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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Frequently Asked Questions
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Could just be me but r721 doesnt seem to update and count atempts. Had to revert back to r720 and that works.
In reply to Skrepnek:
I'm guessing you're using some addon that modifies the loot process (e.g., FastLoot, AutoLootPlusPlus, ElvUI_WindTools). If so, that's been reported before; you can try the latest alpha to see if it fixes the problem. Otherwise, I'll need more info since "it doesn't work" is not actionable.
In reply to Cakechart: So I have the same problem, I was using Leatrix Plus and the faster loot option from there. However, I have managed to replicate the problem even with any faster looting disabled.
When looting something, if you move or do something else before the actual loot window comes up, the counter does not increment, and the debug chat output gives this:
[18:53] Rarity: LOOT_READY with target: Creature-0-4240-0-15283-77767-0000EE219C
[18:53] Rarity: 0 slot(s) to loot
[18:53] Rarity: NPC ID is one we need: 77767
Conversely, if you click to loot, then wait the few dozen ms it takes for the loot window to show up, the tracker is updated properly.
In reply to randomdudeontheweb:
The latest release should work with Leatrix and similar "fast loot" addons.
As far as moving while looting is in progress, I don't know if there's a way to make this work. If the WOW API tells Rarity that there aren't any items available because you've already closed the window, I'd recommend not doing so if the NPC can drop items you're tracking.
In reply to Cakechart: i have same problem, this is from the addon, never modify this addon for 10 years always worked and now it doesnt count attempt anymore
In reply to Aonaskull:
The latest release should work with Leatrix and similar "fast loot" addons.
I will give it a try ty for fixing the issue!!
Thanks for keeping this addon alive. One question. Many of the DF items (which were added to Rarity well after I actually obtained them) are still displaying in the summary window... isn't the addon supposed to filter those out? Seems to mainly be happening with battle pets, e.g., Bakar Companion, the various zapthrottle spirits, the Forbidden Reach pets.
In reply to gaviin1242:
That depends on their settings, I guess? If they're set to repeatable/tracked they'd show up regardless. Rarity does scan the mount and pet journal, and should set the items to not be tracked if they aren't marked as "repeatable".
I'd recommend checking the exact configuration for the affected pets. It's possible Blizzard changed something related to the journal and no one has reported the problem, but that seems unlikely given how many people have downloaded the latest version already.
That said, there's a difference between "mainly" and 'only" when it comes to pets being affected. You probably need to check whether mounts and/or toys are also showing up if you suspect there's a bug, and make sure it's not just due to the "repeatable" setting.
In reply to Cakechart: Yes, it's only pets that are affected. I went into each pet's config, and they were not set to "repeatable". Unchecking "track this" got them off the list, but as you mentioned, the addon should have stopped tracking these pets automatically since they were already known. So seems it was/is some sort of bug.
Here were all the pets that had this issue:
Bakar Companion
Blaze Spirit
Dust Spirit
Gale Spirit
Gilded Mechafrog
Ohuna Companion
Tide Spirit
Ashenwing
Luvvy
Scruffles
Wakyn
In reply to Cakechart: And with this latest update from a couple days ago that added a lot more DF stuff, same issue is occurring with the pets. About 20 showing up that I've already collected. Happy to provide a screenshot or anything else you might need to fix the bug. :)
In reply to gaviin1242:
I actually don't know what's up with that, so I've created an issue to track the problem:
https://github.com/WowRarity/Rarity/issues/632
In reply to gaviin1242:
In the latest alpha, I've updated the pet journal logic to pass the right filter flags. It seems that Rarity wasn't resetting the filters and could therefore "miss" some pets when trying to mark them as found (because Blizzard changed the flags that needed to be passed). Unfortunately, I don't know for sure that it's the cause, so if it still doesn't work there may be something else at play.
You can also try to manually set "track this" and "repeatable", it should behave similarly to the logic Rarity uses when scanning the pet journal. If it doesn't, make sure there are no pet journal addons enabled that could interfere with the filters, and that all filters are on (i.e., you can see all pets that should be processed in the journal UI).
How do I make a script for mobs that dont always drop loot? I was trying to make a script for Orb of the Feltemptress. https://www.wowhead.com/item=147117/orb-of-the-fel-temptress
But it only tracks those mobs that actually has loot.
In reply to Hrazmadul:
You can use the "boss" mechanism maybe? It tracks combat log events (unit death), which isn't the same as looting NPCs but it might be "close enough" in this case.
In reply to Cakechart: Ty I'll try that.
So much problems when using as evoker. It would be nice if that was taken care of. Otherwise I have to uninstall it, because even deactivating it doesn't help.
In reply to scaver:
It would also be nice if people submitted more detailed bug reports or even pull requests on GitHub :) I haven't played WOW since BFA, so unfortunately I don't have an Evoker.
That said, the problem is tracked here: https://github.com/WowRarity/Rarity/issues/569
It's possible that just adding the class to the list would be sufficient, but since you haven't specified what other problems there are I can't say more.
In reply to Cakechart:
I submitted a bug report. What more information you need?
I just get spammed with error messages. The 35x shown in the bug report were shortly after a restart. If you play for a while, these quickly go into the hundreds. As a result, it was no longer possible to play with Rarity and I had to uninstall it.
Not sure what happened but this is no longer tracking kills for me. It started a few weeks ago, but I hadn't noticed until recently. I've updated to the latest update released on 7/19, but still not working. This is specific to rares that drop mounts.