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:
Yeah I get that since other people can kill it before you even reach, but specifically for when you kill the rare it would be nice if it autocloses
Okay, that's in the new alpha now.
The "Post in chat" (shift-left click) function in the click-target frame doesn't seem to be working for me. There's no error thrown (I'm using BugSack), just nothing visible happens. All of the other options - target, map pin, close - work fine. Is there some config setting I'm missing to make this work?
It works exactly like the official Blizzard one in the map -- you need to have an open chat textbook to paste it into.
Got it. I was expecting something similar to the rare announcer addons. Thanks!
I can see the argument for doing it the other way, certainly!
Okay, new alpha is better about this: it will open the chatbox if you had it closed, and otherwise will paste into relevant open chatboxes. Thanks for nudging me about this being unintuitive!
Very cool, thanks! I honestly didn't expect you to change it; there's always something else to tweak. TBH, the Blizzard pins aren't very intuitive to begin with, so I certainly can't knock your implementation of it!
The interface Between TitanPanel and SilverDragon is broken. Here is the error presented when mouseover on the button on TitanPanel:
You have some other addon with an outdated version of LibQTip installed which is breaking things.
I’m told that libqtip itself might have been updated to fix that upgrade path, so if you’re not on the silverdragon alpha you could try that and see if it helps...
Hi. Just update. And running only silver dragon to exclude broken other stuff. I see that there are no Broker tooltip (like from screenshot in images) then you navigate mouse to icon at minimap.
And also when you pass near rares there is no appearing nameplates. But the test one are working fine.
Are you seeing any errors? You might need to install BugSack or similar to see them.
In reply to Kemayo:
Sorry. The site BugSack download page is down, but i found the issue at least. I didnt switch off Rarity https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/rarity and that was causing issues. sorry.
Thanks for updating me! That's going to be a shared-libraries issue -- Rarity uses LibQTip for the fancy dropdowns just like I do, and they've not updated to the new version... and a quirk of how the library works means that the newer version I package can't replace the broken bits from the old version.
In reply to Kemayo:
I'm seeing an issue with the LibQTip.lua dealing with the SetBackround in line 540.
@Frazzld: Same as interloper69 -- some other addon hasn't updated and is breaking it.
So not sure what is going on, but was wondering if maybe you know what i can adjust. When a rare spawns with silver dragon, my game lags out and i get a black screen flash while using this addon. Any ideas?
Try disabling the "Flash" option in settings, maybe? I've never seen that happen, so it might be some weird interaction.
Question about the priority of the settings in the Output section:
Let’s say, there is a rare that drops a pet. I already have killed that rare and have the pet in my collection – but I wouldn’t mind getting another one. So, it’s clear that I select the “Got the loot” option. But what’s about “Already found”?
I would like to deselect “Already found”, to get rid of the announcements of all the minor, lootless rares I already killed. But will this then also exclude the pet-dropping rare?
In other words: Will an unselected “Already found” overwrite the selected “Got the loot”?
Thanks for clarification.
– Tom
<p>I like this plugin, it's great.<br />I encountered a problem, how do I hide the rare achievements (completed and uncompleted) of the achievements and task types? I am doing missions in the old world. The map display is too messy. I just want to show unfinished achievements, mounts, toys, and rarities that have not been obtained by pets. Thank you very much.