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, I have a problem with the addons
I am currently playing version 8.1.5 and have Pawn version 2.3.24
The addons stopped working and every time I try to open it the following message appears:
ERROR: Pawn UI is not loaded
In reply to takuya1710:
I don't support Pawn on private servers. Sorry, you're on your own.
Cheers.
I use pawn in English, and its on retail.
In reply to YulRun:
Ah, good catch! I'll get that fixed for the next version. Thanks!
Does the Upgrade Arrow in the Bags or Rewards work in Classic or was that added in later versions of Wow?
In reply to frurox:
Hi! Unfortunately the upgrade arrow in bags was added later in WoW so that feature is missing in Classic. Some of the other upgrade arrows do work on Classic, though.
In reply to TravisSpomer:
I see the ones in the tooltip only. After looking it was added in 7.1
https://www.wowhead.com/news=256046.5/patch-7-1-preview-ui-improvements-and-action-cam-returns
Getting this error:
Date: 2020-06-04 23:56:23
ID: 1
Error occured in: AddOn: Pawn
Count: 1
Message: Error: AddOn Pawn attempted to call a forbidden function (SetNote()) from a tainted execution path.
Debug:
[string "=[C]"]: SetNote()
[string "@..\FrameXML\StaticPopup.lua"]:2746: EditBoxOnEnterPressed()
[string "@..\FrameXML\StaticPopup.lua"]:4943: StaticPopup_EditBoxOnEnterPressed()
[string "*:OnEnterPressed"]:1:
[string "*:OnEnterPressed"]:1
Locals:
None
In reply to Golden__Star:
Thanks. That's a very strange error; Pawn definitely doesn't use that stuff (StaticPopup OR SetNote). But, it's unfortunately normal for "taint" errors to be really mixed-up. Do you know what you were doing when that happened?
In reply to TravisSpomer:
Yes! I was trying to set a guild note for my character. I tried on 3 different characters to see if it was somehow related in some way to that, but it was not. (They are all different race/class combos, if that matters.)
In reply to Golden__Star:
Thanks! That helps. Unfortunately, I'm not able to reproduce the problem. Do you happen to know if you were in combat at the time? I'm guessing not since you mentioned three characters, but "taint" errors like those happen when an addon tries to do something it's not allowed to, often changing certain things about the UI while in combat, and then later on, some addon (the same one or a different one) tries to use that same thing. (It's confusing and not really important to you... just in case you were curious. 🙂)
A couple of options:
(1) If you turn off all of your addons, or everything except Pawn, and then try to set the note, it should work. Then, you can turn them back on.
(2) If you want to try to help me figure out what's going on so I can work around the problem or report it to another addon author, you could turn off everything except Pawn and then add your other addons back a few at a time, trying to set a guild note each time, until you find the addon that makes it stop working when Pawn is also running.
I hope that helps!
Can someone give me the weight values for a tank classic warrior? Or is the default good enough?
Would it be possible to make it so reward items in the quest log can be dragged onto the interface and assessed? Currently it seems we have to possess the item in our bag.
In reply to merikkinon:
Hi! You have a couple of options:
(1) You can bind a key to "compare item left" and "compare item right" in the keybindings UI (keybindings for addons are listed at the bottom). Pawn will try to bind the [ left bracket and right bracket ] keys to those if possible, on BfA. But you can set them to anything you want, on either BfA or Classic. Then, just hover over an item anywhere and press that key.
(2) Sometimes you can right-click on items that you don't have to copy them to Pawn's Compare tab. I know it works for item link popups and some dungeon loot, but I don't remember if I got that working for quest rewards or not.
I hope that helps!
Potential Bug?
Whenever hovering over equipable items, WoWs refresh rate sinks drastically, to the more or less unplayable level.
1) Using English client.
2) Playing WoW Classic.
3) Tooltips causes low refresh rate.
4) Class/spec is several different. Seen on Feral and Resto Druid (60). MM Hunter (45+). Frost Mage (30+). Holy Priest (25+). Affliction Warlock (25+). Arms Warrior (25+). Combat Rogue (25+).
Have tried disabling a few addons that I thought might cause it, to narrow down the culprit.
Disabling TinyTooltip does not remove the issue. My first thought, as the issue only occurs when showing equipable item tooltips.
Disabling Pawn removes the issue. My second thought, as this modifies the tooltip.
Disabling ArkInventory addon does not solve the issue. My afterthought, as the issue only seemed to occur when hovering over equipable items in my bags.
In reply to briped:
Hi! There are definitely problems with Pawn's tooltip annotations on Classic. The short version is that WoW Classic has a series of bugs that all work together to make Pawn a lot slower on Classic than on BfA: the game is closing and reopening the tooltip constantly, every frame, and it has other bugs that prevent Pawn from reliably knowing if the one on this frame is the same as the one on the last frame, so the only option is to just re-do all of the work, constantly. If you have an addon that causes additional tooltips to appear (EquipCompare etc.) the effect is multiplied.
I've noticed some hiccups, but in the "slightly noticeable" range, not "more or less unplayable." Is the PC you're using more of a budget PC or a high-end gaming PC?
In reply to TravisSpomer:
I would say it's in the mid to high range.
Ryzen 7 3800X
RTX 2070 Super
64GB RAM
nVME SSD
Unplayable is only a slight exaggeration. When just standing still and looking at items the issue doesn't matter much. But if if trying to run, the frame rate stutter makes it pretty hard. I'll see if I can remember to capture a video of the issue to demonstrate.
In reply to TravisSpomer:
Issue is much worse in Orgrimmar, and possible other places with many characters. Video here:
In reply to briped:
Thanks! That's pretty rough; I definitely haven't seen that level of slowdown. You definitely shouldn't be seeing that on a PC like yours. I'll have to dig into it. Can you give me a list of the addons that you are using?
In reply to TravisSpomer:
Not sure if this will work. Did a /swat show and just copied that. As I recall, it contains all loaded addons:
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