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.
Hello,
great work, i love this addon! Since the last update i have a problem... when i am in a building or cave, i see 20-50 rareicons on the minimap. Any idea how i can fix this?
Thanks!
How do you open this screen: http://media-curse.cursecdn.com/attachments/26/293/b0b27ee4ead903289b04843d7bebab50.jpg
Mouse over the icon that SilverDragon sticks on your minimap (or on whatever Broker display you're using).
Is there any way to add more customs sounds to the announcement thing? I'm not entirely keen on any of the sounds offered.
Really I just want Ragnaros to scream at me every time he spies an elite/rare.
It permits anything registered with LibSharedMedia. So check out http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/sharedmedia
Ever since Hallow's End has started my Draenei warrior gets the alert "Rare seen: Pale Fishmonger (point-of-interest @ 28.3,66.6)". Doesn't matter where I log in at, it even does it in Stormwind.
Since the last update, which added extra description text to the pop-up window for the 4 tanaan junge champion rares, clicking the pop-up no longer targets them.
PLEASE change back to the old descriptions, as very often the rares are completely surrounded by players and are nearly impossible to click on before they die in seconds if you can't use the pop-up.
I can confirm this is happening, although I'm experiencing the issue with other rares in Tanaan Jungle as well. Already missed out on a couple of kills because of this, just for being a few seconds later with targeting.
I did, I believe, fix that under the heading of "More careful recording of mob names-id pairs from achievements" (ambiguous, I know). You might need to re-import the rares list?
Has been recently updated for 6.2.2 ^^
I don't think this is working correctly for me; I've imported the mob list, but SilverDragon still doesn't alert me when there's a rare nearby, the alert only goes off when I have the mob actually targeted (and it's kinda like - well d'uh I see the rare now SilverDragon, I already have it freaking targeted.)
Can someone please tell me how to get it to alert me when there's a rare near me, without me having to target it first?
Blizzard have now changed the file system that used to cache rares (pre-MoP) within visual range. As a result addons such as SilverDragon and _NPCscan cannot tell you when a rare is within visual range and pop an alert automatically anymore.
Mobs from MoP onwards have a Minimap "Vignette" (small skull) that will trigger an alert as soon as they are in visual range. Sadly this meeans that 'old' rares are harder to track than ever.
However SilverDragon does offer Macros to enable you to manually search for rares in a given zone. You will need to hotkey it though and spam it yourself.
It's a P.I.T.A, but with the way the current file system works, there is literally no workaround.
Old Rares = Manual Scanning
Yup. It's only been updated to 6.0. I guess the author is busy and hasn't been able to update. Still, you can always just edit the .toc file and replace the line:
## Interface: 60000
with this instead:
## Interface: 60200
Curse will change the status to "Modified" but it won't pop up as "out-of-date" in game any more. If the author does update it later, you can just update and it will resolve.
It says that its out of date?
I tried to get this to work but I can't import any data and I've literally sat in front of a rare spawn for 5 minutes and it never alerted me to anything. It was only after I put my cursor over it that the alert popped up and by that time I already know it's there. I killed sever rares then came back the next day and there was nothing on my map showing where the ones were that I killed the day before.
Still works fine (if using the /tar mob lists I mentioned earlier anyway) for 6.2, although it will show up as out-of-date in the add-ons list. Will this be getting an update any time soon, or should I go ahead and modify the TOC file?
Since I've been using my own lists for locating the rare mobs, and hammering the macro button for each list for each zone, it should work well so long as you have the infromation regarding mobs/zone beforehand.
NPC_Scan overlay has good information regarding that, and the rest can be obtained from WoWhead. I still prefer SilverDragon to NPC_Scan itself though, as that one is kinda log-happy.
Does this mod still work well? Also, how far out does it search? If I am in Dread Wastes camping the Warbringer will it alert me to Krol on the other end of the map? Essentially, does it do anything I could not do just flying by?
Probably said this before, but can you make the pins movable please? I've had mob pins appear in the wrong place far too often
Since patch 6.2 I cannot use the MACRO: /click SilverDragonMacroButton
It wont auto-click the Rare target anymore, Nor does it work.. just a crap macro doing nothing.
FIX? (using ElvUI) - No problem closing the window or to make it track.
Just the macro isnt working.
This hasn't worked since 6.1 for me. I just do it the hard way, and create my own macro for each zone. Just make a list with /tar <mod name> for each rare in the area, and click that instead. Works fine for me.