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SilverDragon  Popular! (More than 5000 hits)

Version: v2024.1.1
by: Kemayo [More]

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.

This is the also how SilverDragon learns about *new* rares in the wild. After you first mouse over or target one, it'll remember it, and start watching for it in the cache in the future.

### Nameplates

If you have enemy nameplates turned on, SilverDragon will keep an eye on them to look for the names of known rares. This is the least exact method, because nameplates don't expose the underlying mob's id, so we have to rely on a plain name comparison.

Addons that modify nameplates may interfere with this.

### 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. 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...

1. Go to his [wowhead page](http://www.wowhead.com/npc=8666/lil-timmy).
1. Grab his id from the URL. It's `8666`.
1. Enter `8666` into the "add" field, and click "okay".
1. Play with your new kitten.

### 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

* [ServerRestartSound](http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/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.
* [HandyNotes](http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/handynotes): integrates with SilverDragon to show icons on zone maps where a rare has been seen.
* [_NPCScan.Overlay](http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/npcscan-overlay): shows rare mob paths for some rares, and can be told to pop up if SilverDragon sees something.
* [ChocolateBar](http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/chocolatebar): 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.

## Why should I use this instead of _NPCScan?

_NPCScan is all about scanning the cache. If a mob winds up already in your cache, it'll do nothing at all to help you. SilverDragon tries to fall back on more things, to give you the best chance of finding rares.

If you want to run across rares while leveling, SilverDragon helps with that. _NPCScan is solely a max-level tool.

Ultimately it's a matter of personal preference. :-P

## What's new with version 3?

Most of the addon has been rewritten so that its internals are entirely based on mob ids and zone ids, neither of which were available to the client back when 2.0 was written back in early 2009. This was also a great opportunity to stop having to lug so much localization code around.

Changed in v2024.1.1
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Unread 05-01-08, 12:33 PM  
wärezx
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So has this been updated for patch 2.4? Or is there more work being done to this addon?
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Unread 06-09-08, 07:57 PM  
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Are you supposed to be able to mouseover/click on anything in the default list? Because it disappears when I do.
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Unread 07-02-08, 02:37 AM  
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It would be nice if there were an option to hide SilverDragon from the minimap or FuBar (check out nearly any Ace addon).
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Unread 08-28-08, 06:25 PM  
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Dose this work with titian bar?
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Unread 10-18-08, 04:00 PM  
kazso
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Similar addon?

Could someone recommend a similar addon? Because it seems that Silverdragon isn't updated anymore and isn't working with WotLK
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Unread 10-29-08, 07:03 AM  
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Re: Similar addon?

Originally posted by kazso
Could someone recommend a similar addon? Because it seems that Silverdragon isn't updated anymore and isn't working with WotLK
http://wowui.worldofwar.net/?p=mod&m=3776

Is what I'm using - but I haven't run into a rare to test it yet.
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Unread 11-24-08, 04:39 PM  
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There's at least 4 problems with using this under WotLK.

embeds.xml needs to be updated to use the included LibBabbleZone, this is a rather easy fix, just change line 16 from:
<Include file="Libs\Babble-Zone-3.0\lib.xml"/>
to:
<Include file="Libs\LibBabble-Zone-3.0\lib.xml"/>

Core.lua needs to be fixed, so as to remove the "Attempt to hook a non-existant function \"ShowNameplates"" error. This fix is beyond my meagre abilities I'm afraid, if anyone else knows how to fix this then please post.

Defaults.lua needs to be updated with rares from WotLK. Again, this is beyond my abilities, but if anyone can or knows how to update this file, please post.

Included libraries need to be updated correctly. Yet again, this is beyond my abilities, but if anyone can update the included libraries, please post.

It seems Kemayo hasn't visited this site since August, so I guess the chances of any official fixes may well be rather limited!
Last edited by Grizzly UK : 11-24-08 at 04:54 PM.
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Unread 02-24-09, 05:02 AM  
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whoa Kemayo, welcome back (if you are back)

does this mean a LDB version of ToFu????

i know several people who would be happy to see this!!!!! =D
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Unread 02-24-09, 10:17 AM  
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Is there any chance to make this work with Mapster as well please??

-Strongbow-
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Unread 02-24-09, 11:56 AM  
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http://www.wowace.com/projects/silver-dragon/
the newer revisions support HandyNotes - Mapster on the other hand doesn't support map notes :P

*edit* oh wait, this page has a current version now, too
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Unread 02-24-09, 05:17 PM  
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Great to see renewed work on this.

Is there any way to get support for MapNotes added?
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Unread 02-24-09, 05:19 PM  
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HURRAH ... ive so missed this mod!!!
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Second on MapNotes support.

And yes, Mapster does NOT have map notes, but functions with other mods that supply them (MapNotes, etc.).
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Unread 02-24-09, 09:06 PM  
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error message

I get this error message ( look like a conflict with AtlasLoot)


Date: 2009-02-24 20:09:46
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\SilverDragon\announce.lua line 3:
Usage: EmbedLibrary(addon, libname, silent, offset): 'libname' - Cannot find a library instance of "LibSink-2.0".
Debug:
[C]: ?
[C]: error()
...\AddOns\AtlasLoot\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:171: EmbedLibrary()
...\AddOns\AtlasLoot\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:157: EmbedLibraries()
...\AddOns\AtlasLoot\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:232: NewModule()
SilverDragon\announce.lua:3: in main chunk
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Unread 02-25-09, 08:57 AM  
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Third on mapnotes support.

Thanks for update.
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