SilverDragon - Rare Scanner
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
- AppearanceTooltip integrates with the SilverDragon loot popups and shows transmog-known status.
- 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.
- ObjectScanner: A few rares are hidden away behind interacting with world-objects like the Edge of Reality. These have to be localized individually, so you need to work out what they're called in your language and set up a watch for tooltips mentioning them. This addon does that bit.
- 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.
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Edit: fixed in the latest alpha release
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This ad-on just needs a .toc edit for 8.0.1. The author, kemayo was last online Thur, Dec 13 2018, so they are likely still active.
Greetings! I just added SilverDragon to my WoW account, and am really excited about it! Normally I do not use ANY sound when playing. What sound must I enable for SilverDragon to notify me of a rare sighting?
This add-on is great but screams for its own Volume setting. Is there a trick I'm missing?
not ignoring some "rares" at new arathi. As example - 142688 (Darbel Montrose), 142692 (Nimar the Slayer) - both in IGNORE section, but announced every time by vignette when met or reload ui. v 4.013 Ru Client WOW.
How do i turn off the change this has made to treasures or how do i customize the icons on my minimap radar? I can't see up / down arrows so I can go stand on the rare or a treasure chest and not know if its above or below me.
11/17/2018
Changed the popup "skin" to Transmog. Loved it.
However.
Everytime I log in or swap to a different character it swaps back to default.
Also running ElVui and Addonskinswithin it. Though it is claimed there should be no conflict.
Now a huge issue, obviously. Just wanted you to be aware.
Thank you for this Addon. It has replaced NPCScan/Overlay.
Smooches™
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 !
Hello,
Is there a way to change the pop up frame size?
Thanks
So, this thing IS updated. I've been trying for a while but searching with 2 words, but many addons are searched with one word. Well, now that I know, I can get back to the alerts that the rares are nowhere near me when I get alerted. I mean, I don't want to be right on top of them, but perhaps shorten the detection range a bit? Thank you for updating!
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?
Some location in Warfront Arathi definitely aren't correct
EDIT: Found Venomarus at 57.68 54.72
Edit: Crestling Goliath at 61.8 31.7
Yogursa at 14.3 36.8 (patrolling)
any chance of getting a path/location overlay added to silver dragon? I like to be able to see the rares pathing area and locations on the map that way i know where to go to find the rares?
In reply to rhaincloud:
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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?
It does not clear the icon from the map (handynotes) after killing the rare.
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