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.
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Posted Apr 15, 2014I am really wondering about one thing, if you put a "Enemy damage taken" then choose a certain boss in a fight to see how much damage people have done to it, then you want to see the spell detail of what people actually used into that one boss/mob, is that possible? cause to mee when I mousehover the tooltip is not showing.
I kinda wanted to see what people most powerful spells used on garrosh, and garrosh only. not the adds/minions, etc.
Please someone help me on this one, thanks.
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Posted Apr 10, 2014hi :)
would it be possible for another addon to fetch skada-entries? the reason im asking is, because it would be very helpful for LFR-groups to sort the DPS/Healers on Spoils of Pandaria... is it possible with the api?
something like, getSkadaDamage_1 or something similar
greetings :)
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Posted Mar 31, 2014Hi,
Loving the AddOn, but is there a way to implement the realm the player is from (like *cough* ReCount does) ?
IE: Player-Azuremyst instead of just Player.
Or am i missing a setting somewhere ??
TIA
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Posted Mar 9, 2014coming from recount, i am really liking skada. one thing i can't seem to figure out is the personal DPS display in the broker portion of the addon - i can't seem to see a correlation between the main interface (and any part of the menus) with what the broker displays as its DPS #.
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Posted Mar 27, 2014I actually prefer it this way, so you don't have to arbitrarily tally up the damage of each of your dots manually.
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Posted Mar 8, 2014This just lumps Shadow priests mastery procs in with the dot ticks so you can't see how much your mastery is doing like with recount.
Is there anyway you could add this ?
I hate really recount as it is a bloated asshole of a addon.
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Posted Mar 3, 2014Thanks for this great addon, i love that you can easily analyze so much more than with recount. But one function i really really miss is the hotkeys for switching modes within the addon window. You could add a hotkey for every mode so you could switch to any mode instantly. I'm curious will hotkeys (besides the reset/new segment etc) ever be in Skada? Because I think this is the only additional function this addon could really use :3
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Posted Mar 1, 2014Thanks, very good AddOn.
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Posted Feb 20, 2014Is Skada better than Recount?
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Posted May 11, 2014well from some reports Skada is more accurate in a whole , but recount will have more special options imbedded instead of modules , i prefer Skada for the UI and less " in your face " screens then recount ( ofc that skada is more accurate in meters is a big plus :p )
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Posted Feb 18, 2014I have the same problem.
I have two Skada embeded in my ElvUI, one with total and one with current dps.
They then to reset back to total or current a lot, after fights and right inbetween and what not.
I do have the mode switching to default.
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Posted Feb 14, 2014I've noticed that for some reason the segments keep getting set to "total" instead of staying where I put it (usually current fight). Is there any way to fix this?
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Posted May 15, 2014Addon version 1.4-16 includes some fixes to window behavior when sets are deleted (eg due to an explicit reset, auto-reset, manual set deletion, etc), so that might fix your problem.
Also, check your "Mode switching" options under the configuration for your window.
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Posted May 18, 2014If you mean the active set changes during a reload/relog, that bug is now fixed in r541.
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Posted Feb 12, 2014Hello love the addon, I've used it alot and I love it, tho. one flaw that I want to get rid of, when I move the bars to a place it moves to another palce on all my caras, I prefer to have them on diffrent, Aka when I heal I want them in top left corner, when im dpsing I want them in lower right. Is it possible to remove this feautre? Thanks for help on beforehand <3
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Posted Feb 13, 2014You can use different "profiles" for this in the addon's settings. By default the same profile is used for all your characters.
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Posted Feb 11, 2014This is to let you know that Skada is not working correctly for living bomb for mages. It always stops at 3 ticks even though at least currently i get 6 ticks. Its dmg is also off as the toolbar shows it doing a minium of 220k but Skada always atm is stoping at 101k dmg. ive 2 different mages with different ilvls and it shows the same dmg for both even though 1 has a 565 ilvl and the other a 550 ilvl.
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Posted May 5, 2014Works fine on my mage - with 50% buffed haste I see all 6 ticks.
Note that if you test on a target dummy, you need to cast some other spells to remain in combat while it ticks, otherwise combat will end before the debuff expires and the segment will be truncated.
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Posted Feb 16, 2014Do not use the addon SkadaHealAbsorbs! It's not needed any more, Skada handles all absorbs itself. If you install SkadaHealAbsorbs, many absorbs will be counted double.
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Posted Feb 9, 2014Are you ever going to update Skada Healing and absorbs.....very handy for disc priests?