Rarity
NEW:
- Support for Cataclysm Classic (experimental)
- Rarity now has a Discord server!
If you're interested in following the development process or contributing, you should also check out the official GitHub repository. We're always in need of more hands to help us make the addon better!
Rarity tracks how many times you've tried to obtain various rare items like mounts, battle pets, and toys. It will tell you how likely you are to obtain the item, track how long you've been farming for it, and tell you how lucky you've been so far. Although it's mostly used for mounts, battle pets, and toys, it supports pretty much any item, including profession patterns, archaeology projects, and more.
Looking for Rarity Item Packs? Click here.
Out of the box, Rarity includes support for every single mount, battle pet, and toy in the game which require some time to farm. It also includes support for some mount-related items like Skyshard, Primal Egg, and Giant Dinosaur Bone. It'll even notice if you mouseover a Mysterious Camel Figurine, plus lots of other stuff. Rarity factors in the size of a typical group when determining probabilities, and can also tell you if you've killed various bosses this week (or day). Holiday just started, and you didn't notice? Rarity will give you a helpful reminder to run those holiday dungeons or daily quests if you still need an item from them.
If Rarity doesn't track something you want to track, you can add it yourself! Just about everything is user configurable.
Curious what math is going on behind the scenes? The author of Bunny Hunter created the original algorithms. He wrote an article about it here. Your chance to obtain an item doesn't increase as you farm it; Rarity is just telling you how lucky you've been so far. It can be remarkably cathartic to see a progress bar move up as you spend hours upon hours trying for that Disgusting Oozeling.
Main features
- Rarity is primarily an LDB feed with a large tooltip. It can function as either a mini-map icon (you have to turn this on in the options), or as a standard LDB feed (use a display like Fortress, Button Bin, Titan Panel, or Chocolate Bar).
- Provides a progress bar, which you can toggle by clicking the icon or feed label.
- Adds info to NPC and item tooltips, showing you if it drops or contains something that Rarity tracks. Rare mobs with a guaranteed drop show which item they drop and if you've defeated them yet.
- Includes full source info, telling you how to obtain everything Rarity tracks.
Other features
- Share packs of items with other users
- Can automatically add waypoints to TomTom for certain items
- Uses statistics whenever possible to keep track of attempts
- Breaks your farming down by session, day, week, and month
- Looks at your instance locks to see if you've defeated various bosses recently
- Reminds you if you need to farm a holiday dungeon or daily quest, and hides holiday items that aren't available right now
- Supports bonus coin rolls
- Automatically screenshots when you obtain an item
- Keeps track of rare achievements like Frostbitten and Glorious
- You can add your own items to track
- Lets you modify your attempt count without having to edit saved variables
- Automatically imports data from Bunny Hunter if you're switching
Slash Commands
Simply typing /rarity should open the options menu (unless disabled).
For troubleshooting issues:
- /rarity dump displays the most recent debug log entries (even if the debug mode is disabled)
- /rarity validate checks the consistency of your item database, including custom items (experimental)
Comments & bug reports
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Tried the alpha build - still crashes :(
Oh that totally makes sense. That's an easy fix. Nice job!
Can I keep you? Haha.
Try r543 alpha, in my testing it fixes it. Once I get word from you that it works, I'll push this to release. Thanks again!
Seems to work perfectly :)
and no, thank YOU!
Message: Interface\AddOns\SyncUI\Modules\Minimap\Minimap.lua:444: attempt to index local 'file' (a number value)
Time: 07/29/16 03:56:13
Count: 1
Stack: [C]: ?
Interface\AddOns\SyncUI\Modules\Minimap\Minimap.lua:444: in function <Interface\AddOns\SyncUI\Modules\Minimap\Minimap.lua:357>
Interface\AddOns\SyncUI\Modules\Minimap\Minimap.lua:476: in function <Interface\AddOns\SyncUI\Modules\Minimap\Minimap.lua:458>
Interface\AddOns\SyncUI\Modules\Minimap\Minimap.lua:503: in function <Interface\AddOns\SyncUI\Modules\Minimap\Minimap.lua:490>
Locals:
This is not Rarity.
It's only counting AoE looting as 1 attempt... Kind of a bummer. Anyway i can fix this in settings or is it a bug?
Ex:Kill 10 things, loot should count as 10 attempts, rarity tracks it as 1. Atleast for farming Skyshards.
This is a Blizzard bug.
This'll be fixed in the next build.
I have an issue with this addon , the progress bar doesn't work when I loot items the bar doesn't refresh the number of this item I have.
For which item? I just tested and the progress bar is working.
Okay, it was behaving fine, but just now it hung on me while I was trying to see specific mount info. But before that I had opened the tooltip and switched what it was tracking in my Titan Panel bar, and it was fine.
See if you can get it to happen reliably, so we have a reproduction case. I think there might also be a bug on Blizzard's side with GetItemInfo. I think I fixed my side of the problem but we might have had two of them.
It hangs nine times out of ten if I just mouseover where Rarity is in my Titan Panel bar, and the game stays frozen from it for a solid minute and a half each time. Once it breaks loose I can mouseover it again immediately and it doesn't usually hang that time, but if I wait a few seconds and then try it, it hangs again. Or not! I just made it hang twice in a row, and then moused over it several times with no problems (although there was a brief pause each time) and even changed what it was tracking, but then it froze again. It's tracking items properly, it's just the tooltip causing problems.
I'm unable to reproduce.
Just downloaded the alpha, hangup is less severe but still there. Downtime is cut in half (from ~45s to 20s)
It's instant for me now in all cases, no delay at all. What are you doing to make it pause for 20 seconds?