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
Click here to read the Frequently Asked Questions. Please read this before requesting support.
Is there something up with the add on ? i have always had mine on Titan Panel and i Just noticed its gone.
Please roll back to r581. Curse broke this add-on.
I've sent the broken add-on to Curse directly and rolled back to the last working build at this time. Sorry about the issues, folks.
Message: Interface\AddOns\Rarity\Locales.lua:1966: unexpected symbol near '='
Time: 11/25/16 20:34:06
Count: 1
Stack:
Locals:
I have a problem with rarity. About 20 minutes ago I have noticed that I am missing an icon on minimap, went to options-interface and there is no options for rarity itself. Yes, I do have rarity running on, is that a bug or what?
See the comment below you. Curse broke Rarity. We are waiting for a solution.
Here's a link to the fixed Locales.lua for the last Rarity.
Just copy/paste it over.
http://pastebin.com/eSxR3GWA
There were not that many errors, just a few too many linebreaks and brackets here and there.
Thanks alot :)
To solve errors (if you dont care about localization), open Locales.lua and remove everything after line 1020 (there is to many errors to fix there),
If you don't feel comfortable with editing lua and don't need tracking for Raiding with Leashes IV, rolling back to version r581 (from here) also fixes the issues until Allara and Curse can work this out.
Since the latest update the addon is broken. I don't know if you were saying that w/ the Curse changes you cant post updates, or cant fix the actual addon. I get an error code when I log in, and also have no option to show my minimap button among other things. Really miss this addon b/c I use the hover over the minimap button to see which raids I need to run for the week to track mount drops. Also love the % tracking of pets & mounts.
Hope you get this thing working again soon. Appreciate the work you put in.
For now, rolling back to version r581 (from here) fixes the issues until Allara and Curse can work this out.
I can't fix the add-on. It's Curse's packager that is creating syntax errors in Lua that is outside my control.
Just so everyone is aware, Curse has redesigned their entire developer site. They broke some things, including localization. It appears their packager is no longer capable of packaging Rarity the way it is supposed to be done, and as a result I cannot post updates to this add-on.
I did submit a ticket to them about this, so I need to leave the broken build up so they can look at it. I am hoping we can get this resolved quickly. Thanks for your patience.
Thanks, I was just wondering what's wrong. :)
Thanks for letting us know ;-)
Just so everyone is aware, Curse has redesigned their entire developer site. They broke some things, including localization. It appears their packager is no longer capable of packaging Rarity the way it is supposed to be done, and as a result I cannot post updates to this add-on.
I did submit a ticket to them about this, so I need to leave the broken build up so they can look at it. I am hoping we can get this resolved quickly. Thanks for your patience.
the locales in the latest version is totally a mass...
Just opened a ticket about this issue here. For now, rolling back to version r581 (from here) works for me.
Allara did say that they might not get notifications quickly about tickets, as the site migration Curse did recently kind of borked notifications.
hi, error in latest r583:
http://pastebin.com/Yqi1aJ5Z
looks to me just like a typo or some such, but my days of messing with code are long past ;)
I use enGB client.