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Pawn assesses the value of items for you to make it easy to decide which items are better than others. It's similar in purpose to mods such as Tank Points, but completely customizable, and applicable to any class and situation. You can use it to help create multiple gear sets, or decide whether to take that weapon with higher DPS or the one with more crit rating, or decide between a necklace with MP5 and one with bonus healing.

Pawn is a mod for hardcore World of Warcraft players—you may not like it if you're not the sort of person who agonizes over stats and itemization. You can use premade Pawn "scale tags" that other people make and post on forums to set up Pawn for your spec without any extra effort. And, if you're the kind of person who goes through Wowhead and Lootzor looking for exactly the items you want for your gear sets, builds Excel spreadsheets, installs TheoryCraft, reads Elitist Jerks... well, Pawn might just be right up your alley.

See the Pawn readme file included with the mod for more information on getting the most out of Pawn.

This version of Pawn is for English only. Community translations for other languages are available, but are not always up-to-date.

Pawn plugins for FuBar and Titan Panel are available on Curse.

For fastest assistance with Pawn, check the official thread at IncGamers, Curse, or comment here.
  Change Log - Pawn
Version 1.2.5

* What used to be called the enchanted value of an item is now the current value, and what used to be called the unenchanted value is now the base value. The word "base" now also appears on tooltips. (No functionality has changed; this is just a terminology change.)
* Fixed the error that occurred when hovering over Brewfest steins.

Version 1.2.4

* Fixed an error that occurred when hovering over profession recipes.

Version 1.2.3

* You can now select what quality of gems to use for each of your scales on the Gems tab: uncommon, rare, or epic. Each scale can have a different quality level, so your main spec scale can use epic gems, and your offspec scale can use rare gems.
* By popular request, enchanted values of items now no longer include any points for sockets on the item, since the enchanted value is meant to reflect the current state of the item. This means that before you put gems in an item, the enchanted value of an item will be lower than the unenchanted value.
* Fixed a bug where occasionally items that weren't enchanted would show two equal values, such as "123.4 (123.4)". (This was only a display issue; the values were being calculated properly.)

Version 1.2.2

* Pawn will now calculate correct socket values if you have the "normalize values (like Wowhead)" option enabled.

Version 1.2.1

* Fixed the "attempt to perform arithmetic on field '?' (a nil value)" error that some users were experiencing in Pawn 1.2.

Version 1.2

* Note: Upon installation, this version of Pawn will automatically make adjustments to each of your scales' socket values. To avoid this, you can turn off the option for each scale to always correctly match gem colors.
* By default, Pawn will automatically choose the best rare-quality level 80 gem of each color and use the value of that gem when calculating item values. Most people will no longer ever need to manually set values for red, yellow, or blue sockets.
* There's now a new Gems tab in the Pawn UI. This tab shows you the best rare-quality level 80 gems that are available for any of your scales. Never again will you wonder which gems to have cut for that new boss drop.
o The Gems tab also displays suggested meta gems, but take these with a grain of salt; Pawn ignores the special effects on the gem.
o The Gems tab only considers rare-quality level 80 gems. I'll add support for epic gems very soon in an upcoming Pawn update.
* Pawn will now add a tooltip to the item socketing window displaying the suggested gems to use when socketing that item for each of your scales. In addition, the window now has a Pawn button that takes you directly to the Gems tab for more details.
* Meta sockets are now covered by two values instead of one: the old "Meta socket" value is now "Meta: stats" and covers the normal stat bonuses from meta gems. The new value is "Meta: effect" and covers the bonus effects from meta gems. Helms with an empty meta socket will get the values from both added to their totals. Helms with a filled meta socket will get the values of Meta: effect and the actual stats on the gem added to their totals. This reflects the fact that stat-for-stat, helms with meta sockets are clearly better than helms without them because of the added effects that meta gems bring.
* Adjusted the value of MP5 in the default scale to correspond with current itemization.
* Removed the Pawn feature to show item levels, as it is now built into the game.
* Fixed the "Could not parse the item link" error that appeared when clicking the links that items such as the Titanium Seal of Dalaran and Worn Troll Dice add to chat.
* Corrected the display of socket bonuses on weapons in the Compare tab.
* (English) Enchant Boots: Greater Vitality now works again.
  Archived Versions - Pawn
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Old 02-06-2008, 04:50 PM  
Spiderkeg
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I really do like this mod, and constantly rely on the stats given and then make an educated choice. However, seeing as how PvP gear and PvE gear are designed for two different play styles, would it be prudent to have a Pawn value defined by the given PvP or PvE gear?

I guess what I'm trying to find out is, if I'm wearing gear that is PvE oriented and I'm checking out someone's Gladiator gear, the Pawn value is usually higher than what I'm wearing. This value may be askewed, however, in light that higher stamina may not be a suitable substitute for the loss of obviously PvE bonuses (which aren't on PvP gear, notably caster).

Am I making any sense here?
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Old 01-29-2008, 02:42 PM  
VgerAN
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Okay, I think I have somewhat of a better picture of what you're asking for now. Most likely the next thing I'll be working on in Pawn is a way to have Pawn read through all of the gear that you're wearing and produce totals, so if you decide you want to write an add-on like this, that should make it easier.
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Old 01-29-2008, 02:50 AM  
vishnou00
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The idea is to provide a tool to define scales quickly based on what you wear now. In that, it agrees with the design tenet that an item's value is only defined by the scale. The product of the tool is a scale, used like any scale defined by a user.


The stats merging part may be the cause of the confusion, but it is not the core of the idea. You could forget it altogether and the concept and the basic implementation would the same.


Conceptually, the idea is to generate a figerprint (or histogram or profile) of your gear that you can compare to other scales so see how much and in which way gear set are different. Every scale generated agrees completely with a gear setup, you compare two scales to see how they disagree, so in a way, you compare two gear setup.

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Old 01-28-2008, 05:54 PM  
VgerAN
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Thanks for the suggestion. After reading your post I'm not sure that I really have a good idea of what you're requesting, but it doesn't really sound like Pawn is what you want. One of the core design tenets of Pawn is that the value for a given item never changes if the scale doesn't change, regardless of what level you are, what class you are, or who's looking at it. It sounds like your idea makes the value of items change depending on what other items you have, or have equipped.
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Old 01-26-2008, 02:20 PM  
vishnou00
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That could be interesting, would be to sample your current gear to determine the scale of what you are wearing if it was your ideal gear. For example, for a Leotheras demon phase tanking gear (as a warrior) you want to balance stamina and fire resist, but you only need so much FR to reach the cap, so the relative value of FR vs stamina changes:
stamina: 740
+hp: 150 (~= 13.63 stam with BoK)
stam total: 754 * 2/3 = 503
FR: 339 (reaches the cap with improved MotW)

so the current scale with those two stats is
stam: (503+339)/754 = 1.67
FR: (503+339)/339 = 2.48

With that scale, you can go through any stam heavy or FR heavy items to see if it serves the scale better, reevaluate the resist cap and the scale (post-optimisation process), and try other items.

Another current gear analysis with 3 stats could add the next highest stat in term of item budget (any rating or stat or resist is worth 1, mp5 is worth 2.5, etc).

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So what implementing this would imply (beside UI)?
-scan the current gear with item budget array
-merge similar stats (stam with +Health). Maybe more advanced merging would be included, agi/str to AP, or user defined, to account ratio changing buffs, like BoK (modify str/agi/ap/crit rating, and spell crit vs int to some extent)
-sort the stats
-define a scale with the top X (number supplied by the user) merged stats

That's it, that is the feature I am talking about. It would also be useful to discuss your current stat distribution with your current gear instead of talking about your ideally designed stats scale.

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I would like to know the feel of the developper about this. Any interest in developping this or letting me doing it in the mod or as a sister mod, or something else entirely.
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Old 01-05-2008, 05:59 AM  
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Howdy. You can check out the "sample scales" file that comes with Pawn (a better version comes with 0.7.3). Also, there's a forum with a lot of user-contributed scales here:

http://pawnmod.trenchrats.com/
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Old 01-04-2008, 08:08 AM  
arkindal
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hey

Nice addon, where can i find scale made by more experienced players than me?:P
i'd like to find some class based pvp and pve scales
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