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.
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
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It sounds like you'd best be served by not using Rarity at all. There's no need for the theoretical discussion here. We're quite aware of how rolls work in WoW, yet many, many people find it helpful for tracking their attempts.
Great addon! Keep up the good job!
I have a question about the custom part of the addon. I was trying to customize some itens and one of the required fields is "Statistical ID", where the tooltip asks to look that on wowhead or other sites. E dig up on wowhead and couldn`t find this ID.
What is this and how does it works?
Statistics are under the Achievemnets menu in Wowhead. They're not required, but if one is available for what you're trying to track, it's by far the best way to track it.
Got it! Thanks a lot!
I'm not sure why, but Rarity doesn't seem to recognize my attempts for the Dandelion Frolicker. I looked at the underlying definition that is pre-populated and everything seems correct (NPC, item, etc.). All other tracking seems just fine. Although I have the battle pet, I want to catch it on a particular character for the 'Going to Need a Bigger Bag' achievement, so I checked the repeatable box. Any ideas on what might cause this behavior?
It's probably related to the recent change I made in NPC detection. Can you turn on debug mode (from the options screen) and loot some Nice Sprites and post a screenshot of what Rarity prints to your chat window? Open a ticket for this issue here (this is where you can post screenshots):
http://www.wowace.com/addons/rarity/tickets/
Created a ticket. I'll look there for more updates. Thanks.
UPDATE: As I was filling out the ticket, I found that I was running an older version. I'm going to try the new version and see if it works.
it's because Rarity is checking for NPC ID 71826(Scary Sprite) when the critter actually drops off NPC ID 71823(Nice Sprite)....the Sprites retain the NPC ID for Nice Sprites even when they aren't actually Nice Sprites anymore, so when you go loot them, it doesn't recognise the correct NPC as being looted so it doesn't count them...
It was fixed a while back. You're right, that was the problem.
I was still having the problem so I assumed it wasn't fixed...but I'll go double check my install...and make sure it isn't something wierd on my end...and kill more sprites...
ok found a scary sprite on my mage and managed to kill it before time ran out....and Rarity didn't say I made an attempt for Dandelion Frolicker....however, my list of addons is a mile long and it may just be an addon conflict, but it's the only critter that does not work...so I don't know and I don't want to disable all my addons just to find out...I can live with not knowing how many Scary Sprites I've looted...
When I killed a bunch of these today, it counted them when I accidently looted while I was still fighting them, but didn't count the ones I looted after the debuff wore off. So I don't know. I think I'll just live with not knowing how many I looted. Not like it really matters, I just like that little reminder of how much RNG hates me when I'm farming for something.
I tested this back when I fixed it, and it worked for me. I can try it again, but I don't think anything has changed. Will try to test today.
Just tested again and you're right: it doesn't seem to be working if you wait until combat has ended. I'll have to look into this a bit later.
As a side note, just got my second Dandelion Frolicker out of only two 1-minute killing sessions here. ;)
Just got my first, last and only Dandilion Frolicker today...so I won't be noticing or caring whether rarity tracks it or not anymore...altho I suppose others might ;)
I would be nice if rarity could track all the items in the achievement "Going to need a bigger bag".
But everything else works fine for me - And if looking enhancements it might be that the count should be cross characters
Best regards
Thorvald
Can Rarity track cross-account attempts if I farm on multiple characters?
Yes. Rarity can track attempts across all characters on a single World of Warcraft license. It cannot track attempts across multiple licenses within a single Battle.Net account, because World of Warcraft does not permit this.
If you just installed Rarity for the first time, it will automatically track attempts across a single license. You don't need to do anything.
If you had already used Rarity before patch 5.0, you need to take action in order to enable cross-license tracking. Open your Interface Options and find Rarity in the list. Click on Rarity, then click the + sign that appears. This reveals a new entry called Profile. Click it. Finally, in the Existing Profiles drop-down, select "Default". Warning: This will reset your options and you will lose all existing attempt counts. Some attempts may be repopulated based on the current character's Statistics, but most things will be reset to 0.
ok it happened yet again this time i managed to track down the exact toon it happened on i got the box i opened box and i think i got tokens from it but my count did not go up so it seems that rarity defenitaly seems to miss certain kills as this has happened 3 times just during this event alone
Unable to reproduce.
I have a problem, Rarity was working fine all day, and suddenly it stopped working, without any notice. It is activated, but it is impossible to go to the settings, it disappeared from Titan Panel, and there is no more kill tracking... wtf ?
It sounds like you have an installation problem or a conflict. You're probably getting a Lua error. If you post it here, I can try to assist.