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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Hello! I'm not able to reproduce that—the Toy Box seems to work for me just fine. Can you be more specific about what you're seeing? Is there any Lua error? Have you checked your filters in the Toy Box to be sure everything is turned on?
Should we expect to see the new pets for Raiding With Leashes III added before next reset? Thanks (:
Yep, they'll be pushed into alpha tomorrow, release the day after.
Thanks for the quick update! However I have a question..
Is Rarity auto-screenshotting when an item tracked has been looted and you get the 'achievement' toast? I seem to have a bunch of screenshots of me looting these new pets.. I don't remember taking them nor is there a change on this page saying it's meant to? Just wondering, thanks!
Yeah, it's been doing that for a while. You can turn it off in Options. You'd have to look back through the changelog to see it, it's there.
@hjp426
Good catch—that'll be fixed in the next build.
The music rolls would be a good default addition to this addon, as all the boss drop ones apparently have a decently low %: http://www.wowhead.com/guides/garrisons/jukebox#boss-drop-music-rolls
Yeah, I thought about that. I'll be looking into it.
Blizzard renamed the Blizzard_PetJournal addon to Blizzard_Collections. Therefore, these lines will have to change to get rarity loading properly:
Thanks!
Is there a way to delete mount/pet default entries, such as if I already have the mount Ashes of Al'ar, I wish to no longer have it in my list?
Rarity automatically turns that mount off when it detects that you have it.
Ah sorry, should've clarified, I meant in the list where you can edit the info, inside Interface. I know you can delete your custom entries, was just wondering about the default ones. :)
Nope, sorry, they can't be deleted, only disabled. That should be good enough, although I know it means there are a lot of things in the Options screen.
No worries, thanks for the quick replies, and the wonderful addon! <3
Satyr Charm seems to have two listings, one for Terestian Illhoof in Karazhan, which is correct, and a second from Quivering Filth, which is incorrect. :)
I found 1 misstake, when i kill Ultraxion, Rarity will add +1 count but status about kill dont change it.
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Nvm! Ty for reply for ticket, its realy bad translate in lib.
hi, love this addon so much ,helps me track everything i need to know :)
just 1 question, is there a way to change the way the list shows from mouseover to click to show?
thx.
Not at this time. Sorry about that!