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.
In reply to horaciohy94:
The current versions of Pawn are only for the current retail and Classic versions of WoW. It's definitely expected that they do not work on private servers. Sorry.
nvm, solved
[Classic] I'm suddenly not seeing the green upgrade icon on item tooltips? The only way I can see some form of icon is turning on 'Show item level upgrades' which shows me the number of item levels (which don't really exist/matter) a NEW item is compared to what I've ever worn. Nothing is showing me that something is a '5% upgrade' etc. What gives?
In reply to hesketh7085:
Hi! Can you put an item that you know should appear as an upgrade into the upper-right corner of Pawn's Compare tab and see what it says? That should help us figure out why Pawn's not considering it as an upgrade.
In reply to TravisSpomer:
Hi Travis,
I think I've fixed it. I played an alt the other day and it was working on that char, so I screenshotted all the tabs on Pawn and compared it with my main. For some reason my main was missing any scales being selected. I've selected them now and it tells me what a % upgrade an item is for each spec, but should I only be seeing the green arrow within tooltips, and not on the icons themselves?
In reply to hesketh7085:
Right; the green arrows on items in your bags were added in Legion, if I remember correctly. Classic doesn't have those. (Pawn changes them to be based on stats and not just item level, but the bag arrows feature is part of the retail game, not Pawn.)
Hey do u still have the version for the game version 8.2.0?
I need it since the version for 8.3.0 won't work, cause the SetItemKey Function isn't implemented in Version 8.2.0
Thanks in advance
In reply to NeverEndingLegend:
Need it too! Same error! :(
In reply to NeverEndingLegend:
Hi! Is this for a private server? I don't keep the out-of-date versions around.
In reply to TravisSpomer:
Yeah it is.
How do I remove the colors around tooltip when I hoover over gear? The white one?
In reply to Ostamuscle:
Hi! In Pawn's Options, uncheck "Color tooltip border of upgrades."
Hey, I currently have an issue with Pawn's UI not loading.
the Addon works on Classic but doesn't load at all in retail. I found that issue a couple days ago (around maybe March 20th but I'm really not sure)
I tried to uninstall the game and all its addons then reinstalling them all, disabling the addon in game, log off, log back in and enabling the addon, reinstalling the addon directly via the twitch, nothing gets the UI to load.
it gives me the following message: " ERROR: Pawn UI is not loaded! " every time I try to open the UI.
In game, it shows me which item will give me the most money, but there won't be any "green arrows" anywhere in my game to tell me which items are upgrades or not.
Just in case, my other addons are WeakAuras 2, DBM, OmniCC and Skada.
what can I do to make the addon work?
In reply to maylatrixx:
Same here :(
In reply to maylatrixx:
Hi! I'm sorry for the late reply. Can you type this into chat and see what new error you get?
/console scriptErrors 1
/reload
That will get you additional information about errors from Pawn or any other addon—if you can paste anything that shows up related to Pawn, that should let me know what's going on. (Once you're done, you can turn the error notices off by typing the same commands as before but with a zero in place of a one.)
Hello! Here's the full error message I got from doing the command:
Message: Interface\AddOns\Pawn\Pawn.lua:198: hooksecurefunc(): SetAuctionItem is not a function
Time: Sun Apr 5 17:28:08 2020
Count: 1
Stack: Interface\AddOns\Pawn\Pawn.lua:198: hooksecurefunc(): SetAuctionItem is not a function
[string "=[C]"]: in function `hooksecurefunc'
[string "@Interface\AddOns\Pawn\Pawn.lua"]:198: in function `PawnInitialize'
[string "@Interface\AddOns\Pawn\Pawn.lua"]:128: in function `PawnOnEvent'
[string "*:OnEvent"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnEvent"]:1>
Locals:
In reply to maylatrixx:
Thanks. It looks like using a very old version of Pawn—are you using the Twitch addon updater? Open up the screen where you see your WoW addons, and then near the upper-right corner you should see a "play" button and a gear. To the left of that you'll see a dropdown list of your different WoW versions. I bet that you've been updating a PTR or Classic version of Pawn instead. That's a really common problem with the Twitch client.
In the game, if you go to Pawn in the Interface Options, it should say version 2.3.24 if you're using a recent version.
In reply to TravisSpomer:
Hey, thanks for the answer!
I checked in game and it told me I was on version 2.2.43, whereas the Twitch app tells me I am supposed to be on version 2.3.24, for the current game patch. I don't know how this is happening but I will try to correct it. I'll keep you updated
In reply to TravisSpomer:
Thank you for the answer! I just found the source of the problem; I was downloading the right version of the add-on, but they were downloading to a Lich King client that I haven't used in years (back from when I played on a private server) instead of the retail client, so I was a few patches behind.
Everything is fine right now, thank you for your answers!
In reply to maylatrixx:
Great! I'm glad that helped. The Twitch app is... not well-designed.