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)
Comments & bug reports
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Frequently Asked Questions
Click here to read the Frequently Asked Questions. Please read this before requesting support.
I found that I was unable to unzip Rarity-release package after downloading. The unzip program prompted me "Unable to unzip Rarity-r509a-release.zip into "Downloads"". Also the size of the zip file is only 15KB. Is there anything wrong?
Please try downloading the file again, or use the Curse Client to install the add-on (recommended). If you continue to have trouble, please contact Curse for technical support.
I retried multiple times and still failed to unzip it. It doesnt work even if I directly downlaod via your wowace project site :(
The issue is either on your end or with Curse. There are about 80k successful downloads on that file so far. Please contact Curse or use the Curse Client for further support. Their platform is what builds and manages the files you download.
b4card1: FYI, I've now added answers to all your questions to the FAQ (link above). In some cases I included a bit more detail than I did here. Please read through those questions and answers.
and is there a way to add an "untrack all" function for each category? else it is a pain to untrack all individually ^^
Collapse the section in the tooltip by clicking it. There is no "untrack all" because there is no need for it.
and how to add specific objects to the progress bar list? i only can select one at the same time ^^
Click an item in the tooltip to put it on the progress bar. You can only manually select one item at a time. When Rarity detects an attempt for two items simultaneously, it puts it on the progress bar automatically.
are there also timers for the npcs when they were killed lastly? if not, could you implement such timers? would be very useful to better cordinate the respawn times, thank you
Rarity supports "defeat detection" for many items. The item will be listed as Defeated and (by default) will be removed from the tooltip when it has been defeated for the day. There are no timers (and there won't be).
can you add these 4 mounts count drops from the garrison boss and not only the gold or platinum victory bags.
garn steelmaw
giant coldsnout
shadowhide pearltusk
smokey direwolf
Unfortunately, Rarity does not support two completely different detection methods for the same item.
Is there any way to get Rarity to share data across multiple accounts? I have two accounts, and I'd love for it to show a cumulative number of attempts from both accounts. (Been trying for the love rocket forever on both accounts!! Yeek.)
Rarity can track attempts across all the characters on one account. However, Blizzard does not allow add-ons to share data across separate accounts.
Addon doesn't show me, how much I've killed 5-ppl bosses with needed loot. Also, it doesn't summ my attempts on some raid boss (like 25 kills of Ragnaros by pal, and 18 by lock, but the addon write, that I've killed him only 23 times).
Please take a look at the Frequently Asked Questions to see how to use Rarity for cross-character tracking.
Why dont Rariry Track TW mounts +1? like in Stonecore ?
I'm afraid I don't understand the question. Can you clarify?
When doing TimeWalking Stonecore mount can still drop but i doint get a kill try on the boss that can drop it for that mount.