Find upgrades, do more damage, win.
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.
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 (or, on Classic, HawsJon). 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.
Language support
Pawn now works with all languages on both live/retail and Classic. It's possible that you might run into stats that Pawn doesn't recognize from time to time when playing on non-English clients—if you think that Pawn's not calculating something right, put an item into the Compare tab and see if it lists all of the stats there. If something's missing, let me know which item and which language, and I should be able to get it fixed!
Staying in touch
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. If you're a huge nerd you can also find Pawn on GitHub.
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) whether it's live/retail or Classic, (3) the specific items that don't work as expected, and (4) 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.
Pawn is causing many issues atm. I recommend not using it until it's updated.
Recently I discovered that I could not switch weapons mid fight, whether in a raid, against a random mob or in pvp. After turning all my addons on and off for the past 30 minutes I discovered that Pawn was the culprit. I have tested 3-4 times now with it on in the character select screen and loading in, vs having it off in the character screen and loading in. I have also done it in game with it off and turning it on with ACP and vise versa. I have running version Pawn-2.4.1 (Type: Release). Hopefully you can get this fixed soon :D
How to turn off login error about "Titan Panel Artifact Power or Combat Numbers Separator"? I never install thia addons.
is there a way to reduce a stat weight once a breakpoint is hit?
ex:
crit = 4 when crit is less than 33%.
crit = 0 when crit is above 33%.
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 that change the way that numbers appear.
1) ru/ru
2) live
All other addons are disabled
I downloaded the 2.4.1 version but when i try to enable it in game (retail) it says its out of date.
In reply to ForgottenCrusader:
Hi! As long as you see 2.4.1 in-game, it's the correct, latest version as of now. If you downloaded in the first day or so that it was available you would have gotten a version that would be flagged as "out of date" but it will still work fine. If you re-download it, you should get the exact same version, except without showing up as "out of date."
In reply to TravisSpomer:
OK i see ty, BTW does it take account the difference azerite pieces provide? cuz i have a chest with azerite powers but i have a non azerite chest with just secondary effects and it says its better. Is that accurate?
In reply to ForgottenCrusader:
No, Azerite powers and other non-stat things are ignored. So as you imagine, typically you'll want to strongly consider keeping the one with powers equipped even if the other one has better stats. But, there'd be a cutoff, and that cutoff might be a little personal—are those Azerite powers worth a 10% increase in stats? Probably. A 20% increase? Ehhhh, maybe not. But still possibly!
I'm currently using the following string:
( Pawn: v1: "Priest: Holy-Inv 2H": Class=Priest, Spec=Holy, Indestructible=0.01, Leech=0.29, CritRating=0.33, IsWand=X, HasteRating=3.94, MasteryRating=0.26, MovementSpeed=0.02, Intellect=0.29, IsFrill=X, Stamina=0.01, IsMace=X, IsDagger=X, Versatility=0.32, Avoidance=0.01 )
Items with sockets are suggesting either Smooth Golden Draenite or Rigid Azure Moonstone (+1 Crit, value 0.3), when clearly Quick Sand Spinels (+7 Haste, value 27.6) are the current best option. Selecting "Show the best gems available" does not persist, nor changes the values.
In reply to Rationalised:
Hi! Is this on low-level items? Pawn won't suggest that you use a good gem in leveling items that you're going to throw away in an hour anyway. Currently the only options for changing how it values those sockets are to use roughly "appropriate" gems for the item based on its level, or to not use gems at all. I'll be adding a little more nuance on what's "appropriate" in a few days hopefully, but having more super-fine-tuned control over exactly which gems you use is a longer-term goal.
In reply to TravisSpomer:
They are "low level" (because everything is right now!), but they are item level 60 and 72 respectively.
In reply to Rationalised:
Gotcha. Yeah, that's what's happening. In a few days I'll adjust Pawn to suggest some crappy BfA green gems instead of the +1 stat gems for items like those—but by then you'll probably already have tossed that one into the shredder. 🙂
Hi!
What is the data base to compare the items?
In reply to terramichael:
Hi! Can you tell me more about what you'd like to know? The stat weights that Pawn uses are from Ask Mr. Robot for Battle for Azeroth, and from a collection put together by HawsJon for Classic. Does that answer your question?
Can we get the option to have the upgrade arrow in the inventory to show up on the left or right. The arrow gets hidden by other addons like Adibags due to their iLvl numbers showing. Preferably would like to have the option to choose any of the corners to use.
In reply to Bolerro619:
Hi! That would actually be an Adibags problem: the bag addon (or the base game) is what puts those arrows there; Pawn just changes how the game evaluates whether or not it should be there. (That's also why the green arrows there don't look the same as Pawn's usual green arrows.)
Evidently the scales are off or out of whack. It shows any item in my bag as better than Benthic gear (which I have on a lot of alts), so when I'm being told a random level 15 green I got from killing a low level mob is better than my Benthic gear, I was like enough is enough. I disabled the addon for now.
In reply to zaph0n:
Hi! Hmm, I haven't seen that or heard of it happening. Are you playing in English? If you re-enable Pawn and find an item that is appearing as an upgrade that you're sure really isn't, put it into the upper-right corner of Pawn's Compare tab and you'll see why it's telling you that. Maybe it's getting the wrong stats for one of the two items.
In reply to TravisSpomer:
Yes, English. Let me re-install the addon and find an example.
https://www.screencast.com/t/1gD6oEnbWF
green iLvL 56 cloak vs purple iLvL 78 cloak, pawn says I should wear the green 56 cloak as it's an upgrade. In this case, it doesn't even show a score at the bottom of the purple cloak. I had another earlier where it was a green iLvL 35 item vs a purple iLvL 66 item (benthic as well), and both had scores. But because the green had critical strike on it, and the other piece didn't, it decided it was an upgrade. All of this was on fury warriors (I have 30+ of them at 50), I have the auto scale turned on.
Evidently, I just have lots of items on all my characters (Benthic Gear, gear from the 15th anniversary event, etc.) that has NO SCORE according to Pawn.
https://www.screencast.com/t/lm5Toy5zf6