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Due to a Blizzard change in 7.0.3, Rarity no longer tracks AOE looting.

Any mobs that drop something will be counted, but mobs that drop nothing or drop only money will not be counted. This primarily affects items such as Skyshard.

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? Scroll down.

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

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Rarity Item Packs

These are item packs contributed by other users which contain items not included in Rarity by default. To import them, copy the string below (make sure to get the entire thing). Then navigate to the Rarity Options screen and choose the Import/Export tab. Follow the instructions there.

Weapon Illusions (20 items)—contributed by Zanthix

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Lorrdzik
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Posted Aug 15, 2017
After I realm transfer a few characters all my data is broken. It count attempts on transferred character as a new data which mess up everything. Any way to make it work again? Any way to remove old data from characters before move?

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Posted Aug 15, 2017
In reply to Lorrdzik:

I'm not entirely sure, but it sounds as though you can fix it by renaming the entries in your Saved Variables file. You'll find it in <WoW folder>\WTF\Account\<Account name>\Saved Variables\Rarity.lua

I'd create a backup copy and then try editing the "<character name> - <realm name>" parts to reflect the new character names (and realms) for those characters that you did transfer and which are now broken. If you transferred between accounts, the <Account name> folder would have to be changed, too.

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Posted Aug 15, 2017
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Unfortunately this is a known issue. Rarity has some behind the scenes tracking based on your character GUID, which changes when you transfer realms. The fix is to exit the game, open the Rarity saved variables file, find the affected character and delete out the section beginning with ["accountWideStatistics"].

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Posted Aug 16, 2017
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Thank both for the answer but I manage to work that out. I just deleted the file then log in on all my characters transferred and not transferred. Then finally I open my archived rarity db file and just copy attempts data from each characters to new file. It is working now fine so I'm happy :)

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Posted Jun 4, 2017
Thanks for all your efforts with this addon - It is truly one of my favorites. It seems you have done some work recently to update and was wondering if you could also add the Albino Buzzard from Crysa's Torn Sack of Pet Supplies and the 3 pets from the new Pet Dungeon, Wailing Caverns, that come from the reward at the end, Damp Pet Supplies: Cavern Moccasin, Everliving Spore, and Young Venomfang. Again, thank you and all other contributors for this wonderful addon.

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Posted May 31, 2017
Rarity seems to have stopped working

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Date: 2017-05-31 22:21:40
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Error occured in: Global
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Message: ..\AddOns\Rarity\Locales.lua line 1091:
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Debug:
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Posted May 31, 2017
In reply to padore:

This is Curse's fault. And their source control is down, so I can't commit anything to fix it. Please contact Curse for further information.

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Posted May 31, 2017
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Ahh, thank you for the quick response, love this addon and would hate not to have it anymore.

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Posted May 31, 2017
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Oh I should have added: install the latest "RELEASE" version (not "alpha") and it will work.

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Posted Apr 26, 2017
I love this add on but I am having a slight issue. My attempts to get a pet to drop is not showing in my chat when I loot a mob. I have found that I should be able to shift click on the pet in the interface but this is greyed out and won't work. Am I doing something wrong? Please help 😊 Thanks

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Trying to track my my fishing attempts for Shard of Darkness for the Ashbringer skin, but its not tracking. Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?

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Posted Feb 10, 2017
I no longer have an active WoW account, so I can't import your string. I can try to help if you describe what you did, or another user can help.

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#140 Posted Apr 8, 2017

In reply to malfunktionv2:

Probably way too late, but... for posterity:

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Posted May 21, 2017
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Just tried this import but Rarity kicked it back as invalid

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Posted May 23, 2017
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Indeed! In my naivety I (wrongly) assumed that importing would be straight-forward. However, after some serious investigation into the intricacies of the import/export encoding, I can safely say that the feature is either broken, or can be considered as having a huge conceptual flaw or two at the very least.

In this case, you can't import the string because it stores the custom item ID from MY local copy (which is 25), and then fails to validate the string because it's not the first item (index 1).

I'm not sure what to make of it, but I doubt it will be changed/fixed for obvious reasons :P Anyway, as for your problem: Since I don't want to delete all my custom items, I can offer the following hack (it's the best I can do here):

1. Go to Interface\Addons\Rarity_Options\
2. Create a backup of Options.lua, then open it and
3. On line 1085, replace the entire line, that is

if type(e) == "table" and e.items and type(e.items) == "table" and #e.items > 0 and e.build and tonumber(e.build) > 0 and e.signature and e.signature == IMPORTEXPORT_SIGNATURE then

with

if type(e) == "table" and e.items and type(e.items) == "table" and (#e.items > 0 or e.items[25]) and e.build and tonumber(e.build) > 0 and e.signature and e.signature == IMPORTEXPORT_SIGNATURE then

This will allow my export string to be recognized as valid, and have no adverse effects, but you should still change it back afterwards just to be sure (or don't).

Now, export this string:

AV4xXlReU2l0ZW1zXlReTjI1XlReU3pvbmVzXlReTjFeU1dlc3Rlcm5+YFBsYWd1ZWxhbmRzXnReU2V4cG9ydF5CXlNtZXRob2ReU0ZJU0hJTkdeU2NoYW5jZV5OMjAwMF5TbmFtZV5TU2hhcmR+YG9mfmBEYXJrbmVzc15TdHlwZV5TSVRFTV5TaXRlbUlkXk4xMzk2MjRedF50XlNzaWduYXR1cmVeU1JGSTJQRDRqT2pKME5udGdJbmMvWkE9PV5TYnVpbGReTjU3N150Xl4=

It's a different one because I removed all unnecessary data (my attempts etc), which also makes it a lot shorter.
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Posted May 23, 2017
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Oh, and an addendum to solve your original problem:

Your string differs from mine in that it uses zone IDs, and restricts it to only consider Paladins. I don't know if that makes much of a difference, but since you're extremely unlikely to go fishing anywhere else in Western Plaguelands, with any character, I just set it to be more forgiving.

That said, your map IDs are wrong. /dump GetMapNameByID(28) returns "Searing Gorge", and 139 is entirely invalid. You probably took them from wowhead, but their zone IDs are different from those used by the game. Western Plaguelands is actually 23, and Eastern Plaguelands has 22 - although it only drops on the western shore so I'd remove that.

Additionally, the chance is apparently closer to 1/2000 than 1/1000. I arrived at this conclusion from wowhead's aggregated comment data, which averaged out to some 1.9k attempts (for what it's worth) :)

In retrospect, this will be much easier for you to change than the LUA file + import. If it still doesn't work, you can always fall back to using that option.

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Posted May 29, 2017
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Hey Cakechart, if you see this. I'm going to try to come back at least with a Starter Edition account to get Rarity working in 7.2. I saw your comments about the Import/Export system being fundamentally broken and I think I sort of understand what you're saying. Based on your fix it looks like yet another failure of the # operator in Lua. This is an easy fix. Rarity doesn't actually care what table index anything is at in the import.

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Posted May 30, 2017
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I'm glad to hear it. Yes, it is not a difficult thing to fix, what I proposed was merely a workaround for this particular import string, because I didn't want to make things even more complicated [for other users]. I did notice the index matters little and so I'd simply replace that check with a version that doesn't break if indices are missing, but still returns whether or not the table is empty.

That isn't exactly a failure, I believe it's "working as intended". From the Lua manual:

The length of a table t is defined to be any integer index n such that t[n] is not nil and t[n+1] is nil; moreover, if t[1] is nil, n can be zero. For a regular array, with non-nil values from 1 to a given n, its length is exactly that n, the index of its last value. If the array has "holes" (that is, nil values between other non-nil values), then #t can be any of the indices that directly precedes a nil value (that is, it may consider any such nil value as the end of the array).

That is pretty much all that went wrong; there are "holes" in it and so it won't count the entries correctly. With "fundamentally broken" I meant that it generally won't work, only in the special case of exporting N entries from the start (where N can be all of them, if none are missing "in between").

Disclaimer: I haven't tested this with different types of exports, but it's what I got from looking at the respective lines in the code.

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Posted May 30, 2017
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Yeah basically what I mean is # is generally useless. It would be useful if it returned the number of things in an array. I'm not sure why it even exists in its current form. I try never to use it.

I did test the feature as well as I could on my own and it generally works. I'll just change it to iterate using pairs and count that way (which is what I usually do).

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Posted May 30, 2017
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From how I understand it, that isn't quite right. In this case it doesn't matter, but it is "generally" much faster than iterating if all you want to do is count a regular, properly numbered array. luaH_getn (= #) operates in constant time while i/pairs obviously do not (as they iterate over each element = linear time), so I'd always use it whenever possible even if I highly doubt someone wants to import millions of entries into Rarity :P

That performance was apparently achieved by highly optimizing the algorithm for the kinds of tables Lua uses as well as the most common use case where efficient counting would be of interest (sequences, table length of 2^x). I'd suspect counting other types of arrays isn't possible with this approach without giving up that advantage.

As for the import feature, you could simply table.insert / tinsert the entries. The table with key [25] would become [1] in my example, discarding the key Rarity doesn't care about anyway and continue to use # with no drawbacks, as you already iterate through them before compressing and serializing them:

e.items[itemkey] = item

in line 1224 could become

table.insert(e.items, item)

or, in fact,

e.items[#e.items+1] = item

- which is faster, although not by entire orders of magnitude. This way, the validation shouldn't need any changes at all.

And there we have another example for using # that justifies its current form. If it wasn't as fast, using this shortcut would be a terrible idea :)
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