
Pawn
Last Updated: Feb 17, 2019 Game Version: 8.1.0
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
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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.
Would it be possiable to add values (sites like herodamage,raidbots,wowhead,.. ) for azerite armor traits to pawn -to total and for each trait separately ?
In reply to Radoznali:
In reply to VgerAN:
In reply to Radoznali:
I don't have any issue with Pawn and Tradeskillmaster, and haven't all BfA. I think it is a combination of TSM, Pawn, and something else, but I don't have the something else installed.
Anyway, my issue is that Pawn keeps telling me (much) lower item level gear are upgrades. If I get an item that is 10-25 item levels lower than my equipped piece, Pawn gives me the up arrow telling me it is better. Clearly, this is not true. It often isn't true when the item is a mere 5 item levels lower, given the item level squish in BfA. It is also possible that Pawn is not telling me when an item is higher item level than my equipped piece that is an upgrade, meaning the opposite could be true as well, but this is infrequent.
I play on enUS locale, Vengeance Demon Hunter, although talking with my guild mates, they are seeing the same results on other classes and talent specs.
It is one thing when newly acquired gear is +/- 5 item levels, which might require simulation to make sure; it is quite different when gear is vastly lower. Is there a way Pawn can either ignore items >= 10 item levels lower, or point out an upgrade if the item is >= 10 higher?
In reply to myrroddin:
In reply to VgerAN:
In reply to myrroddin:
In reply to Radoznali:
iLevel 340 ring
stam = 10,261.81
crit = 6417.46
vers = 12,359.61
total = 29,038.88
iLevel 355 ring
stam = 12,069.59
crit = 6696.48
mast = 3496.27
total = 22,262.34
This means, by the numbers, that yes, the 340 is better than the 355. That's totally weird.
In reply to myrroddin:
Hi! I'm using a custom weight for my character, is it not possible to hide the default ones? Sorry if this is a dumb question, checked everywhere.
In reply to Dainina:
I've found a bug while using Pawn (Spanish version). In spain we use the comas and the point to separate decimal values the other way arround to the rest of the world, and somehow this has not been correctly addresed in the addon. When comparing Heptavium, Staff of Torturous Knowledge between 355 and 340 versions the Normal mode drop has 1,103 intelect, that in spanish is correctly written ingame as 1.103 with a dot; while the LFR version has 961 intelect. When comparing both with Pawn, it reads as the intelect was 1,1 in english, thus telling me to equip the lesser version.
https://imgur.com/a/NCGJn8x
In reply to ionabad12:
Mastery value 2 times higher than speed for Discipine priest facepalm.jpg
Hello,
Recently (not sure exactly when, maybe since 8.0), Pawn causes an issue with AllTheThings where ATT's appearance collection icon is positioned by Pawn, causing overlaps with some items. Furthermore, not all item tooltips are affected; items in the inventory or in the Dungeon Journal are fine. It seems to be only tooltips on the World Map (World Quest/emissary rewards). I took these screenshots with only ATT and Pawn enabled and I'm using the enUS client. I'm using a different font but the issue occurs with the default font as well.
WQ reward tooltip:
https://gyazo.com/adaffd59ceff96eb9ff0f6aa16b87035
Emissary reward tooltip:
https://gyazo.com/4333150db203c45f1ec31eb33e14b87a
In reply to Bladehawk27:
In reply to VgerAN:
Pawn offers rings with Unique-Equiped, I do wear one same with better iLevel and can't use second one in second slot. Second issue, I'm getting as upgrade neck items even I wearing Hearth of Azeroth and its 100+ iLevel better than necklages in my bag (garrison reward or baleful tokens).
Example: Embittered Locket of the Aurora iLevel 138 shows as Upgrade to my Heart of Azeroth iLevel 352.
In reply to EduardCurse: