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.
Staying in touch
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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.
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.
I love this addon, but lately it's been malfunctioning. I am playing an elemental shaman, and armor items are frequently listed as an upgrade (green arrow and percent upgrade in tooltip), however once equipped the removed item also shows as an upgrade. Upon re-equipping the original item the green arrow is no longer present.
In reply to user_826042:
Hi! Thanks for the report. I'm aware of a problem where it seems like the game is a little slow in notifying Pawn of updates to your gear. Does the problem also go away if you move the item to a different spot in your bag?
In reply to TravisSpomer:
No, it's pervasive. In fact, I have a belt in my bags that's a fairly clear upgrade, and it's not showing the upgrade arrow in my bags. When I open Pawn and go to the Compare tab, it does list it as a 19% upgrade. If I could figure out how to post a pic I'd send you a snapshot.
Looking at the Debug mode, it still calculates the gem slots as having a +40 gem instead of the newer +50 gems... =/
In reply to Kazari:
Hi! What's the ilvl of the item you're looking at? Pawn should suggest the +50 gems on items that are level 430 or higher, and the +40 gems on lower-level items.
In reply to TravisSpomer:
Ah, looking at Benthic 420/425+s, definitely using +50 gems for those though...
Any way to change that manually, really annoying seeing that it values a 425+s as less than some of my 445/450 due to socket guessing I'd used +40 instead of +50. (given the strength of sockets atm)
Is this working on the latest battle of azeroth patch? 8.2 or something like that.
In reply to mensseli:
Hi! Yes, Pawn is always available for the current live version of the game.
https://imgur.com/qvIpph5
The Pawn button on the character screen somehow stuck itself behind the rest of the UI and isn't clickable. I've tried exiting WoW and going back in, downgrading to the previous version and reupdating, disabling and re-enabling, and nothing has fixed the issue. Can still open the Pawn window with /pawn
In reply to Alluminn:
Thanks for the screenshot. Can you tell me which UI replacement you're using? I might be able to figure out what they're doing that breaks Pawn.
Are there any plans to have a Classic version? With things like weapon skill and hit cap returning I would like to be able to set stat weights again and utilize hit/crit chance and weapon skill to make custom stat weights.
In reply to daddykowa86:
Hi! Thanks for the suggestion. I don't have a plan per se, but I'm considering it. It wouldn't be a simple endeavor. I guess if a solid theorycrafting community develops for Classic, that would be a particularly good reason to go to the effort.
In reply to TravisSpomer:
I came here looking for the same thing about classic WOW. I really love Pawn and Ask Mr. Robot to customize my stats. I always suggest using this addon if you are a new player or trying a new class/spec. I know some folks will be raiding and looking for some great addons for raiding. With that in mind, what do you need from your loyal supporters?
:) Thank you for a great addon, I hate the guess-work on 2 or 3 items but with different stats. Pawn helps me figure out what is the best item to equip with the different specs I switch between.
In reply to sommershade:
Thanks for the kind words! Just knowing that Classic-compatible Pawn is something people want is helpful. :)
In reply to sommershade:
I have used Pawn for a very long time and would also like to see it for classic. Thank you for all the work you have done and will do for retail WOW!
In reply to TravisSpomer:
Would love to have Pawn in Classic, will surely help in the later stages of leveling and ofc with dungeons and raids.
Hi there i noticed a big fps drop recently when using pawn along with elvui. Without having the bags open i sit around 90fps as soon as i open the bags i drop to around 50-59 for some reason. if i remove pawn i dont drop a single fps when opening bags. it feels like it cuts my fps in half pretty much. Not sure whats causing this but would be nice with a fix since i rly love pawn :) (Should prob add im on the elvui dev version) I did some more testing and normally pawn sits at 1.37mb when i open bags it keeps going up until 45mb then drops to 15 and goes back up again. Idk if its related but i thought it edit the post and add it. as soon as i close bags its back to 1.3mb
In reply to n0oova:
Hi! Hmmm, okay, I can take a look sometime. Thanks for the report!
is it possible to add a value to the tooltip of buff food?
In reply to kremdes:
Hi! Thanks for the suggestion. That's something I haven't done because there's usually just one best food for a given spec, or maybe a couple based on the type of content, compared to the thousands of different possible items. It would be handy sometimes when I'm playing an alt ("what stat do ret pallies need these days?") for sure, but I can also just look it up on the Values or Gems tabs.
Though... now that you mention it, maybe I could turn the Gems tab into a Buffs tab that lists suggestions for not just gems, but also enchantments, buff food, and maybe some other stuff. I'll think about it!