
Pawn
Last Updated: Feb 17, 2019 Game Version: 8.1.0
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.
Feature request, specifically for rings: detect if you have the same ring already equipped and only compare against that ring if so, since all rings of relevance are unique-equipped. For example, I currently have a socketed 400 Band of Multi-Sided Strikes equipped, along with a 400 Seal of the Zandalari Empire, the former of which is much stronger based on my stat weights. A non-socketed one dropped tonight, and Pawn showed it as a 12% upgrade, since it is 12% stronger than my Seal, despite the fact that I wouldn't be able to equip two anyway.
In reply to Kaedys:
VgerAN,
What would you think of removing the word "upgrade" from the text shown in tooltips? I feel like having the green upwards-pointing arrow is a sufficient visual cue that the item is an upgrade, and that the word "upgrade" makes the tooltip line longer than it really needs to be. Here's an image of what I was looking at today that motivated me to come post about this here:

There are many numbers present, and I don't have a problem with that. I like that all of that data is available, and it's valuable to me. But I feel that the data presented would be easier to parse more rapidly if the upgrade percentages were flush against the right edge of the tooltip.
Even if you disagree with me about removing the word "upgrade" entirely, could I convince you to just make it a checkbox in the config that I could uncheck?
Thanks for all you do, Pawn is a wonderful addon that works very well. I really appreciate all the work you put into it!
In reply to Yutaka:
Hi, good addon. But I found a mistake in the counting formula. This is leech. Shaman Elemental
In reply to fcrazy:
Hello VgerAN
First, Very thanks for your add-on Pawn! Can't play wow without it now!
It's absolutely an essential add-on like DBM and Skada!
Since some days, with the french version of Wow.. i get this error msg in chat with Pawn when i log to Wow just after Guild Message of Day. But no problem with English version of Wow and Pawn is up-to-date!
Error: Pawn may provide incorrect advice due to a potential addon conflict. Pawn is not compatible with Combat Numbers Separator, Titan Panel Artifact Power, or other addons tat change the way that numbers appear.
But i tried to log with only Pawn enabled without no other add-on but i still get this error msg and only with the french version of Wow.. I tried to remove cache and WTF folder too but same problem!
i tried to reinstall pawn (and wow too but not for this reason) but without success
Very thanks for your help
Michael
Montreal, Canada
Hello
I tried with the German version of wow (and Pawn) for fun and no problem like english version.
i tried with older version of Pawn (2.2.35) and same dammit error msg at login (still with french wow)!!
:o(
Michael
In reply to ShamlanISR:
In reply to VgerAN:
Safari won't open the page link for pawn, says it doesn't recognize an address that starts with " curse"
In reply to imayaye22924:
Hi!
I am entering the numbers manually, would be nice the OFF-hand dps weight to be somewhere on the top section, not at the end of the list.
Thank you!
In reply to koborold:
I'm using manual configuration and let display the values for several specs (i.e. weight settings). That's great so far (in the tooltip). But in the inventory there's everything full of green arrows indicating improvements... mostly for inactive spec... but maybe not all... you have to check all items' tooltips.
Would it be possible to add an option for changing the color of the (now green) arrow on the item's icon?
For example:
I configure green arrow for spec 1 and blue for spec 2. An item which is improvement for 1 shows a green arrow, for spec 2 blue and for both specs both arrows. (of course "spec" means a set of weights in the configuration)
That would be awesome. ;)
In reply to Atair:
How do you compare a main-hand + off-hand to a two-hander?
In reply to Knubbia:
for whatever reason, Pawn does not like the new item levels on gear since the change on Tuesday 1/22/19. Keep getting lua errors.
691x Pawn\Pawn-2.2.34.lua:2344: bad argument #1 to 'strfind' (string expected, got nil)
[C]: in function `strfind'
Pawn\Pawn-2.2.34.lua:2344: in function `PawnStripLeftOfItemLink'
Pawn\Pawn-2.2.34.lua:2371: in function `PawnUnenchantItemLink'
Pawn\Pawn-2.2.34.lua:3039: in function `PawnIsItemAnUpgrade'
Pawn\Pawn-2.2.34.lua:4922: in function <Pawn\Pawn.lua:4899>
In reply to dblanch369: