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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 07-02-08, 02:37 AM  
Samasnier
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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 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 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 12-07-07, 01:51 PM  
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SilverDragon Error

I've been getting an error from the mod for a while...not really sure how long:

[2007/12/07 12:46:16-273-x1]: SilverDragon-2.0.56580\Core.lua:394: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)

I do updates via WoWAce Updater weekly, and nothing has yet fixed this.

Suggestions?
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Unread 12-02-07, 07:50 PM  
Kemayo
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Originally posted by wärezx
Is there going to be an update for Silverdragon?
There is -- I've taken the opportunity to do a lot of rewriting, and I'm sitting on it for a few days to make sure there aren't any non-obvious bugs.
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Unread 11-29-07, 10:02 AM  
wärezx
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Is there going to be an update for Silverdragon?
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Unread 10-17-07, 09:03 AM  
Murphius
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name color

does anyone know why some names are green and some are yellow?????
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Unread 10-06-07, 05:17 PM  
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["message"] = "SilverDragon-2.0.38392\\Core.lua:113: attempt to call method 'RegisterIcon' (a nil value)\nAceAddon-2.0-46764:927: in function <...r_QuestObjectives\\libs\\AceAddon-2.0\\AceAddon-2.0.lua:920>\n<in C code>: ?\nAceEvent-2.0-49307 (Cartographer):266: in function `TriggerEvent'\nAceEvent-2.0-49307 (Cartographer):962: in function <...dOns\\Cartographer\\libs\\AceEvent-2.0\\AceEvent-2.0.lua:955>\n\n ---",
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Unread 08-11-07, 05:31 PM  
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can you explain how the scan works?

pretty please?
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Unread 07-29-07, 08:17 AM  
Kandorr
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I am not a coder, so forgive me if this suggestion is flawed...

But how about a sound from one of the BGs? The first sound that comes to mind is the 'X Team has gathered 1800 resources and is about to win.' sound from AB.

It will get your attention without knocking you out of your chair.

I don't know the actual name of the sound file or anything, however. Thanks for your response, btw.
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Unread 07-22-07, 04:36 PM  
Kemayo
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Originally posted by Kandorr
Anyone able to mod this addon to play a wav?
Or know of a way to set a trigger to do so?

Just curious.
If you suggest a (built-in) sound file that you think is appropriate, I'll add an option to play it.
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Unread 07-22-07, 04:10 PM  
Kandorr
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Anyone able to mod this addon to play a wav?
Or know of a way to set a trigger to do so?

Just curious.
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Unread 06-27-07, 03:50 PM  
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Any chance of an update?
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Unread 06-23-07, 11:32 AM  
icecloud
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does this tell us when an elemental invasion is happening in our zone? for example you fly to azshara to do some fishing and dont know that the rock elemental guy is up. well it'd be cool if you could scan with this and it show if hes up or not
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Unread 06-23-07, 11:13 AM  
icecloud
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the dragon icons for rares dont show up in outland.

if you get cartographer to show you where on your main map the rares are or whatever it works for all the old world ones but not for any in tbc ouland rares dont show up on your map (i have yet to see one with the mod on yet in outland) but should that matter?
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