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
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. If you're a huge nerd you can also find Pawn on GitHub.
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.
Hello bag addon authors!
Unfortunately in 9.0, replacing IsContainerItemAnUpgrade can cause taint errors, leading to (for example) being unable to swap weapons using the character sheet during combat lockdown. That's how Pawn used to let your addon know whether it should show upgrade arrows. But as of Pawn 2.4.2, Pawn supplies PawnIsContainerItemAnUpgrade instead of replacing the built-in version. To get Pawn suggestions working again with your bag addon, just use PawnIsContainerItemAnUpgrade whenever it's non-nil, and IsContainerItemAnUpgrade otherwise.
In reply to HollieHobbie:
I confirm this, most of the icons in top-right corner that Can I Mog It puts there to indicate item status (collected, not collected etc) don't display. /Reload helps for a short while, but something is broken for sure.
In reply to HollieHobbie:
Same, my issue is that if I sell or move an item, the icon with the check mark or whatever is left behind in the empty slot in the bag.
In reply to HollieHobbie:
Same problem. All CanIMogIt icons remain in the same places in bags (as well as banks), which they were on when loading - /reload only updates the position of icons for new positions of items.
At the same time, the icons for merchants and questgivers seem to be displayed correctly.
In reply to HollieHobbie:
Hi! The game introduced a bug relating to bag arrows in patch 9.0. I'm working with the author of CanIMogIt to see if we can find a good way to work around that problem and make our addons work together again.
In reply to TravisSpomer:
Awesome! Thanks for all your hard work. Love both addons and really looking forward to being able to use them both again.
In reply to HollieHobbie:
Check out Pawn 2.4.4—Pawn and Can I Mog It? should play along again now.
I will insert a screen shot. I do have Pawn up to date with the latest version. But I totally don't understand how an item level 60 helm can be +27 better than my level 85 helm which also has azerite powers. I have not changed the configuration or stat weights for Pawn. I use it just as it comes. This isn't the only scenario, I've seen others since the pre-patch went live but obviously those were on older versions of Pawn. But since I did install the update today, I decided to capture this one. This is the retail version. I do have Titan Panel but not Titan Panel Artifact Power or Combat Numbers Separator. I'm using Adibags in case that is a factor in this (I noticed on some of the other comments about which bag addon they were using). Any insight would be much appreciated.
Ok, well, I guess I can't find a way to attach the screen shot, or use Snip It to copy/paste a portion of the screen shot. I get a paste option but nothing happens. Tried to Ctrl-V and that didn't work either.I clicked on the insert/edit image but you can't browse for an image. Pretty stupid system from that perspective.
In reply to wowgamer59:
Hi! Yeah this site's... not robust sometimes. You can get the screenshot to me any of these ways:
1) Share it on imgur or OneDrive or Google Drive or Dropbox or... and post a link here
2) Email to vger -at- vgermods.com
3) Send it in a message at facebook.com/vgermods
I'll take a look! It'd be extra helpful if you can put it into the upper-right corner of Pawn's Compare tab—then I can see all of the stats and which class/spec you're using. Something sounds fishy.
In reply to TravisSpomer:
Ok, I send you an email with the screenshot and two captures from Pawn. Hope that gives you enough info.
Thanks for your support.
In reply to wowgamer59:
Thanks! That helps. So yeah, Pawn's technically behaving as I'd expect it to, but indeed the advice is a little weird. Since it's a problem that's only really relevant for the next couple of weeks, it's not something I'm going to fix. Pawn doesn't care about the Azerite powers on items, and the stats on that level 60 helm are much better, so the level 60 helm is better by Pawn's criteria. But you'll probably want to stick with the Azerite armor until you enter Shadowlands. Previously this sort of situation wouldn't really have come up since the Azerite armor used to be so much stronger than lower-level stuff even ignoring its powers. (Though, occasionally you could run into a similar situation with timewalking gear.)
So for now, I'd say to ignore any upgrade recommendations you get from Pawn for helms, shoulders, and chest armor unless both are Azerite items. Once you enter Shadowlands you can start paying attention to those arrows again.
I hope that helps! Thanks for the screenshots.
Hey there, just updated the addon to find out that the items in my bag (using Bagnon If that helps) no longer have the green arrow on the bottom left of the item (not the tooltip) when the item is an upgrade to my character. Is this intentional?
In reply to Kayonne:
Just realized that this is actually intentional due to some people having errors because of it. I'm going to be reverting my Pawn to its previous version because I was not having such errors therefore this new version isn't really necessarily for me.
Hopefully the bag addon creators/authors will have this change to Pawn in consideration in their future releases.
In reply to Kayonne:
Hi! Yeah, unfortunately that's an intentional change. It should be extremely easy for bag addon authors to integrate. In the meantime, if you're not having problems with weapon swapping in combat, you're indeed probably fine on 2.4.1 for the time being!
In reply to Kayonne:
I will do the same , just found your reply .
Bag_arrows.jpg not working in the new version lets hope dev will fix it soon :)
In reply to Kayonne:
I found out too, it does not show the Green Arrow on item's icons in bag or in character tab when you select item to change :(
If you have many items and dont remember which one u used its almost impossible to make a choice , you have to check one by one to see the upgrade % in the tooltip, well the GREEN ARROW is the only thing you need to check your gear fast and change , hope its a bug and not intentional.
Lets hope the delevoper will see the message and fix it :)
Thank you !!!!
Hello bag addon authors! Unfortunately in 9.0, replacing IsContainerItemAnUpgrade can cause taint errors, leading to (for example) being unable to swap weapons using the character sheet during combat lockdown. That's how Pawn used to let your addon know whether it should show upgrade arrows. But as of Pawn 2.4.2, Pawn supplies PawnIsContainerItemAnUpgrade instead of replacing the built-in version. To get Pawn suggestions working again with your bag addon, just use PawnIsContainerItemAnUpgrade whenever it's non-nil, and IsContainerItemAnUpgrade otherwise.
Pawn is causing many issues atm. I recommend not using it until it's updated.
In reply to JessiKat:
Hi! That's pretty unhelpful. Instead, can you tell me what kind of issues you're having? Then I can investigate or try to help you out. More than half a million people use Pawn regularly; it seems to be working just fine for most everyone else.
Recently I discovered that I could not switch weapons mid fight, whether in a raid, against a random mob or in pvp. After turning all my addons on and off for the past 30 minutes I discovered that Pawn was the culprit. I have tested 3-4 times now with it on in the character select screen and loading in, vs having it off in the character screen and loading in. I have also done it in game with it off and turning it on with ACP and vise versa. I have running version Pawn-2.4.1 (Type: Release). Hopefully you can get this fixed soon :D
In reply to Abazaba06:
Hi! Thanks for the report; I hadn't seen that before. I was able to reproduce that problem when changing weapons within the character window, but not when right-clicking on them in my bags. Unfortunately the game is now blocking addons from affecting the upgrade arrows on bags during combat. I've found what I need to do to fix this, and it should work for you in 2.4.2.