How do you find out a NPC's faction?

Darthgnomer · 03-26-09, 08:21 AM

How do you find out a NPC's faction?

If I mouse over a NPC in the Scryer area of Shatt or one of the many mage looking NPCs in Dalaran my cursor tooltip will reveal their faction such as 'The Scryers' or 'Kirin Tor' for these examples respectively.

How can I find out this information for an addon? I've looked around the APIs on WoWWiki and tried to reverse engineer CowTip but I am lost. Any information or simple examples would be very appreciated.

Tristanian · 03-26-09, 09:41 AM

I think UnitFactionGroup("unit") is what you are looking for.

http://www.wowprogramming.com/docs/api/UnitFactionGroup

Darthgnomer · 03-26-09, 12:26 PM

No, this only returns Alliance or Horde; tested it out with a Night Elf armor merchant located in Darnassus and instead of coming back 'Darnassus' it came back 'Alliance'.

Gemini_II · 03-26-09, 12:46 PM

Be sure that the NPC you test against actually has a faction, as many of them do not.

Darthgnomer · 03-26-09, 12:58 PM

When I moused over the NPC the default Blizzard tooltip said 'Darnassus'. According to wowhead Cylania <Night Elf Armorer> has a Faction of 'Darnassus'.
Source: http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=4164

Also, I tried this with a vendor in Dalaran with a faction of 'Kirin Tor' and still got 'Alliance'.

I believe there is a different method I need to find what faction a NPC belongs to.

Gemini_II · 03-26-09, 01:04 PM

Looks like GetFactionInfo is what you want...