Pawn

Last Updated: Apr 3, 2019 Game Version: 8.1.5

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Owner: VgerAN

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.

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Become a fan of Vger on Facebook and get updates of new versions and stuff like that. You can also leave questions or comments there if you don't have an account on this site.

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.

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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.

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dblanch369
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Posted Apr 20, 2019
Hey Vger, still getting this error every time I do a WQ that awards gear (well just when I get gear, period), then swap the new piece in and the error immediately generates the alert, while still hovering in the bags. Any chance you can check on this?

1184x Pawn\Pawn-2.2.40.lua:2333: bad argument #1 to 'strfind' (string expected, got nil)
[C]: in function `strfind'
Pawn\Pawn-2.2.40.lua:2333: in function `PawnStripLeftOfItemLink'
Pawn\Pawn-2.2.40.lua:2360: in function `PawnUnenchantItemLink'
Pawn\Pawn-2.2.40.lua:3028: in function `PawnIsItemAnUpgrade'
Pawn\Pawn-2.2.40.lua:4919: in function <Pawn\Pawn.lua:4896>
(tail call): ?
ElvUI\Modules\bags\Bags.lua:405: in function <ElvUI\Modules\bags\Bags.lua:396>
ElvUI\Modules\bags\Bags.lua:520: in function `UpdateSlot'
ElvUI\Modules\bags\Bags.lua:673: in function `UpdateBagSlots'
ElvUI\Modules\bags\Bags.lua:1406: in function <ElvUI\Modules\bags\Bags.lua:1389>

Locals:
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = "^|%x+|H(.+)"
(*temporary) = "string expected, got nil"

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kateywumpus89308
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Posted Apr 3, 2019
Hey. I must be doing something wrong. I can't get the weights to show up in the tooltips, but I get no errors.

I've gone and disabled all my addons except for Pawn to see if any of them were interfering with it, but still no dice.

Any suggestions?

Nevermind. Figured it out.

Last edited by kateywumpus89308: Apr 3, 2019

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VgerAN
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Posted Mar 31, 2019
Anyone who's having problems with upgrade info showing up twice in the encounter journal who wants to try something out for me:

Update to Pawn 2.2.40. (That might be enough to fix it for you, based on what people are saying.)

Reload WoW.

Type: /script PawnCommon.DebugDoubleTooltips = true

Hover over items in the encounter journal until you find one that has the problem.

Take a note of what gets spammed out to the chat window.

What normally happens is that when you hover over items in the encounter journal, you should see one entry (per item) that looks like this:

===== Annotating GameTooltip for Grips of Forsaken Sanity: =====

[string "*:OnEnter"]:2: in function <[string "*:OnEnter"]:1>

I'm guessing that people who are getting double upgrade info get two bits of chat spam. One I imagine is the same as what I see, and one's something else. What does the other one say? Screenshots, cell phone photos, retyping, copying and pasting... anything that lets me know what happens with that debug setting on could be useful.

To turn the chat window spam back off, run this:

/script PawnCommon.DebugDoubleTooltips = nil

You shouldn't need to downgrade to an earlier version of Pawn.

Thanks!
Last edited by VgerAN: Apr 3, 2019

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Shazi010
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Posted Apr 2, 2019
In reply to VgerAN:

Just did what you asked for and surprisngly updating to your debug alpha version fixed the problem by not showing double tooltips.

As you mentioned that when hovering over an item in the journal shows exactly what you mentioned in your OP, as shown here https://i.imgur.com/t7RgkJs.png

hovered over multiple items and it did not reproduce the double tooltip as shown here while going over multiple tooltips https://i.imgur.com/Y4qC577.png

So i dunno what it is in the alpha version thats different but i sure as hell aint rolling back now :D

everything works fine as intended in the alpha

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VgerAN
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Posted Apr 2, 2019
In reply to Shazi010:

Huh. Well, I don't know why anything in that version would fix anything; it's about 99.9% the same as the previous version. Anyone else give it a try?

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Salty
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Posted Apr 3, 2019
In reply to VgerAN:

Hello, I noticed the same. Double info is shown when using your current release version, but it is gone in your test version. Copied back the release verison, reloaded and the doubles are back. Tried it twice, both times the same result so I would agree with Shazi010 that something in your test fixed it :)

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VgerAN
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Posted Apr 3, 2019
Version 2.2.40 is the same as the incorrectly-named "2.2.41 test version," so you can safely upgrade to it without fearing that you'll lose the fix.

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billybobthort12
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Posted Mar 18, 2019
Please fix the double upgrade showing in the tooltips it is driving me insane it happens with it being the only addon as someone else confirmed!!!!!

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VgerAN
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Posted Mar 18, 2019
In reply to billybobthort12:

Hi! Sorry for the trouble. I haven't been able to reproduce the problem myself yet, so right now I'm at a loss as to what might have changed in 8.1.5 to cause it.

Are you just seeing it in the Dungeon Journal, or elsewhere too? Only certain types of items, or anything that's an upgrade?

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SeanOG
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Posted Mar 19, 2019
In reply to VgerAN:

https://imgur.com/a/Ne1AM5t

I'm having the same issue, all pawn Tooltips are currently stacked on one another

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SeanOG
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Posted Mar 19, 2019
In reply to VgerAN:

to clarify because i just found this out, it's only in the dungeon journal when looking at loot from raids and dungeons that it doubles the upgrade display

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VgerAN
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Posted Mar 19, 2019
Would someone who's experiencing this problem be willing to delete their Pawn settings ( World of Warcraft\_retail_\WTF\Account\(your account)\SavedVariables\Pawn.lua ) while the game is not running, and then start it up and see if the problem still occurs before you change any settings?

(You probably don't want to do that if you've imported any custom scales into Pawn, though you could use the Export button on the Scale tab for each one if you want to make a backup copy.)

Last edited by VgerAN: Mar 19, 2019

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xV_Slayer
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Posted Mar 20, 2019
In reply to VgerAN:

Hi VgerAN,

I tried your suggestion but the issue remains.

Thanks,

Chris

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billybobthort12
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Posted Mar 20, 2019
In reply to VgerAN:

Tried this and a clean WTF folder as well just running pawn. Issue remains as well for all of my guild on Area-52 realm.

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Posted Mar 20, 2019
In reply to billybobthort12:

Okay, thanks for checking. Super weird. I'll see what I can find.

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Posted Mar 27, 2019
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Any update?

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Posted Mar 27, 2019
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Nope, nothing yet. I still have yet to see this problem anywhere.

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Posted Mar 15, 2019
nevermind!

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Shazi010
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Posted Mar 15, 2019
After the recent update i am able to view my upgrades twice. Shown in the image below

https://imgur.com/a/dx25fhv

for the death of me cannot figure out why this is happening. I do not have 6 profiles in their. only 3 which are the one already that come with the addon and the one i put in which is the raidbots one but i view them twice

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Posted Mar 15, 2019
In reply to Shazi010:

getting the same as well. Seems to show up twice when looking at items in the dungeon journal

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Getting started

Found a bug?

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Anyone who's having problems with upgrade info showing up twice in the encounter journal who wants to try something out for me: