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.
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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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Posted Mar 12, 2013An extra window isn't going to happen—it's too much of a rewrite (and I don't want it that way). The next build will clean up the tooltip a bit and will give you the ability to clean it up more.
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Posted Mar 7, 2013everytime i open my bags rarity pops up with a toast for skyshards. ive tried deleting and reinstalling the mod and it still does it
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Posted Mar 7, 2013I'll look into it. In the meantime, put your Skyshards into the bank.
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Posted Mar 7, 2013now that i think about it, it happened with Mojo I think when I had him in my bags
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Posted Mar 8, 2013I'm unable to reproduce this behavior. If you can give me more information or more detailed steps to reproduce, I'll take another look. In the meantime, it appears to be functioning properly at this time.
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Posted Mar 8, 2013Got the same problem. This worked for me:
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Posted Mar 1, 2013I am missing support for:
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Posted Mar 1, 2013I'll add the two pets. As for legendary items in Molten Core, you need to add those yourself as custom items. Rarity was designed for just this purpose, but I don't want to clutter up the default tooltip with items that aren't mounts or companions. (I tried this earlier and got a lot of negative feedback about it.)
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Posted Feb 27, 2013You can turn off one or both of the Rarity tooltips in Options, or you can change which side they appear on. Since you've put Rarity on the rightmost side of your screen, you may need to turn off one of the tooltips. Rarity works best when it's positioned in the middle of the screen, with room on both sides.
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Posted Feb 27, 2013Thanks! I don't know why but I never ... noticed that menu.
Thanks again.
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Posted Feb 6, 2013Any chance it will get updated to reflect changes from 5.1?
Like new pets in old raids and removing min. group size in bosses like Alysrazor (currently Alysrazor shows it needs 3 players, while it is easily soloable).
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Posted Feb 6, 2013I partially depend on players like yourself to bring up things that need to be added/changed. I try to keep tabs on changes, but it's not possible for one person to have the entire game memorized and also note every single change made with every patch.
I'll change Alysrazor to soloable. Any others?
Can you name the pets that were added and to which bosses?
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Posted Feb 7, 2013Sorry, no offence was intended. You are doing great job, I don't meant to be demanding of any kind. :)
As far as I know, any pre-cata boss is soloable now (and some cata bosses, like Alysrazor as well).
If I might suggest -- maybe you could allow users to change "Method of obtaining" for predefined drops? This way, if someone is not able to solo some boss -- he could reflect it in settings and obtaining chances.
As for recently added raid pets, excerpt from my Rarity.lua (I've added them as custom):
["Chrominus"] = {
["type"] = "PET",
["method"] = "NPC",
["lastAttempts"] = 0,
["name"] = "Chrominus",
["npcs"] = {
14020, -- [1]
},
["chance"] = 6.7,
["spellId"] = 135264,
["attempts"] = 0,
["itemId"] = 93038,
},
["Harbringer of Flame"] = {
["type"] = "PET",
["method"] = "NPC",
["npcs"] = {
12098, -- [1]
},
["chance"] = 2.5,
["spellId"] = 68665,
["name"] = "Harbringer of Flame",
["itemId"] = 93033,
},
["Giant Bone Spider"] = {
["type"] = "PET",
["spellId"] = 135254,
["lastAttempts"] = 0,
["method"] = "NPC",
["attempts"] = 0,
["dates"] = {
[20130207] = {
["time"] = 2,
["attempts"] = 0,
},
},
["time"] = 2,
["npcs"] = {
15952, -- [1]
},
["chance"] = 5,
["name"] = "Giant Bone Spider",
["itemId"] = 93030,
},
["Viscidus Globule"] = {
["type"] = "PET",
["spellId"] = 135266,
["lastAttempts"] = 0,
["name"] = "Viscidus Globule",
["npcs"] = {
15299, -- [1]
},
["chance"] = 3.7,
["attempts"] = 0,
["method"] = "NPC",
["itemId"] = 93039,
},
["Ashstone Core"] = {
["type"] = "PET",
["method"] = "NPC",
["npcs"] = {
11988, -- [1]
},
["chance"] = 7.7,
["spellId"] = 135261,
["name"] = "Ashstone Core",
["itemId"] = 93035,
},
["Anubisath Idol"] = {
["type"] = "PET",
["spellId"] = 68659,
["lastAttempts"] = 0,
["name"] = "Anubisath Idol",
["npcs"] = {
15276, -- [1]
},
["chance"] = 5,
["method"] = "NPC",
["attempts"] = 0,
["itemId"] = 93040,
},
["Fungal Abomination"] = {
["type"] = "PET",
["spellId"] = 135255,
["lastAttempts"] = 0,
["method"] = "NPC",
["attempts"] = 0,
["dates"] = {
[20130207] = {
["time"] = 2,
["attempts"] = 0,
},
},
["time"] = 2,
["npcs"] = {
16011, -- [1]
},
["chance"] = 3,
["name"] = "Fungal Abomination",
["itemId"] = 93032,
},
["Stitched Pup"] = {
["type"] = "PET",
["spellId"] = 135257,
["lastAttempts"] = 0,
["method"] = "NPC",
["attempts"] = 0,
["time"] = 1,
["name"] = "Stitched Pup",
["npcs"] = {
15932, -- [1]
},
["chance"] = 5,
["dates"] = {
[20130207] = {
["time"] = 1,
["attempts"] = 0,
},
},
["itemId"] = 93029,
},
["Mini Mindslayer"] = {
["npcs"] = {
15263, -- [1]
},
["type"] = "PET",
["method"] = "NPC",
["lastAttempts"] = 0,
["spellId"] = 135268,
["itemId"] = 93041,
["name"] = "Mini Mindslayer",
["attempts"] = 2,
},
["Untamed Hatchling"] = {
["type"] = "PET",
["method"] = "NPC",
["lastAttempts"] = 0,
["name"] = "Untamed Hatchling",
["npcs"] = {
12435, -- [1]
},
["chance"] = 3,
["itemId"] = 93036,
["spellId"] = 135263,
["attempts"] = 0,
},
["Corefire Imp"] = {
["type"] = "PET",
["method"] = "NPC",
["lastAttempts"] = 0,
["spellId"] = 68664,
["itemId"] = 93034,
["chance"] = 3,
["name"] = "Corefire Imp",
["npcs"] = {
11982, -- [1]
},
["dates"] = {
[20130206] = {
["time"] = 1,
["attempts"] = 0,
},
},
["time"] = 1,
["attempts"] = 3,
},
["collapsed"] = false,
["Death Talon Whelpguard"] = {
["type"] = "PET",
["method"] = "NPC",
["lastAttempts"] = 0,
["name"] = "Death Talon Whelpguard",
["npcs"] = {
12017, -- [1]
},
["chance"] = 2.8,
["spellId"] = 135265,
["attempts"] = 0,
["itemId"] = 93037,
},
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Posted Feb 7, 2013Oh no, I didn't mean to sound offended! I wasn't. ;) Just letting you know that it can be hard to keep track of everything in the game.
Thanks for your saved variables! That's awesome! I'll get started implementing those pets. I'm concerned Rarity has too many items in it now, but I guess there's nothing I can do about that.
Regarding pre-Cata bosses: I'm fairly sure Invincible and Mimiron's Head aren't reasonably soloable by most players.
While I can't let you change the detection method, the next build will let you change the Group Size to 1, which will change it to a soloable item. That'll have the same effect. (The only difference in detection methods is one checks when the boss dies, the other checks when you loot the boss. If you're alone, they're basically equivelant.)
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Posted Feb 7, 2013Alright, try out r163-beta. I put all the new pets at a 10% drop chance. They may in fact be higher; I'm not sure how skewed the WowHead data is due to the number of kills pre-5.1. Let me know if this looks good and I'll promote it to release. Thanks again for your help!
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Posted Feb 8, 2013It seems everything is fine.
I'll stay with drop chances I listed earlier, though. I calculated them from WowDB data, which I find more reliable for 2 reasons:
1. More people uses Curse client, than WowHead addon, which give WoWDB bigger sample of kill/drop data. Bigger sample is always better when it comes to statistics.
2. It seems WoWDB data was reset after pets were introduced, while WowHead datas includes kills made before there was chance of getting pet. Which make WowHead datas not reliable in this case.
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Posted Feb 8, 2013OK cool. I think you may have entered the chances wrong (would have to double check). Rarity expresses chance to drop as 1 in N. So you had, for example, Chrominius dropping once every 6.7 kills. That didn't seem right to me -- usually we use whole numbers. I'll go take a look at WowDB to see what the drop rates look like, and adjust them. Thanks again for your help!
Edit: Nope, I was wrong. You did enter them right. So Chrominius is listed as a 15% drop chance, which is 6.7. I'll go through the others. I would be very surprised if they all had different drop rates, though. Usually Blizzard conforms to a few well-known drop rates and reuses them.
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Posted Jan 11, 2013@Pseudopath
Yes, set it to None and it will stop announcing everything. I just tested this to verify it works.
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Posted Jan 11, 2013@Allara
Thanks for your reply.
It would seem then that I either cannot find the 'global disable' or it isnt working for me.
Am I right that the global to disable option is under 'General -> Announcements -> Output ->' and if none are checked I should not have any annoucements?
Thanks,
Pseudopath.