Pawn

Last Updated: Jan 13, 2019 Game Version: 8.1.0

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Owner: VgerAN

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.

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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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joevt
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Posted Oct 3, 2018
I modified World Quest List add-on to show icons for new transmog items (using Can I Mog It add-on) and upgrade items (using Pawn).

I also want Pawn to show items with higher item level as upgrades because I have alts I won't raid but I need item level to do things like warfronts and looking for raid. Plus, higher item level gear means higher item level world quests.

To do that, I had to add Item Level as a stat weight then I added an item level scale with just that stat. I also had to make trinkets comparable and add trinkets to the list of items that can be used in two slots (like rings and weapons).

Relics require selecting the "Show relic upgrades" option. I don't think that option should be removed while relics are still obtainable.

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VgerAN
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Posted Oct 3, 2018
In reply to joevt:

Hi! Thanks for the feedback; that's very dedicated. :) I think I'm going to add something built-in that's very similar to what you accomplished—something that makes it so that higher ilvl items get a green arrow, for exactly those reasons. Hopefully I can find a way to make it not annoying in cases where, for example, you have higher-level items in the bank but are choosing to use lower-level ones because they have bad stats or are for another spec.

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Posted Oct 3, 2018
Hey I have this weird bug since I first installed Pawn months ago where for some itens I have this translation problem error. I already disabled all addons and I still have it, I really don't want to change the language I play the game just because of one thing. The error happens with wands too.

I play the game in PT-BR lang

Error Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/fJFxWYJ

Edit: On the SS you can see that I'm comparing the same weapon on a lower ilvl and it's showing as an upgrade

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Posted Oct 3, 2018
In reply to anotherxmastree:

Hmmm, interesting. I would have thought that maybe the problem is that you'd installed an addon that changed the decimal and thousands separators on your items, but it looks like you've got the usual ones for Portuguese. And you said it happens with just Pawn and nothing else enabled?

Can you try this?

Type /pawn debug on

Hover over a weapon that's having the problem

Type /pawn debug off

Then, scroll back through your chat and look for (?) in blue. That'll tell you which lines on the tooltip Pawn didn't understand. A little bit of it's normal, but do you see anything relating to damage/DPS/weapon speed being marked as something that Pawn didn't understand?
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Posted Oct 4, 2018
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This is what I got:

[21:34] ====================
[21:34] [Diplomacia do Capitão] (159130::::::::120:253::23:4:4779:4802:1517:4783:::)
[21:34] (?) Não entendi "|cFF 0FF 0Mítico|r |cFF 0FF 0Forjado para a Guerra".
[21:34] 1 IsRanged
[21:34] (?) Não entendi "511 de Dano".
[21:34] 226 Agility
[21:34] 362 Stamina
[21:34] 82 CritRating
[21:34] 123 Versatility
[21:34] 1 PrismaticSocket
[21:34] ERROR: Pawn couldn't read speed and damage stats from Diplomacia do Capitão; translation problem?
[21:34]
[21:34] (Valor base)
[21:34] (?) Não entendi "|cFF 0FF 0Mítico|r |cFF 0FF 0Forjado para a Guerra".
[21:34] 1 IsRanged
[21:34] (?) Não entendi "511 de Dano".
[21:34] 226 Agility
[21:34] 362 Stamina
[21:34] 82 CritRating
[21:34] 123 Versatility
[21:34] 1 PrismaticSocket
[21:34] ERROR: Pawn couldn't read speed and damage stats from Diplomacia do Capitão; translation problem?
[21:34]
[21:34] Aleath - Beast Mastery (Raidbots) --------------------
[21:34] 226 Agility x 1.71 cada = 386.46
[21:34] 123 Versatility x 1.16 cada = 142.68
[21:34] 82 CritRating x 1.31 cada = 107.42
[21:34] 1 PrismaticSocket x 56 cada = 56
[21:34] -- Bonus de engaste valeria: 0
[21:34] -- Normalizado por dividir por 13.01
[21:34] ---- Total: 53.2329

This is what I get on guns, I get the same problem with wands but I don't have one atm

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Posted Oct 5, 2018
In reply to anotherxmastree:

Got a wand to drop today, this is what I got:

[09:11] ====================
[09:11] [Varinha de Ossos Alvejados da Aurora] (159606::::::::110:62:512::2:4796:1709:120:::)
[09:11] 1 IsRanged
[09:11] (?) Não entendi "46 - 77 Natureza de Dano".
[09:11] 315 Intellect
[09:11] 81 Stamina
[09:11] 17 HasteRating
[09:11] 31 Versatility
[09:11] (?) Não entendi "Você não coletou esta aparência".
[09:11] ERROR: Pawn couldn't read speed and damage stats from Varinha de Ossos Alvejados da Aurora; translation problem?
[09:11]
[09:11] (Valor base)
[09:11] 1 IsRanged
[09:11] (?) Não entendi "46 - 77 Natureza de Dano".
[09:11] 315 Intellect
[09:11] 81 Stamina
[09:11] 17 HasteRating
[09:11] 31 Versatility
[09:11] (?) Não entendi "Você não coletou esta aparência".
[09:11] ERROR: Pawn couldn't read speed and damage stats from Varinha de Ossos Alvejados da Aurora; translation problem?

Hope this helps on figuring out what is going on

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Posted Oct 7, 2018
In reply to anotherxmastree:

Thanks for the details! It looks like Blizzard changed the way that damage appears on weapon tooltips in Portuguese—Pawn's translation expects it to show up as "46 - 77 Dano de Natureza". I'll see what I can do about making a few fixes to the translation for Portuguese. Thanks for all the help!

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Posted Oct 7, 2018
Check out Pawn 2.2.29! I found some translation problems in that version and fixed them up.

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Posted Oct 9, 2018
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The problem with wands is fixed. The one with that first gun still shows up. It seems to be specifically with that one gun

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Posted Oct 10, 2018
In reply to anotherxmastree:

D'oh! Can you send me a Wowhead link to that gun that isn't working right?

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Posted Oct 11, 2018
In reply to VgerAN:

https://www.wowhead.com/item=159130/captains-diplomacy&bonus=4779:1512

Here it is :)

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Posted Sep 30, 2018
Sorry if this has been asked before, but is there a way to update the pawn string for a certain scale?

So far I made scales for both single target and multi target and whenever I upgrade a piece of equipment or change talents, I have to delete the scale, import the scale and rename it to something meaningful, which is a bunch of clicks for something which could be just an import.

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Posted Oct 1, 2018
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Hi! Pawn will automatically do that for you when you import if the new scale has the same name as the old one. I'm guessing your custom scale is coming from a sim app—hopefully there's a way to give it a better name there so you don't have to rename it manually?

The name that Pawn uses is in the scale itself:
( Pawn: v1: "Name of scale": Class=x, Spec=x, Stat=1, Stat=2, ... )

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Posted Oct 1, 2018
Quote from VgerAN >>

In reply to Curator:

Hi! Pawn will automatically do that for you when you import if the new scale has the same name as the old one. I'm guessing your custom scale is coming from a sim app—hopefully there's a way to give it a better name there so you don't have to rename it manually?

The name that Pawn uses is in the scale itself:
( Pawn: v1: "Name of scale": Class=x, Spec=x, Stat=1, Stat=2, ... )

That was a correct guess, I was pasting directly from raidbots and your method works perfectly - I was able to edit it in the pawn string input window and it updated the weights as expected :D Thank you very much.

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Posted Oct 1, 2018
In reply to Curator:

Cool! Hopefully Raidbots can someday give you a way to generate better scale names—some of the ones I've seen come from sims have been pretty obnoxious.

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Posted Sep 29, 2018
I've recently started having issues between this and world quest list add on, where the list portion of the add on doesn't seem to have the pawn add on enabled at all. I'm not sure which add on is causing this specifically. It did seem to fix itself, temporarily, after i reinstalled pawn. Then it started happening the next day.

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Posted Oct 1, 2018
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Hmm, I'd have to take a look at that specific addon. Maybe it changed to use a custom tooltip or something that Pawn doesn't know about.

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Posted Sep 25, 2018
Hello,

I have an issue with the ring feature that tells you which ones are your best, it is always saying that the ones I have equipped are the best even when they are clearly not according to the Compare feature. Using built-in scales or any other doesn't change that, and it's happening with every ring I own on my druid. I'm playing on the english client. Am I missing something here ?

Thank you

Edit : Nevermind, it only tells you which one of the two you have equipped is the best so you know which one to replace when you find an upgrade... Should be obvious

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Posted Sep 27, 2018
In reply to FaeryllCurse:

You got it (in your edit). With the default settings, your currently-equipped items are your "best" items. There's a separate setting ("track for each scale (advanced)" IIRC) that will try to track your best gear for a spec even when you're not wearing it.

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Posted Sep 16, 2018
This addon overrides my P key, I can rebind it but every time I install this addon it overrides my settings. Rebinding keys IMHO should not be done by addons, thank you.

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