SilverDragon
SilverDragon tracks rares. It will try everything possible to notice them and tell you about them.
How does it search?
Vignettes
Those little skull icons you see on the minimap. If one of them is a rare SilverDragon knows about, it'll yell at you.
Targets
If you mouse over or target a rare mob, SilverDragon will notice it.
Nameplates
If you have enemy nameplates turned on, SilverDragon will keep an eye on them to look for the names of known rares.
Macro
SilverDragon can also create a macro to target any rares that are known in the current zone. You can stick this on your actionbars as a button to spam while chasing after a rare, or bind it to a key. This is sort of a last resort.
How will I know when a rare is seen?
Frame
When a rare appears, SilverDragon will pop up a frame that you can click on to target it.
Warning: If you're in combat, secure action restrictions mean that it won't show up until combat finishes.
Sounds
You can choose from assorted sounds to play when a rare is seen. The sound can loop for a while, to make sure you don't miss it.
There's special settings for rares that drop mounts and world boss rares which you might want to call up a group for. If you're sitting mostly-AFK on a Time-Lost Proto Drake spawn, you probably want the sound that plays to be utterly ridiculous and go on for a good long while, to make sure you don't miss that sucker.
Messages
A notice can be sent to a number of places:
- your scrolling combat text
- your chat frame
- a channel in your chat frame (announcing it to your party, for instance)
- a popup window
- etc
Other useful things?
Custom mobs
In SilverDragon's options you'll find a "Mobs" section. In the "Always" section, you can add any mob you want to be scanned for. All you need to know is the mob id.
So, let's say you wanted to keep an eye out for Lil Timmy in Stormwind, to buy the kitten he sells. You would...
- Go to his wowhead page.
- Grab his id from the URL. It's
8666
. - Enter
8666
into the "add" field, and click "okay". - Play with your new kitten.
Yes, this example dates me.
Ignoring mobs
If there's some mob you don't want to hear about for whatever reason, just go to the "Ignore" section of the options. Again, enter the mob's id into the "add" box, then click okay. Bam! You will never again be told that Vern is up.
(Actually, Vern is ignored by default. But you get the idea.)
Syncs
SilverDragon will talk to itself. It can communicate with other copies of itself run by people in your party / guild, and tell you when they see a rare mob. (If there's a group of you camping all the Time-Lost Proto Drake spawns, say...)
You can turn this off completely, if you want to be private about it.
Tooltips
Some rares are part of an achievement. When you mouse over a rare mob, SilverDragon will add to the tooltip whether you've already killed it, so you know whether you need to rush for it.
Broker
SilverDragon includes a Broker plugin. It'll attach itself to your minimap, or a Broker container you have installed, and show you a list of the mobs it knows about in the current zone.
Other addons you may find useful
- HandyNotes: integrates with SilverDragon to show icons on zone maps where a rare has been seen.
- ServerRestartSound: plays a sound when the server's about to restart. If you're AFK-camping for a rare spawn, you probably want to know about this.
- ButtonBin: a broker display. SilverDragon's minimap icon will show up on it (or any other addon like it) instead of cluttering up your minimap, if you have it installed.
Seems like Pandaria is causing silver dragon to not work properly. I use the addon tooltip to calculate the spawn times from the rares but every time I mouseover the minimap icon I get this error, for now only happens in Pandaria.
Message: Interface\AddOns\SilverDragon\achievements.lua:379: GetAchievementCriteriaInfo(achievementID, criteriaIndex [,countHidden]), criteria not found
Time: Wed Jan 23 14:54:18 2019
Count: 5
Stack: Interface\AddOns\SilverDragon\achievements.lua:379: GetAchievementCriteriaInfo(achievementID, criteriaIndex [,countHidden]), criteria not found
[C]: ?
[C]: in function `GetAchievementCriteriaInfo'
Interface\AddOns\SilverDragon\achievements.lua:379: in function `AchievementMobStatus'
Interface\AddOns\SilverDragon\achievements.lua:390: in function `CompletionStatus'
Interface\AddOns\SilverDragon\outputs\ldb.lua:144: in function `OnEnter'
...Ons\SilverDragon\lib\LibDBIcon-1.0\LibDBIcon-1.0.lua:77: in function <...Ons\SilverDragon\lib\LibDBIcon-1.0\LibDBIcon-1.0.lua:60>
Locals:
BTW I love this addon :)
In reply to DalizC:
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[73666] = 31,
How can I disable screen edges flashing?
Hello and thanks for this awesome Addon! I really like and it helped me a lot, but i have a question regarding the vignette and the little popup thing. Is there a way to dismiss it by right clicking on it (anywhere) like the chat bubbles in BFA or NPCScan popup? it's really annoying at some point when the little window stays for too long and you have to actually click the little X
Thanks !
I turned off vignette scanning under scanning / vignettes (set enabled to false) but I still get alerts when the game shows me a new rare mob nearby.
What am I doing wrong?
I had a rookie question. How do I turn the volume down for the alert? I have in game sound down and that thing BOOOMs like an artillery strike just landed. Is there a volume setting - besides the one on my speakers?
Hello there, I would like to ask why a star icon is not appearing at the locations where rares of older expansions than WOD are up?
I am farming Aeonaxx and i have seen many of other rares up like Xariona but she is not pointed with a star icon and also you can not hear a sound but only if you mouse over her. I would like to know if it is possible when a rare is up to hear a sound without needing to mouse over for it, thanks!
In reply to vukodlak29:
Please add Doomwalker and Doom Lord Kazzak, bc wolrd bosses
Hello,I am glad to see the new update for SilverDragon!
I have found many rares with this tool,and I can't wait to use it in Battle for Azeroth.
I have a few questions for anyone who can help.
I was wondering if there was a way to disable the annoying tool tips that pop up when you mouse over the click to target icon.You know,the ones that show the mouse-left click to exit,alt-left click to move,etc..I think that would be good option in the settings if people could enable and disable that option.Maybe have a note in the settings menu just in case.
I think it would also be fun to add custom sounds to use as well,like from other npc's,bosses.The sound options feel a bit limited.
I also have issues finding the targeted npc's sometimes,Maybe there could be a mini-map arrow pointing to the targeted mob like in a quest.
Any have issue of red skulls not showing up in Elwynn Forest Area?
In reply to xajlox:
I need a rare tracking addon but getting pretty sick of this.
I go into interface, silverdragon, mobs, I disable mists, wod, legion and all it does it bleep nonstop in all 3 areas. Surely I dont have to disable each rare individually??
In reply to turkeychopio:
In reply to turkeychopio:
In reply to Kemayo:
@devlinv1
It'll only target things if you're within targeting range. It's not uncommon to wind up out of range due to the mob moving, or you moving before clicking the targeting frame.
I could adjust the macro to do `/target [nodead] Name` which would stop it targeting dead mobs. I do find it useful, though... lets me know I've actually found the mob, even if someone else got it first.
Hello! I have a question and I'm so sorry if I missed the answer somewhere in your description (which, by the way, is the most detailed and helpful on Curse, thank you). Referring to the pop-up window when you are within targeting range of a mob, the window you can click on to target, does it sometimes not work? Or maybe, as is in my case, not work at all? I just downloaded this add on yesterday, so I'm still learning all the ins and outs of it, but it won't target anything when I click or right-click. It also targets dead mobs, is it supposed to do that? Thank you for your time and the wonderful add on.
Is there a way to have TomTom crazy arrow point to where the target is. So many times I get the popup but can't seem to locate the target.
I have a hunter in search of a spirit beast so I'd like to add Gumi (69943), Hutia (69946), and Degu (69947) which are the three Spirit Porcupines.
From looking at the database, there's more than just the ID and the name. Where does the rest of the information come from? How is the location data used?