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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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RDW
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Posted Sep 13, 2018
In reply to Slamshady:

Unfortunately, this is working as intended. I talked to Allara (the original author) about that very issue a while ago and the idea is that they're still attempts, even if you didn't get the mount when it was a guaranteed drop.

I'm not sure how you would prefer it to behave, assuming we are always considering lifetime kills (which is what is returned by Blizzard's API)? There's no way to distinguish between those that you made when it was current content and those after the 1% change. In any event, it only affects the luckiness calculation, which is merely an estimate in many cases as it is. Fiddling with the attempts count seems like a headache that should rather be avoided, since the issue is merely cosmetic (luckiness % is off) to begin with.

In your case, the chance for not getting it 15 times at a 100% chance would depend on the group size at the time, which is also not something Rarity has information about. It might be 20, though it could be anything from 1-25 or so depending on the item in question.

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Posted Sep 13, 2018
In reply to Cakechart:

No worries, it's not a big deal. Just thought I'd ask in case I was missing something. I guess the ideal situation would be to either have an option to ignore the statistics for an item, or to adjust settings on every item (maybe like an option that says "allow customization" with a warning that you might screw everything up). The idea behind the latter being that I could clear the statistics section of it and it wouldn't pick that up right away.

As I said though, it's not a major issue so I don't want to cause too much trouble with it. Thanks for the awesome addon, even though it gives a disturbing visual of how unlucky I am! It's seriously one of my favorite addons.

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Posted Sep 14, 2018
In reply to Slamshady:

The only thing I could come up with that doesn't seem too complicated (or confusing for the users) would be a checkbox that says "Use kill statistics" for any item that has them added, which would basically allow you to override them with whatever you like, and revert the attempts count when unchecked.

There's still a number of issues, such as how it could affect the behind-the-scenes stuff or how it would interact with custom (user-added) items. I'd have to think about it more, so the best I can offer right now is that I'll add it to the long list of things to review in the future. Maybe I'll even get around to it before the game dies of old age, hah...

Either way, here is the corresponding issue on GitHub (for future reference).

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Posted Sep 10, 2018
Hello,

First i want to thank you for this addon because this is a must have addon for any colector in WoW and you are doing a very good job with it.

From patch 8.0.1 i have little problem with it.I know this isn't much but now when i get the item to drop the achievement icon doesn't pop.I tried with mounts,pets and toys and it doesn't pop. Probably others don't care but i get really excited when i see the achievement because its like a reward for the grind :)).

If you can help me with this i would be very thankful.

Keep up the good work! :D

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Posted Sep 11, 2018
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Works for me, have you tried disabling all other addons? You could test if it works by adding a custom item you can obtain from a vendor. Something might be interfering with the achievement display.

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Posted Sep 6, 2018
The [Reins of a Tamed Bloodfeaster] seems to be missing? Using r677-release-2

E: It seems lie more mounts are missing example [Great Sea Ray] the fishing mount.

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Posted Sep 6, 2018
In reply to Robmart_Pro:

Yes, I haven't added any of the BOE mounts so far. There wasn't any data on where exactly they drop, and I'm still not done adding the other collectibles so far.

It's on my list to review, but I'm currently working on the warfront stuff :)

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Posted Sep 13, 2018
In reply to Robmart_Pro:

Just to provide an update: The BOE zone mounts have been added to the latest version. I'm not sure if the Sea Ray mount can feasibly be added at this time, since its droprate was recently changed and this likely invalidates much of the available data. Also, detecting what type of water the player is fishing in seems impossible given the current API, which may be necessary according to some of the reports I've seen?

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Posted Sep 5, 2018
Hi,

thanks for your work. I uninstalled the addon yesterday as I noticed that it creates a drop in FPS from 99 to 81 every few seconds, so much that it is really noticeable in that the game freezes for a split second. I can only claim the culprit is Rarity as it didn't happen anymore, no matter the zone, after I disabled it. However, I would still very much like to keep it as it helps me track what to go for instead of checking all the journals. Is there a workaround or anything I can do to fix it?

Thanks a lot again

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Posted Sep 5, 2018
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I've heard this before, but unless someone provides me with more information there isn't anything I can do. Please try the following:

1) Make sure Rarity is to blame for this and not some other addon/a conflict between addons. You do this by disabling ALL other addons. If the FPS drops then occur, disable Rarity as well. If they're caused by the addon, they should obviously disappear, and if you re-enable Rarity they would start once more.

2) Enable the debug log (/rarity debug) while they're happening so you can see what the addon is doing as they occur. Send me a screenshot or chat log of this so I can see it, too!

3) Now that we (hopefully) have an idea what's going on, we should try to reliably reproduce it by causing it to occur. If the FPS always drop when Rarity does X, I can look into improving the performance for doing X or find a better way to do it.

I don't have any FPS issues, so there's no way for me to do narrow down the problem you're describing on my own. If you want it fixed, I will require your assistance with the above steps :)

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Posted Sep 9, 2018
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Hello there and thanks for your reply!

I noticed that the fps issue keeps on appearing even with only rarity enabled. it is more noticeable together with elvui.

I enabled the debug mode and this is the only thing that got printed in the chat:

https://imgur.com/a/qwwu8uz

thanks for helping!

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Posted Sep 9, 2018
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Scanning your collections is certainly going to cause a slight performance decrease, but the addon shouldn't be doing this very often. if this is truly the cause, then it should ALWAYS be scanning them (check the debug log) when a FPS drop occurs, and there should never be an FPS drop without a scan happening at the time*.

Can you confirm that this is the case? Also, how significant is the FPS drop (18 FPS doesn't sound like much when you're still at 80) and what are your system specifications (CPU mostly)? It might also be helpful to enable Profiling (in the addon's options) to see how long these scans are actually taking for you so I can compare them to my own results. Again, if the FPS drops occur without a scan happening, it might be something else entirely, which is why it is important to make sure they only occur when the addon is running those scans.

* Note: There could be additional FPS drops caused by other problems, but that isn't helping with troubleshooting this one and would be more difficult to detect.

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Posted Sep 10, 2018
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it looks to me as the addon is constantly scanning. 18fps might not seem much, but I can definitely see the game sort of freezing for a split second every time it happens, and that is what made me notice the fps drop in the first place .

my system specs are as follows:

intel i7 6700

8gb ram

nvidia geforce 970 gtx

i am running wow from an ssd drive

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Posted Sep 10, 2018
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There should be some scanning directly after loading the game, but after that is done there's no reason for the addon to keep scanning. That's why I asked for the debug log; I want to make sure the problem is fully understood so I can look into why it might possibly happen in your case.

A typical initalization debug log could look something like this:

- Loading X items from server - it will keep doing that until all are loaded or it has to give up, which is normal and unproblematic behaviour
- Scanning a bunch of things (DELAYED_INIT) - about 5-6 times but then it should stop. The last scan occurs after 3 minutes and will have (FINAL_INIT) as the given reason

That is all there should be in the chat window until you start doing stuff ingame, You can try just standing there until the FINAL_INIT message appears, after which there shouldn't be any disruptive FPS drops from additional scanning of your collections.

During game play, some other things might be scanned (statistics, usually), but that doesn't have the same performance impact.

Is your problem that these initial scans are too resource-incentive or that Rarity somehow keeps scanning for the entirety of your session? The latter part would be a legitimate issue.

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Posted Sep 10, 2018
In reply to Cakechart:

I will double check again, but from what you wrote it looks like it might be actually scanning the entire session. I will see if I can have a more complete log.

thanks for your help!

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Posted Sep 4, 2018
Rarity isn't tracking "Sea Turtle" when I fish in BfA pools.

Also, it is counting as an attempt to aquire "Eye of Observation" every time I kill Nok-Karosh (Garn Nighthowl), when it's actualy a drop from Orumo the Observer.

Thanks for the effort and good work

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Posted Sep 4, 2018
In reply to kroover:

As far as I know, the Sea Turtle mount hasn't been added to pools since Warlords of Draenor. That's why Rarity isn't counting your fishing from pools in BFA zones for it.

As for Garn Nighthowl: Oops! That's a copy & paste error, and will be fixed in the next release.

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Posted Sep 4, 2018
Do you know when the BFA stuff will no longer be in beta and will be included in the release?

Thanks in advance

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Posted Sep 4, 2018
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Well, I would like to test everything properly but I haven't managed to find the time. No one has reported anything broken, which could mean that it works, or that there just aren't enough beta testers.

I'll tag as release what I have so far and fix any issues as people report them :)

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Posted Sep 5, 2018
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Awesome, thanks :D

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