
Enable Rarity to be used on Classic realms
rdw-software opened this issue ยท 4 comments
Follow-up to #132. If Blizzard forces everyone into Cataclysm "classic" then demand for this may be lower. But if WOTLK gets a perpetual ("Era") realm them I can see a lot of people wanting to play there at least occasionally, and collect stuff?
Not sure how useful this would be after all this time. Depends on community feedback, I guess?
As a starting point, this might be used: https://github.com/WilliamHarer/Raritywrath
Roadmap:
- Determine what API differences exist between WOTLK classic and Retail clients
- Research how the multiple-TOC thing works (probably just copy/paste?)
- Research how other (popular) addons handle their classic version differences
- Figure out which of Rarity's features should be turned off in WOTLK
- Abstract those parts, clean them up if needed, and implement a second interface for classic (TBD)
- The item database needs to be filtered (tricky, since WOTLK category items may have been added after the fact?)
- Rest TBD (don't know what else needs doing at this point(
Haven't looked into Cataclysm at all, but a quick search yields a few generic wiki articles that might still be applicable:
- https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Porting_addons_to_Classic
- https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Patch_1.13.2/API_changes
Unfortunately, there's no complete list or other "official" documentation for API differences, so trial and error may be required.
Rarity should "in principle" work on the current set of Classic realms now (with the next release, that is). See the classic milestone for known issues. There might be other problems of course, so feel free to report anything that's not already being tracked.