SilverDragon

SilverDragon tracks rares in World of Warcraft. 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.

Chat

Some rares yell in zone chat. If SilverDragon notices those yells, it'll alert you.

Dark Magic

This abuses detection of when Blizzard blocks attempts to call a protected function (TargetUnit) to work out when you're in targetting range of a unit with a given name

This inherently causes in-game errors, so it is disabled by default. Enable in the addon config under Scanning / Dark Magic.

By default it's less-aggressive, scanning through rares in the zone without known vignettes at a rate of 1/second. However, you can turn that rate way up if you'd like. You can also turn on an option to automatically hide the error messages it causes, but beware that this will potentially cause taint issues that'll leave you needing to /reload eventually.

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

History

A log of seen rares will be shown in a window, so you can easily glance over spawn times.

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.)

Alternately, right-click the close button for the popup and that'll ignore it as well.

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 the addon compartment and also 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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LuvPrncess
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Posted Mar 22, 2021
rare is spelled "Corpsecutter Moroc" now

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Kemayo
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Posted Mar 22, 2021
Oh, they finally fixed that? I'm honestly a bit surprised.

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Posted Mar 22, 2021
Clickin on the pretty nameplate generated when a rare is detected no longer targets it, even when it's enabled. Plz fix thx.

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Posted Mar 22, 2021
Unhelpfully, it works for me. Could you give me more details? In/out of combat? Any specific rare it's not working on? Any lua errors that're happening?

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Posted Mar 16, 2021
Hi. When hovering over a skull icon on the map and seeing the rewards, when I try to hover over one of the items the tooltip disappears. Is there anyway or a hotkey to persist the tooltip so I can review the items the rare drops?

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Posted Mar 12, 2021
I just switched to this from NPCScan and there's already a treasure trove more control and details to contend with. It's great.

That being said, is there a way to hide achievement/quest completed rares from the "Nearby" list (i.e.: from databroker tooltip or world map), as can be done for the world map markers?

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Posted Mar 9, 2021
Needs patching, pretty please!

441x SilverDragon\targets\popup.lua:441: attempt to perform arithmetic on field 'elapsed' (a nil value)
[string "@SilverDragon\targets\popup.lua"]:441: in function <SilverDragon\targets\popup.lua:440>

Locals:
self = SilverDragonPopupButton {
CalculateAction = <function> defined @FrameXML\SecureTemplates.lua:584
glow = <unnamed> {
}
source = <unnamed> {
}
close = SilverDragonPopupButtonCloseButton {
}
data = <table> {
}
animFade = <unnamed> {
}
OnBackdropLoaded = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:195
animIn = <unnamed> {
}
shine = <unnamed> {
}
GetBackdropColor = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:433
SetupTextureCoordinates = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:257
OnBackdropSizeChanged = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:225
HasBackdropInfo = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:321
SetBackdropBorderColor = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:465
status = <unnamed> {
}
dead = <unnamed> {
}
title = <unnamed> {
}
GetEdgeSize = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:231
lootIcon = <unnamed> {
}
raidIcon = <unnamed> {
}
background = <unnamed> {
}
ApplyBackdrop = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:337
SetBackdrop = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:372
ClearBackdrop = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:325
modelbg = <unnamed> {
}
GetBackdropBorderColor = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:452
GetBackdrop = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:390
model = <unnamed> {
}
SetupPieceVisuals = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:289
SetBackdropColor = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:442
SetBorderBlendMode = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:309
0 = <userdata>
}
elapsed = 2.949000
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = "attempt to perform arithmetic on field 'elapsed' (a nil value)"
Debug = <function> defined @SilverDragon\core.lua:22
module = <table> {
RegisterConfig = <function> defined @SilverDragon\targets\config.lua:11
SetDefaultModuleLibraries = <function> defined @Masque\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:367
Point = <function> defined @SilverDragon\targets\module.lua:114
IsModelBlacklisted = <function> defined @SilverDragon\targets\popup.lua:151
Enable = <function> defined @Masque\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:294
UnregisterAllEvents = <function> defined @Masque\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:174
Marked = <function> defined @SilverDragon\targets\module.lua:122
EnableModule = <function> defined @Masque\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:332
modules = <table> {
}
GetModule = <function> defined @Masque\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:210
IterateEmbeds = <function> defined @Masque\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:442
anchor = <unnamed> {
}
defaultModuleLibraries = <table> {
}
SendLinkToMob = <function> defined @SilverDragon\targets\module.lua:182
GetGeneralID = <function> defined @SilverDragon\targets\module.lua:136
CreatePopup = <function> defined @SilverDragon\targets\popup.lua:174
SendLinkToLoot = <function> defined @SilverDragon\targets\module.lua:191
SetDefaultModulePrototype = <function> defined @Masque\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:409
baseName = "SilverDragon"
RefreshLootData = <function> defined @SilverDragon\targets\popup.lua:82
popup = SilverDragonPopupButton {
}
name = "SilverDragon_ClickTarget"
SizeModel = <function> defined @SilverDragon\targets\popup.lua:162
IsEnabled = <function> defined @Masque\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:451
orderedModules = <table> {
}
Announce = <function> defined @SilverDragon\targets\module.lua:62
DisableModule = <function> defined @Masque\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:350
LookConfig = <table> {
}
RegisterLookConfig

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2x FrameXML\RestrictedExecution.lua:431: Call failed: FrameXML\RestrictedFrames.lua:650: attempt to call field 'Disable' (a nil value) [string "=[C]"]: ? [string "@FrameXML\RestrictedExecution.lua"]:431: in function <FrameXML\RestrictedExecution.lua:420> [string "=(tail call)"]: ? [string "=(tail call)"]: ? [string "@FrameXML\SecureHandlers.lua"]:84: in function `SecureHandler_OnSimpleEvent' [string "*:OnHide"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnHide"]:1> [string "=[C]"]: in function `Hide' [string "@SilverDragon\targets\popup.lua"]:204: in function `CreatePopup' [string "@SilverDragon\targets\popup.lua"]:21: in function `ShowFrame' [string "@SilverDragon\targets\module.lua"]:90: in function `?' [string "@Masque\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-7.lua"]:119: in function <...que\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:119> [string "=[C]"]: ? ... [string "@Masque\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-7.lua"]:64: in function `Fire' [string "@SilverDragon\core.lua"]:429: in function <SilverDragon\core.lua:407> [string "=(tail call)"]: ? [string "=(tail call)"]: ? [string "@SilverDragon\scan\vignettes.lua"]:255: in function `?' [string "@Masque\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-7.lua"]:119: in function <...que\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:119> [string "=[C]"]: ? [string "@Masque\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-7.lua"]:29: in function <...que\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:25> [string "@Masque\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-7.lua"]:64: in function `Fire' [string "@PetTracker\libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0-4.lua"]:120: in function <PetTracker\libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:119> Locals: (*temporary) = "Call failed: FrameXML\RestrictedFrames.lua:650: attempt to call field 'Disable' (a nil value)"

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Posted Mar 9, 2021
New release should help once it's approved.

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Posted Mar 9, 2021
In reply to Kemayo:

Curseforge not listing yet, but installed manually. Errors gone, but not functioning fully.

Tomb Burster not detected as vignette, but triggered when rare spawned. Pop-up not showing drop fly-out.

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Posted Mar 10, 2021
I can't reproduce this one in general -- though I've not tested on Tomb Burster specifically because it's really intermittent. Have you seen it pop up for any other rares?

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Posted Mar 10, 2021
In reply to Kemayo:

Just so you know, for some reason your commit isn't being pushed to the Curseforge/Overwolf client. It's still reading the Jan. 17th alpha as the latest release.

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Posted Mar 10, 2021
That's the curseforge client for you -- it falls down horribly on caching any time there's a big release. All I can do there is wait.

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Posted Mar 10, 2021
In reply to Kemayo:

Thank you so much! <3

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Posted Mar 2, 2021
How can i move the frame that shows up on screen its messing with my unitframes

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Posted Mar 9, 2021
Either go to the options and press the "show anchor" button, or alt-click on the popup while it's visible and drag it.

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Posted Jan 31, 2021
In Bastion, the rare "Nikara the Reborn" is actually "Selena the Reborn". This is the three-player summon located at 61,50 near Temple of Humility. The other three-player summon at 51,68 near Aspirant's Rest is Nikara Blackheart.

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Posted Jan 30, 2021
hi,

for the silverdragon map overlay of rares, i'd like to activate the overlay for only specific expansions (vanilla to mop) and disable it for the others since i'm using handy notes. Is there any way i could do that please? i still want to have silverdragon alert me so ignoring doesn't do the job.

thanks

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Posted Mar 9, 2021
You can disable its knowledge of entire expansions in the Mobs part of the options.

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Posted Mar 12, 2021
In reply to Kemayo:

Hi,

Sorry probably didn't explain it well. I meant keeping the scanning and announcing for all expansione but disabling only the map overlay for certain expansions. Thanks again for the amazing work

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Posted Mar 12, 2021
There's not at the moment. I'll think about ways to fit that into the UI. Maybe having disabling them on the continent map hide them for all children? 🤔

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