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. Pawn does not include any stat weights by default on Classic, so you'll need to import your own. 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, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, and Simplified Chinese 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.
It would be could if we could weight the stats of the entire gear. Something similar to GearScore mob but instead of use the item iLevel, it would use the stats weight defined in Pawn.
When we put the mouse over another player GearScore scans all the gear that player is using and shows the score under to tooltip, like in this screenshot: http://media.curse.com/Curse.Projects.ProjectImages/17327/12446/WoWScrnShot_012509_081128.jpg
It would be cool if Pawn could do the same.
internal to one spec, "more is better" is all you need so if you want to get more spirit, you crank up the spirit weight a bit without having to compensate by taking down everything else to maintain some sort of equilibrium.
I don't know how difficult this would be to code, but it would be very useful to be able to assign a point value to certain stats that varied based on current ratings. Hit for instance; for Rogues it's worth different values depending on which number it's at currently. I would like to be able to assign one number if it's below a certain value, and another if it's at or past a certain value (213 on the character sheet in this case).
http://pawnmod.trenchrats.com/viewtopic.php?p=962#962
In the meantime, I will continue my standard plea asking users to always send crash reports to Blizzard, and post to the technical support forums asking for help.
When we have more than one scale tag they are all visible at the same time but it would be great to hide/show some scale tags depending on the spec that we are currently using. For example, I have a warrior with dual spec (Mainspec: Fury/ Offspec: Prot) and I'd like to hide the Prot scale tag that I created in Pawn when I'm in Fury spec.