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.
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 versions, 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.
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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 play WoW in, (2) whether it's live/retail or Classic Era or Burning Crusade 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, and typically the most helpful thing you can provide is a full item ID (12345:67:89:0, etc.). You can find the full ID for an item by turning on Pawn's "show item IDs" feature or by putting it into Pawn's Compare tab and Alt+LeftClicking it and then copying it from the box that appears. (You can also get the first number from the item ID from any Wowhead item link, and that's usually enough, but not for items with enchantments or upgrades or random stats.)
In reply to speedwolf76:
Yes, if you reset Pawn entirely, it'll go back to the way it was at the beginning. For Shadowlands, it'll show you upgrades for your current spec, and for Classic, it'll show you upgrades for all of your class's specs. Then you can customize it the same way as always.
Game Version : 2.5.23 (Bunring crusade Classic)
Language : French
Bug On this Item
Shadow stats is not correctly parse ! so score is wrong (config by default for all warlock weigth)
example : 28.1 + (50 *0.91) = 73.6 scrore not only 28.1
In reply to HitsuTaicho:
Thanks for the report! I'll get that fixed.
In reply to TravisSpomer:
This will be fixed in Pawn 2.5.24. I also made some changes to make these kinds of French-specific problems easier to fix in the future!
Hi, Im using 2.5.23 (Burning Crusade), English,
I have lost the Green Arrow that indicates upgrades in my bags. I rely on that so much for a quick glance.
In reply to WoWEye:
Hi! That feature is built into Shadowlands, not Pawn. Blizzard removed it for Burning Crusade Classic. 😐
In reply to TravisSpomer:
oo dang, Well thanks for the fast response.
I'm using English 2.5.23 (Burning Crusade).
I'm a hunter, so often I switch between 1h and 2h weapons.
I want to compare Claw of the Watcher and Blade of the Unrequited vs Legacy.
However, it seems pawn only supports comparing the Main Hand to the Two-Handed weapon.
Is this a feature that I could request be added?
An additional request would be to compare a new ring to both old rings, rather than just the first one. This is more of a convenience than anything because it's easy enough to manually compare.
In reply to Qautrolol:
Hi! That's definitely something that's pretty high on my list of stuff I'd like to add.
If it helps, in the lower-left corner of the Compare tab when you're comparing rings, there are buttons to let you quickly compare the item on your right with each of your currently equipped rings—you don't have to drag them from your inventory or anything like that.
Why do all 1Handed weapons show as superior that all 2H weapons. My item level 2 skinning knife is showing as superior to my 200 item level bow.
In reply to enchanterpeng:
Hi! Can you tell me your class and spec? And have you changed any Pawn settings—especially, turning on Manual mode, or the "track for each scale (advanced)" option?
Hello,
Pawn send me an error message to chatbox when my mouse is hover on a specific item :
I hope that can help you for the next,
Good luck
In reply to Simon_sketv:
Thanks for the report! I this fixed now in Pawn 2.5.22.
In reply to TravisSpomer:
I'm getting my chat log spammed frequently. It seems to trigger whenever I mouse-over an item with a socket.
In reply to octavius666:
Hi! Sorry, about that—there's a fix coming in Pawn 2.5.23, which will be available very soon.
hi, I just created a new alt thats a disc priest, but spawn is showing me as a death knight:blood and i dont know how to change that. I tried reloading ui/disabling and reenabling.
In reply to Sugartitss85:
Hi! Hmmm, Pawn is supposed to detect if you create a new character that's the same name and server as an old one with a different class; I'm not sure why that's not working for you. But the easiest thing to do would be to just go into Pawn's Scales tab, and then click "Automatic." After that you can switch back to Manual mode if you like, and turn scales on and off however you like.
Let me know if that helps!
I was wondering how this addon handles the 2-Handed Weapon vs One Handed/Off Hand. I haven't been able to get it to show anything for this. I'm a shadow priest comparing staves to daggers and such with the english version. Great addon though seriously.
In reply to cloud177:
Hi! Right now that's one of the bigger pain points; Pawn doesn't have much of anything built-in to make that easier for you. I use the Compare tab this way:
1. Put the dagger and off-hand into one of the boxes in the Compare tab (doesn't matter which), and take note of the scores of each item and add them together.
2. Do the same for the staff and look at that score.
3. If the two items combined have the larger score, use those; if not, use the staff.
I definitely want to add a way to let you "stack" up any number of items on each side of the Compare tab so you don't have to do the math in your head or break out the calculator, but I haven't been able to get to that yet. I hope that helps in the meantime!
Hey. Love the Addon.
TBC Classic.
I'm having issue with meta socket values not calculating correctly. When I assign a value to meta sockets in the scales it assigns it to base value but not to current value when socketed.
cheers!