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)
Comments & bug reports
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Frequently Asked Questions
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They both drop according to wowhead, though it seems that the sea turtle has atm less chance of drop
Missing the Reins of the Heavenly Onyx Cloud Serpent from Sha of Anger in the mounts menu from last update
I've read the FAQ, but I didn't see anything like this. Sorry if I missed it.
Rarity stopped tracking my Ony mount attempts at 35 tries. I have no idea why. I don't have the mount and have tried at least that many more times since then.
Should I run it in Debug mode next time?
I haven't attempted Ony in a long time, so I don't know if it's still working, but it should be. Check that the item is enabled. If it is, yes, run it in debug mode and post the results.
I like Rarity, thank you for his addon!
Is there a way to display only pets I do not have?
Most of the pets listed I have at least one out of three of, Rarity lists 17 pets for me,
only four of those are really missing in my collection though.
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.
Ah okay, thanks, I was hoping for some global setting but this will do just fine.
Now I only wonder why most pets in the list have the "Repeatable" box unchecked by default, like for example Zomstrok which I definately only collected once so far.
BoE pets are supposed to have Repeatable checked. BoP pets are not. If you notice any discrepancies, it's a mistake. Feel free to mention the specific pets here and I'll fix them.
Thank you for the clarification.
Please let me know how to turn off Rarity statistics reporting to my chat log. Here's an example. Thank you.
You have debug mode on. You can turn it off toward the bottom of the main Options screen.
Beautiful, I turned off the debug option and the chat log updates are gone. Thank you.
How can I back up my stats if i am reinstalling windows? thx
Backup the WTF folder inside your World of Warcraft folder.
Rukhmar is working just fine. I only solo LK, but it should be working as well. Both those bosses are detected via statistics, so perhaps you're just experiencing a lag while Blizzard updates your stats.
Hey. For some reason rarity is not tracking certain attempts for me, or very buggily.
For example if I solo Alysrazor on all of my chars, it works just fine: I kill the boss, I see the announcement + the count etc. However when I go and kill Rukhmar via group finder, or farm Invincible in a group (saved alt in the group) it stops working. Nothing happens.
hi, awesome addon.
do u plan to add "press to show" option for the minimap icon list?
thx:)
Can this addon tell me if a rare is nearby when I enter an area? I've been hunting Aeonaxx for the mount and I haven't found him.
Nope. That functionality used to exist in _NPCScan, but I think Blizzard disabled it for older mobs like Aeonaxx when 6.0 came out.
Hello Allara!
First of all I want to thank you for an grat addon! However, since 6.1 it seems like it is intefering with the toy box somehow and makes the toys not show up!
Just a heads up.