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.
Is there a way for Skada to share and merge results with other players to get a better/realistic picture of damage/healing done on split fights?
Easy examples, Immerseus, Galakras and Spoils where players are split but several are running Skada - any way for 1 Skada to "talk" to the other, compare data (to figure out where collections stopped, merge pertinent info) and then give a result?
For some reason, I thought that Skada did this, I could swear it did back in Cataclysm but I'm seeing no mention of it anymore, there's nothing in settings to set that functionality up and it's definitely not doing it by default.
If Skada can't do it (with plugins even), is there another addon I could grab which does? Thanks again.
Skada currently does not sync in any way.
As far as I know there is no plugin that does it for Skada - though it is certainly possible to write one. I actually started on one, but lost interest at some point.
I am having a couple of issues with Skada profiles and segments.
When I go to profiles and select copy from an existing profile Skada resets the layout to the original out of the box default and also resets the layout from the copied profile.
eg. On my warlock I configure the layout and then go to my warrior and select copy form warlock and it resets both the warrior and the warlock profiles.
The next issue is that when I log on Skada resets the segment to Total rather than Current Fight.
Is anybody else have these issues, or is there a simple step I may have missed?
It doesn't display the damage done with Hammer of the Righteous
^ THIS!
I actually want the opposite of this. It has been starting w/ Total for me instead of Fight.
How do I configure it to start with Total instead of Fight?
This bug is fixed in r541
Is it possible to break down abilities that have DoT components? In particular Deadly Poison (DoT) and the on-hit Deadly Poison proc are merged, making like 60% of my damage look like the same ability. It would be great if at least the tooltip in the damage detail could show 'Tick Hit'and 'Tick Crit' for DoTs and normal Hit/Crit for non-periodic. Would be helpful for many abilities like Hemorrhage, Crimson Tempest, Rake, Rejuvenation and Regrowth.
I would just love to know how to move it from the center of my screen, pretty annoying to have no tool tip or anything to tell me the most simplist of things like moving it. Click drag, nope that doesn't work. shift click drag, nope that doesn't work either. If your add-on can't blantly say "Hey i'm difficult to move, because click and drag is just to damn hard to implement as a feature here is how you do it" not sure if it's really that much better than TinyDPS. Because guess what, Tiny DPS is easy click and drag.
Are you sure it's not locked?
Skada should also be click and drag - on the title bar. There is an option to lock it in place, but by default that is not turned on. If you click the cog wheel there should be an option for locking - see that it is unchecked.
I have problems with Skada. When its enabled logging out takes much longer than when its not enabled. additionally wow freezes for 3-5 seconds before logging out. Any tips to fix?
PS: i have the latest version of skada
I would love to see a greater range of possibities in the Bar Height and Bar Spacing options. I like to have my bars as tiny lines with space between and large font, and to do that I have to go into the LUA and change the min value lower than 10 manually every time you update. If you could just set that value to 1 and the spacing max value a bit higher, that'd be really great. (I don't personally need that much spacing, and I only bring my bars down to 5 because that's what I use, but it's just as simple to give players as much customization as they could possibly want).
Is there anyway to differentiate or seperate different sources of damage that share the same name? For example on my warlock, I would like to see Chaos Bolt's initial damage and the dot generated by the Sacrifice talent seperate (Recount already does this) so I get a more accurate readout for my average CB strikes. Same thing but maybe harder to read, I want to see the two different Soul Fire spells that change from Caster form to Meta form. Anyone know if this is possible?
how to report total damage by slash command? because /skada report say only reports current fight even with window in total
This feature is added in r528. For details see /skada report
This bug is fixed in r541
This was the case before the last update hit.
Would it be possible to have the addon remember your choice of "Current Fight" or "Total" instead of defaulting to "Total"?