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.
In reply to VgerAN:
I re-downloaded after you did the update and everything is back to working again. I install manually by copying and was putting them in the correct place. Thanks for the response!
In reply to dealdice:
Great! Thanks for following up. :)
Is it possible to get ilvl as a "scale" if you will?
Use case:
I equip my alts mainly through WQs and I care more about ilvl than proper stats for them.
With Pawn I can judge if an item is an upgrade or not based on the scales used with a single glance at the bottom of the tooltip of a WQ rewards, but an ilvl difference can't be glanced like that.
My current belt has better scales, but the new belt has 10+ ilvl more.
Expected result:
Ilvl as a "scale" or additional information marker below the Pawn scale in the tooltip to display the ilvl difference compared to your currently equipped item, without having to use the built-in item comparison like on the screenshot.
In reply to daedalusp1:
Hi! Thanks for the detailed suggestion. I definitely want to add a way for Pawn to highlight ilvl upgrades even if it isn't a stat upgrade. It probably won't be by adding it as a "stat," but I think I can come up with something really easy to use. :)
Hey Vger, still getting this error every time I do a WQ that awards gear (well just when I get gear, period), then swap the new piece in and the error immediately generates the alert, while still hovering in the bags. Any chance you can check on this?
1184x Pawn\Pawn-2.2.40.lua:2333: bad argument #1 to 'strfind' (string expected, got nil)
[C]: in function `strfind'
Pawn\Pawn-2.2.40.lua:2333: in function `PawnStripLeftOfItemLink'
Pawn\Pawn-2.2.40.lua:2360: in function `PawnUnenchantItemLink'
Pawn\Pawn-2.2.40.lua:3028: in function `PawnIsItemAnUpgrade'
Pawn\Pawn-2.2.40.lua:4919: in function <Pawn\Pawn.lua:4896>
(tail call): ?
ElvUI\Modules\bags\Bags.lua:405: in function <ElvUI\Modules\bags\Bags.lua:396>
ElvUI\Modules\bags\Bags.lua:520: in function `UpdateSlot'
ElvUI\Modules\bags\Bags.lua:673: in function `UpdateBagSlots'
ElvUI\Modules\bags\Bags.lua:1406: in function <ElvUI\Modules\bags\Bags.lua:1389>
Locals:
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = "^|%x+|H(.+)"
(*temporary) = "string expected, got nil"
In reply to dblanch369:
Hey—Sorry for the delay. It looks like it's an incompatibility between ElvUI's bags and how Pawn determines item upgrades. You should be able to eliminate the error by turning off the bag upgrade advisor option in Pawn's Options tab. When you do that, the green arrows on items in your bag will be determined by the game (purely by ilvl) and not by Pawn. Right now I'm not sure of a way you could get Pawn to control those arrows without disabling ElvUI's custom bags (if that's even possible).
Let me know if that helps!
In reply to VgerAN:
I actually did turn off the one in ElvUI about a week ago in an attempt to fix the problem, but it didn't fix the issue. I have done as you asked, disabled the bag upgrade advisor, but the game is still throwing the same error.
One pattern I've noticed is that I can do a /reloadui and the tooltips work fine after that, and I can hover over without a taint. Until the next piece of loot (gear) is picked up that is, and the cycle repeats....
In reply to dblanch369:
Hmmmm, okay. Digging through the code, what's happening is that Pawn is being asked to determine if the new item is an upgrade, but when that happens, it doesn't know what the stats are of your current item of that type. Do you use the "track for each scale (advanced)" option by chance?
I have an idea of what to do that I'll include in 2.2.41. Hopefully that helps!
In reply to VgerAN:
Hey, I just got home and installed the new version. Let me check on that setting real quick and do some tests. I do not have that option checked for "track each scale", but for testing I will re-enable "Show bag upgrade advisor" and go get some gear :D Let me know of any other settings to check.
Ok, i am still seeing it, whether or not the "Show bag upgrade advisor" is checked or not. But it seems less of an issue than it was, if that helps. I played for about an hour, and only the first piece of gear I picked up from a WQ (or rather the piece I took off to test this) caused bug sack to go off. what was weird is that the item I was wearing looked fine, and I could see the upgrade options underneath it, but when I clicked on the item in my bags to swap it out, the item that came off the character, then would display none of the upgrade numbers in the bottom of the tooltip, and the item string at the bottom would "flash" every few seconds (for lack of a better description). If I put the item back on, and hovered over it on the character screen, the tooltip was back to normal. weird eh? Going back in on a different toon shortly to do more.
In reply to dblanch369:
I have figured one thing out. A pseudo-workaround, if you will. If I see a new piece of gear in my inventory that is not "scored" by Pawn, I can go into the Pawn settings and click "re-scan gear", and it will then show the tooltip properly, and the item can then be swapped in to the equipment slot, and no taints occur. So somehow, when I am receiving the item is where the scan isn't picking it up properly.
He visto que no permite compara un arma de dos manos (bastón), con un arma de una mano + un sostener, estaría bien que se implementara, también he visto que al equipar daga mas sostener no tiene en cuenta la puntuación del sostener, con lo que para saber que sostener me conviene debo irme al Excel. Agradezco vuestro esfuerzo. Un saludo.
Hey. I must be doing something wrong. I can't get the weights to show up in the tooltips, but I get no errors.
I've gone and disabled all my addons except for Pawn to see if any of them were interfering with it, but still no dice.
Any suggestions?
Nevermind. Figured it out.
Anyone who's having problems with upgrade info showing up twice in the encounter journal who wants to try something out for me:
What normally happens is that when you hover over items in the encounter journal, you should see one entry (per item) that looks like this:
I'm guessing that people who are getting double upgrade info get two bits of chat spam. One I imagine is the same as what I see, and one's something else. What does the other one say? Screenshots, cell phone photos, retyping, copying and pasting... anything that lets me know what happens with that debug setting on could be useful.
To turn the chat window spam back off, run this:
/script PawnCommon.DebugDoubleTooltips = nil
You shouldn't need to downgrade to an earlier version of Pawn.
Thanks!
In reply to VgerAN:
Just did what you asked for and surprisngly updating to your debug alpha version fixed the problem by not showing double tooltips.
As you mentioned that when hovering over an item in the journal shows exactly what you mentioned in your OP, as shown here https://i.imgur.com/t7RgkJs.png
hovered over multiple items and it did not reproduce the double tooltip as shown here while going over multiple tooltips https://i.imgur.com/Y4qC577.png
So i dunno what it is in the alpha version thats different but i sure as hell aint rolling back now :D
everything works fine as intended in the alpha
In reply to Shazi010:
Huh. Well, I don't know why anything in that version would fix anything; it's about 99.9% the same as the previous version. Anyone else give it a try?
In reply to VgerAN:
Hello, I noticed the same. Double info is shown when using your current release version, but it is gone in your test version. Copied back the release verison, reloaded and the doubles are back. Tried it twice, both times the same result so I would agree with Shazi010 that something in your test fixed it :)
Version 2.2.40 is the same as the incorrectly-named "2.2.41 test version," so you can safely upgrade to it without fearing that you'll lose the fix.
Please fix the double upgrade showing in the tooltips it is driving me insane it happens with it being the only addon as someone else confirmed!!!!!
In reply to billybobthort12:
Hi! Sorry for the trouble. I haven't been able to reproduce the problem myself yet, so right now I'm at a loss as to what might have changed in 8.1.5 to cause it.
Are you just seeing it in the Dungeon Journal, or elsewhere too? Only certain types of items, or anything that's an upgrade?