Rarity
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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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I can confirm this. I also removed half my addons, checked, removed other half, removed half of that, etc, until I definitely tracked the problem down to Rarity.
The player doesn't need to do anything to trigger this behavior. I got it standing still looking at an animated texture. It stuttered every 20 seconds or so.
Can also confirm that rolling back to r318 fixes the issue.
With the Update to Rarity this morning, I'm also experiencing the spiking Frame rate. When I did Malygos this morning, it actually counted over 30 attempts on both of the Drakes due to the lag spike. I disabled Rarity and it caused the Spiking to stop.
I'm on Windows 8.1 if that helps.
since the last wow patch, i ve had momentary "screen freezes / lags" like every ~10sec. After spending half a day removing, reinstalling, resetting everything one by one, in my case it turns out, that if i remove Rarity everything goes back to normal. If i enable it, "lags" again. Buggrabber does not catch any anomality. I do not "demand" anything, just leave this here as a curious bit of information :)
Are you doing anything in particular when it happens, like opening the Rarity tooltip, or killing a mob?
nothing, just moving the camera a bit around of flying/walking to check if it is "freeze free" FPS number also drops for those moments by ~60%, way into red, so that is an extra indicator for me.
Does it occur when Rarity is the only addon running? Does it happen if you never open the Rarity tooltip? Can you pinpoint which build causes it? If you can find which build started it, that'll help immensely. I can't reproduce it so I'll have to keep asking you questions to narrow it down.
Rarity doesn't have any regularly polling timers (although I'll audit for that to be sure). But it does have its fingers in a ton of stuff, and though it tries to be as efficient as possible, there may be something I can optimize if I can find the source of this. Finding it, though, may be impossible, especially since I can't reproduce it.
I'm having the same issue, also. It seems to happen most often when I kill a mob. I'm also using a Mac (currently, there's a known issue with framerates, but it's on Blizzard to fix it).
Yes, Macs are very screwed up right now, and that's not Rarity's fault.
Noticed you removed Sky bo. Is it intentionnal ?
Hey there rare hunters! I've just pushed out a new build of Rarity with a host of new features:
Now get out there and get those rares!
Hey there rare hunters! I've just pushed out a new build of Rarity with a host of new features:
Now get out there and get those rares!
I'm currently getting this error whenever I open the dungeon finder tool and mouseover the Loot-Filled Pumpkin. I'm not sure if it's actually a problem with Auctionator, though:
Message: Interface\AddOns\Rarity\Core.lua:2524: Invalid frame provided.
Time: Fri Oct 31 10:13:53 2014
Count: 1
Stack: Interface\AddOns\Auctionator\AtrErrorInspector.lua:106: in function <Interface\AddOns\Auctionator\AtrErrorInspector.lua:51>
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
...AddOns\CompactRunes\Libs\LibQTip-1.0\LibQTip-1.0.lua:1354: in function `SmartAnchorTo'
Interface\AddOns\Rarity\Core.lua:2524: in function `ShowTooltip'
Interface\AddOns\Rarity\Core.lua:3257: in function `Update'
Interface\AddOns\Rarity\Core.lua:1200: in function `?'
...urse\svn\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:145: in function <...urse\svn\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:145>
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:4: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:4>
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:13: in function `?'
...urse\svn\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:90: in function `Fire'
...y\Externals\curse\svn\Ace3-AceEvent\AceEvent-3.0.lua:120: in function <...y\Externals\curse\svn\Ace3-AceEvent\AceEvent-3.0.lua:119>
Locals: <none>
Fixed in r333
I've noticed a problem i think wich is caused by Rarity. After playing for some time the gametooltip disapears when you mouseover a player/npc. I've not really be able to see what precisely causes the problem (thats why im not posting a ticket) but i got a friend who is using Rarity and he is the only guy i know having the same issue...
I'll post again when I manage to reproduce the issue
I'm not able to reproduce, and I've played quite a lot with Rarity on. It could be a conflict with some other add-on he is running. Play around with that, and also let me know if you see any Lua errors originating from Rarity.
I've experienced this too, when for example mousing over the Portals in Shrine, but I have no idea what it's from. I use TipTac for my tooltips, as well as Rarity and about 100 other addons.
Is it possible to import a list of needed recipes for a profession. I'm very close on completing all recipes for all professions and adding every one I need plus all the related info like zones/mobs would take some time to get them in there.
Unfortunately, importing isn't possible at this time. I might consider doing some kind of WeakAura style import/export at some point, though, so users can share lists of items.
Re. the scrolling text that flashes on your screen each time you make an attemppt...
Would it be possible to make the loot text show on the screen a little longer, even by just half a second? It scrolls so fast I often don't get a chance to read it.