Pawn helps you find upgrades for your gear and tell which of two items is better for your spec. Start with built-in advice from Ask Mr. Robot, or customize Pawn's stat weights to have it suggest items based on your favorite class guide or simulator. Pawn can help you decide whether it's better to use the cloak with 100 mastery or the one with 80 crit—whether you're just starting out, or you're an advanced player who plans out gear upgrades and regularly simulates and evaluates performance.
Language support
Pawn works with English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish (European and Latin American), Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. Unlike most addons, Pawn's language has to match the language you play WoW in.
Staying in touch
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Prerelease alpha versions of Pawn are occasionally available on CurseForge.
Getting started
If you're new to Pawn, don't worry—Pawn will automatically set itself up to give you advice based on math done by the experts at Ask Mr. Robot. Just watch for Pawn's green arrows. If you decide you want to go further, there are a lot of ways that you can customize Pawn, by tracking multiple specs at once, importing custom stat weights, and more.
Found a bug?
If you think you might have found a bug, just leave a comment here. In addition to a description of the problem, please make sure to include: (1) the language that you use Pawn and WoW in, (2) the specific items that don't work as expected, and (3) your class and spec if you're using the built-in (not custom) stat weights. Screenshots are usually very helpful as well.
Incompatible with...
Pawn will not work with Titan Panel Artifact Power or Combat Numbers Separator. Those addons change item tooltips and will cause Pawn to give bad advice. It's also been reported that using Pawn with TradeSkillMaster can cause the game to crash or hang.
No pawn window showing when clicking addon button. This happens with no other addons installed, and also happens when I tried to reinstall previous versions of pawn. The window is simply not displaying.
I suspect it is just popping up off screen but...who knows.
And not getting any errors whatsoever.
Out of curiosity... Does it work with punch cards? I see nothing for them, so it's hard to tell if a card is an upgrade or not. :-)
Just asking, if cards are not recognized, not even going to create a bug report.
Thanks!
Pawn is only showing upgrade on the tooltip, but not the green arrow on the icon. Happened suddenly after switching bag addons, but is still a problem even after resetting everything to zero.
Game/Pawn language: German (English the same problem)
Another Edit: Seems to be the SUI addon, if you download and copy the complete package from wow interface. After installing it like this, pawn won't ever show the upgrade arrow. It seems to be mainly the Bags.blp that prevents the Pawn arrow from being shown.
In reply to minimumcell:
Hi! The green arrows on items in your bags are actually provided by the bag addon (or the base game), not Pawn. Pawn just changes when they appear: to be based on stats instead of just item level. So unfortunately there's nothing I can do about that—you'd see the same problem if you didn't have Pawn installed at all.
I'll leave a comment on SUI on WoWInterface to add some extra information for the author.
Bug: PawnVersion in the Pawn.lua file is less than the PawnMrRobotLastUpdatedVersion causing PawnInvalidateBestItems() on every load
Also the dual wield/main hand/off hand upgrades still don't work. Every weapon for dual wield is always shown as upgrade. Not a big deal for me though, weapon upgrades aren't common and everything showing as upgrade is a much better failure mode than nothing showing as upgrade as it makes me fall back to checking every weapon manually rather than possibly skipping an upgrade because it wasn't indicated.
In reply to Cr42yC4r1:
Good catch on the updated version! Thanks for that.
I'll have to look into the dual-wielding upgrades; how long has that been going on? Any idea?
In reply to TravisSpomer:
hmm many months, maybe even a year? last time I looked I think the best items for MH and OH were assigned correctly but then PawnIsItemAnUpgrade at line 3050 has a TODO concerning this that I didn't bother trying to figure out
In reply to Cr42yC4r1:
Okay, thanks!
In reply to TravisSpomer:
okay found the problem. first some context. i have two separate scales with "track for each scale (advanced)" enabled that each have different weapons as best so i've always got a second set of best weapons not equipped (the algorithm can find the ones i have equipped as a fallback). so here's the problem: on line 3128 or so (i may have this wrong from debug editing) elseif TwoSlotsForThisItemType and BestData[4] == nil determines that i haven't got a second item in that scale but that's because the weapons aren't exactly TwoSlotsForThisItemType but are stored in best items as INVTYPE_WEAPONMAINHAND and INVTYPE_WEAPONOFFHAND. InvType2 takes care of this in a second pass so maybe the fix is at line 3044 to not mark this as TwoSlotsForThisItemType but i'm not sure. it seems to be working for me though.
hope that helps
Been getting this error since the most recent update.
Happens when hovering over an item and the tooltip shows up
125x Pawn\Pawn-2.2.45.lua:1320: bad argument #1 to 'strfind' (string expected, got nil)
[C]: in function `strfind'
Pawn\Pawn-2.2.45.lua:1320: in function `PawnUpdateTooltip'
Pawn\Pawn-2.2.45.lua:200: in function <Pawn\Pawn.lua:200>
[C]: ?
[C]: in function `SetBagItem'
FrameXML\ContainerFrame.lua:1403: in function `ContainerFrameItemButton_OnEnter'
[string "*:OnEnter"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnEnter"]:1>
Locals:
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = "Item Level (%d+)"
(*temporary) = "string expected, got nil"
In reply to 3500DoPe:
Hi! It sounds like Pawn is having trouble finding the text on your tooltip. Can you do a few things for me?
* Get a screenshot of an item tooltip for me—any item that's causing this error for you (a link to imgur, Facebook Messenger @VgerMods, email to "vger" at greeneclipsesoftware.com)
* Let me know which bag addon you're using
* Let me know if you're using any other addons that change the way that tooltips look
I'm guessing that you have some other addon that either adds a blank line to your tooltips or removes some information from them—hopefully if I can see what it looks like, I can come up with a way to make Pawn work with your setup.
In reply to TravisSpomer:
Got the same error - here the error and the item (pic) whihc casues it,
as not every item moused over triggers the error
tooltip AddOn: TipTac
additional ones adding lines to the tooltip (as far as i know): Auctionator, AzeriteTooltip, Scrap
2x Pawn\Pawn-2.2.45.lua:1320: bad argument #1 to 'strfind' (string expected, got nil)
[C]: in function `strfind'
Pawn\Pawn-2.2.45.lua:1320: in function `PawnUpdateTooltip'
Pawn\Pawn-2.2.45.lua:200: in function <Pawn\Pawn.lua:200>
[C]: in function `SetBagItem'
FrameXML\ContainerFrame.lua:1403: in function `ContainerFrameItemButton_OnEnter'
[string "*:OnEnter"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnEnter"]:1>
Locals:
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = "Item Level (%d+)"
(*temporary) = "string expected, got nil"
In reply to Clarx_:
Thanks! Huh, that's weird; it doesn't show an item level; I guess that's TipTac's doing. But there's a little space beneath the item name where it should be. I think that space is probably what's tripping Pawn up.
In 2.2.46 I've made a change so that in situations like this where item levels are hidden but you've got Pawn's "show item level upgrades" feature on, Pawn will show it at the bottom of the tooltip instead, like other upgrade info.
In reply to TravisSpomer:
it does show the ilvl (azure blue text) and item id, but it is modified (aswell the position) by the integrated "TipTacItemRef" add.
The new option to show item level upgrades causes the following errors for me if I hover any item in the bags:
Shown in the chat window: ERROR: This is an item level upgrade, but we didn't find 'Itemlevel' in the tooltip.
Note: I use a german WoW client, so I assuem this string needs translation?
Thrown and caught by BugGrabber:
Pawn\Pawn-2.2.44 beta 1.lua:4088: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value) Pawn\Pawn-2.2.44 beta 1.lua:4088: in function
PawnIsItemAnItemLevelUpgrade' Pawn\Pawn-2.2.44 beta 1.lua:3173: in functionPawnIsItemAnUpgrade' Pawn\Pawn-2.2.44 beta 1.lua:1276: in functionPawnUpdateTooltip' Pawn\Pawn-2.2.44 beta 1.lua:314: in function <Pawn\Pawn.lua:308> [C]: in functionSetCompareItem' FrameXML\GameTooltip.lua:753: in function `GameTooltip_ShowCompareItem' FrameXML\GameTooltip.lua:558: in function <FrameXML\GameTooltip.lua:556>C: in function
SetBagItem' FrameXML\ContainerFrame.lua:1403: in function <FrameXML\ContainerFrame.lua:1376> [C]: in functionContainerFrameItemButton_OnEnter' [string ":OnEnter"]:1: in function <[string ":OnEnter"]:1>In reply to mcremor:
Sorry for the trouble! 2.2.44 beta 2 has a bunch of updates for German and some small changes for everyone else. Let me know if you run into any troubles with beta 2!
In reply to TravisSpomer:
Hi,
Same thing with the French localization.
The problem is not that's it's not translasted, the problem is that this message is litterally spamming the chat.
Is it possible to disable it ?
In reply to saisha_:
I figured out what the problem is—item tooltips in French sometimes use a straight apostrophe and sometimes use a curly one in "Niveau d'objet". I'll have a fix in beta 3. In the meantime, you can either go back to a released version (2.2.43) or turn off the item level upgrades option.
(update: the released version of 2.2.44 has this fix; 2.2.45 as well obviously)
In reply to TravisSpomer:
Oh nice ! Thanks for your work :)
Is there a way to change the corner that the upgrade arrow shows on icons? I'm also running scrap and the junk coin icon overlaps the pawn upgrade icon.