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:
Very nice since I already noticed it has spread to other addons, like you said. Glad you got response and thank you!
In reply to Kemayo:
I'm using SilverDragon v90002.15.1, AddOnSkins 4.48, and ElvUI 12.16. Disabling AddonSkins still leaves ElvUI broken, the only solution I've found is disabling SilverDragon. I see an update for ElvUI so lets hope that fixes something.
In reply to skmzarn:
Having done some research, I think this is that a change in AceGUI is causing some issues for ElvUI. If I'm right, SilverDragon is only at fault in the sense that it's the only addon you've got which bundles Ace which has made a fresh release in the last 24-ish hours (since the relevant commit to AceGUI happened late on the 2nd), and the fixing would be down to either the Ace maintainers adjusting things or the ElvUI maintainers adjusting things.
Edit: I’ve made a merge request to ElvUI with a fix for the issue in their end. https://git.tukui.org/elvui/elvui/-/merge_requests/296
In reply to Kemayo:
I was just about to write the same thing. I have the same problem. :(
In reply to Kemayo:
They have pushed the hotfix out for ElvUI now, but I haven't tried it yet, I just copied your fix manually atm.
Something whacky is going on. Just recently the addon is reporting i've collected mounts I haven't. E.g. SL mounts such as Sundancer. Also the markers for VT portals in some zones of draenor are gone.
In reply to notanotherforumname:
Update to the latest release -- v90002.14 had some mobs relocated to Durotar for silly reasons.
I noticed that the mob Dolos in Maw doesn't appear on the worldmap nor the minimap. It's in the settings and it did announce, just have no icon on the maps.
In reply to skmzarn:
In terms of useful data to help me work this one out... send a screenshot of your Maw map with the broker tooltip open, your "outputs" settings, and your "map overlay" settings? Dolos doesn't have anything interesting going on which might confuse the issue, so the more data I have the more helpful I can be.
In reply to Kemayo:
Suddenly it appears now. No clue why, but it works so I am happy. I was just going to make screenshot on everything you wanted and just saw the icon for Dolos on the map, so nevermind this issue as it's no longer an issue. :)
Encountered a bug after a recent update. While in Durotar, it marks the map with various rare spawn such as Last Voidtalon and Posidus.
In reply to zardilann:
Check for updates again? That should have been fixed by v90002.15 earlier today.
In reply to Kemayo:
Looking alright after the update, thanks.
Also what happened to being able to shift click on the ncps on the mini map to announce in to chat?
Only can announce when the pop up come up and it fades out sometimes before i can shift click. or like in the Maw where i have it disabled because of so many announcements there is no way with it disabled to announce to chat.
In reply to sanesyco:
Shift-clicking on the minimap/worldmap/broker-tooltip all still work for me. Check your settings -- you might have it trying to send to a non-applicable channel?
In reply to Kemayo:
Thank you , i guess i changed something in there, i can shift click on the map but not the mini map now.
Working on that
Can something be done about the super loud announcement when cloudtail is found?
Blows your ears out
Oh, that's probably it trying to play all four of the beasts-of-bastion announcements at once.
Newest alpha should be better for you. It'll only play one announcement at a time.
Is there a way to disable/enable map icons by zone? If not would this be a feature you consider implementing?
As for the why: I have a few handynotes add-ons that I prefer handling the map icons. While I'd like to have SilverDragon's map icons on the zones where I don't have any handynotes add-ons going for.