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)
Comments & bug reports
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Forgot about this? =)
r53 has it. You won't be able to show both tooltips in your configuration, you'll have to pick one. I don't plan to support both sub-tooltips on the same side of the main tooltip.
@Argg0
Yes, deleting it will count as an attempt, and I can't do anything about that.
As to the zoning comment, I've fixed that in r46.
If you have an [Amani Hex Stick] on your bag, it will count as one Mojo atempt everytime you zone in someplace (like Firelands). Deleting it will also increase the count.
@Allara
Okay, thanks for the quick response :)
@hjp426
There are no items to my knowledge that drop throughout the entire game. "World Drops" drop in any zone in an expansion (or in instances sometimes). You will need to enter in every zone in which the item drops.
I do not have plans to add any additional items to Rarity at this time. If you have a specific suggestion, feel free to mention one. The tooltip is already quite long, and tradeskill recipes are not universally farmed for (I could care less, for instance), so I don't think it's a good fit for the defaults.
First off, great addon! I know it's in the works yet, but I'd love to see rare/world drop recipes and patterns listed already, instead of having to add them one by one. Also, with the world drop recipes, is there a setting to put? I've been using drops from NPC(s), or from any mob in a zone, but then it asks for zone names.... but if it's a world drop, then...? See my confusion? Thanks for the help :)
FYI the Mysterious Camel Figurine detection doesn't work, I've tested it now. I'll have to come up with a different way to do it.
@Allara
Thank you very much for going to add this
@tednik
Not at this time. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll work on adding it, but it will take some time and effort on my part since mining isn't part of the core detection features. (And I don't even have a miner hehe.)
Your ticket is here
i have installed the addon but really haven't tested it much but does this addon track the Elementium Geode from mining
Can I have you do me a favor? Do this:
Thanks!
@Allara Maybe it has to do with the Localization. I am playing with a German Wow version.