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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)

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Posted Dec 15, 2017
Hey there getting a bunch of exceptions from this addon lately especially when in Emerald Nightmare and/or Nighthold hovering over some Mobs like the Dragons (Boss) or some Trash in Nighthold resulting in other addons breaking after the Rarity error appears the first time.

Any help? Exception can be seen in this screenshot:

https://imgur.com/a/lXHse

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Posted Dec 16, 2017
In reply to Ulathar:

Can you test if this occurs with only Rarity enabled? I cannot reproduce it and it sounds like some other addon might be tainting said function, as otherwise there should be some indication in my taint logs.

The only changes to Rarity have been new items being added, which makes it seem unlikely it would suddenly cause this issue :)

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Posted Dec 16, 2017
In reply to Cakechart:

Could try it next week, have already ids for this week. Allthough disabling all my other addons will render my char useless / unplayable *laugh*.
Did Blizzard lock/forbid additional API functions with 7.3.2? I didn't notice these issues prior to that Patch.

Alongside with Rarity i have 2 other Addons throwing exceptions since that patch under comparable conditions (especially when i am on a HEALER spec/char. On my DK those do not appear or appear way less often, which is pretty strange). Maybe this might help you:
https://imgur.com/a/metnN

But i think that is another problem.

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Posted Dec 17, 2017
In reply to Ulathar:

Troubleshooting taint issues is tricky if I can't replicate them so I'd need to be sure that a) they're actually caused by Rarity, and b) have access to a taint log / error message pertaining to it, and not some other addon. You can try enabling it and send/upload it, see https://www.townlong-yak.com/taint.log/about.html - the goal is to find the first occurence, which might be an entirely unrelated addon that was recently updated.

It doesn't sound like an issue with additional UI elements becoming forbidden, but simply an addon tainting globally used functions that are also used by Rarity (and Altoholic), which causes them to lose their "secure" state and become unable to call "forbidden" objects in instanced content, which they would normally be able to access.

Edit: You'll need to do this with the offending addon enabled. Disabling all other addons is simply to confirm that Rarity is (not) causing the problem, which might not be all too helpful.

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Posted Dec 19, 2017
In reply to Cakechart:

Thank you for your response, never done this "tainting" thing before, will give it a try during next weeks ID (after XMax though).

Edit: Log Level 1 or 2? Just did a try with my twink with level 2 which results in a pretty huge text file. Stopped logging right after the error occured (on the Dragons in EN) but can't find the exception in the log file.

Maybe this first one helps: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wRzwifeAolQuN4T49J2cZPddfwx1tJuX

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Posted Dec 20, 2017
In reply to Ulathar:

Log level 1 should be sufficient. You're looking for actions that are blocked due to taint, not necessarily every single variable that is being tainted.

There's nothing wrong with tainting stuff that addons use (it is normal, in fact, that everything they touch will be tainted); the problem occurs if addons access code that Blizzard's interface also uses, which then becomes "insecure" and will be blocked in some circumstances. This is usually done in error or due to an oversight.

TL;DR: You'll want to see "Addon action blocked" errors in the log, which means level 1 will do the trick. You can just leave that running while playing normally for a bit, it shouldn't be nearly as large a file unless the interface is messed up.

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Posted Dec 20, 2017
In reply to Cakechart:

Roger that, noticed today that these errors start appearing in normal 5 men instances, too when i play a heal spec. So i guess i can get my hands on some logging data during the weekend.
If its not related to Rarity (directly) it would still be great to know WHAT is causing it :). Will report back, again, thank you for your time!

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Posted Dec 21, 2017
In reply to Ulathar:

I can take a look after the holidays, but at this time there's no indication Rarity is being blocked due to taint on my end. You should be able to get a "best guess" from the taint log, though, even if it isn't always perfectly accurate.

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Posted Dec 13, 2017
Hi. After a format and clean install of WoW I cant make the progress bar to show up. Any tips?

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Posted Dec 14, 2017
In reply to Forge_User_59354506:

That sounds like an issue with the LDB (DataBroker) addon you're using, assuming you mean the usual clicking on Rarity's icon in your LDB feed. It probably has some settings you would have to change again that have now been reset.

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Posted Dec 14, 2017
In reply to Cakechart I thought I could enable it from the addon options. I installed a broker addon and enabled it from there. Thanks :)

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Posted Dec 8, 2017
I am looking for a very simple explanation of what a Kill Statistic ID is, and where this number is pulled from. I apologize if this has been addressed, I've not had any luck finding it. Based off the tooltip from the addon in game, I get it comes from WoWHead or other sites somewhere. As an example, I saw the Drudge Remains from the Lich King had numerous numbers listed in that box. On the WoWHead page for that pet, I saw no numbers that seemed to match them, but I may not be looking in the right place. Thanks.

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Posted Dec 13, 2017
In reply to Barbatum:

That is the "achievement" (statistic) used by the game. Many things are tracked for your character, even if they're not directly relevant to an actual achievement, and all those statistics are available via the Lua API.

Example: http://www.wowhead.com/search?q=lich+king#achievements

As you can see, many of them display a "cogwheel" icon. Those are usually kill or completion statistics for dungeon or raid bosses :) You will find them ingame under the "Statistics" tab in the achievement UI.

For the Drudge Ghoul, they're simply the kills for the Lich King on 10/25 normal/heroic difficulty.

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Posted Nov 30, 2017
Made the Antoran Charhound string for those who want it.

["Antoran Charhound"] = { cat = LEGION, type = MOUNT, method = BOSS, name = L["Antoran Charhound"], spellId = 253088, itemId = 152816, npcs = { 99999 }, tooltipNpcs = { 126916 }, chance = 100, groupSize = 10, equalOdds = true, statisticId = { 12118, 11957, 11958, 11959, }, coords = { {m=1188,f=1,i=true} }, },

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Posted Nov 30, 2017
In reply to Forge_User_67771609:

I can't test this because I don't have time to raid, but shouldn't it use instance difficulties instead of groupSize/equalOdds? Also, I believe the second npc is missing (126915).

Other than that, if it is indeed working I can add it to the addon :)

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Posted Dec 1, 2017
In reply to Cakechart:

It works the same way as the Abyss Worm so I thought best match it with that rather then e.g living infernal core which is similar but does not drop in LFR, as for the missing npc only one has a loot table not sure which or if it changes per raid but it will still count/detect.

P.S I'll do more testing if only one drops loot on my next few raids.

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Posted Dec 6, 2017
In reply to Forge_User_67771609:

I've added this in r614. I believe only Shatuq is lootable, but it shouldn't matter and so I added both dogs to the tooltip NPCs.

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Posted Nov 14, 2017
Kill Statistic IDs 4686/4688 need to be removed from the Drudge Remains pet, as the pet doesn't drop from Heroic difficulty.

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Posted Nov 17, 2017
In reply to oxlotus:

Thanks. I have to investigate ICC for some broken statistics testing anyway, I'll see if I can get this fixed as well once I get around to that.

Edit: Kill statistics for the Lich King should now be correct, for both difficulties.

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Posted Nov 9, 2017
I've added the 7.3 (Argus) items to the alpha version that is now available. Hopefully, I didn't break too much, as I'm still getting used to working with the repository :P

There's some more behind-the-scenes stuff to sort out, but once that is done I will take a look at the issues that have piled up. Please create a ticket (if you haven't already) to make sure I don't miss it if there are any problems still in need of addressing.

Edit: The localization website is currently unavailable, which is most likely due to the ongoing Curseforge/Twitch migration. Phrases for the new items will be added there once it stops throwing errors in my face :)

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