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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Frequently Asked Questions
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If you mean Medallion of the Legion, Rarity already shows that in the tooltip for the four mobs that drop it. There's no point tracking it any other way.
Yeah Medallion of the Legion was the item I meant. Maybe it's just me, but I like to keep track of how many of those i've found while farming for the mounts and how many attempts it's taken to get each Medallion.
I added it as a custom, but 1 problem I ran into with it being a custom item, is that even though I put the sources as those 4 npcs, it still counted as drop when I took 1 back from expired AH mail.
Oh and Bristling Hellboard (also bought from Saberstalkers) also lists itself under Mists in the mount list.
If I add it as a default item it will still likely have that problem with the mail. Rarity isn't really intended to track things like that per se, certainly not out of the box. Adding it as a custom item is intended for things like rep items, recipes, etc. Rarity tracks mounts, pets, and toys by default.
This sounds like an issue with your WoW install, the Curse client, or your computer. Please seek support from Blizzard or Curse for additional help.
For about a month or so now I haven't been able to update this addon through curse. Today I attempted to uninstall it through curse so I could just start over. That didn't work either, so I tried to uninstall it from the wow folder.. also didn't work. I get an 'unexpected error occured' message when attempting to do that. So it would appear I am stuck with a broken addon. Any help?
Does anyone know if this addon will track the Shipyard plans. Or suggest a asson that will display the loot drops in a tooltip....
Shipyard plans are all 100% drop. Rarity currently doesn't show them in the tooltip but I'll look into support for that if possible.
It can be done either way. By default it's account-wide.
Can anyone tell me if the tracking mounts function is per character or account wide?
Hey!
First off, thanks for a great addon!
Would it be possible to add "Gahz'rooki's Summoning Stone"? I've had it added manually but I think it should be in there by default.
Wowhead: http://www.wowhead.com/item=97821/gahzrookis-summoning-stone
Item ID: 97821
Sources: 70997,70999,71000 (NPCS)
its under the interface> addons in the escape menu if you shift click the icon it should open the options if it goes to the wrong one shift click it a sceond time. you can change where the notifcation goes and even set screenshots / acheivement pops on or off in the general tab
I have installed the addon and have it working. How can i get to the options to beable to see the screens you have in the pictures above, I just get a layout by the name of what im killing and a count thx.
I'm not quite sure what you're asking for. Feel free to play around with various options in the Options screen. Or if you have a more specific question, I'd be happy to help!
When i put my cursor over a creature it tells me how many i have killed. Then when i kill it, it tells me in middle of my screen how many attempts.
I do not see anywhere for options at all
i was trying to include a picture but i do not have any online
Open the Interface Options screen and find Rarity on the left.
Thank you, got it working ^_^. figured it was something i was over looking
I have been trying to track legendary drops - Eye of Sulfuras and the Warglaives of Azzinoth. It seems rarity counts one attempt when I kill the boss and a second attempt when I loot the boss. Is this intended? I don't see it with mount or pet drops that are already implimented in Rarity.
The only fields that are filled in are Item ID, NPCs, and Kill Statistic IDs.
Any idea why these get counted twice per kill?
When you enter both an NPC ID and a Statistic ID, Rarity counts it when you kill and when you loot the boss. Pick which one of those you prefer and use it. (If you choose to use the statistic, just enter 99999 for the NPC ID.)
Cool, Thanks!
For some reason this addon is not tracking my kills for all 12 of my characters, it's showing the kills on each individual character but not adding them together. I have changed no settings, attempted the default profile fix and reinstalled a few times. Eleven characters are on the same realm, one is on another. Do i need to repeat-kill the relevant bosses after installation for it to function properly? Can it not track account-wide statistics without new kills? Everything is on the same account, license, etc. and I have logged in to each character to allow the addon to collect statistics data. Am I forgetting a step somewhere? I will try re-killing the bosses I want tracked on tomorrow's reset and post results here, if a fix is not found by then.
Edit: enabled debug mode, chat is showing many, many messages such as this, a few minutes after logging on to a character:, though it doesn't seem to do anything: