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    smeata's Avatar Active Member
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    Easier rare spawn farming with npcscan and Focusing Lens

    I know a lot of people use the npcscan addon, thats nothing new. the problem with npcscan is that even when it detects a rare spawn you still need to find it. depending on the mob this can be quite dificult but using a Focusing Lens makes it extremely easier. a Focusing Lens will face you in the direction of the target and light it up making it very easy to find. it has a 60 yard range and doesnt require line of site. it doesnt matter if you use Dark Jade Focusing Lens, Shadow Crystal Focusing Lens or Shadow Jade Focusing Lens, they all do the same thing.

    i should probably also add that the lenses are channeled so you can't use them while moving or falling.
    if you are after one of the flying rares in storm peaks (eg Time-Lost Proto Drake) then you should carry some Snowfall Lager so you can pull/tag him easier without worrying about falling to your death after.
    a couple of people who gave me +Rep mentioned that they didn't know about npc scan, so to those people i would also recomend getting npcscan overlay, it shows on your map where npcs patrol and updates to only show npcs currently being tracked by npcscan. it helps a lot if you are after a specific rare but it can also be helpful to quickly check if rare is near during normal travel (eg flying along the patrol path of Putridus the Ancient while doing argent tournament dailies)
    Last edited by smeata; 04-11-2010 at 03:01 PM. Reason: adding more info

    Easier rare spawn farming with npcscan and Focusing Lens
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    Quite smart

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    Killalots's Avatar Contributor
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    I didn't know this.

    Cheers for sharing.

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    Indeed very nice.

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    I knew about these, but didn't think to use 'em like that.

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    Jicre's Avatar Sergeant
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    Hah, pretty clever.

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    nice, never realized you didnt need LoS for this, usually use the lenses for targetting people im utilizing for crafted items or so in dalaran

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    Sweet, what an amazing use for them!
    MMOwned V2 FTW

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    nice find man , thanks!

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    I never thought of this! +rep

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    Nice addon
    Just got Vyragosa ...

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    smeata's Avatar Active Member
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    thankyou for the rep, i added a little more info.
    a couple of people said i should add more uses for the lenses but this was supposed to b more about finding rares than about the many uses for focusing lenses. ill leave it to someone else to make a thread about using them to find flag carriers in battlegrounds or maybe in a month if nobody has done anything similar i might make a thread about all the under rated items.

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    Great idea !

    +2

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    Originally Posted by smeata View Post
    extremely easier.
    just a note - easier is an absolute not a relative term - its either easier or it isnt. the result - that it makes it easy is relative ie extremely easy, not easy etc.

    Just my pet hate.

    But great guide, and i didnt know about either of those.

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    There is alternative way to find the target.
    Just make a macro
    /target [name of target] (/target Time-Lost)
    /script SetRaidTarget("target",2)
    (more info about targeting is here Frostbitten - Achievement - World of Warcraft)
    Now it works even if you are out of a group/raid.
    It shows big orange circle on target and it is visible beyond other objects like trees etc.

    The macro is useful for quests also than you need to kill a number of mobs.
    Last edited by user0000; 04-15-2010 at 02:44 AM.

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