
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
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.
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:
In reply to EduardCurse:
Three things:
1) Pawn seems to be bugged/malfunctioning at least in regards to two-handed staves on Destruction Warlocks. Whenever I find a green staff, Pawn tells me is over a 250%+ improvement over the epic one I'm using, even when its a downgrade on every single stat (including stuff like -1000 INT). My guess is that for some reason Pawn thinks my 2H Staff is a 1H Weapon and that I can somehow equip the green staves on the offhand or some shit like that. I can't check right now but I seem to remember that if I equip the green staff the epic one doesn't show as an upgrade. Very serious issue that makes you lose all confidence in the addon all together.
2) You really need to do something with the trinkets. One of my principal reasons for installing Pawn was to get some help on the "impossible to measure" trinkets and their procs/uses, but Pawn just ignores them entirely. I'm going to a site to check the values they give to different trinkets for my specc on multiple simulations to get an idea how good/bad they are... Maybe Pawn could either add those values, or let me to manually introduce them to the trinkets using info found elsewhere. Is not fun when I "steal" a 360 ilvl trinket to "check" if it seems to improve the DPS over my "330" one to find out it doesn't...
3) Not sure why Pawn doesn't include some DPS Simulation Data to compare my pieces as a set (knowing how much to weight Crit as Haste goes up and viceversa) instead of comparing them in a useless vacuum with ratios that may not apply to me at all because the Addon doesn't know how much of each I'm wearing despite being an easy-to-check single value.
I can't say I "like Pawn", not a fan, just installed it less than a month ago to help me know what stat was more important for me only to find out it doesn't actually help me (I need to go to SimC and stuff like that), but I see untapped potential on an Addon that as of now I can't in good faith recommend to any of my friends because it gives wrong info, based on ratios that don't apply to you, compared without taking into account what you are wearing, and all it gives you are some cool green arrows that may not show on items that are actual upgrades for you or just blatantly lie to you (like is happening to me with the staves right now).
In reply to Kaemonarch2:
In reply to VgerAN:
In reply to Kaemonarch2:
Hi, It seems that whenever I have a wand equipped on my holy priest. All weapons are upgrades over it (even if 50 item levels lower). Then when i equip that weapon the wand is an upgrade of it. It's very confusing.
Bug?
-Star
In reply to stardotmeh89794:
In reply to VgerAN:
In reply to stardotmeh89794:
In reply to stardotmeh89794:
Solved
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.
In reply to joevt:
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
In reply to anotherxmastree:
In reply to VgerAN:
[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
In reply to anotherxmastree:
[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?
In reply to anotherxmastree:
Check out Pawn 2.2.29! I found some translation problems in that version and fixed them up.