Rarity
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If you're interested in following the development process or contributing, you should also check out the official GitHub repository. We're always in need of more hands to help us make the addon better!
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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No issue here, just a big suggestion - it would be wonderful if we could get Addon Compartment compatibility in a future update. Cheers! :)
https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Addon_compartment
In reply to OSDevon:
Thanks for the suggestion! This is already tracked on GitHub, though no one has had time to look at it since: https://github.com/WowRarity/Rarity/issues/660
In reply to Cakechart: Cheers!
In reply to OSDevon:
The latest release should support the addon compartment. For now, I just made the button open up the options UI (similar to typing /rarity in the chat window) since I didn't know how people use the compartment. If you have a better idea, the behavior can easily be changed to do something more useful.
In reply to Cakechart:
That's actually more or less the expected result x) Rock on, mate!
It's just a really nice alternative to minimap button clutter.
I'm sure someone else is likely to come up with a 'better' use case, but for now that's great!
All of a sudden the Rarity progress bar showed up. No idea what caused it. I can't seem to figure out how to disable it. Anyone know?
EDIT: I spoke too quickly. Doesn't seem to be an option in the options window (oddly), but typing "/rarity progress" worked to toggle it off.
In reply to gaviin1242:
You can click the LDB or mini map icon to toggle the progress bar, as well.
Sorry about that, You can delete this as I thought I clicked on the addon Rematch not Rarity. Both add-on's are right next to each other. Again sorry about that.
In reply to Khedrak:
Sorry, but what does this have to do with Rarity? Tundra Penguin seems to be a regular (wild) battle pet, not a rare collectible that would be tracked by this addon.
That said, is it possible you're referring to the info text Blizzard added to the ingame Pet Journal? If so, that could easily be misleading in instances where items were added post-expansion. Usually addons, as well as Blizzard's own UI, display that text directly via the PetJournal API. Unfortunately, it's not something anyone outside Blizzard's team could fix (but you could put in a bug report via the ingame Help menu).
I get this error when the cursor goes over the Rarity minimap button:
12x ...rfaceRarity/Libs/LibQTip-1.0-49/LibQTip-1.0.lua:364: attempt to perform arithmetic on field '_paddingL' (a nil value)
[string "@Rarity/Libs/LibQTip-1.0-49/LibQTip-1.0.lua"]:364: in function `getContentHeight'
[string "@Rarity/Libs/LibQTip-1.0-49/LibQTip-1.0.lua"]:955: in function <...rfaceRarity/Libs/LibQTip-1.0/LibQTip-1.0.lua:901>
[string "@Rarity/Libs/LibQTip-1.0-49/LibQTip-1.0.lua"]:231: in function <...rfaceRarity/Libs/LibQTip-1.0/LibQTip-1.0.lua:227>
Locals:
self = Frame {
0 = <userdata>
OnBackdropLoaded = <function> defined @SharedXML/Backdrop.lua:152
GetBackdropColor = <function> defined @SharedXML/Backdrop.lua:390
SetupTextureCoordinates = <function> defined @SharedXML/Backdrop.lua:214
OnBackdropSizeChanged = <function> defined @SharedXML/Backdrop.lua:182
HasBackdropInfo = <function> defined @SharedXML/Backdrop.lua:278
SetBackdropBorderColor = <function> defined @SharedXML/Backdrop.lua:422
GetEdgeSize = <function> defined @SharedXML/Backdrop.lua:188
_provider = <table> {
}
ApplyBackdrop = <function> defined @SharedXML/Backdrop.lua:294
SetBackdrop = <function> defined @SharedXML/Backdrop.lua:329
ClearBackdrop = <function> defined @SharedXML/Backdrop.lua:282
GetBackdropBorderColor = <function> defined @SharedXML/Backdrop.lua:409
GetBackdrop = <function> defined @SharedXML/Backdrop.lua:347
SetupPieceVisuals = <function> defined @SharedXML/Backdrop.lua:246
SetBackdropColor = <function> defined @SharedXML/Backdrop.lua:399
SetBorderBlendMode = <function> defined @SharedXML/Backdrop.lua:266
fontString = FontString {
}
}
fontString = FontString {
0 = <userdata>
}
(*temporary) = <function> defined =[C]:-1
(*temporary) = FontString {
0 = <userdata>
}
(*temporary) = 0
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = "attempt to perform arithmetic on field '_paddingL' (a nil value)"
In reply to Bananafana:
That's inside one of the libraries Rarity uses. Unless you can provide a way to reliably reproduce the issue, I don't think there's anything I can do to help. You'd have to report the problem over here if you want help from the addon author (not me): https://www.wowace.com/projects/libqtip-1-0
Can you make a tab for mount manuscripts too ?
In reply to angelveil1:
Yes, in theory. In practice, I don't know that adding a whole new group for what might be a niche/expansion feature would be a good idea. For the time being, using Custom items seems like a more appropriate solution, especially since I don't have time to add all the Dragonriding customizations and test them myself.
If many people want this it's going to have to be a community effort, so feel free to share the export strings here or on the Rarity discord :)
Deleted & moved to Issues.
In reply to RavenMind:
Just FYI: There's no new issue that I can see. It might've been blocked by CF since your account is new? You can also report problems via GitHub or Discord if that works for you.
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