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.
Click the Rarity feed text in Titan Panel. This is the same as clicking the icon. Clicking either of these things toggles the progress bar.
@temp123456
Take a look at the Frequently Asked Questions (linked above). It answers your question plus many others!
Why is Rarity still tracking BOE pets that I already have?
Most BOE pets are marked as "repeatable", because some people farm them repeatedly to sell. If you don't want to track the pet, open Rarity's options, find the pet, and uncheck Repeatable.
hello, great addon, i always use this when i am in "farming mode" :) as someone who has collected all and every pets available in game, it still shows me that i have the following pets to farm (probably because the pet name and the dropped usable item name differs, but i dunno):
Pets
you do what you want with this information, cheers :)
Hey been using this addon for quite some time, and I find it really helpful. However, after installing Quick Loot (to waste less time looting stuff), Rarity doesn't increment the attempts counter almost ever on most bosses, would be great if it could work together with Quick Loot somehow since that's another addon I would much rather not play without now.
Currently that isn't supported. I do have a ticket on my list which, once I get time to investigate, may allow Quick Loot to operate in the future.
Alright, great to hear it's at least being looked at in the future. It's not a major problem, just an inconvenience to have the attempts stuck at some seemingly random number.
I added on custom the "Land Shark" cause I already complete the "Crimson water strider" It shows good but doesn't update the coins when I get a new one. Bug or I did something wrong?
You probably did something wrong.
I couldnt find the Tiny * Carp from Pandaria in the pet or toy list, so had to add them myself as custom. Is this how its supposed to be, and if so, why?
From the FAQ (linked above):
Tiny Carp isn't supported
The WoW add-on API makes it too difficult to detect salt water versus fresh water. Therefore, at this time the Tiny Carp companions cannot be supported by Rarity.
Thank you for such great addon!
I want to reinstall interface, what files should i save and copy if i want to save statistics?
Save the Rarity.lua file in your SavedVariables folder.
Sha of anger's and Nalak's mounts are now in the "Mounts" list instead of the "Mounts(Group)" one while Galleon's and Oondasta's ones are. Any reason to this ? These worldboss are still really hard to solo.
I make a judgment call as to when to move things from Group to Solo. Usually when 3 or so classes can solo something, I move it. Those two are soloable by several classes.
Any way you could add in a feature to the auto refresh portion of the group finder to blacklist a group? It can be frustrating while searching for an invasion if someone leaves their group listed but still clearly don't need any members, as the ding happens every couple minutes.
This is probably way too much scope creep for that feature, sorry. It happens to me too. What I usually do is try to find a better search term (like "oond" instead of "oon").
Quick question, what in the heck is a Kill Statistic Id? Im trying to track a custom item (Battered Hilt) but its asking for the kill statistic Ids from Wowhead which I dont know how to find or what they are. Any help would be much appreciated.
There is no statistic ID for Battered Hilt. A Statistic ID is anything you can find on WowHead under Achievements/Statistics. It's only for bosses.
Haii,
I'm new to the addon and I did read FAQ but I'm a little unsure as to how this addon works. I only have one account but do I have to manually add/click all mounts/pets/toys that I haven't collected? Or does this addon auto detect what you have collected and what you still need?
Thanks for helping.
Rarity autodetects everything you have. It will then untrack everything except any pets which are marked as "Repeatable" (because they are BoE). You need to uncheck Repeatable for those. (This part is in the FAQ.)