Pawn
Last Updated: Oct 28, 2018 Game Version: 8.0.1
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
Become a fan of Vger on Facebook and get updates of new versions and stuff like that. You can also leave questions or comments there if you don't have an account on this site.
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.
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Posted Nov 8, 2007ERROR: Unenchanteditem should not be nil
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Posted Nov 7, 2007I've posted the second beta of 0.6.3. Patch 2.3 will be out next week, and Pawn requires a few changes to keep up. It currently has an issue with set items; I hope that change in 2.3 doesn't go live, but if it does, I'll need to add in a hack to work around it. Other than that, 0.6.3 beta 2 has everything you need for Pawn goodness in patch 2.3, and I'll release a final 0.6.3 on Tuesday.
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Posted Nov 4, 2007I've uploaded a beta of Pawn 0.6.3. Notably new in this version is support for guild banks on the 2.3 PTRs, and a few big bug fixes: now in many situations you can use Pawn, mods that create fake item tooltips like AtlasLoot and ItemSync, and mods that mangle tooltips like Rating Buster all at the same time. Also, I finally fixed that bug where items with both durability and an Equip: or Use: line that Pawn didn't understand would get asterisks on the wrong lines. (For example, Stalker's Helm of Second Sight.)
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Posted Oct 31, 2007Leper -- I can't reproduce any problems with scales with the OffHandDps and OffHandSpeed stats when mousing over shields. Let me know if you run into any problems with the latest version in the future.
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Posted Oct 30, 2007I think that the best one right now is probably http://pawnmod.trenchrats.com/index.php. It's also a good resource for porn spam links.
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Posted Oct 30, 2007Does anyone know of a good resource for Pawn scales? I'm starting up a Paladin and before I try and do my own scales, I'd love to know if some already exist, preferably up-to-date with the latest Pawn changes.
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Posted Oct 27, 2007I've posted Pawn 0.6.2. This version has a fix for that error message that would appear when clicking a recipe for the first time. Also, VgerCore functionality is now embedded within Pawn instead of in a separate mod, so you don't need that VgerCore folder in Interface\AddOns anymore.
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Posted Oct 22, 2007Yeah, sorry about that one! It's a new bug in 0.6.1, and already fixed for 0.6.2. If it's bothering anyone, the fix is to go to line 457 of Pawn.lua (the one in AddOns, not the one you edit to change your scales) and change it from this:
PawnDebugMessage(VgerCore.Color.Salmon .. string.gsub(ItemLink, "|", "||"))
...to this...
if ItemLink then PawnDebugMessage(VgerCore.Color.Salmon .. string.gsub(ItemLink, "|", "||")) end
(add "if ItemLink then" to the front and "end" to the end... make sure that "if" is not capitalized)
I'm getting ready to finalize my mods other than Pawn into 1.0 versions, and when I do that, I'm going to start embedding VgerCore instead of packaging it separately. I've been waiting on doing that just so I wouldn't accidentally forget to update the embedded versions, but I haven't needed to change VgerCore in a while, so I think it's time.
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Posted Oct 20, 2007Pawn 0.6.1 (first version tried) has errors thrown up when mousing over various tooltips (recorded with the BugSack/BugGrabber mod) in WoW 2.2.3 live. Seems Pawn's hooking into some tooltips doesn't play nice with some other mods. When Pawn is disabled, the errors cease.
"Pawn\\Pawn.lua:457: bad argument #1 to 'gsub' (string expected, got nil)\nPawn\\Pawn.lua:457: in function `PawnUpdateTooltip'\nPawn\\Pawn.lua:86: in function <Interface\\AddOns\\Pawn\\Pawn.lua:86>\n<in C code>: ?\n<in C code>: ?\n<in C code>: ?\n<in C code>: ?\n<in C code>: ?\n<in C code>: in function `SetHyperlink'\nProfessionLinks-ProfessionLinks v2.2\\ProfessionLinks.lua:94: in function `Tooltip'\n<string>:\"*:OnEnter\":1: in function <[string \"*:OnEnter\"]:1>"
"Pawn\\Pawn.lua:457: bad argument #1 to 'gsub' (string expected, got nil)\nPawn\\Pawn.lua:457: in function `PawnUpdateTooltip'\nPawn\\Pawn.lua:86: in function <Interface\\AddOns\\Pawn\\Pawn.lua:86>\n<in C code>: ?\n<in C code>: ?\n<in C code>: ?\n<in C code>: ?\n<in C code>: ?\n<in C code>: in function `SetHyperlink'\nTradeskillInfoUI-1.0.51808\\TradeskillInfoUI.lua:496: in function `ShowReagentTooltip'\n<string>:\"*:OnEnter\":1: in function <[string \"*:OnEnter\"]:1>".
One other thing: if you have a separate library dependency (VgerCore in this case), its good practice to embed the library with the mod instead of having it in a standalone folder.
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Posted Oct 18, 2007I've released 0.6.1. If things change on the 2.3 PTRs that require a Pawn update I'll create a new beta, but right now 0.6.1 seems perfectly fine for everyday use. There's nothing of note different between 0.6.1 beta 2 and the final release. The only difference I can recall is that I changed the default value of the Healing stat in the default scale for new characters to better match upcoming itemization changes in 2.3.
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Posted Oct 15, 2007Pawn 0.6.1 beta 2 is out. I haven't been able to transfer my character to the PTRs yet, but I've been able to test out (and fix) expertise rating and a bunch of different healing enchantments. Also, there's one new feature: you can now get Pawn values from items in recipes offered by trainers.
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Posted Oct 13, 2007I've uploaded a new beta version, Pawn 0.6.1 beta 1. This version has support for the new "free spell power" healing stats on the 2.3 PTRs, and experimental support for the new ExpertiseRating stat. (I haven't seen any items with this stat yet, so it's untested.) This version works on both the live realms and the PTRs.
A word of warning: remember that SpellPower still INCLUDES Healing, so an item that says it adds "300 to healing and 100 to damage" has 200 Healing and 100 SpellPower, NOT 300 and 100. If your existing scale didn't care about doing damage at all, Healing and SpellPower should have been the same number, so values on items won't change. If you valued SpellPower higher than Healing, your item values will go up, because your items were buffed.
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Posted Oct 12, 2007Just as a note, thanks to the new healing -> spell power conversion in 2.3, Pawn won't be useful on the PTRs for healing classes until I release an update.
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Posted Oct 10, 2007Pawn 0.6 is here! In addition to the features from the 0.6 beta, importing scales will now just overwrite existing scales with the same name (for easier updating), and there's an advanced feature that allows you to change the colors used to display Pawn values on a per-scale basis. See the readme for more information.
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Posted Oct 2, 2007Just as you said. Everything else works just fine, but pawn (and downloaded just to check it - Divisor) not anymore. They just don't change the tooltip :(... I miss Pawn...
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I also can't use /pawn options too... tried to switch on and off some gymnasts, tooltips and other mods in khaos configuration but it didn't work...
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Deleting all Cosmos files didn't work either - maybe i should clear my cache/WTF folders to reset the options?
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Lol after all this time i thought of checking load out of date addons and it worked... i just didn't think it is out of date :P... Ok so this is end to the really n00b question, now just about pawn: how to differentiate between main hand dps and off hand?
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Posted Oct 7, 2007Heh, glad you found what was causing problems for you; I should have thought to check that. I haven't uploaded new versions for 2.2 yet, but I'm just about ready to.
For main hand DPS versus off hand DPS, you have two options. The first is to use MainHandDps and OffHandDps instead of Dps in your scale (requires Pawn 0.6). Your second option is to create two scales, in which you still might want to use those instead of the regular Dps stat. You'd create two scales for one-handed weapons, mostly, since they could be used in the main hand and have one value, and the off hand and have another value.
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Posted Oct 1, 2007I'm using only Cosmos (up to date) and Pawn... Tooltip affecting mods are Reagent Helper & the one showing which mob dropped it... So it should be working but is not :(... Maybe I should change Cosmos to some other modpack like CT or sth else should you propose?
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Posted Oct 2, 2007So what happens, exactly, when you say that Pawn isn't working after the patch? It just doesn't annotate your tooltips anymore? If the problem is something else, can you try running WoW without Pawn and see if you still experience the problem?
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Posted Sep 30, 2007I just wanted to say thank you very much for differentiate between the dps types. Being able to specify makes it much easier to evaluate ranged slots for non-ranged classes.
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Posted Sep 30, 2007can't wait for new version - old ones and beta doesn't seem to work with my WoW after patch, which makes choosing my gear very time consuming and brain smashing :P...