How To Use Npcscan Wow

I decided to write a curt nonetheless compete guide about this keen addon for every pet-hunter out in that location.

Getting started

For those who don't know about this, this is an addon what alerts yous with a sound and a warning when a pre-specified rare mob is nearby. No targetting or tracking is needed, the addon does information technology for yous. Basicly all y'all demand to practice is wing over the spawnspots or army camp 1.

It is called NPCScan and it can be downloaded from Curse.

NPCScan in the addon menu

Excerpt the files into your WoW/Interface/Addons folder and you will be fine. Later logging in to the game, cheque the addon screen. Y'all should see something like this:

The first one is the addon itself, and the second i is for the map overlay, which marks the spawnspots on the map with dainty colours and then y'all do not demand to bank check WoWhead maps. Let's enter the game and set up the addon itself!

Basic Settings

Blazon in /npcscan later on you are logged in. That will bring upwardly the main menu. There are several menu points what nosotros are interested in, but the most important one is the Search menu. Select it at the left side and you lot shall meet this bill of fare:

Search menu

You'll see a list of NPCs there. The red X near the NPC ways that that one is cached already, so the addon will not warn you fifty-fifty if you are standing on top of that detail NPC. You'll find out about resetting the cache afterward.

You lot tin outset finding NPCs already but sometimes the desired NPC is not on the listing. Calculation an NPC is easy, just enter the creature's ID in the field labeled "NPC ID", and gear up a proper name for it in the Proper name field. Yous can leave the World field (or even the Name field) empty, the addon will piece of work it out itself.

Adding a new NPC

Yous can get the NPC ID by going to wowhead and search for the NPC. And then you lot tin can copy the ID from the browser bar.

Getting the NPC ID from the browser

After you wrote the information in, click on the "+" button at the correct side of the World field. Congrats, you tin can now starting time searching for NPCs!
Though there are many things that can be set and which help you a lot.

Other settings

The map overlay comes in very handy if you lot do not know where are the spawnpoints of a certain NPC.

Deepholm's NPCScan map

Y'all can turn the overlay on/off by clicking the "NPCs" button in the corner. As you can see, this makes NPC finding a lot easier. There is a separate menu for the overlay, where you lot can fix the opacities and stuff:

Overlay menu

The minimap option allows the overlay to show up on the minimap aswell. Yous can also set a 100yard circumvolve effectually you which shows the guess detection range. At present let'south specify a sound for the alert, so you can wake up fifty-fifty at three AM to tame or kill whatever you want! Go to the main menu of NPCScan.

Primary Menu

There are some other obvious stuff in that location aswell, just what we need is the sound. Test them all and select what you lot like the nearly (or, every bit I did, select the most abrasive i). So click on the Test Found Alert push button. This will warn yous for finding yourself if as you were a rare mob. This is what information technology'll await like:

Testing NPC institute warning

If y'all click on the alert, it will target the mob, which always comes in handy, since most ppl are way likewise excited to do any kinds of precise movements what require patience when they finally encounter the mob spawning.

Now near the virtually important function of the addon, the caching:

Cache

NPCScan remembers anything information technology detects, and it won't warn you the second time y'all notice something. "Who cares?" You may ask, but sadly, it caches already tamed creatures since they retain their ID later on being tamed. So if you lot are camping a rare pet and an other hunter comes by, calls his own pet, your addon will go off on information technology, and you'll demand to exit WoW and reset the cache to proceed camping. Hither's how to practice information technology: