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.
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 versions, 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.
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If something doesn't seem to be working right, just leave a comment here. In addition to a description of the problem, please make sure to include: (1) the language that you play WoW in, (2) whether it's Shadowlands, Classic Era, Burning Crusade Classic, or Wrath of the Lich King 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, and typically the most helpful thing you can provide is a full item ID (12345:67:89:0, etc.). You can find the full ID for an item by turning on Pawn's "show item IDs" feature or by putting it into Pawn's Compare tab and Alt+LeftClicking it and then copying it from the box that appears. (You can also get the first number from the item ID from any Wowhead item link, and that's usually enough, but not for items with enchantments or upgrades or random stats.)
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Playing Dragonflight or the 10.0 PTR? Be sure to use Pawn 2.7 or later. Some Pawn features, including taking over the green arrows in bags, do not work in Dragonflight yet.
I get worse armor weapons than better suggested Wrath
https://www.directupload.net/file/d/6684/prc298fs_jpg.htm
In reply to imna1975:
Hi! It looks like Pawn is telling you that the item on the right is 3 item levels higher, not that it's better. Item level upgrades aren't very important in Wrath (mostly just for vehicles like the tanks in Wintergrasp and Ulduar), so you can turn that feature off if you don't care about items that are worse but a higher item level. Just look for "Zeige Verbesserungen auf Gegenstandsstufen" ("Show item level upgrades") on the Options tab. I hope that helps!
In reply to TravisSpomer:
thanks I changed it
It doesn't compare a linked item i don't know why, it doesn't show the stats that you get or lose
In reply to Dwarfmilia:
Hi! Pawn's Compare tab will only show you stat differences if there are items in both slots. Normally if you put an item in the right-hand slot, Pawn will automatically show your current item of the same type in the left (and there are some buttons at the bottom to let you quickly switch). Do you have items on both sides? If you can include a screenshot that might help me understand what you're seeing.
(Copied from my response to your other comment)
When the mouse is over an item, it will cause the FPS to drop (WoW Wrath of the Lich King Classic)
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/831324000717242439/1022553086436323423/unknown.png?width=1055&height=843
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/831324000717242439/1022553086843166782/unknown.png?width=1152&height=843
In reply to LoukkyWang:
Hi! All three Classic versions of the game have a bunch of bugs that cause Pawn to have to do a lot of extra work to function properly, and that's the cause of the slowdown. The problem appears to be worse for people running at extremely high framerates. Pawn runs much faster in modern versions of the game, but unfortunately there doesn't appear to be a practical way that I can speed it up any further on the Classic versions. Sorry. 😕
Hey there, found a bug with rogue values. The currently equipped cape is better in every way but the other cape is shown as better.
https://imgur.com/a/jsKvyPi
In reply to Epoc2:
Thanks for the heads-up! I should be able to fix that. (The problem is that the armor penetration rating on The Gladiator's Resolution is missing the word "rating" so Pawn missed it.)
In reply to TravisSpomer:
Ah, that makes sense! I was trying to think what it could be.
I hope I'm not missing something simple. Blood DK as tank, I have to use frost weights for anything close to relevant stats, using default settings. Is this something I can fix, without having to make templates, check for proper stats from 3rd party sites? Just want a simple reference, without having to remember that as blood, i should be checking for frost upgrades.
In reply to mordakai:
Hi! Right now unfortunately I don't have any good advice for you. The only stat weights I have right now for DKs on Wrath Classic are frost tank and blood+unholy DPS. If it helps in any way, you can shift-click scales in the Pawn UI to hide them from your tooltips, like tracking quests.
Following is coming up whenever you load a toon. It does it for every /reload as well.
Message: Interface\AddOns\Pawn\Pawn.lua:206: attempt to index global 'GroupLootFrame1IconFrame' (a nil value)
Time: Sun Sep 18 12:22:44 2022
Count: 1
Stack: Interface\AddOns\Pawn\Pawn.lua:206: attempt to index global 'GroupLootFrame1IconFrame' (a nil value)
[string "=[C]"]: ?
[string "@Interface\AddOns\Pawn\Pawn.lua"]:206: in function `PawnInitialize'
[string "@Interface\AddOns\Pawn\Pawn.lua"]:112: in function `PawnOnEvent'
[string "*:OnEvent"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnEvent"]:1>
Locals:
I'm also getting the following error message when I click on the 'Pawn' button in my character screen:
Message: [string "*:OnShow"]:1: Usage: PlaySound(soundKitID, optional["SFX","Music","Ambience", "Dialog" or "Master"], [forceNoDuplicates, runFinishCallback])
Time: Sun Sep 18 12:27:53 2022
Count: 1
Stack: [string "*:OnShow"]:1: Usage: PlaySound(soundKitID, optional["SFX","Music","Ambience", "Dialog" or "Master"], [forceNoDuplicates, runFinishCallback])
[string "=[C]"]: ?
[string "=[C]"]: in function `PlaySound'
[string "*:OnShow"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnShow"]:1>
[string "=[C]"]: in function `Show'
[string "@Interface\AddOns\Pawn\Pawn.lua"]:3005: in function <Interface\AddOns\Pawn\Pawn.lua:2997>
Locals:
In reply to The_Hendo72:
I did a Re&Re with a full delete and that seems to have fixed the problem.
Is there any way to compare gear that you don't currently own? for example, I have [Shield of Impenetrable Darkness] from Kara, and I want to see if [Kaz'rogal's Hardened Heart] from Hyjal Summit is an upgrade, but i dont currently have that shield in my inventory, but I have atlas loot which shows me the drop, or someone could ping it in chat. Is there any way to compare the 2 given my current spec.
In reply to grovertreetment:
Hi! Yes, you have a few options.
1) When an item link "tooltip" window is open because you clicked an item link in chat, right-click anywhere on the window to open it in Pawn's Compare tab.
2) You can go into the Key Bindings menu, find Pawn, and then bind keys to compare left and/or compare right. I use [ for left and ] for right, and those are the defaults on modern WoW, but key bindings on Classic versions have to be set up manually.
I hope that helps!
In reply to TravisSpomer:
It does, Tyvm!
In reply to TravisSpomer:
It doesn't compare a linked item i don't know why, it doesn't show the stats that you get or lose
In reply to Dwarfmilia:
Hi! Pawn's Compare tab will only show you stat differences if there are items in both slots. Normally if you put an item in the right-hand slot, Pawn will automatically show your current item of the same type in the left (and there are some buttons at the bottom to let you quickly switch). Do you have items on both sides? If you can include a screenshot that might help me understand what you're seeing.
any idea what the custom weights are for blood tank and frost dps, or where I might find them?