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Pawn  Popular! (More than 5000 hits)

Version: 2.8.10
by: VgerAN [More]

Find upgrades, do more damage, win.

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.

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 (or, on Classic, HawsJon). 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.

Language support

Pawn now works with all languages on both live/retail and Classic. It's possible that you might run into stats that Pawn doesn't recognize from time to time when playing on non-English clients—if you think that Pawn's not calculating something right, put an item into the Compare tab and see if it lists all of the stats there. If something's missing, let me know which item and which language, and I should be able to get it fixed!

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. (I typically respond to questions much more quickly on Facebook or Curse.)

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) whether it's live/retail or Classic, (3) the specific items that don't work as expected, and (4) 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.

Version 2.8.10

Classic Season of Discovery: Added support for the new Gnomeregan items with hit or crit to all attacks. Items with the new hit stat will receive points for your Hit and Hit (Spell) stats, and items with the new crit stat will receive points for your Crit and Crit (Spell) stats.

Version 2.8.9

Dragonflight: Updated stat weights for all classes and specs.
Dragonflight: Updated Pawn's scale color button to work with the new patch 10.2.5 color picker.

Version 2.8.8

Dragonflight: Removed the "Only show upgrades for my best armor type after level 27" option. After level 27, Pawn will now always stop showing items that are not the right type of armor for your class.
Classic: Fixed a bug where Pawn would suggest armor your character can't wear as upgrades.
Classic: Fixed a bug where Pawn would sometimes suggest socketing Glinting Flame Spessarite when it meant to suggest Sovereign Shadow Draenite. This bug potentially affected any time Glinting Flame Spessarite was suggested (such as in the socketing advisor popup), but didn't affect any other calculations or upgrade suggestions.

Version 2.8.7

Classic: Added support for the Classic trade skill and crafting window: hovering over the item icon in that window should now work the same as if the item were already in your bags.

Version 2.8.6

Dragonflight: More new stat weight updates, updated for patch 10.2.0.

Version 2.8.5

Dragonflight: New stat weights have been included for all classes and specs, including all evoker specs, based on the latest Ask Mr. Robot raid simulation data.

Version 2.8.4

To keep things responsive, especially on the slower Classic versions of the game, Pawn has a new system that caps how much processing power it will allow bag addons to use when calculating which items get green upgrade arrows. Roughly speaking, if the game runs at 60 FPS for you, Pawn will block bag addons from reducing that by more than 2 FPS. (This change doesn't affect you if you aren't using a custom bag addon.)

Version 2.8.3

Wrath Classic: The new gems for Content Phase 3 (Cardinal Ruby, etc.) will now show up in recommendations, and will be taken into account when determining the value of sockets on high-level gear.

Version 2.8.2

Dragonflight: Dragonflight 10.1.0 has a game bug that was causing Pawn to show the wrong information on "currently equipped" tooltips. That bug is fixed in Dragonflight 10.1.5. Pawn will stop annotating "currently equipped" tooltips until 10.1.5 launches.
Dragonflight: Added support for the 10.1.5 PTR.
Dragonflight: Added support for Augmentation Evokers. If you're using Pawn in Automatic mode (the default), you don't need to do anything extra. If you're using Pawn in Manual mode, you'll need to import your own Augmentation scale or use (shift-click) the one that comes with Pawn. (Stat weights for Augmentation aren't available yet so it's a placeholder in this version of Pawn.)

Version 2.8.1

Dragonflight: Fixed a problem that could occur when showing Pawn's version number on 10.1.0.

Version 2.8.0

Updated for Dragonflight: Embers of Neltharion (10.1.0).
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Unread 03-08-09, 10:49 PM  
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Done.
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Originally posted by VgerAN
This version of Pawn is for English only.
It would be nice to mention this in the description so that we don't have to go look or ask in the comments to know that. Or better, it would be great if it was localized .
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Thanks, but there's not much I can realistically do with a list of 190 add-ons. I'm going to try to put together a special diagnostic version of Pawn that should help me track down why the game is crashing for some people. I hope to have this ready soon. In the meantime, I still encourage you to send crash reports to Blizzard so they can find and fix their bug. A crashing bug is not directly a bug in a mod, but I might be able to work around the crash.
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After 3 days of working out what was doing it i fount it!!!

After 3 days for getting wow crashing on me cos of a addon i found what addon it was, I use a lot of addons, and i slowly when into my list of addons i added my self from the arkive UI, and i found that Pawn is crashing me,

And i dont mean errors :P

I have PM a full list to the maker, and lets see what happens :P

now i need to start working out by hand if a item is better or not

anyways...
I send VgerAN my addon list, (all ~190 addons)
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Thanks for the link; hopefully JaceDaAce and others will find that useful.
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Originally posted by VgerAN
No, Pawn doesn't do that, and I am not aware of any mod that does.
Actually, there is (or at least was) one. SmartFitter did quite a decent job there (http://forums.wowace.com/showthread.php?t=10862) and those are the two features I miss most:

"Get best Set & Equip" function, so you can easily add your 'configuration' to ClosetGnome, Outfitter, whatever. Not needed but definitely nice.
"I do not want more than xyz on that stat"/"I need at least xyz on that stat" Spell hit is very valuable to me, but why should I stack it past the hit cap? Similar: I absolutely *need* to be crit immune, give me at least 540 defense skill (ok, you would have to get the rating that is required, but you get what I mean)!
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This version of Pawn is for English only. There are other localized versions that are based on mine and are updated with varying frequency that you can find; I don't know of any hosted here, but Curse and WoWUI.IncGamers have a couple.

Originally posted by Mars85
Does this addon only work with english clients? On deDE it shows nothing. I don't know if it fit's the needs of this mod but the StatLogic-1.0 library does work with most locales.
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Does this addon only work with english clients? On deDE it shows nothing. I don't know if it fit's the needs of this mod but the StatLogic-1.0 library does work with most locales.
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Sorry to hear that; a few other people have reported the same issue. Right now there's not much I can do about it, I'm afraid; game crashes are Blizzard's bugs. Please always send crash reports so that they can fix them.


Originally posted by richwarf
this addon is crashing my wow,

I know it your addon cos when i added it into my fix it fails to let me log on.

I PM u my addon list cos it so bug +200 addons...
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this addon is crashing my wow,

I know it your addon cos when i added it into my fix it fails to let me log on.

I PM u my addon list cos it so bug +200 addons...
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Re: But how?

Base armor is armor that gets your bonus, such as leather and cloth. Bonus armor is stuff on trinkets that doesn't get a bonus multiplier. As such, your base armor value should be considerably higher than the bonus armor value, and you shouldn't assign a value to the regular "Armor" stat at all. If you have trouble remembering, double-checking the description of each of the three armor stats should help to clarify things.

The stat that you care about now instead of feral attack power is "DPS" under "Weapon stats." The value you probably want is 14x whatever you assigned to feral attack power in the past.

Originally posted by DeFood
Do I need to add it to every weapon? or is there a general Weapon DPS category?

The terminology used by pawn isn't 100% in line with the terminology used on sites where I find rankings - it makes me nervous ive weighted items incorrectly.

(for example - as a feral bear tank - the whole base armor vs bonus armor thing is important to me - as I understand it, armor on "Leather" and "Cloth" items - including armor from enchants - is multiplied by my base bearform multiplier of 3.6x
Armor on trinkets, rings, necks, weapons is not. How does that map to pawns "Base" vs "bonus" terminology?
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But how?

Do I need to add it to every weapon? or is there a general Weapon DPS category?

The terminology used by pawn isn't 100% in line with the terminology used on sites where I find rankings - it makes me nervous ive weighted items incorrectly.

(for example - as a feral bear tank - the whole base armor vs bonus armor thing is important to me - as I understand it, armor on "Leather" and "Cloth" items - including armor from enchants - is multiplied by my base bearform multiplier of 3.6x
Armor on trinkets, rings, necks, weapons is not. How does that map to pawns "Base" vs "bonus" terminology?
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Quick note for feral druids: with patch 3.0.8, you're going to need to start assigning a value to weapon DPS. Values that you've assigned to the "feral attack power" stat are now meaningless, as such a thing technically no longer exists as an item stat.
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Originally posted by JaceDaAce
I was wondering can this addon tell you about caps I have a warrior tank and want to know how a new item will effect my caps and/or how much closer it will bring me to the cap. If this can't or you don't want it to is there a addon you can direct me to?
No, Pawn doesn't do that, and I am not aware of any mod that does.

Originally posted by khurzog
is this better than GearDps?
It depends on how much work you want to put into it. GearDps appears to not be configurable, so you just install it and you're done. Pawn is built with customization in mind. You can either tweak stat values to your heart's content, or use an item valuation system ("scale") that someone else has carefully crafted, from Elitist Jerks, the WoW forums, or elsewhere. Which one is "better" depends on whether you want something that you can work with to become more and more accurate, or something you want to just "set and forget" even if it isn't as accurate.
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is this better than GearDps?
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