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.
Hi,
probably a stupid question, but I couldn't find any option for it: How do I disable rare icons on the map? They interfere with another map icon addon.
It can be disabled through HandyNotes' settings. Open those, click into the "plugins" section, and you can turn off SilverDragon there.
In reply to Kemayo:
Thank you!
I love this addon so much.
Rare hunting would be a nightmare without it.
I do have a QOL request.
Under Outputs/Flash.
Would it be possible to add an option to change the edge flash color?
Red is the color used for low health.
I use short, quiet alert sounds.
Sometimes battle sounds, being more important than a rare alert, drown out the alert sound.
Suddenly I see the red border flash and think I am about to get owned only to discover its just a rare spawn.
That's an adrenaline rush I would like to eliminate as much as possible.
It would be even more awesome if the different categories of alert could have their own edge flash color.
Ie, the Normal, Boss, and Mount alerts could have different flash colors.
Okay, that's in the current alpha now.
In reply to Kemayo:
Yeee haaaaw!
Thanks so much.
Is there a chat command that can be used to quickly ignore a mob in SilverDragon? I tried /silverdragon ignore id, but that didn't seem to do anything.
That'll work on the alpha.
In reply to Kemayo:
Amazing! I'll get the alpha update. Thanks for the quick response.
It would be really nice if a sound volume control for alerts were implemented! Other than that great addon!!
There are enhanced options for sound output in the current alpha. I don't think there's a way to control the volume specifically, but I can give you some choices as to which volume channel applies at least.
There is a conflict between newer versions of Silver dragon and rarity addon. If you have silver dragon installed then you can not find the option "channel" in announcements. It would be great if you can fix that please, thank you.
Check out the newest alpha?
In reply to Kemayo:
Hello, the one that released yesterday? No, i will download it and test it! Thank you i will inform if the problem is solved!
In reply to Kemayo:
I checked it and works fine! Thanks :D
Yes I have this same issue. Is there a way you can make it so the list will stay open instead of me having to keep the cursor over the icon, make the list scroll-able and re-sizable. I love the size myself but would love to be able to scroll up and down the list.
In reply to Khedrak:
@Kemayo, any news on a fix for that?
My current workaround is to manually override the tooltip scaling in Bazooka; but that’s … a workaround.
Should work on the latest alpha.
In reply to Kemayo:
Oh, yes, it is great now. Flickering with long lists seems to be gone. I can even scroll the list, and also place the mouse on the loot icons in the list to see the tooltips.
Many thanks for your work and this really good add-on!
Is there anyway to change the style of Handynote integration? So it's not all skulls on the map?
This addon is great and all, and the one thing I missed about NPC Scan Overlay is that each rare had it's own colour. So if a zone had 5 rares in it, they'd show up as red, green, blue, orange, yellow areas on the map. If the zone had more rares, it'd show more colours.
This is hard to distinguish which rare is what unless I look at each one.. cos it shows ALL spawn locations and the icon looks the same for each rare.