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.
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.
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.
skada is gone on curseforge app, and its not showing in game anymore even though i have the addon installed.
seems this issue has been around for awhile ... https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/skada/issues/616
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.
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
Why is skada marked as abandoned... it no longer shows up in search results on curse.
In reply to morfraen:
yeah, having the same problem
hope this gets fixed soon
In reply to morfraen:
+ 1
This is the case with many addons.While they are being updated....... FOR RETAIL! Pfffffff////
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.
Is there any way to stop Skada from automatically turning on all the time when not in a group?
Is it possible to show spec icon instead of class or role?
O HELL YES !!!! Thank you for the Pre-Patch update !!!!
Can skada show me ungrouped people DPS, which is a feature im missing from details, actually the only feature.
Yeah I only just realised this recently for Hunters its far from accurate, used Skada for as long as I can remember, never had any issues's but recently had to switch to Details because of this issue, still have Skada installed and still believe its is the best most efficient meter but on My Hunter main it simply is useless.
Its not merging the second hunter pet. Fix it.
This is very demanding. How about being nice to the people volunteering to write this addon
Is there a way to hide empty fights?
For example I like to look at some fights while questing and often pull mobs just for a second and no fighting happens. Happens on my druid all the time in flight form.
In the reports you can see like...
training dummy ( 1m 30s )
but I would love to see in the window title bar the current fight time, as i can only see how long i was hitting the training dummy for, after i finnished
please forgive me if there is already and option for this that i missed
Skada appears to choke on the Hunter Talent "Animal Companion." Even with "Merge Pets" selected, Skada lists a least some of the damage the Animal Companion pet does separately. The problem is exacerbated by Skada listing it in a continually growing list of the same pet on different lines.