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BloodyRare  Popular! (More than 5000 hits)

Version: 1.6
by: kullerkugel [More]

Introduction
This addon is intended for those who want to farm the Bloody Rare/Medium Rare/Northern Exposure/Frostbitten achievements by flying around and smashing a target macro. After I did a complete round through outlands while triggering the //wrong// one, my northrend-macro, i decided to create this addon.

This addon creates and updates a macro you can use for targetting rare mobs in outland and northrend. Because of the 255 character limit they just don't fit into one macro. It includes all mobs from the achievements and the Time-Lost proto and you will always have the mobs of your current zone in this one macro.

Usage
To active the addon just type '/bloodyrare on' or '/bloody on' and then bind the automatically created macro (found under '/macro') to any actionbar button.
To turn it off type '/bloody off'. You can also right click the macrobutton to toggle its active/inactive state.
This state is saved on a per-character basis, to prevent chat spaming while you are leveling up your lower characters.

If you trigger the created macro in a zone without rares ('empty zone') a message informs you that there are no rares and the macro will be updated if you change to a zone containing those. This message can be suppressed by '/bloody hideempty'.

Notes
I'm also adding special spawns, that are not directly related to the exploration achievements. For example Lil Timmy in Stormwind and Dalaran Spellscribe in Silverpine, because both carry rare pets with them. By now the addon also contains some tamable rare mobs and the pet-dropping rare raptors. If you have further ideas feel free to tell me.

Localized for enUS, deDE, frFR, ruRU and zhTW. If you can offer help to add more languages feel free to comment or contact me.
You may encounter zone name mismatches, i only checked deDE 100% while I can not verify asian translations at all . Please report immediatly if you enter a zone containing rares but the addon doesn't report them.

Thanks for translations!

  • Boukhis
  • happyjr
  • Drakma
  • irtimd777
  • adolyes
  • DoHITB

1.6: added esES translation by DoHITB
fixed translation bug for Goretooth in deDE, thanks to Freydis88

1.51: new command /bloody toggle, that is called when right-clicking on the macro.

1.5: the message in zones without rares can be hidden
fixed a problem with ruRU zone names

1.4b: update for 3.3, removed rare raptors since they no longer drop their pets

1.4: added zhTW translation by adolyes, fixed in-combat handling

1.31: added Skoll, typo-fixes and rare raptors for frFR and ruRU

1.3: update for 3.2, added rare raptors

1.2: added ruRU translation by happyjr

1.1f: fixed newline problem in 'empty'-macro

1.1e: added Gondira (Zul'Drak)

1.1d2:fixed character encoding

1.1d: added frFR translation by Boukhis

1.1c: used other archiver-tool to zip

1.1b: fixed zip file

1.1a: added Lil Timmy and Dalaran Spellscribe

1.1: Completed enUS localization

1.0: First release
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Unread 04-28-09, 06:29 AM  
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Unread 04-28-09, 12:34 PM  
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Like the last post said, this does not work
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Unread 04-28-09, 01:57 PM  
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The zip file was done wrong.

Just drop the files in a folder called BloodyRare
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Unread 04-28-09, 06:24 PM  
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i'm very sorry, just messed it up in this special release. now the zip has the correct structure
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Unread 04-28-09, 11:40 PM  
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_NPC

This addon is very similar and doesn't employ a macro - is easier in my opinion - but your idea is a good one as well. Just pointing out for information sake. The _NPC addon does have a few idiosyncrasies where is targets mobs that are rare but unreachable or similar issues. Might look at the data source to add mobs to your database as well.

http://www.wowinterface.com/download...-_NPCScan.html
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Unread 04-29-09, 02:59 AM  
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Re: _NPC

Originally posted by mark7777g
This addon is very similar and doesn't employ a macro - is easier in my opinion - but your idea is a good one as well. Just pointing out for information sake. The _NPC addon does have a few idiosyncrasies where is targets mobs that are rare but unreachable or similar issues. Might look at the data source to add mobs to your database as well.

http://www.wowinterface.com/download...-_NPCScan.html
thank you! before i wrote my addon i looked for already existing ones, but i didn't come across this one. VERY interesting idea of searching. the cache clearing may be a little issue, but not for hardcore farming of the achievs.

anyway, i checked the mob database and i cover all of them
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Unread 04-29-09, 10:00 AM  
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.ZIP download

seem to be broken.. can't unzip nor install. thx
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Unread 04-29-09, 01:14 PM  
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Re: .ZIP download

Originally posted by Bigbuff
seem to be broken.. can't unzip nor install. thx
i just tested it, works for me. maybe you have to download it again, just try.
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Re: Re: _NPC +++

Originally posted by kullerkugel
thank you! before i wrote my addon i looked for already existing ones, but i didn't come across this one. VERY interesting idea of searching. the cache clearing may be a little issue, but not for hardcore farming of the achievs.

anyway, i checked the mob database and i cover all of them
Kewl! I gonna use yours too btw. Oh and I forgot I also use Silverdragon which is also helpful.

Thanks! Anything that helps hunt down those wascally wares is vewy helpfull. hehe.
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Re: Re: .ZIP download

Originally posted by kullerkugel
i just tested it, works for me. maybe you have to download it again, just try.
I have tested this on three computers, it is broken. Can not unzip it. Please re-zip and put a fresh copy up there.
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Re: Re: Re: .ZIP download

Originally posted by Lazare69
I have tested this on three computers, it is broken. Can not unzip it. Please re-zip and put a fresh copy up there.
It worked for me also.
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Unread 06-05-09, 06:44 PM  
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Works

I had no problem with the latest zip file. For your information I did get a error message.

Yes I realize that this macro was only intended to be used in BC and WotLK but I had accidentally clicked on the hot button and I got this error while I was in a Azeroth zone. I figure I mention this just so you can cover all the bases. As seen by BugGrabber, English client

[2009/06/05 20:37:22-176-x1]: <string>:"print(" -There are currently no rares beeing watched for.":1: unfinished string near '<eof>'
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:1826: in function `value':
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:3353: in function `ChatEdit_ParseText':
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:3052: in function `ChatEdit_SendText':
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:2188: in function <Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:2181>:
<in C code>: ?
<in C code>: in function `UseAction'
Interface\FrameXML\SecureTemplates.lua:258: in function `handler':
Interface\FrameXML\SecureTemplates.lua:460: in function <Interface\FrameXML\SecureTemplates.lua:417>:
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Re: Works

thank you for reporting!
what would blizz say?
I'll look into that.


Originally posted by Xylan Trueheart
I had no problem with the latest zip file. For your information I did get a error message.

Yes I realize that this macro was only intended to be used in BC and WotLK but I had accidentally clicked on the hot button and I got this error while I was in a Azeroth zone. I figure I mention this just so you can cover all the bases. As seen by BugGrabber, English client

[2009/06/05 20:37:22-176-x1]: <string>:"print(" -There are currently no rares beeing watched for.":1: unfinished string near '<eof>'
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:1826: in function `value':
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:3353: in function `ChatEdit_ParseText':
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:3052: in function `ChatEdit_SendText':
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:2188: in function <Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:2181>:
<in C code>: ?
<in C code>: in function `UseAction'
Interface\FrameXML\SecureTemplates.lua:258: in function `handler':
Interface\FrameXML\SecureTemplates.lua:460: in function <Interface\FrameXML\SecureTemplates.lua:417>:
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New Spirit Beast wolf in Storm Peaks named Skoll.
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Unread 08-08-09, 05:18 AM  
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Originally posted by toxidlotus
New Spirit Beast wolf in Storm Peaks named Skoll.
I first didn't find it in wowhead but now I got it in some other databases, I will add it in the next update. I'm waiting for some russian translation before I upload it. I plan it for tomorrow.
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