it. could be an extra option maybe?

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Posted Feb 23, 2009
One thing I am missing is an option that is "Grow upwards", which means that even though it starts at bottom left, nr 1 is at the top. Not like the "Reverse bar growth" that keeps nr1 at the bottom.

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Posted Feb 23, 2009
This addon better than Recount, don't leave this project please :)
I have some problems:
1) As said in #22977 post, on some bosses Skada makes about 3 segments for one boss
2) When I check "Only keep boss fights" looks like nothing recorded, just old mobpacks and last boss in Skada, no new boss
3) What correct command for report to player directly? /skada report <name> - reports in /say Is it because player name in cyrilic? All other report options works perfectly.
4) When in left-click on Skada minimap icon to hide stats, and after some time click again to back it, it looks like title merged with first player name: http://www.picamatic.com/show/2009/02/23/10/12/2407694_460x243.jpg
[wishlist] Is it possible make addon more advanced for healers? [wishlist]

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Posted Feb 22, 2009
Tested different meters, this is from same fight against a dummy. (Don't mind the level of dps, didn't go all out :) ).

dps Skada 968,5 : Violation 970 : Recount 951,0
Total dmg: Skada 152048 : Violation 164200 : Recount 152716
hit: Skada 77% : Violation N/A : Recount 78%
crit: Skada 7,3% : Violation N/A : Recount 7,3%

How come Skada and Violations show the same DPS but not same total damage!?!? And also Recount and skada show the same total but different dps?!?
Are you using different equations? or listening to different events?

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Posted Feb 23, 2009
There is no standard way of determining DPS as far as I know.

In Skada, DPS is the total damage divided by the number of seconds the player has been active.

The number of seconds a player has been active is in Skada the time between the first recorded event and the last recorded event. A recorded event is anything that Skada tracks, which depends on what modules you have loaded.

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Posted Feb 24, 2009
Ok, that does it for me :) Skada rules xD
Seriously, i think that is the proper way to determine the dps, though; does the timer start if the mob hits me first? Or is it MY action that triggers the timer?
Dunno how recount does it, but if you do it like this then Recount isn't and that is wrong! :) Anyway, does Skada sync and if, does it do an evaluation of the total data and outputs a average or?

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Posted Feb 25, 2009
It is any action involving you that Skada tracks. So in this case your active time would start when the mob hit you if you have the Damage Taken module enabled.

Skada does not sync.

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Posted Feb 21, 2009
One thing I did notice, maybe a bug. When I do /skada reset, or reset from the minimap button, the data disappears. But when I log out and log back on (whether it is the same character or another) the data is back.

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Posted Feb 21, 2009
Actually, its retaining one 25 man everytime I log on from two days ago. I reset it, log off, it comes back when I log on again.

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Posted Feb 21, 2009
It is really nice but i am missing a real report function. like "shift + right klick" and you get a menu where to report the damage to.

But this addon is whicked and good so hope you keep updating it. =)

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Posted Feb 21, 2009
is this because i'm wicked awesome at not dying? :D Loving the addon so far! Date: 2009-02-21 08:44:07 ID: 1 Error occured in: Global Count: 1 Message: AceLocale-3.0: Skada: Missing entry for 'Deathlog' Debug:
...nterface\AddOns\Ace3\AceLocale-3.0\AceLocale-3.0.lua:23: ...nterface\AddOns\Ace3\AceLocale-3.0\AceLocale-3.0.lua:21 SkadaDeaths\Deaths.lua:7: in main chunk
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Posted Feb 20, 2009
Jeah nice job so far :)
But there seems to be something wrong with the "current fight" splitting: http://images.geforz.de/album/World of Warcraft/misc/WoWScrnShot_022009_225444.jpg But the Loatheb and Noth segments were just one fight.
And an overall dmg comparision between Skada and Recount for Naxx clear: http://images.geforz.de/album/World of Warcraft/misc/WoWScrnShot_022109_011929.jpg

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Posted Feb 20, 2009
REAllY GREAT JOB. Better than recount. Is it possible to add a 1 Click button to report? Not a biggie right now I just use macros to do it but would be nice. Either way GREAT JOB man please keep it updated. YOU ROCK.

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Posted Feb 19, 2009
Oh, I really like this.

New request: Last fight option, or dropdown of individual boss fights in a report.

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Posted Feb 20, 2009
That is already a Skada feature.

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Posted Feb 20, 2009
Yeah, it took me a minute to find it. Just disregard that.

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Posted Feb 19, 2009
this looks very interesting to me as a recount user, the only question i have is if skada has a sync option? i remember back in the day when recount didn't, and it was always so way off compared to sw stats that did sync.

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Posted Feb 19, 2009
Skada does not sync, no. I don't think it is needed either, as the combatlog range is enough these days.

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Posted Feb 18, 2009
Leave the header at it is. The simple right/left mouse clicking option is nice! Only i miss is to choose where i can post the report, only in /s isnt the best thing ;)
Thumbs up for this great meter mod

/push ^^

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Posted Feb 19, 2009
You can report to guild/officer/raid/party with this syntax:

/skada report raid

Add a number to limit the number of lines spammed.

In the next version you can also report to any channel or player.

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