Rarity
NEW:
- Support for Cataclysm Classic (experimental)
- Rarity now has a Discord server!
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)
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Posted Dec 30, 2015I agree that would be cool. Let me think on the best approach for this.
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Posted Dec 17, 2015German localization for "Snow Mound" is done. Time for a new build ;)
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Posted Dec 16, 2015Hello, Allara! Great addon, I've been using it for years now.
I noticed that the update you pushed today only included Minion of Grumpus (mount). There's also a new battle pet called Grumpling. The item that teaches the pet is #128770, and it is looted from Snow Mound (object #243911). I'll add it to my Custom group, but I thought you may appreciate the heads-up.
Merry Christmas!
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Posted Dec 16, 2015Thanks for the tip! I'll admit I'm pretty focused on mounts, and often rely on other players to let me know about the pets and toys. I'll get it added, probably tomorrow. Merry Christmas!
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Posted Dec 17, 2015im having this issue as well, i put the listing for the grumpling pet under custom only when i loot the snow mounds the addon isnt showing each looted mound as an attempt it just stays at 0 on the pop up tracker and doesnt list attempts in the category list on the minimap button :(
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Posted Dec 17, 2015Unfortunately Rarity doesn't support looting world objects as a method of detecting except in rare cases where the localized string is present. I'll have to do some further investigation on this.
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Posted Dec 15, 2015Hi, I really like using your addon, but i already have the Black Tabby which i snagged from the AH for super cheap, is there some way i can remove that from the list?
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Posted Dec 15, 2015Go into the Rarity Options screen, find the pet, and turn off "Repeatable".
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Posted Dec 11, 2015If anyone would like to help me gather the rest of the waypoint data I need, it would greatly help! This would let me do some new features including Filter/Sort by Zone. You'd need to prepare it in the Lua format I use. I need waypoint data for all the pets in Rarity, except those that were introduced in 6.2.
Basically, the data is placed inside a "coords" array for each item in Options_Defaults.lua. This is an array of individual points, since an item can exist in multiple places at once.
At a minimum, a Map ID is needed to identify the zone. These can be found here: http://wow.gamepedia.com/MapID
I'll post these as examples:
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Posted Dec 11, 2015A very nice addon!
Feature Request: please make it possible to track farmed things over all toons. I do Elegon and Horridon with 10 toons each week and it would be nice to know just how unlucky I am with that (doing it for 8 months now, nothing...) without having to sum it up myself by logging around, which is quite a pain to do.
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Posted Dec 11, 2015Can Rarity track cross-account attempts if I farm on multiple characters?
Yes. Rarity can track attempts across all characters on a single World of Warcraft license. It cannot track attempts across multiple licenses within a single Battle.Net account, because World of Warcraft does not permit this.
If you just installed Rarity for the first time, it will automatically track attempts across a single license. You don't need to do anything. If you find that this is not true, follow the directions below.
If you had already used Rarity before patch 5.0, you need to take action in order to enable cross-license tracking. Open your Interface Options and find Rarity in the list. Click on Rarity, then click the + sign that appears. This reveals a new entry called Profile. Click it. Finally, in the Existing Profiles drop-down, select "Default". Warning: This will reset your options and you will lose all existing attempt counts. Some attempts may be repopulated based on the current character's Statistics, but most things will be reset to 0.
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Posted Dec 11, 2015Thanks for the reply :)
I installed it for the first time and I use only 1 wow license. But the numbers it shows right now don't seem to be right - might be I need to rekill those bosses with the addon running for the statistics to update correctly? I will find out next week then!
But whatever my weird numbers, I am very happy it does track accountwide after all, I must have misinterpreted the earlier post of deadsosoon. :)
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Posted Dec 11, 2015Unfortunately, due to a limitation in Rarity's design (it was designed before account-wide things existed), it can't automatically add up your kills across characters retroactively. You need to manually modify your kill counts to add them up. All attempts performed with Rarity installed will be counted across the account.
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Posted Dec 12, 2015I see - that explains my weird numbers. I will put the numbers in manually then to have them counted correctly when I start my farming round next week. Thanks very much for clearing that up! :)
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Posted Dec 7, 2015I love the auto search checkbox in the LFG tool. It may be out of the scope of possibility, but I thought it would be awesome to add a functionality to search for multiple key words. Like, suppose I am looking for a group for doom, death, terror, or veng. I would love to type the words into an "or" search box to find any group.
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Posted Dec 11, 2015I've thought about doing this myself for a while. Unfortunately, I haven't landed on a solution that makes sense yet, given how the current tool operates. I'll keep thinking on it, as I agree it would be useful.
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Posted Dec 11, 2015would it be possible to add the lfg alarm to the other lfr/lfd queue pops? I'm currently queueing up for timewalks (for the mount) as a dps quite late in the night and the waiting can take anywhere from one to fifteen minutes and naturally I'm browsing while alt-tabbed, only to find my queue popped 10 seconds before coming back. having a flashing icon on windows toolbar really helps with the tanaan rares so it would be amazing for other queues.
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Posted Dec 11, 2015You want the addon Dungeon Finder Bang.
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Posted Dec 11, 2015while it technically is what I asked, that addon only messes with the background sound settings (instead of firing an alert like your addon does), and based on the comments doesn't work with background sounds disabled.
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Posted Dec 11, 2015I would recommend making any requests you have to the author of that add-on. Since it already exists, this is out of scope for Rarity.