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Version: 2.8.11
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 2.8.11

Classic Season of Discovery: Added support for those new hit and crit stats, again. Because Blizzard broke them in a patch.

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 11-20-10, 04:13 AM  
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"Equip: Increases your haste rating by 123" is unknown effect.
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Pawn 1.4 is out to coincide with the release of WoW 4.0. There aren't really new features per se, but it's fully updated for the new stat changes in this patch. Consider this a "required" upgrade.
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Yeah, I don't think that would be too hard. I've got a pretty big feature in the works that I hope to have done before Cataclysm launches that will take priority, but I can probably get some reforging stuff done pretty soon. The math for deciding what to reforge is pretty simple, but there are some cases where it's going to be hard to do on the fly: if you have a little of a bad stat and a lot of a mediocre stat, it's not obvious which of the two to reforge for the maximum benefit, since reforging works on a percentage of the original stat number. Pawn could definitely help with that.
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Vger, not sure if you've thought about it, but adding in an option to show the optimal reforging for each item seems like a great idea for 4.0.1/Cataclysm.
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Originally posted by Decabah
Seems to be stemming from the fact that I've customized some strings, mainly the strings in tooltips and chat. The error only occurs when I have a custom mod for this enabled with Pawn.

I can send you the information in a PM if it'd help.
Yeah, any details would be helpful. Pawn depends on reading text on the tooltips to function properly, so anything that changes them is problematic.
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Seems to be stemming from the fact that I've customized some strings, mainly the strings in tooltips and chat. The error only occurs when I have a custom mod for this enabled with Pawn.

I can send you the information in a PM if it'd help.
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Re: Re: Chat spam

Originally posted by Decabah
I'm also receiving this error spammed in chat, with no error grabbed in Bugsack. I'm using the latest version and it happens when hovering over weapons of any level with any enchant on them.
I haven't been able to reproduce this under any circumstances. Can you try with just Pawn enabled? And assuming the error doesn't happen anymore, can you try to identify which other addon is conflicting with it?
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Originally posted by deadca7
In Cata I get this error, do you know any fast fix for it ?
Pick up the alpha version from here:
http://wow.curseforge.com/addons/pawn/files/

I've fixed almost all of the Cataclysm-specific issues in that version.
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Re: Chat spam

Originally posted by lanacan
I keep getting spammed with : "Weapon with mismatched or missing speed and damage stats was not converted to DPS" any time Mouse over my weapons. They are enchanted and it doesn't matter if I"m in my elemental or resto spec on my shammy this keeps happening.
I'm also receiving this error spammed in chat, with no error grabbed in Bugsack. I'm using the latest version and it happens when hovering over weapons of any level with any enchant on them.
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In Cata I get this error, do you know any fast fix for it ?
Code:
Message: [string "PawnPrivateTooltip:OnLoad"]:1: attempt to index global 'this' (a nil value)
Time: 09/05/10 00:10:06
Count: 1
Stack: [string "*:OnLoad"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnLoad"]:1>

Locals: self = PawnPrivateTooltip {
 0 = <userdata>
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(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = "attempt to index global 'this' (a nil value)"
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Thanks for the report and the extra details. The typo that caused this is fixed in Pawn 1.3.11, so pick that up as soon as it's approved and you should be good to go!

This problem would occur for staves and polearms (weapons that only have two-handed versions) for any class that can't also equip two-handed axes, maces, and swords (everyone except warriors). I unfortunately didn't catch it because I do most of my testing on my bank alt... who is a warrior.
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For some reason Pawn is not showing any values in tooltip for staffs for my mage. Using default arcane and fire scales, and on values tab Staff does not have that (unusable) text after it, so it should show me the values in tooltip.

-- Did some testing of my own:

I took a copy of the default arcane scale, took the (unusable) away from Sword: 2H and i can see the copied scale on tooltip.
The staffs i tested this are Engraved Gargoyle Femur and Unspeakable Secret.
So there might be something wrong in weapon types or something?

This is one of my "must-have" addons, thanks for keeping it up to date!
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GODDAMN this addon is AWESOME... thank you!
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Alrighty, more new goodness in Pawn 1.3.10. I'm now 99% sure that I've fixed that accursed issue with some people not being able to select scales. I SWEAR. Also, now you don't have to see item values on items that you can't equip -- for example, priests don't see values for priest scales on shields, even if it's a caster shield, because priests can't hold shields.
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Thanks for the report; I haven't seen this yet. What items and enchantments are you hovering over? Are they low-level +damage enchantments? (Or can I just get an Armory link?) And, do you still run into this problem if Pawn is the only add-on enabled for your character?
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