Due to recent API changes, there is A LOT of work we still have ahead of us.
As such this description might not be 100% up to date.
In contrary to some other addon developers, we rather get you the updates first and tell you how amazing we think we are after.
Description;
RareUtility is an addon that provides some utility for rares. Highly inspired by the multitude of addons that most of us used on The Timeless Isles, Mist of Pandaria. We started writing this because there were no functioning add-ons at all for announcing rares to chat. We are very inexperienced in Lua, and in script languages in general, so we are not the best for this job, yet thus far we are one of the most unique addons for hunting, farming and announcing rares, and we don't expect to stop bringing out more of that functionality.
Bugs, Features and Questions; AzerPUG Discord
You can of course post all of the above here! We will try to react as quickly and thoroughly as possible and help you with your issues or answer your questions. However, AzerPUG is a gaming community and we will probably react a lot quicker on our discord server. There is a special channel for this, of course!
Currently Implemented;
- List of rares, coloured specifically to Killed or not and if all Mounts / Pets / Toys / Blueprints / Paint Vials have been collected or not.
- Timers to indicate when the next spawn of a rare should be. Keep in mind these numbers are dependant on the number of people on your shard!
- A manual button that can be used in both Manual and Automatic mode.
- An automatic function for Rare Announcements, Death Announcements, Nazjatar Commanders and Summons of the Depths Announcements
- TomTom Arrow integration if you click the name of a rare. (Multi-location rares not supported yet.)
- Spam reduction, we currently have 0 reports of people getting silenced or banned.
Working on;
- Bug fixes. ALWAYS. We strive to have no bugs on release, to actually acknowledge all the issues and solve them instead of just removing the comments.
- Adding the rares from Darkshore and Arathi Highlands.
- Constant HP updates in the addon, when a rare is alive, so you know, more or less, if you can make it or not.
- Timer announcements in chat, when you click a timer. To help others know to go somewhere if a rare is about to spawn!
- RareName MouseOver frame popup with what it drops and what the spawn mechanics are (Standard timer, summon, or only on certain days...)
- Customization options. Resizable frame, Background colour, Minimum HP% for announcements, Dropdown to easily switch to other zones.
- Spam reduction, although we currently have none of the problematic reports, we want to keep it that way as well!
Commands;
In the game, you can type "/rareutil help" to display all the commands available!
Special gratitude;
Daeymien; A lot of bug fixes, ideas and even pieces of code that I could directly implement!
Melroy_vn; A very specific help-function that actually solved some problems.
TecEraser; Setting up basic Localization with me, and a part of the German Localization.
Selthi; A part of the German Localization.
Darkquantum; Russian Localization.
RyFtheGameReaveR; French Localization.
New version of the addon went online today!
Please remember this is a BETA-BUILD, there might be flaws.
Report them in our discord in the #RareUtility channel and we will try to fix them ASAP!
Thank you for downloading and using our addon!
In reply to AzerPUG:
Thank you for bringing this out so quick. It works, which is by far the first priority. All those other addons focused on how great they looked. But none of them work. This one looks shit... Sorry. But it works.
I am a fan of it! Have been for a while and this way, I will stay a fan for a long time.
Thank you for getting us a working addon!
Due to some recent API changes, there is a lot of errors going around. We are aware of the problem and although some of our replies below state that we don't know when we have the time for it, we managed to get some openings in our schedules to fix some of the issues ASAP.Due to some recent API changes, there is a lot of errors going around. We are aware of the problem and although some of our replies below state that we don't know when we have the time for it, we managed to get some openings in our schedules to fix some of the issues ASAP.
Our lead addon developer assured us we would have a working version very shortly (today; depending what your timezone is). Keep an eye out, we will have a proper, working, non-spam update onto your Twitch shortly.
Keep in mind, we are currently in the process we call "Triage", which is literally, fix what needs fixing first. This will mean not everything works as intended or at all by the time we have our first update. We ask you for a bit of patience while we compensate for these issues.
We would also like to clarify why Blizzard made these changes.
First off, NO, this was not something they fucked up. This was a deliberate choice.
Second, NO, this was not a bad choice by some intern, this was, sadly enough, the right call. Some addon developers rather delete bug and silence reports then fix their products. This more or less forced blizzards hands to prevent those features in the API to cause these issues. The negative side effect is that addons like AzerPUG RareUtility used the same features in a proper way (we never got any one silenced with our addon).
In reply to AzerPUG:
Yeah, been tweeting you couple times re: issues (tried to message via your discord, logged into it but it doesn't allow messages to be left?)
My issues currently: AzerPUG has stopped announcing rare deaths (checked toggle & re-toggled to make sure), & now also "Interface action failed because of addon" when targeting rare (thus sometimes won't announce).
Thank you for all you do, LOVE this addon, & hard to do rares without :D
In reply to dilvishthedamned:
Sadly enough, due to the lack of skill and willingness to work on their product, other lack-luster addon developers forced blizzard to make changes in the API. As such, many great features can not return, as their functionality was plain and simple, removed entirely.
That sad, we are working on making this as functional as is still possible to support the WoW players, as well as some other QoL addons.
Sorry for the late Twitter response, with the addon having to be rewritten and some of us being extremely busy with having a life (dafuq is that?) we are slightly 'understaffed' at the moment. Our Discord would be the best way to contact us. If you can't see any channels try the '!accept' and the '!wow' commands. (You do "accept" our rules then as well, so keep that in mind :P )
In reply to AzerPUG:
Thanks for the responses here & on twitter. I totally understand life & short staffed. It is a real shame other addon creators caused this functionality to be removed from blizz's API...hopefully we can get some of the goodies back. That !accept command worked & has allowed me access to chats. Thanks!
the addon isnt working anymore
its not announcing stuff anymore
In reply to lvll:
From https://twitter.com/deadlybossmods/status/1176685822223011842
In reply to bsolar17:
that would explain why my rarity isnt announcing shit aswell anymore so i guess addons have to whisper you now or wont that work aswell?
In reply to lvll:
After other addons spammed hundreds of times, because the author wasn't fixing the bugs (it also got hundreds upon hundreds of people silenced, because of extreme amounts of spam). Blizzard decided to fix the addon issue at their own end as a workaround. Sadly enough, that does also means addons like ours, no longer work.
This is what happens when hobby programmers delete bug reports and claim they don't exist instead of fixing problems which they do not understand.
As such, most of these great addons will not be able to do their work, until they work around the issues now presented to them. We are currently working on 2 other Quality of Life addons for the WoW community, that is why we have not been bringing out much updates for this one recently. However, we are working on a workaround and will hopefully have a working version with you shortly.
Once our lead programmer finds some more time, you should also keep an eye out for our other addons ;)
Edit: New version probably coming today! Read the other messages!
In reply to AzerPUG:
Thanks for all your hard work. And yes it sucks that the bad folks are always the reason for Blizzard having to restrict functionality (although, would it have hurt them to reach out to the offending addon authors??? All hail King Ion and his heavy-handed rule)
Again, thank you. We look forward to see what you guys come up with next!
In reply to dblanch369:
You (and every one else) are most welcome.
I'm seeing an issue where the mod doesn't work in Mechagon when I take a flight point here but the one time I flew here manually the moment the zone changed to mechagon the windows with rares list popped up.
EDIT: not sure why I did not think about it sooner, waiting on rustfeather and I randomly decide to reload ui, that brings it up.
In reply to Tenaka30:
Very few people seem to have an issue like that still. Not sure why. I fixed it for most people, but seemingly not for all.
I have tried to look into it but thus far can not find the issue. But I will continue trying, of course :)
For the time being, sorry that you have to work around it by reloading :(
That's what I'm doing. Thanks for getting back to me :)
In reply to dblanch369:
I have tried to look into this, but have been unable to locate the problem thus far. When testing it, it shows up when zoning in, but doesn't get hidden when zoning out. Which is peculiar because this is handled by the exact same function. When I call it manually in game through a script, it works fine. So it should work...
I will look into it more, of course, but just figured I would update you as well :)
I've noticed that I'm not getting any updates on rares in the zones unless I actually target the rare and watch it die. I guess it could be that not enough people are running the addon on the server/shard I am on. Does this poll all the other users on the shard to get updates at specific times or only when a rare is seen/killed. It would be nice to poll the other people in the shard to get the timers populated. Maybe even just every 10 minutes or so would be good.
Other than that this is a great addon. Keep up the good work
In reply to NexiwVA:
Thanx for your kind words :)
If you get nothing other then your own kills, it isn't just that the addon is barely used on your shard, it is that barely people are killing rares and announcing them on your shard as well.
When anyone posts in general chat that a rare died, the addon hooks that from general chat and puts up the timer as well. Even if it is other addons posting it or people manually typing it. These timers are yellow, as they needed to be taken with a grain of salt, as people can type a death message at random moments.
When AzerPUG RareUtility sees a rare die itself, it will spread this as a timer to the other addons and these numbers will be green.
Sadly enough, other addons have decided to disable or even permanently remove their death-announcements so we can't use them for timers anymore, which does indeed lower the ability to get you the timers. Although in the bigger shards, this hasn't shown to be an issue whatsoever, but in the smaller shards it has absolutely been a bit of a setback.
Having some lua errors:
Message: Interface\AddOns\AzerPUG RareUtility\main.lua:823: attempt to get length of field '?' (a nil value)
Time: Mon Aug 19 22:01:10 2019
Count: 1
Stack: Interface\AddOns\AzerPUG RareUtility\main.lua:823: attempt to get length of field '?' (a nil value)
[C]: ?
Interface\AddOns\AzerPUG RareUtility\main.lua:823: in function `CheckRareMob'
Interface\AddOns\AzerPUG RareUtility\main.lua:142: in function <Interface\AddOns\AzerPUG RareUtility\main.lua:142>
Locals:
In reply to dilvishthedamned:
What version are you using and what locale are you on? I will try looking into it today, while I look into some other minor issues.