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11.0.2

Pawn

Version: 2.10.2

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 2.10.2

The War Within: Adjusted gem recommendations for 80 gear. (Previously, socketed Khaz Algar items were being valued too highly.)
Cataclysm Classic: Updated default stat weights for even specs.

Version 2.10.1

Cataclysm Classic: Updated default stat weights for fury warriors, and further reduced the value of armor for specs that don't traditionally need much of it.
Updated translations for Simplified Chinese. (Thanks LvWind!)

Version 2.10.0

The War Within: Added support for the new Khaz Algar gems.
The War Within: You can now open the Pawn window from the addons icon in the upper-right corner of the screen, even if you've hidden the Pawn button from your character sheet on Pawn's Options tab.
Pawn's window now features some oranger The War Within-inspired visuals.

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File Name	Version	Size	Author	Date
Pawn	2.10.1	769kB	VgerAN	08-18-24 11:05 AM

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03-30-08, 09:38 AM
obuw A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 7 Uploads: 0	[BUG] Sockets counting Twice When calculating unenchanted values, pawn counts the gem sockets twice if there are gems socketed. Ex: [Belt of the Black Eagle] gives 20 Stamina, I have socketed it with a [Brutal Tanzanite] for another 6 Stamina. My STA scale also has 6 points for blue sockets. Enchanted value: 26. Unenchanted value: 32. I also reported this in the trenchrats forum.

03-26-08, 10:57 AM
VgerAN A Cyclonian Forum posts: 40 File comments: 253 Uploads: 6	Pawn 1.0 is out! Pawn 1.0 has been released! It's a worthwhile upgrade for anyone who uses Pawn, especially if you're on a version earlier than 0.9.

02-07-08, 04:03 PM

Spiderkeg

A Deviate Faerie Dragon

Forum posts: 18

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Originally posted by VgerAN
For premade scales, check out the unofficial forums here:

http://pawnmod.trenchrats.com/

I will try out the Frost-PvE build listed on the site. I'm not mathematically inclined enough to try and sort out appropriate values myself but I do like that someone has a reasonable idea of what end-game raiding stats might be. I'll give this a shot.

02-07-08, 02:45 PM
VgerAN A Cyclonian Forum posts: 40 File comments: 253 Uploads: 6	For premade scales, check out the unofficial forums here: http://pawnmod.trenchrats.com/ Also, for certain classes, check out the "sample scales" document that comes with Pawn. It seems to me that melee DPS classes are the luckiest; I know of a lot of common valuation systems, like various forms of AEP, and Emmerald's feral druid gear lists. I don't know of any commonly-accepted valuation systems for casters, so if you're a caster, the forums are probably your best bet, and you'll probably want to do some tweaking from there. You'll probably find yourself wanting to tweak any scale you find; unlike Warsong Gulch (shudder), premade is not always the best. Pawn will hopefully make that (sort of) easy for you.

02-07-08, 10:03 AM
Spiderkeg A Deviate Faerie Dragon Forum posts: 18 File comments: 285 Uploads: 0	Is there a scale for each class available, or would that have to be custom made from scratch? I'd be interested in finding a rating for each class. Also, a "copy" feature would be very nice. Last edited by Spiderkeg : 02-07-08 at 10:03 AM.

02-06-08, 07:41 PM
VgerAN A Cyclonian Forum posts: 40 File comments: 253 Uploads: 6	Yeah. Sounds like you want a second scale. For example, as a shaman, in my PVP scale, I value stamina at 1.5, but in my PVE scale, I value it at .7 or .8 or so. Along the same lines, my PVE scale values MP5 at 3.75, but my PVP scale values it at 1. (I may increase that a bit as 11,000 mana doesn't last very long against a priest's drain, and it would be nice to have mana after the first minute of the battle. ) I also have a third "hybrid" scale for when I'm just soloing, and a fourth "elemental" scale for if I ever decide to respec. Pawn shows all four values on items I come across, so I can easily see that the weapon that just dropped would be an upgrade for PVP for not for PVE. You can create a second scale by clicking the "New empty" or "New default" button. Or, if you want to use your current scale as a starting point, there's no Copy button (I'll add one someday), but you can achieve the same effect by exporting the scale, then renaming it, and then importing the scale tag. Then, when you set values for stats, just make sure that you've chosen the scale you want to work with first. If you give them different colors, it can be easier to tell them apart at a glance. Hope that helps!

02-06-08, 03:50 PM
Spiderkeg A Deviate Faerie Dragon Forum posts: 18 File comments: 285 Uploads: 0	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?

01-29-08, 01:42 PM
VgerAN A Cyclonian Forum posts: 40 File comments: 253 Uploads: 6	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.

01-29-08, 01:50 AM
vishnou00 A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 37 Uploads: 2	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. Last edited by vishnou00 : 01-29-08 at 02:06 AM.

01-28-08, 04:54 PM
VgerAN A Cyclonian Forum posts: 40 File comments: 253 Uploads: 6	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.

01-26-08, 01:20 PM
vishnou00 A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 37 Uploads: 2	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). -------- 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. -------- 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.

01-05-08, 04:59 AM
VgerAN A Cyclonian Forum posts: 40 File comments: 253 Uploads: 6	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/

01-04-08, 07:08 AM
arkindal A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 3 Uploads: 0	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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