Rarity
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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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In reply to Lokmar:
I've pushed an experimental fix in the latest release. Can't guarantee it'll work since I'm still not seeing the same issue, but maybe it did fix the problem?
In reply to Cakechart:
that fixed it for me. Thank you
In reply to Cakechart:
No idea what you did, but it seems to be working. I can confirm it works with NeatPlates now, no weird tooltips on whole screen anymore. Thanks!
10.0.2 the rarity bar/ to move always shows, can't hide it. always movable.
In reply to dardack:
Looks like 10.0.2 broke Ace3 again.
In reply to bigfire:
I had a bunch of API variables be renamed and how they work from 10.0 to 10.0.2, so weird.
In reply to dardack:
Blizzard introduced a lot of changes to the tooltip functionality Rarity relies on in multiple places. I can't yet say how long this will take to resolve, but it doesn't look like a simple fix (from what I've seen at a glance).
Status: https://github.com/WowRarity/Rarity/issues/501
In reply to Cakechart:
Should be fixed in the latest release, at least superficially. Other things may be broken, so please feel free to report them individually if you encounter something out of the ordinary (that hasn't been reported before - either here, on GitHub, or the Discord server).
In reply to Cakechart:
Alright I'll update and keep you updated. Yeah they changed not just variables but how they return things. My addon uses container info, and instead of returning 5 items, it now returns a table of those 5 items. It just makes fixing things a pain in the butt now. Like it worked 10.0, but now 10.0.2 done. Anyways, thanks for update.
In reply to dardack:
I have the same problem.
But after I've read all the answers, I still don't understand how to remove the Progress Bar from the screen, and how this relates to tooltips.
In reply to AlexL1118:
Have you tried clicking the mini map/LDB icon? That has nothing to do with tooltips, so maybe you're conflating several unrelated issues here :)
In reply to Cakechart:
LOL, thanks.
BTW, regarding conflating issues - this conversation thread started from the bar, and somehow got to tooltips, so it's not me who is mixing subjects.
Dardack, for your original question, it's mouse left click on the addon minimap icon.
Sorry, Cakechart, is this written somewhere in-game? I could not find. Or it was written in the icon's tooltip (which has been mentioned here) before the tooltip problem appeared?
I don't know what happened but suddenly the addon is no longer printing number of attemtps in the chat log and is instead posting large obnoxious scrolling text in the middle of my screen after an attempt is made. Please stop this.
In reply to notanotherforumname:
Getting the same - I thought I have changed a chat setting but I suspect it#'s being output somewhere different now. I also prefer it to just be in chat...
In reply to TheSpanishInq:
Have you checked your output channel settings?
In reply to Cakechart:
I have now, thanks for the pointer. This appear to have affected SilverDragon too. It was not set to anything. I tried setting it to Default but that is scrolling combat text or raid warning or whatever it is. Setting it to Chat works and has returned it to the chat interface. I'm guessing as you said, something in a recent patch changed and this now needs to be set specifically. I never needed to set it before.
In reply to TheSpanishInq:
+1 I had the exact same issue as you, and with both addons - had to re-set to chat in each
In reply to notanotherforumname:
Have you checked your output channel settings? The patch might have reset them, or Blizzard may have changed some internal stuff that caused this. I didn't change anything in Rarity at least.
In reply to Cakechart:
I don't see any such settings in the addon.
OK, I've been having to repost this due to the fact that my testing keeps giving me different results in-game. It appears that something screwy is going on with Rarity. SOMETIMES enabling Silver Dragon results in the scrolling text taking over the chat print output of Rarity. But this is not always and not consistent. Sometimes disabling SilverDragon won't make any difference and the problem remains. But sometimes disabling it brings back the chat print. So it is impossible for me to say if it's SilverDragon or if it's Rarity that is the source of the problem.
Edit: Figured it out. Turns out one of your updates removed all the settings from the "Announcements" settings. As a result, it appears to be randomly changing the setting on its own. To resolve it, you need to click the "Chat" option. Not the "Default" option.
In reply to notanotherforumname:
I have same problem also silverdragon doing samething did u salve your problem