Pawn

Last Updated: Aug 14, 2018 Game Version: 8.0.1

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Jan 13, 2008

Owner: VgerAN

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 500 mastery or the one with 450 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.

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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.

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VgerAN
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Posted May 18, 2018
In reply to jandreska:

Hi! Can you give me an example of a time when the ilvl on the item is different from the one you see on the Compare tab in Pawn? The one on the item should be correct. (Well, they should both be correct.)

Heirloom items are a little weird, and the game reports their item level to addons as being 0 or 1 even when it's much higher. Pawn knows that 0 and 1 aren't the right item levels so it just doesn't show anything.

I know that last time I checked, there was a bug in WoW where it was telling addons the wrong item levels for items that scale, so maybe both problems are the same bug, but I'm not sure.

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Posted May 24, 2018
In reply to VgerAN:

This is just one example of what I see from the "Compare Screen" in Pawn:

Gear: Relinked Chain Boots (green) vs Greenhorn's Footguards of the Fireflash (blue)

Item itself states ilvl 19 Item itself states ilvl 27

Compare shows ilvl 14 Compare shows ilvl 43

I hope this gets my point across.

Thax

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Posted Jun 1, 2018
In reply to jandreska:

Thanks for the info! Hmmm, I haven't leveled any characters through the new 1-100 experience since they introduced scaling. I think you're probably running into the same game bug I was referring to earlier, since those are low-level items and must be scaled. I'd say for now, just ignore anything Pawn says about item level (at least until you're 110). If Blizzard doesn't fix that in 8.0 then I'll work around the problem and just read the level off the tooltip, and then Pawn can get the right information it needs.

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Posted Jun 2, 2018
In reply to VgerAN:

Thanks for the feedback response.

Take care.

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Posted Apr 30, 2018
When importing custom scales, could you please add a status report (either in chat, or in the Pawn window) that shows the "before import" and "after import" scales side-by-side? This is needed especially when it's an update for an already-existing custom scale.

Each time that i import scales from AskMrRobot i have to make a note of the previous scale values just to check what's changed.

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Posted May 2, 2018
In reply to Adrian_G2:

Thanks for the feedback! That's a cool idea; I'll take a note of it. I probably won't get to any more Pawn development before the BfA prepatch, but it probably wouldn't be too hard to do.

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Posted Apr 25, 2018
Not sure where to post this, but It tells me Error: per-character options for this Character and scale were missing. it says that for the Priest, Shaman, Warrior, Warlock, and Rogue.

Please Help. Thank you very much

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Posted Apr 25, 2018
In reply to karsiani24867:

Hi! Does that still happen if you log into those characters with just Pawn enabled and no other addons?

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Posted Apr 28, 2018
In reply to VgerAN: Its fine on the US realm Uther. But when I go to the Oceanic realm Barthilas I have the issue. I have not tried the other realms that I tinker around on. And I do have other addon's that I run with. But like I said when I'm on Uther its fine and has no issues. I did disable all the addon's just before I logged into Barthilas and kept Pawn on and it works fine like when I am on Uther. Not sure what the difference is between Uther and Barthilas is other than that I can run all my addon's at the sametime on Uther. Hope this helps.

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Posted Apr 29, 2018
In reply to karsiani24867:

Hmm, I wonder if the difference between realms is latency. I've heard of this happening before, but I believe that it's never occurred when running Pawn by itself.

On the character that you logged into on Barthilas with just Pawn running, does Pawn now work fine even with all of your other addons enabled? If so, I think that's your best workaround: just log into each character on Barthilas once with just Pawn, and then re-enable everything.

Let me know if that helps!

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Posted May 2, 2018
In reply to VgerAN:

I tried logging into it on different characters and I still keep getting the errors. When I click on Pawn in the game it doesnt even have the Priest, Shaman, Warrior, Warlock, and Rogue available to chose from like it does on Uther. I just tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it. and now I'm checking everything again.

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Posted May 2, 2018
In reply to VgerAN:

Ok I just went through every addon one by one and found an issue. It was Takethiscolor. It is an old addon. Not sure why but I needed to uninstall and reinstall the Pawn addon and for some reason when I was on Uther it was still working fine. Sorry for the issue. And thanks for your time.

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Posted May 4, 2018
In reply to karsiani24867:

Good work tracking it down! And thanks for letting me know what you found. Hopefully in the future if someone else runs into the same problem before I find a better fix, that'll help them too.

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Posted Apr 13, 2018
Until level 87 Pawn showed me the coin symbol only on quest rewards on the cheaper item instead on the more expensive one. Since then, sometimes Pawn shows me the coin on the cheaper and sometimes on the more expensive Item.

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Posted Apr 16, 2018
In reply to bezat22:

Hmmm, thanks for the report, and sorry for the trouble. The next time you see it showing you the wrong thing, can you take a screenshot? I wonder if maybe it's due to the level scaling changes—maybe it's getting the wrong costs from the game, like based on the original sell price for the item before scaling.

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Posted Apr 10, 2018
Is it possible the Pawn addon is not taking into account non-upgraded Heirlooms?

for example i have a bloodied aranite reaper and on my lvl 80 it says it has 33 crit, which it would if i wasn't cheap and not wanted to upgrade an alt's heirloom, so instead of showing the +20 crit it actually has, Pawn is weighting it at its 80 equiv of 33

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Posted Apr 11, 2018
In reply to GrimNotepad:

Yeah, there's a game bug in 7.3.x where WoW puts the wrong stats on tooltips of not-fully-upgraded heirlooms sometimes, and since Pawn gets stats from tooltips, it gets wrong numbers. I'm hoping that they fix it for 8.0, but if they don't, I'll see if I can find a good workaround. Sorry for the trouble!

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Posted Apr 12, 2018
In reply to VgerAN:

Well that's great you are aware of it. I really appreciate this add-on and your prompt response!

Keep up the great work!

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Posted Mar 27, 2018
I there! I love pawn (ha!) but recently after coming back i'm having huge problems just having it work.

I've installed it, reinstalled it, completely wiped all knowledge of it and re-reinstalled it and it neither shows up in the addons list nor anywhere in game. Do you have any idea why this might be?

I must say its not the only addon acting this way - world quest tracker is as well so may not be isolated to Pawn but having installed all other addons through the twitch app am at a loss as to why its not showing full stop.

Any help would be appreciated!

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Posted Mar 27, 2018
In reply to scottklotd:

Hmm, that is very odd. Can you find your World of Warcraft folder, and then check what's in here?

World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\Pawn

That folder should contain 24 files and 2 folders. If the Pawn folder is missing, then my best guess is that the Twitch client is maybe set up to install addons to a different place, maybe the location that World of Warcraft used to be installed to last time you played. If it's missing one or more files, then maybe the Twitch client is having trouble installing the latest version.

Let me know what you find!

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