Pawn

Last Updated: Dec 14, 2018 Game Version: 8.1.0

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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 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.

Happy Feast of Winter Veil! Support for Pawn will be limited and available through Facebook only until early January.

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VgerAN
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#4633 VgerAN

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Posted Sep 11, 2018
In reply to dragon76160:

Have you installed any addons that change the way that your bags look or work recently?

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Posted Sep 7, 2018
Is it possible to bind manual scales to a spec, so only the scales relevant to that spec show and get used for comparing upgrades? Kind of like how it works on automatic mode. Would like to have 1 or 2 scales per spec for all my 3 specs, but the tooltips get kind of messy with 4+ scales in it at all times.

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Posted Sep 7, 2018
In reply to Ilendur24903:

Hi! Not currently, but it's a pretty common feature request that I've gotten, so I do plan on adding something like that soonish. Thanks for the suggestion!

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Posted Sep 7, 2018
Does this work with AdiBags?

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Posted Sep 7, 2018
In reply to bstrdsheep:

Probably, but I haven't tried it. Have you noticed any problems?

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Posted Sep 6, 2018
I would love it if you could add an option to ignore azerite pieces.

The traits usually outweigh the stats and it's a bit annoying to see it in my bags as an upgrade when I know it's not.

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Posted Sep 6, 2018
In reply to xionyus:

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll take a look.

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Posted Sep 6, 2018
It appears that Pawn is prioritizing versatility over crit and haste... I am a frost mage and versatility is last on my priority list according to WowHead and IcyViens. Is this normal?

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Posted Sep 6, 2018
In reply to bb127:

Hi! The Ask Mr. Robot scales that come with Pawn by default come from Mr. Robot directly, and I'm not sure why any given stat is given the specific ranking that it is. Sometimes it's because AMR may be optimizing for small-group Mythic dungeon performance and popular guides are optimizing for single-target raid performance, or something along those lines. But for the specific details you'd need to contact them directly.

Hope that helps!

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Posted Sep 2, 2018
i got a pair of boots from a worldquest (ilvl 330 + they got a socket).

when i open the socket menu, pawn suggests to socket with a Masterful Kubiline (+30 mastery) instead of Masterful Tidal Amethyst (+40 mastery).

this also results in pawn valuing the item slightly lower than it should in the tooltip (difference of 10 mastery).

in pawn options i got "show best gem available" and there it does show the Masterful Tidal Amethyst instead of the lower one. but in socket menu and tooltip it still uses the wrong one.

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Posted Sep 3, 2018
In reply to gobacktogo55001:

Hi! Right now, due to the cost, Pawn doesn't suggest using the blue-quality gems in items below ilvl 355. (Have the costs gone down a bit? I haven't checked in a while.) You're correct in that the gem that Pawn suggests in the socketing window is the one that it used to calculate the item's value, so that item will indeed be slightly undervalued if you would have used a +40 stat gem.

Right now that's "working as intended" but some more gem/ilvl customization options are pretty close to the top of the to-do list.

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Posted Sep 3, 2018
In reply to VgerAN:

thanks for your reply! would love an option to have pawn suggest socketing the best available gems regardless of price. especially now that we are close to raid / arena opening i want to start that content in the best available gear. those 330 boots got the perfect stats for me + the socket. have not found a single pair of 340+ that can compete with them. so socketing that blue +40 haste gem that costs around 750g on my server seems to be the most logical option.

thanks for your work!

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Posted Sep 4, 2018
In reply to gobacktogo55001:

Thanks for the info! Glad to see that the prices are a lot more reasonable than the blue-quality gems in Legion. Hopefully I can add some more gem fine-tuning features soon; in the meantime, maybe just subtract ~1% or so from any upgrade numbers you see when wearing those boots and that should be pretty close. :)

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Posted Sep 1, 2018
Would it be possiable to have diff colored upgrade arrows for spec you are curently wearing and off specs?

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Posted Sep 3, 2018
In reply to Radoznali:

Hi! Right now Pawn doesn't draw the arrows on items in your bags—those are put there by the game. Pawn just influences when they show up. Because of that, I haven't added any options to customize the other arrows (like the ones in tooltips) that Pawn does draw. But it's definitely something I think of from time to time, and something I'd like to do. Thanks for the suggestion!

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Posted Sep 1, 2018
Will pawn add a feature to scale Azerite Traits in the future, depending on your spec, in the future?

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Posted Sep 3, 2018
In reply to Lusitan:

Hi! I don't currently have any plans to, but it's a possibility for the future. I'm hoping someone else will take care of that. :)

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Posted Sep 4, 2018
In reply to VgerAN:

i think it would be a great addition to Pawn, keeping all scales in one addon.

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Posted Aug 31, 2018
My warlock just found a mace and even though warlocks can't use maces, the upgrade symbol is still shown on the mace in the bag.

I know it's a higher item level than my staff, but it still feels weird to see the symbol, when I can't use it.

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Posted Aug 31, 2018
In reply to painstorm:

Hi! Is this using a custom scale that you've created, or one of the Ask Mr. Robot defaults that came with Pawn? You shouldn't be seeing that happen with the scales that come with Pawn, but if you've created a custom one, that could happen.

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