How to find NPC IDs

[Fafnir]

Pulled from WoWWiki:

Simple script, point and shoot.

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/run print("Target NPC ID:", tonumber((UnitGUID("target")):sub(-10, -7), 16))

or the more verbose version:

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/run local a=strsub(UnitGUID("target"),7,10); print("NPC ID(\""..UnitName("target").."\") = 0x"..a.." = "..tonumber(a,16))

Should be useful since all of the datamining has failed to turn up any of these new rares' names, much less IDs yet.

Well, when the servers come back up anyway.

[Aeladrine]

Or you could just look it up on WoWhead. The four numbers at the end of the url are the NPC ID.(:

[Fafnir]

Except that I haven't seen any of the eight on Wowhead except for their abilities, in the PTR section of course. Not terribly useful for scanning for them.