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.
That's fixed in the alpha from yesterday, fortunately! I'll do a new release version shortly.
In reply to Kemayo:
Good to know, many thanks for the reply and, obviously, for the fix! ;)
In reply to Kemayo:
hello do you plan to update this addon to 8.3? or I leave it abandoned?
Before upgrading to the most recent version, when I went to the Mobs tab, it showed zones or expansions (I forget) and I could pick and choose which ones to enable or which individual mobs in each area to enable. Now those tabs are gone and it's just Custom and Ignore. Is that by design or is that a bug?
Sounds like an issue with installing the data modules. Classic or retail?
In reply to Kemayo:
Retail. I have both versions in my Addons list but I've unchecked the classic version.
In reply to Kemayo:
Looks like it was me (or Twitch). Looks like Twitch had downloaded the classic version. I reinstalled and it's now the non-classic version. I can't log in right now to check but I'll update if that doesn't fix it.
In reply to Kemayo:
Just to close the loop - yeah, that was the problem. Sorry about that.
In reply to Kemayo:
I had this issue too, and downloading through Twitch just absolutely would not work. Even using the specific file link and then saying to install through the client was pulling the Classic version. I had to do a manual download & install to fix.
This isn't the only addon I've had this issue with, I don't know if it's something you can report to the creator support team that the app is consistently pulling the wrong addon version for retail vs classic.
using this in classic, how come it includes much less rares compared to rareaware? for example in stranglethorn vale it has like half as many rares as rareaware?
Because it has "rares in classic that wowhead knows the location of" currently, and I haven't integrated any other data.
New alpha has lots more.
Getting a lua error when targeting Cham-Haunter in Nazjatar by clicking the Silver Dragon pop up portrait. It only happens on Chasm-Haunter & the report shows AzerPUG lua error trying to hook info from chat but they have researched & cannot replicate, so they insist the error must be yours. Please help:
Message: Interface\AddOns\AzerPUG RareUtility\main.lua:517: attempt to perform arithmetic on a nil value
Time: Wed Aug 28 02:53:55 2019
Count: 1
Stack: Interface\AddOns\AzerPUG RareUtility\main.lua:517: attempt to perform arithmetic on a nil value
[C]: ?
Interface\AddOns\AzerPUG RareUtility\main.lua:517: in function `OnEvent'
Interface\AddOns\AzerPUG RareUtility\main.lua:57: in function <Interface\AddOns\AzerPUG RareUtility\main.lua:57>
Locals:
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But seriously, I don't think I do anything which would relate to this. Skimming their code, it looks like this error occurs when they parse a chat message and it looks like one they sent but there's no
%
sign next to the health value they extract from it. Chasm-Haunter (and three other rares with hyphens in their names) have some special-cased handling for their messages, so I'd suspect they have a bug in how they're extracting the health from that.If you want to test whether this is SilverDragon being involved, all SD does when you click on the portrait is run a "/targetexact Chasm-Haunter" macro. You can do that in chat and see whether the same thing happens without SD in the loop at all.
You could also check whether this happens with Enforcer KX-T57, OOX-Avenger/MG, or Gorged Gear-Cruncher, as all of those follow the same special branch for extracting the health from their message.
Oh, and since it's happening in response to a message in chat, you could pay attention to whether said message looks obviously malformed. Assuming they don't hide it from your chat, of course.
This really needs to have a feature added to enable it only for selected zones. It's a very useful addon but incredibly annoying to fly over older zones where I don't care about rares and have it alert me constantly.
Will this be ported for Classic WoW?
In reply to Hyattmeister:
+1
In reply to Hyattmeister:
+1
In reply to Hyattmeister:
+1 Please update for Classic