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.
So where is the download for the classic version?
What do I do about this
https://gyazo.com/08a56e0dd204d9fe4d6e7679e88e1cf6
Thanks a lot for working on Classic !
I noticed that "haste" is missing, that kind of weird classic melee haste which occure as effects and enchants with different descriptions, mostly "increase attack speed". I know that "attack speed" and "weapon attack speed" is there, but "haste" is "the increase of the attack speed". Like in:
https://classic.wowhead.com/item=6043/iron-counterweight
https://classic.wowhead.com/item=9449/manual-crowd-pummeler
https://classic.wowhead.com/spell=13948/enchant-gloves-minor-haste
Okay folks, an update on Pawn Classic!
I just put out 2.3.0 alpha 1, which works on WoW Classic! But there are three big things to keep in mind for this first alpha version:
I expect to get it working with all of the classic stats within the next couple of days, but I figured that this might help someone.
In reply to TravisSpomer:
I think you need to change the version type for the alpha to the classic patch. Atm in files it's 8.2.0 or whatever.
In reply to Syncness:
This part is not important. You can run the code without the toc version number being specifically set. It's a real hassle for addon authors to set the version compatibility number for 2 different releases of WoW currently, as Blizzard didn't think it through and allow authors to set multiple compatible versions, instead relying on addon authors to upload multiple release forks, even if their code is identical.
In reply to TravisSpomer:
thx a lot! will w8 fully compatible classic version with stats!
I was able to modify the addon to get it running under Classic; not 100% feature functionality but it works. You will have to manually define or import your own scales.
Unfortunately,Pawn's license is CC BY-NC-ND 3.0, which means I can't distribute the changed files. Distributing a diff patch, however, is in a gray area: classic.patch
If you're unsure how to apply a patch, Google "how to apply a unified diff patch file on Windows".
In reply to uint8:
I tried this - got a few whitespace errors when applying the patch, then when typing /pawn, I get "ERROR: Pawn UI is not loaded!". Any idea what's causing this?
In reply to wasniahC:
Try again. I made some changes. If you're using patch, try doing dos2unix on the patch, or passing "-l" (lower-case L) to ignore whitespace.
In reply to uint8:
Had a try with the updated file, didn't work - including trying to fix whitespaces (used git apply --whitespace=fix classic.patch; no luck)
Edit - git apply --ignore-whitespace didn't work either
In reply to wasniahC:
Fixed the whitespace issues in the patch. Removed the whitespaces on line 154 and 158.
This works for me in the Addons directory
In reply to uint8:
Took updated classic.patch, applied patch, didn't get any errors - got in game, still getting "ERROR: Pawn UI is not loaded!" when I try and /pawn, or try and access it through the button in interface options.
This is applied to the latest pawn version 2.2.46, right?
In reply to wasniahC:
I was able to reproduce your issue. I believe I ran
to work around it.
I'll work on a fix.Fixed it. Download the file again, or make the change in Pawn.lua:
In reply to uint8:
Yup - new file worked a charm! Thanks!
Only problem I've got now is that that the stats don't match up with vanilla! (For a caster at least.) But I'm guessing that's not something you're planning on fixing overnight yourself ;)
In reply to wasniahC:
Cool.
Yeah, I'm going to have to try to add the old stats. I've updated the file with an attempt, but I haven't tested it thoroughly to see if it's accurate.
Any news on a potential classic update?
Are there any similar addons to this one that work in Classic for the time being?
In reply to Philoludos:
I'm not personally aware of any.
classic please