PawnAH — Pawn weights for the RXPGuides auction-house scanner
PawnAH is a small bridge addon that makes the RestedXP Guides (RXPGuides) auction-house scanner score items using Pawn's stat weights instead of RXPGuides' built-in EP system.
If you already trust Pawn's weights to evaluate gear on tooltips, this lets the AH scanner use those same numbers — so the "best per slot" and "best per copper" results match what Pawn would tell you on the item tooltip.
Requirements
- Pawn — installed and enabled, with at least one scale set to visible for your character
- RXPGuides — installed and enabled, with its item-upgrades / auction-house scanner module available (Vanilla / Era / Anniversary, TBC, Cata Classic). The free version will work fine for this tool to work.
PawnAH does nothing on its own. It only patches RXPGuides at runtime to delegate item scoring to Pawn.
What it changes
- RXPGuides' AH scan loop, paging, UI, slot comparisons, and "best per slot / best per copper" sorting all stay exactly as they are.
- Only the scoring math is replaced: every item the scanner evaluates gets its weight from PawnGetSingleValueFromItem using your first visible Pawn scale.
- Weapons are scored using Pawn's EP directly (which already includes DPS contribution via the scale's weapon-stat weights), so there's no double-counting.
Slash commands
- /pawnah or /pawnah status — show whether the override is active and which Pawn scale is being used
- /pawnah refresh — re-resolve the active Pawn scale and clear RXPGuides' item cache (use this if you change scales or weights in Pawn while the game is running)
- /pawnah on / /pawnah off — toggle the override without /reload
How it picks a scale
It uses the first visible scale returned by Pawn's PawnGetAllScalesEx(). If you have only one Pawn scale visible at a time (recommended), it picks that one automatically. If you have multiple visible scales and want a specific one, hide the others in Pawn's UI, then
run /pawnah refresh.
Known limitations
- No GUI — configuration is just the slash commands above.
- The override is a runtime monkey-patch of two RXPGuides methods (itemUpgrades:GetItemData and itemUpgrades:CalculateWeaponWeight). If a future RXPGuides update renames or restructures those, PawnAH will log RXPGuides itemUpgrades is missing expected methods;
overrides aborted at login and fall back to RXPGuides' native scoring until the addon is updated.
- "First visible scale" is the only selection mode. Per-character pinning and multi-scale "best-of" are not implemented.
Compatibility
Built and tested against the Anniversary (TBC-style) client at Interface 20505. Should work on any client where both Pawn and RXPGuides' AH scanner load. If marked "out of date" on your client, either enable Load out of date AddOns at the character-select AddOns
screen, or edit the ## Interface: line in PawnAH.toc to match your client.
Credits
This addon does no scoring or scanning itself — all credit for the underlying work goes to:
- Vger for Pawn (https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/pawn)
- RestedXP for RXPGuides (https://www.restedxp.com/)
PawnAH is just glue.
The PawnAH Team
