Rare NPC scanner for lower levels

[Irizarri]

Hello all!

I learned that rare NPC's are very much worth killing while leveling, these mobs can give up to 3 times as much XP as a quest at an equal level +a couple of items!

I tried finding an add-on that could track lower level rare's without the need of nameplates/mouseover without any luck, however there is an add-on called _NPCScan where you can manually add NPC's of your choice (already including Outland and afterwards for achievements).

I have manually added every rare mob level 1-60 to my _NPCScan's lua file, and will upload the file so you can do the same

What you need:

_NPCScan
_NPCScan - Achievements - World of Warcraft Addons - Curse
Download this and put it in your addons folder.

The .lua file
https://www.dropbox.com/s/iac9yp5qhr...PCScan.lua.txt
This is the file that will add the rare NPC's to your database in-game.

This file needs to be replaced with the one in your WoW->WTF->Account->Account Name->Server->Character->SavedVariables->_NPCScan.lua (remember to remove the .txt at the end of the downloaded file)

(.. I am sure there is a much easier way to do this instead of manually doing it for every single character, however I'm pretty clueless around this sorta stuff, tried using my common sense with a mix of luck.)

In case this does not work the first time, simply open both files with text editor or a similar program and copy the entire document from the downloaded file into the current .lua in the folder.


You should now be ready, you can install and forget this add-on while leveling, whenever a rare NPC's is in range of you there will be a pop-up which works as a /target macro and the NPC will have a green triangle above its head


Important; when you find a rare NPC it will be remembered in your World of Warcraft->Cache folder, if you want to be able to track a mob which has already been discovered once, you will need to delete this folder (It doesn't seem to mess anything up regarding other addons don't worry )


Have fun!

Edit: To locate rare spawns by zone I recommend using wowhead, it has a feature that allows you to show rare spawns on the map of a zone.
Example: http://www.wowhead.com/zone=10#show:rare

[Nyarly]

Oh this is nice

Did you add them for instances too ? Could be really useful, like in stratholme, to find the piccolo faster (yes, really useful).

I like it, thanks for sharing it +4 rep for you!

[Irizarri]

I don't think rare mobs in instances work, as _NPCScan is activated by zone and when adding a mob you can only chose the zones of the outside world (Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms, Northrend, Outland)

Edit: Just found out you can actually put in your own "zones" including instances, I just tested this in Stratholme and Hearthsinger popped up so it works fine.

Update incoming for instance rare NPC's when I get home from work

[hanzerpanzer]

OR you could just run NPCscanEx do import all raremobs not in the database.

[Irizarri]

Well it seems as I just waited a busload of time then

Could've sworn I googled to find something like this to my fingers bled, guess that wasn't enough ^^

[iMozzy]

SilverDragon does this quite well.

[Irizarri]

As I said in the first post, this is without needing to mouseover/using nameplates.

-For SilverDragon one of these two things need to be active for it to make a pop-up with the mob.

[xcrossover25x]

You can easily just edit the lua files for the addon to not have to import every_single_rare_mob in the game for each character, just do this:

This is the character that I added all the rares on, this list is just all of the rares I would encounter in my normal questing path:





This is my brand new character, which only has the rares automatically in the game by npc_scan at default:




What you want to do is delete all of the information between the opening and closed brackets on your second character and replace it with the information from the first character:

After deleting it should look like this:



Then copy+paste:



Then do the same thing with the information that is a little bit lower, copy it from the finished character to the new character:



Also make sure you delete your cache, and log in, type /npcscan and ensure they are all there on your new character, good luck!

+rep btw, if I hadn't done this by myself about two weeks ago, I would have after seeing this thread.