RareNet

The rare hunting addon built for WoW Forever: Forever's new rares, their new drops, and live sightings shared between players on every layer.

Forever rare spawns and loot from ForeverChanges

Made for Forever, not ported from Classic

Forever added dozens of rares that never existed in Classic and gave old ones brand new loot. Classic rare addons don't know any of it. RareNet does:

28 rares that are new in Forever, with their spawn points, from Elwynn and Durotar to Zephras Isle and the Ruins of Lordaeron, plus the new Forever spawn points of classic rares like Foreman Rigger and Taskmaster Whipfang.
Forever's new drops: Foreman's Helm, Whipfang's Skinsearer, Dro'zem's Tunic, Haunting Blade, the Alliance Outrunners' weapons, the Malignant Root from Nightveiled Rotheap, the Blessing of Kalimdor set from the Barrens rares, and more.
Tameable Forever rares marked for hunters: Fernfeather, Mystmane, Coldrasp, Nightscreech, Ghostfang, Matriarch Bristlefur and Shal'ma.
Real drop rates, learned by the community. When a RareNet player loots a rare, its drops are shared with everyone. The rare database shows how often each item really dropped in Forever, and each new version ships what players found.

Never miss a rare again

On a layered megaserver, the rare you are hunting might be up right now, just not on your layer. RareNet tells you which layer it is on, how long ago it was seen, and whether someone already killed it. Everyone who runs the addon becomes a scout for everyone else.

Knows your layer. It reads the creatures around you and shows which layer you are on.
Shares every rare, live. When any RareNet player spots a rare, everyone gets it within seconds: name, zone, coordinates, alive or dead, and layer. Green means your layer, orange another one.
Alerts you can't miss. The rare's name in big letters at the top of the screen, RareNet's sonar ping (or a sound of your choice) and a waypoint so the arrow takes you there.
Catches you up. Logged in late? Another player sends you what you missed.
Checks itself. Sightings expire on their own, and a report only counts as confirmed when two players saw it with their own eyes. Fake reports get refuted by players who walk past the spot.
Works with your layer addon. Right click a rare on another layer and RareNet hands it to Layer-Swap or Forever Layer Hop, which take you there. RareNet itself never changes your layer.

Rare database and map

Every zone's rares in one window (/rarenet db): turning 3D model, level, spawn points, live status and drops: what RareNet players have seen, the known Forever drops, and the classic table for reference. Shift-click an item to link it, ctrl-click to try it on.
A clean map. One pin per rare; hover it to light up all of its spawn points and see its 3D model and best drops. Click for a waypoint, shift-click for the full details.
Hunter friendly. Filter the list and the map to tameable rares only.

How to use it

Install it and play. Click the spyglass on the minimap for the live rare list, right click it for the rare database, settings and more.

RareNet sees rares and your layer through enemy nameplates. It asks once whether to turn them on (press V in game to toggle them yourself). Without them it still works, but only with what you target or mouse over.

Commands

/rarenet: show or hide the live rare list
/rarenet db: rare database with loot
/rarenet config: settings
/rarenet all, /rarenet tame, /rarenet zone: what the list shows
/rarenet alerts: alerts on or off
/rarenet test: show a test alert
/rarenet ignore Name: ignore reports from a player
/rarenet peers: who is running RareNet right now
/rarenet members: everyone in the RareNet channel, click a name to whisper
/rarenet ping: test the connection to other players
/rarenet diag: diagnostics

In the list and on the map

Mark	Meaning
Green layer	the rare is on your layer
Orange layer	another layer on your continent
`?`	reported by one player, not confirmed yet
`??`	someone stood there and did not see it
`~`	from before you logged out, waiting to be checked
White pin	rare spawn (hover to see all its spawn points)
Gold pin	tameable rare
Purple pin	rare discovered by RareNet players

Fair play

RareNet only shares what players see. It never moves your character and never targets anything. Changing layers is up to you.
It talks to other players through normal addon messages on a hidden chat channel, the same way many group and guild addons do. If that channel is not available it falls back to your guild.
Players whose reports keep being refuted are muted for a while. Honest players are never punished for a rare that died or wandered off.
Nothing is sent from dungeons, raids or battlegrounds.

Beta

The more players run it, the more rares and drops everyone sees. Reports of anything odd are very welcome, /rarenet diag output helps a lot.

Credits and license

Forever rare spawns and Forever loot: ForeverChanges, used with their permission. Thank you!
Classic rare spawn points come from QuestieDB (Forever edition), pet families, models and classic loot tables from vmangos. Thank you to both projects.
RareNet is free software under the GNU GPL v3. The ForeverChanges data is not covered by the GPL (see NOTICE.txt).