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.
WoW Classic
Pawn now works on all WoW realms, including Classic. Classic support is a work in progress, and not all Pawn features work on Classic. When reporting issues on Classic, please be sure to let me know that's where it was!
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.
Language support
Pawn now works with all languages on live/retail. 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!
Pawn currently only supports English on WoW Classic.
Staying in touch
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Prerelease alpha versions of Pawn are occasionally available on CurseForge.
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.
Limited support in September
I will not be releasing any Pawn updates from September 20-30 and will have limited availability to respond to questions during that time. Patience is appreciated.
Not sure if this is where to report a bug -- it just brought me here.
as a hunter, there appears to be a strange interaction with crossbows, where it is not correctly reading the dps (either ranged, or normal dps) and comparing it. It simply leaves it blank.
Please advise.
FOR CLASSIC.
Pawn needs support for spellpower and bonus healing.
"Increased healing done by spells" items and "increases damage and healing done by spells" isn't supported by the classic version of pawn. Kinda becomes and issue at lvl 45+ when you start encountering it.
In reply to CHANYx:
same for crit and hit. crit = "Equip: Improves your chance to get a critical strike by 1%". hit = "Equip: Improves your chance to hit by 2%" or "Set: Improves your chance to hit by 2%"
Greetings,
I want to thank you for this add on and all the updates and maintenance you provide for it. I have a very simple question. Could you please tell me the line of code to change to change the x,y for the main pawn tab icon on the character tab? I have another addon installed and its launch icon is sitting on top of the launch icon for pawn. So I would like to move the pawn launch icon so it can be clicked on.
Thank You
hello,
I don't find the Spell Power, would that be the Spell Damage?
edit: for Classic
Hi There - great addon! Glad its been ported to classic..
On pictures I see of this addon, maybe old one - it shows for all gear the stat differences even without a weighting. ie If you replace this item, the following stat changes will occur;
+4 Int
-3 Spirit
+20 AP
etc... Cause even this would be helpful at the very least...
If this another addon that im getting confused with? Or do I have an issue with my addons and it should be doing that already?
Also I had a hunt around for weightings and found this website - http://tbcwowaddons.weebly.com/pawn.html its for TBC but the stat weightings might be close enough as a start for Classic...
Attack Speed has a weird interaction. Or atleast, i'm not getting the expected output.
I've put attack speed at -10 (as faster weapons are better for me) and the Speed baseline at 1.3 (the fastest daggers in game)
Now, I have two weapons, 1 with a speed of 1.9 and the other with a speed of 2.8.
The 1.9 gains no points. Where I expect it to be at -3 and the 2.8 gains positive points, 0.9, where I expected -15.
What's going on?
Edit: It's also not putting intellect in the negative, which I gave a value of -1. It's still saying +4?¿
Edit2: Nevermind. The green things are the item difference in stats compared to the other item. It isn't the score calculation. I am dumb. Everything is working as intended.
CLASSIC WOW PROBLEM
Stats Weighs used
( Pawn: v1: "Tank": ParryRating=20.25, Is2HMace=11.33, IsMace=11.33, CritRating=11.23, HitRating=13.8, Agility=1.48, DefenseRating=2.71, MeleeDps=3.68, Strength=1.03, IsSword=11.33, Armor=0.055, DodgeRating=16.29, MeleeSpeed=4.49, Stamina=1, Is2HSword=11.33, Ap=0.5 )
Itens compared
Assault Band
Unique - Finger
+7 Stamina
+5 Spirit
Equip: +20 Attack Power (shown as green stats)
Masons Fraternity Ring
Unique - Finger
+13 Agility
+5 Stamina
It shows Assault Band as 36.6 points and Masons as 24.2, when Masons should be the best option, with that stat string afaik.
In reply to TKTank:
Thanks for the report! I have another example of AP seeming to get over-valued that someone submitted on Facebook. I'll take a look at that as soon as I can.
In reply to TravisSpomer:
Thanks for looking into it!
Another very weird behavior I found
CLASSIC WOW
Same stats weighs as above
Item
Blackstone Ring
Unique - Finger
+6 Stamina
Equip: +20 Attack Power (shown as green stats)
Equip: Improves your chance to hit by 1%. (Shown as green stats)
Pawn shows this item with a score of 6, thus why I've been identifying the "green stats", as it seem somehow they're not being tracked by it or added into the item score.
Might have to do with how these stats are handled in Vanilla, not sure if they fall into the category of auras some blue posts were describing a while ago...
where i can find import scales?
In reply to Dragunovka:
Hi! For Classic, right now I don't have a good answer for you. I'm not playing Classic myself and I don't have a good source of stat weights at the moment. Your best bet would be to either contact the author of your favorite class guide, or check forums to see if there are any simulators working with Classic.
In reply to Dragunovka:
I look for scales on Wowhead. But, you still have to input the weights manually.
I dont understand how to use this addon? how do i know witch stat weights to put ?
as i see it, it dont work out of the box, i need to make a 'scale', but how do i do that? i was reading about simcraft, but cant find anything for classic
In reply to Poseidon1004:
Hi! For Classic, right now I don't have a good answer for you. I'm not playing Classic myself and I don't have a good source of stat weights at the moment. Your best bet would be to either contact the author of your favorite class guide, or check forums to see if there are any simulators working with Classic.
For Battle for Azeroth, Pawn comes with a set of built-in scales for every class and spec from Ask Mr. Robot.
In reply to TravisSpomer:
If it helps, I was using the weights given on Wowhead and inputting them manually into Pawn.
https://classic.wowhead.com/news=294766/stat-weights-for-item-filters-now-on-classic-wowhead-database
I am aware you will go on vacation soon, so I don't expect a reply. But in classic the green upgrade arrow doesn't show for me. Could this be because I use the addon Scrap - which shows a gold coin and grey border when it's trash? (Classic btw. Forgot to mention)
This was the error when I checked and unchecked the bag upgrade box;
Interface\AddOns\Pawn\PawnUI.lua:1846: attempt to call global 'ContainerFrame_UpdateItemUpgradeIcons' (a nil value)
Interface\AddOns\Pawn\PawnUI.lua:1846: in function <Interface\AddOns\Pawn\PawnUI.lua:1839>
In reply to SilFriend:
Thanks for the error info! Maybe the bag upgrade advisor feature needs to be turned off for Classic. Pawn doesn't add those arrows in the bags (that comes from the game itself), and I'm betting that they didn't put that feature in Classic.
In reply to SilFriend:
I followed up, and indeed that feature doesn't exist in Classic, so I've made sure Pawn won't try to interact with it. Thanks again for the report! (I know not the answer you were hoping for... 🙂)
In reply to TravisSpomer:
Any answer is a good answer! :D Whilst the green arrows are gone, the error is gone too! Enjoy your vacation!