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
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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.
Hello there!
Is there an option where I can add a certain Weapon Skill weight? I couldn't find it.
In reply to rflanz:
Hi! Sorry, right now, Pawn doesn't support adding weights for weapon skills on Classic. It's something I do want to add, though.
Hi !
as we all maintain our stat priorities and weights in Pawn already would it be possible to show a certain weight as stat priority in the character frame like the addon "Stat Priority" https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/stat-priority does or similar?
I guess the main secondary stats would be absolutely sufficient.
I could imagine something like an option in the scale to show the weights in the character frame or maybe spec-specific so that we can assign weights and scales a certain spec and per spec decide to show it in the character frame.
Thank you very much for this great addon!
In reply to stamic:
Hi! Thanks for the suggestions. Just to be clear, what you want from Pawn is something like the "Critical Strike > Haste > Mastery > Intellect > Versatility" bar above the character sheet? Something to help remind you of the stat priority for your current spec?
That's an interesting thought—when I'm playing alts I do find myself wondering which stats to pay attention to sometimes, even though I mostly just pay attention to green arrows and item level, so I can definitely see a use for that kind of thing. I'll give it some more thought. Maybe I could just do something really simple like sorting the list of stats based on their weights. Thanks!
In reply to TravisSpomer:
Hi Travis,
yes, this is exactly what I was looking for. I have a lot of Alts and percentages on items directly are great but sometimes just seeing the "Critical Strike > Haste > Mastery > Intellect > Versatility" would be great and also a very neat solution to quickly compare my values I put into Pawn with websites I can only get the stat priority from in a more visual format.
Thank you very much for considering it.
Bests!
Potentially I've missed this setting somewhere. Hoping you can help. Pawn doesn't show the gear comparison information when in the AH window. Is this a setting? All of the info is there when the gear is in my bag and vendor windows. The AH window is the only place (for me) where that info is missing. Thank you in advance!
In reply to bebe4422:
Hi! Pawn used to integrate with the auction house before they replaced it—I need to re-integrate with the new one though. It's the very top thing on my to-do list though!
In reply to TravisSpomer:
Thank you! Thought for sure it was another addon I'm running or I missed it in the settings. Thank you again!
After 8.3 itemlevel periodically doesnt shows on items (( i cleaned WTF cash no result (
In reply to duner_777:
Hi! Can you tell me a little more about what you mean by the item level not showing? You mean the green arrow that Pawn puts next to the item level of items that are higher than what you already have? Is this on Battle for Azeroth or Classic?
In reply to TravisSpomer:
Hi!
BFA, iam talking about current value of itemlevel on item. It appear and disappear randomly, that why now i have to use Bagnon ItemLevel addon ((
In reply to duner_777:
Hmmm, the item levels shown on item tooltips are put there by the game, not by Pawn. I've seen an addon that displays item levels right on the actual item icon before, but I'm afraid that I don't know which one it is.
In reply to TravisSpomer:
No there is no itemlevel shown in the bags items by default, it comes from addons, and pawn was shown always correctly since 8.3 Bagnon ItemLevel addon for example doing the same thing, but why pawn is stop working(
In reply to duner_777:
Hi—I think maybe you're thinking of a different addon. Do you have a screenshot that shows what it looked like before and what is no longer working for you?
I am unable to see the scoring for the additional stats like healing power in classic. I am using a spanish client. Can it be a language support issue?
In reply to redmars27:
Hi! Healing power (both the regular Equip: version and the "of the ____" version) seem to be working for me in Latin American Spanish on Classic. What's the specific problem that you're seeing? Is it not showing up on the Compare tab? Stats don't show up on the Compare tab if they aren't valued by the currently selected scale, but if I select the "Druida: Restauración" scale and then look at "Martillo de batalla recio de sanación", I see the Spell Healing on the item get scored correctly.
Pasting this into chat will show you the same item:
/pawn compare item:789::::::2028::1:::::::
When you look at that same item, do you see 4 points of Spell Healing x 1.21 in the list? If not, a couple of questions: is this Latin American Spanish or European Spanish? And, do you have any other addons that might change the way that item tooltips look and work, and can you try and see if the problem is still there if you have Pawn enabled and nothing else?
In reply to TravisSpomer:
Also, if the problem is still there even with just Pawn enabled, can you put a item that isn't working right into the Compare tab, and then Alt+Click its icon, and then copy and paste that text into a reply? (When you do that you should see a copyable version of all text on the item, and a command that I can paste into chat to see the same thing on my end.)
In reply to TravisSpomer:
Hi, TravisSpomer, it is European Spanish, disabling all addons except Pawn has the same behaviour. When using your command, it compares benediction with the hammer you mention but it only shows 3 atributes: Inteligence, stamina and spirit and in other, shows object level and Special effect, but nothing extra. No healing spell power, or critical strike. Using the Resto Druid scale.
The text that is shows on benediction is:
For crit on holy spells: "Equipar: Aumenta en un 2% la probabilidad de efecto crítico de tus hechizos Sagrados."
For healing power: Equipar: Aumenta la curación de los hechizos y los efectos hasta en 106 p."
On the hammer: "+4 de Hechizos de curación"
I think that in American Spanish, it use "sanación", instead of "curación" and the order of words is a little bit different.
In reply to TravisSpomer:
In reply to redmars27:
Replacing in localizationES.lua this, then it works
["Healing"] = "^%+# de Hechizos de curación$",
["Healing2"] = "^Equipar: Aumenta la curación de los hechizos y los efectos hasta en # p%.$",
["SpellCrit"] = "^Equipar: Mejora tu probabilidad de conseguir un golpe crítico en #%%% con los hechizos%.$",
So I imagine that it is a localization issue.
I have other issue with the objects that has healling and spell damage at the same time, like for example:
/pawn compare item:16816::::::::60:::::::
It says in the ítems: "Equipar: Aumenta el daño y la curación de los hechizos mágicos y los efectos hasta X p." so it gives healling and spell damage.
And it is not parsed correctly. What are your RegExp funtionality?, I might be able to update the localization file for es.es
In reply to redmars27:
Great; thanks for all of the information! In Battle for Azeroth, the two Spanish versions seem to be identical except for the way that numbers are displayed, but I guess there are some pretty significant differences on Classic that I should have been aware of. I'll look into building a special European Spanish translation for the Classic stats.
In the meantime, I'm afraid that the only suggestion I have for you is to switch your language over to Latin American Spanish, if that's not too uncomfortable. Hopefully I'll have something ready in a few days!