SilverDragon tracks rares. It'll remember where you last saw a rare mob, and will pop up a notification message when you get near one.
It comes with a list of rares. Type "/silverdragon" to bring up the options, and use the "Import Data" button to bring 'em in. (It's not installed by default, in case people would prefer to keep the suspense alive. )
If you have nameplates enabled it'll scan through them to find rares nearby. Otherwise it requires you to mouseover/target a rare, or for your party member/pets to do likewise.
When a rare appears, SilverDragon will pop up a frame that you can click on to target it.
SilverDragon can also create a macro to target any rares that are known in the current zone. It's just that good.
If you import the default dataset: the very first time you come within visual range of a rare, SilverDragon will tell you. It only works the first time because it's checking the game's mob cache, and once you've seen it the game will remember. Remember, this won't happen if you don't do an import.
You can clear the mob cache by quitting WoW and deleting the Cache sub-directory in your WoW directory.
A LDB plugin is included to list rares in your current zone. I like ButtonBin as a viewer, but there'll be a minimap icon if you don't have any viewers installed. (You could use Broker2FuBar to put it on FuBar.)
If you have Cartographer or HandyNotes installed it will add map notes for rares, which can be shared with others.
Note that if you don't have a Broker viewer, and you don't have a supported map notes addon, all this addon will do is print a message into your scrolling text when you mouse over a rare!
http://www.wowace.com/projects/silver-dragon/
Change Log - SilverDragon
2.3.2
Better handling of player location in instances
Add zhTW rares translation submitted by s8095324.
Fix Nameplate/Cache scanning
Run dataminer
2.3.1
Missing AceLocale-3.0 embed.
Cartographer integration bug.
2.3.0
Default rare list localized to: deDE, frFR, ruRU, esES. Run an import to pick 'em up.
Better filtering-out of player pets.
Bump the TOC for SilverDragon_Data, so you don't need to enable out of date addons to import rares any more.
2.2.3
Different layouts for portrait and full-body model views. Full-body is big and on top of the frame.
Bump TOC
AceConsole-3.0 embed was missing. Oops.
2.2.2
Adjust said targeting frame a bit.
Fix a bunch of errors I found when looking at the Scarshield Quartermaster.
More feedback when creating a macro.
2.2.1
Show in the tooltip whether a mob is already in the unit cache.
Option to choose what ways of seeing a rare will make the targeting frame appear.
Bugfix for the click-to-target options not showing. (Thanks to EthanCentaurai!)
2.2.0
Add click-to-target frame that pops up when a rare is seen.
Add macro-generator.
Configure which sound is played when a rare is found. (Thanks to EthanCentaurai!)
Options for which scanning methods to use.
2.1.2
Quick fix for a nil error
2.1.1
Add cache-scanning, much credit to NPCScan by Saiket.
More options for notifying you: text, sound, screen-flashing.
LDB tooltip now says whether the rare is tameable.
For the cache-scanning to work, you have to import data. It relies on NPC ids that can't be gained from within the game.
2.0 r20090403010638:
Add a minimap icon for those without.
Assorted bugfixes
2.0 r20090225045942: Fix a missing LibSink-2.0 embed.
2.0 r20090224102127: Total rewrite for WotLK. It's Ace3 now, and works with HandyNotes or Cartographer to put notes on your map.
1.0 r49794
Update for 2.2.
Add deDE localization.
Some distance tweaks to rare location saving.
1.0 r36305
Update for 2.1.
Add zhTW translation from norova.
1.0 r32928
Improve TBC rares defaults.
Fix a few potential bugs.
1.0 r27768
Add TBC rares to defaults, provided by Astaldo on wowace forums.
Adjust display of coordinates to "x.x,y.y" instead of "x,y".
Better Cartographer information -- show rare info in the Cartographer tooltip.
Tweaked nameplate scanning for efficiency.
1.0 r21954
Initial release.
Optional Files - SilverDragon
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Since the updating of the images, I've been having problems with some of the popup model views of the critters. Instead of being a nice model, they are a huge digitized lump of a closeup of their left nostril or something similar. The 'Faulty War Golem' was the last one of these I saw it happen to, though there have been others. Some of the models don't seem to come through clearly on the portrait views, either, instead being a semi-transparent colorless view.
In addition, the models used to rotate, from what I remember. Now they simply stare face-on. That might be an intended change, mind you; I'm not positive.
There is one rare mob in the Dalaran Underbelly that cannot be killed or tamed, and you can only get to it through a glitch with the graphics and an underbelly elixir.
Originally posted by Kemayo What zone were you in?
In Kolkar Crag, Durotar:
Oddly enough, I logged in earlier tonight and went back to the same spot, and it worked fine. Maybe it was just an issue with my client or a problem with another addon the first time I saw the rare spawn.
Originally posted by oddtoddy Today, the little box popped up telling me there was a rare mob around and I clicked the box to target the mob, but it didn't target anything. I figured this was just the cache thing popping up but then I went around a corner and there was the rare mob it had alerted me about. I stood right in front of the rare mob clicking the Silverdragon box that popped up to target the mob, but it never targeted it.
Originally posted by oddtoddy Today, the little box popped up telling me there was a rare mob around and I clicked the box to target the mob, but it didn't target anything. I figured this was just the cache thing popping up but then I went around a corner and there was the rare mob it had alerted me about. I stood right in front of the rare mob clicking the Silverdragon box that popped up to target the mob, but it never targeted it.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
Always worked for me, but I know there are certain problems with targetting through addons, even when you just paste a player name from combat log to /tar them, you can get a message stating that a (usually random, though sometimes chat related) addon has caused a problem, giving you two buttons to either disable it and reload the UI, or ignore it. The problem you have could be related to this.
Today, the little box popped up telling me there was a rare mob around and I clicked the box to target the mob, but it didn't target anything. I figured this was just the cache thing popping up but then I went around a corner and there was the rare mob it had alerted me about. I stood right in front of the rare mob clicking the Silverdragon box that popped up to target the mob, but it never targeted it.
Originally posted by Nathanyel Word. Simply add the addon to your faves on WoWI or Curse, or add the addon files to your subscriptions in WowAce, and after that it's only unpacking an average of about 3-6 addons over the course of 2 days (though Curse, at least in the past, was rather slow in sending you notification mails)
Data gathering addons like GatherMate, SilverDragon or those related them (e.g. Routes) might have more peaks, but you can just ignore them for a few days to bypass those peaks and just download a final and stable version.
I'm actually lazy enough that I have an unzipper perl script in my addons folder. I just have to drop zip files in there and it'll unzip them and delete the zips. (Admittedly this is a bandaid over the fact that Ubuntu doesn't have a useful GUI extract-all-here command that I can find.)
Originally posted by rdrollins I maintain somewhere around 60 addons on 3 computers without any downloaders/updaters with very little effort other than the first few days after a big patch...
Word. Simply add the addon to your faves on WoWI or Curse, or add the addon files to your subscriptions in WowAce, and after that it's only unpacking an average of about 3-6 addons over the course of 2 days (though Curse, at least in the past, was rather slow in sending you notification mails)
Data gathering addons like GatherMate, SilverDragon or those related them (e.g. Routes) might have more peaks, but you can just ignore them for a few days to bypass those peaks and just download a final and stable version.
Every automatic updater I've used, except the late WowAceUpdater, has downloaded additional stuff further than needed libs, e.g. the Curse one kept giving me Fubar whenever I updated FactionsFu (I checked, Fubar was never listed as a dependency)
Originally posted by mystaken1 Love this addon, but since Curse and Interface has chosen to block wowmatrix since 3.1 I won't be using it, having to have 3 different downloaders/updaters to take care of what one can more than adequetly do is 2 more programs on my computer than I want. Please switch to wowmatrix. tyvm
I maintain somewhere around 60 addons on 3 computers without any downloaders/updaters with very little effort other than the first few days after a big patch...
From what I hear wowmatrix causes more headaches than it saves.
Love this addon, but since Curse and Interface has chosen to block wowmatrix since 3.1 I won't be using it, having to have 3 different downloaders/updaters to take care of what one can more than adequetly do is 2 more programs on my computer than I want. Please switch to wowmatrix. tyvm
Originally posted by Kemayo Make sure you have "load out of date addons" checked in your addon options. I haven't uploaded a version with a bumped TOC yet.
Originally posted by Hollingsworthrl I just downloaded and installed this addon but the only thing I see is the minimap button (which doesnt allow me to click for options) and also i tried /silverdragon and /silverdragon config but neither will bring up any menu for me to customize the options. Did i miss something?
Make sure you have "load out of date addons" checked in your addon options. I haven't uploaded a version with a bumped TOC yet.
I just downloaded and installed this addon but the only thing I see is the minimap button (which doesnt allow me to click for options) and also i tried /silverdragon and /silverdragon config but neither will bring up any menu for me to customize the options. Did i miss something?
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