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.
hello, im leveling my alt, a resto shaman and pawn dosent work... i cant see the number % in any specs.. i only see the upside arrow and "upgrade" but not the number.. works fine in my others alts
Pawn is an amazing addon, and have gotten great use out of it over the years. With that said, it's usefulness diminishes once you get up to high ilvl gear, and have heard throughout the grapevine that SimC'ing yourself (dps classes), or for healers, using QuestionablyEpic's tools to compare against your current gear as stat weights can fluctuate given what you have eqipped. I may have some of this out of order however if you look into it you may find you'll have more accurate upgrade help.
In reply to SpookyActionAttAdistance:
Hi! For sure, at high levels of play, it's definitely worth simulating your character and your specific gear, talents, and so on. Some simulations have a way to export your stat weights and paste them directly into Pawn so you can still get immediate in-game advice before the next time you simulate. It's extra work, but I'd definitely recommend it (instead of using the built-in generic weights) if you're a one-percenter and need to maximize your performance.
In reply to TravisSpomer:
OOoooOo! I am not one to shy away from extra work an would love to know this process! :P I'll PM ya!
pawn gets the same dps value for ilvl 187, 200, 213 and 226 boes
In reply to mojusk:
Hi! Are you talking about browsing the auction house? The auction house has some annoying bugs and I've tried to work around some of them—I believe you should see the proper results once you click in to browse the specific offers.
Suggestion: it would be good if pawn could compare all items of the same type either equipped or in your inventory. Example: if you have 2 rings equipped and 2 in your inventory then when you hover over one of the rings it will show you a rank number of how good that ring is compared to all of the others you own and have a different rank number for each active scale. If you have a ring upgrade in your bag then you just need to look at the rank of your equipped rings to determine which ones you need to replace.
Displayed in the item tooltip
Ring #1
Havoc: Rank 1 of 4
Vengeance: Rank 3 of 4
Ring #2
Havoc: Rank 2 of 4
Vengeance: Rank 4 of 4
Ring #3
Havoc: Rank 3 of 4
Vengeance: Rank 1 of 4
Ring #4
Havoc: Rank 4 of 4
Vengeance: Rank 2 of 4
In reply to scottone1:
Interesting! Thanks for the suggestion. Sounds complicated, but I can see why it would be useful sometimes.
Recently AdiBags got the integration for the upgrade arrow; however, it's not working as expected. Simply setting self.UpgradeIcon:SetShown(true) for each item results in the arrow not being displayed at all.
The original issue is here: https://github.com/AdiAddons/AdiBags/issues/568
I guess that UpgradeIcon.SetShown is overwritten at some point by pawn.
In reply to feliciadrachenkatze:
Thanks for the heads-up! I think there's some confusion as to what Pawn actually does. I followed up on the GitHub issue.
I Dont have icons of better sell price and upgrade in quest log. I am using russian language Pawn in Classic WoW. It appear Error mesage in chat every time I log in: Pawn may provide incorrect advice due to a potentional addon conflict. But I dont have any Combat Numbers or Titan Panel addon. And its the same if I turn on only Pawn in modifications selection windows.
In reply to AyaOtonashi:
Hi! Thanks for the report. The error message should be gone in Pawn 2.4.18.
Did the quest log icons work in the past? Have you seen them work in English or other languages by chance? I don't actually remember if I ever built that for Classic or not. 😬
I think i'm experiencing a bug: i currently have equipped a 2H weapon ilvl 226 with my warlock and pawn is suggesting me that 1H (ilvl 210) + Offhand (ilvl 220) is an item level improvement. If you need more details just let me know.
In reply to Xadras:
Hi! Try pasting or typing this into chat:
/run PawnShowDebugInfo()
That'll spit out a full list of the highest-level items you've equipped before. My guess as to what's happening is that that since you're using a 226 weapon, that offhand is higher ilvl than any other offhand you've ever equipped, so Pawn's trying to let you know. But I guess that the usefulness of that information is pretty low.
In reply to TravisSpomer:
Nothing happens running that command, but looking at your guess i equipped the offhand and then back the 2H and the upgrade icon was gone. The only thing i noticed is that it wasn't suggeting back to have the 2H as best in slot...not sure if that's something it would suggest.
In reply to Xadras:
Whoops, sorry. It should have been this:
/run PawnShowSlotDebugInfo()
But yeah, it sounds like Pawn was just letting you know that the offhand's ilvl was higher than any other offhand you've equipped. I'll think about that and see if I can remember why I did it that way; right now it doesn't seem like it's a useful tip.
I'm seeing the same thing but its 1H dagger (ilvl 223) compared to a 1H mace (ilvl 203). It seems it using the dagger as main hand and off hand which isn't possible as druid
[05:09:48 PM] Best items: [Vision of Unending Growth]=235 [Azure-Venom Choker]=223 [Wicked Bladewing Pauldrons]=220 [Rainshadow Hauberk]=220 [Girdle of Shattered Dreams]=216 [Memory of the Mother Tree]=235 [Vanquished Usurper's Footpads]=220 [Precisely Calibrated Chronometer]=213 [Rocket Chicken Handlers]=220 [Bloodoath Signet]=220 [Bloodoath Signet]=220 [Cabalist's Hymnal]=220 [Cabalist's Hymnal]=220 [Mantle of Manifest Sins]=213 [Fleshcrafter's Knife]=223 [Fleshcrafter's Knife]=223
The 1H mace Sicthwood Scepter which is valor upgradeable. Does it use the max level of the item?
In reply to bocek:
Is this with a custom scale, or one of the built-in scales? If it's one of the built-in scales it shouldn't try to suggest anything that would require dual wielding. If it's a custom scale, it might just not be set up properly.
Right now Pawn doesn't have any features related to the new valor upgrades; it's using the current version of the item only. I'll have to look into that a bit more.
Hey Travis, Could you please allow me to use the 'enter' key after typing in 'delete' to verify that I'm ok with my decision(Instead of having to use the mouse to click ok). Same with when I rename something. Thanks! :)
In reply to Vandemar:
Hmmm, yes, that's supposed to work. I'll take a look. Thanks for the heads-up!