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.
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 versions, 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.
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For BCC is it intended that there is no way to weight non-meta / simple sockets?
v2.5.28 BCC, tried creating an empty scale to see all the attributes that can be weighted, under sockets only Meta is available.
Thanks.
Edit: Actually even the metasocket attribute does not weigh the presence of a meta socket on an item, but only then non-basic attribute portion of the meta.
Is socket valuation not supported for BCC atm?
In reply to MrFIXlT:
Hi! That's correct; you can't manually assign a value to colored sockets or the stat portion of a meta socket. Pawn will automatically give those a value based on the stats of the appropriate gems, and the socket bonus if it's worth going for. (It's smart enough to figure out whether it would be better to just use all red gems and ignore the socket bonus, or whether the socket bonus is good enough that using a slightly-worse orange gem in the yellow socket is okay.)
In reply to TravisSpomer:
That's fair enough.
Does it use some built-in weights for those sockets or just built-in choices of gem stats which it then uses the scale weights (for say stamina/agility/strength/crit or whatever) to add up socket value?
What I'm trying to say if that was confusing. If a scale assigns STR the highest weight will Pawn opt to fill red sockets with STR gems and use that value to compute their worth? Or if a scale assigns INT the highest weight will it suggest INT gems and use that scale value to compute socket worth?
In reply to MrFIXlT:
The second one—it will use the same weights as if the item had those stats directly instead of on a gem. So if you're a fury warrior, red sockets will be valued as if you put in strength gems. You can see which gems Pawn will use in its calculations on the Gems tab—for many specs, the best "yellow" gem might, for example, actually be an orange gem.
And keep in mind what I mentioned about the socket bonus: if it's better to use 3 blue gems and ignore the socket bonus, Pawn will assume that you did that when calculating the item's value, and it'll also tell you that when you shift-right-click the item. In addition to the hints on the socketing window, you can also figure out what Pawn would do on the Compare tab, but it's a bit technical there and not super clear.
Hi,
This addon gives me significant slowdown with its latest version (2.5.27) whenever comparing items or switching item. This is especially noticeable if I switch gear sets in ItemRack, which will lock the game up for 1-3 seconds. My computer isn't exactly bad, either (I usually manage a consistent 60FPS on high graphical settings). Is there a way to throttle calculation when changing equipped items, perchance?
In reply to Lethay:
Hi! A few questions: Which version of the game are you playing? Does it happen if Pawn is the only addon enabled? And, has it always been this way, or did it just start happening recently?
In reply to TravisSpomer:
Sorry, totally forgot to mention it. TBC Classic. I only tried to use Pawn exactly once and then disabled it because of the performance issues. I haven't tried it with only Pawn enabled, but I'll try that soon.
TBCC version:
Why does Pawn destroy my framerate when comparing item tooltips side-by-side? Happens the most with Rings, (when up to 3 tooltips are shown at once).
Can I stop this from happening?
It happens specifically with either of the following the two options
- "Show scale values and upgrade %"
- "Only show upgrades"
AND if the the following option is enabled:
- "versus equipped gear"
In reply to SunfyreBlazing:
The short version is that there are several bugs in WoW Classic and Burning Crusade Classic that require Pawn to do a lot of extra calculations in order to compensate. I'd expect it to not be too bad with current versions of Pawn—maybe a 1-8 fps drop at worst—but right now I don't think there's much of anything I can do to make it better (and have Pawn still do what it's supposed to). Sorry!
Hello again!
1) English
2) Shadowlands Retail
3) Enigmatic Energy Circuit Normal (iL226)
4) Holy Priest, custom weights
Expected values for Domination sockets are doubled. With a boolean stat weight (all stats set to 1: Int, Stamina, Crit, Haste, Mastery, Versatility, Leech, Avoidance, Speed) and the Domination socket set to 60, I expect the weight of this object to be 279 + 60 = 339. Pawn returns 398. If I set the socket to zero, it sets the value of the object to 279. If I set the socket to 30, I get the expected value.
Using a workaround of halving the values for now!
In reply to Rationalised:
Hi! Sorry for the late reply—this is fixed in Pawn 2.5.28. Thanks for the report!
In reply to TravisSpomer:
No problem; thank you again for supporting an amazing addon!
Bonjour, je voulais savoir si il été possible de changer les stats principales et mettre ce que moi je veux ?
Genre en paladin tank, je veux orienté en hate --> poly et non critique --> maitrise par exemple
Cordialement
In reply to scriden:
Hi! Yes, Pawn's Values tab lets you choose whatever order and weights that you want. (First, use the Scales tab to copy an existing set of weights or start with a blank one.)
Salut! Oui, l’onglet Valeurs de Pawn vous permet de choisir l’ordre et les poids de votre choix. (Tout d’abord, utilisez l’onglet Balances pour copier un ensemble de poids existant ou commencez par un jeu vide.)
Ignore this. I figured out my issue... I don't see a way to delete this. x(
Hello there @TravisSpomer
is there chance to support Domination shards ? if not can we add support to not overlap with other addon Like : domination-socket-helper
i traid to move the advisor Tool Tip
PawnUI.lua Line changed 2064
PawnSocketingTooltip:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", ItemSocketingFrame, "BOTTOMLEFT", 6, -60)
Image :
https://prnt.sc/1ra80g6
In reply to Gaaver:
Hi! Sorry for the annoyance; getting rid of that useless little popup for items with domination sockets is currently the top thing on my to-do list.
In reply to TravisSpomer:
Fix is in 2.5.27!
In reply to TravisSpomer:
Ty alot
Edit : the Tooltip still hooked into the socket frame IF you try socket non domination gear and the socket frame is still open than you try to change shards
In reply to Gaaver:
Oooh, let me take a look into that.