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.
In reply to Kemayo:
I read your comment on "colors don't mean anything" and I was like "what the..?" but then I learned what you meant. A good example would be to look at Deepholm, since there are lots of rares patrolling. It's really easier to use.
However, I think since WoD, Blizzard has added tons of rares to the maps and many have specific rewards tied to them. If you go to WoD, Legion or BfA on a "fresh" alt, the map just looks like a fruit salad. I mean, you can keep that mode, looks nice for old maps, but for newer maps it's just very confusing. if I may suggest, what lots of Handy Notes plugins do nowadays:
White Skulls: "Worthless" rares - has no toy/pet/mount BUT can have gear or even achievements tied to it - usually "kill all the rares". White skull rares can be hidden if you killed it already. Can be permanently hidden even if you can loot it again (a reset) but worthless loot anyway, or has a rare loot you already own.
Blue Skulls: Has toy/pet/rare. Stays hidden forever after you loot it. Warfront pluggin shows the rares again after a reset due to quests tied to rares, but they turn to white skulls if you have the loot
Now what I suggest that I see no other addons doing:
Green Skulls: Mobs that can drop learnable mogs or mobs that have pets that you have but you don't have 3/3. Can be toggleable off for people that don't care about those. Could also separate into another color, maybe yellow.
Purple Skull: Actual rare mobs, such as Timelost Protodrake, Voidtalon, etc.. I don't know if you can automate this, probably not and might not be worth doing it manually, but it's an idea anyway.
Maybe other rares can have shades of white/gray, blue, etc to show different rares the way you want. Or maybe this is just another "color mode". I hope you like the ideas and implement it somehow. Also another idea, since I'm throwing it at you (lol) is to make color scheme per expansion or even per some maps, such as warfronts.
Thanks so much for adding the unique colour per rare, I commented about it a couple weeks ago!
I updated my addon today and noticed the changed.
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.