Introduction
This addon is intended for those who want to farm the Bloody Rare/Medium Rare/Northern Exposure/Frostbitten achievements by flying around and smashing a target macro. After I did a complete round through outlands while triggering the wrong one, my northrend-macro, i decided to create this addon.
This addon creates and updates a macro you can use for targetting rare mobs in outland and northrend. Because of the 255 character limit they just don't fit into one macro. It includes all mobs from the achievements and the Time-Lost proto and you will always have the mobs of your current zone in this one macro.
Usage
To active the addon just type '/bloodyrare on' or '/bloody on' and then bind the automatically created macro (found under '/macro') to any actionbar button.
To turn it off type '/bloody off'.
This state is saved on a per-character basis, to prevent chat spaming while you are leveling up your lower characters.
Notes
I'm also adding special spawns, that are not directly related to the exploration achievements. For example Lil Timmy in Stormwind and Dalaran Spellscribe in Silverpine, because both carry rare pets with them. By now the addon also contains some tamable rare mobs and the pet-dropping rare raptors. If you have further ideas feel free to tell me.
Localized for enUS, deDE, frFR, ruRU and zhTW. If you can offer help to add more languages feel free to comment or contact me.
You may encounter zone name mismatches, i only checked deDE 100% while I can not verify asian translations at all ;). Please report immediatly if you enter a zone containing rares but the addon doesn't report them.
Thanks for translations!
- Boukhis
- happyjr
- Drakma
- irtimd777
- adolyes
1.4: added zhTW translation by adolyes, fixed in-combat handling
1.31: added Skoll, typo-fixes and rare raptors for frFR and ruRU
1.3: update for 3.2, added rare raptors
1.2: added ruRU translation by happyjr
1.1f: fixed newline problem in 'empty'-macro
1.1e: added Gondira (Zul'Drak)
1.1d2: fixed character encoding
1.1d: added frFR translation by Boukhis
1.1c: used other archiver-tool to zip
1.1b: fixed zip file
1.1a: added Lil Timmy and Dalaran Spellscribe
1.1: Completed enUS localization
1.0: First release
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...
