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Compatibility:	Classic (1.15.2) Plunderstorm (10.2.6) Classic (1.15.1) Seeds of Renewal (10.2.5) Classic (1.15.0) Guardians of the Dream (10.2.0) WOTLK Patch (3.4.3) Hot Fix (10.1.7) Classic (1.14.4) Fractures in Time (10.1.5) WotLK Patch (3.4.2) Dragonflight patch (10.0.7) Embers of Neltharion (10.1.0) WOTLK Patch (3.4.1) Dragonflight patch (10.0.5) Dragonflight (10.0.2)
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10.2.6

Pawn

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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03-12-16, 05:48 AM
Korelock A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 4 Uploads: 0	Ah, very nice feature - once you know about it Handy to be able to turn it off for a recently dinged alt without upgrade resources. Thank you for replying.

03-08-16, 12:00 PM
VgerAN A Cyclonian Forum posts: 40 File comments: 253 Uploads: 6	Hi! In the current versions, Pawn will assume that you're going to upgrade any Baleful gear you get using Empowered Apexis Fragments to turn it to level 695, so it always compares with that version in mind. (Similarly, it assumes that you'll either upgrade new items with Valor.) If you don't want Pawn to assume that you'll upgrade items, you can check the "ignore Valor and Baleful upgrades" option on the Options tab, and then it will behave like previous versions. Hope that helps!

03-07-16, 12:14 PM
Korelock A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 4 Uploads: 0	Uses stats for purple version, not my actual gear I've switched back to 1.9.20 (my previous downloaded version) instead of the current 1.9.24. I'm an Unholy Death Knight with standard settings. I couldn't understand why Pawn wasn't showing the purple lvl 665 Felbane Greaves of the Peerless as an upgrade for equipped blue ilvl 650 Felbane Greaves of the Merciless. Using the Compare tab on my two items showed me why (?): Pawn 1.9.24 seems to be using the values for a purple version of the blue boots too. Going back to 1.9.20 fixed the issue. PS Thank you for this add-on. It takes the brain worry out of comparing gear

11-07-15, 04:44 PM
VgerAN A Cyclonian Forum posts: 40 File comments: 253 Uploads: 6	Thanks! That did it. I needed to add the same hack to SetQuestLogItem, but now things seem to be working correctly. Much appreciated! (Also, much appreciated for your work in pioneering compact raid frames. )

10-29-15, 01:20 AM
Phanx Cat. Forum posts: 5617 File comments: 2321 Uploads: 54	GameTooltip:GetItem() is currently bugged when the item was set via SetQuestItem; it returns an empty string for the item name, and an item link with no name an and ID of 0 (eg. "", "\|Hitem:0:0:0:0...\|h[]\|h"). As a workaround to let me see Pawn values on quest reward choices, I modified the SetQuestItem hook in Pawn.lua (line 224) to look like this: Code: hooksecurefunc(GameTooltip, "SetQuestItem", function(self, ...) local ItemLink = GetQuestItemLink(...) if ItemLink then PawnUpdateTooltip("GameTooltip", "SetHyperlink", ItemLink) end end) I also added a new hook for the SetHyperlink method of the WorldMapTooltip, so I can see Pawn values in the tooltips from addons like HandyNotes_DraenorTreasures that add item icons to the world map: Code: hooksecurefunc(WorldMapTooltip, "SetHyperlink", function(self, ...) PawnUpdateTooltip("WorldMapTooltip", "SetHyperlink", ...) end) Finally, I got tired of seeing "upgrade!" in tooltips for items I can't actually equip, so I added some code in the PawnGetStatsFromTooltip function to stop if it finds any red text on a line that has both left and right text (eg. "Waist .... Cloth" or "Ranged ... Crossbow"). There may be some cases where this won't work, and it might be more efficient to do this by looking at the return values from GetItemInfo instead, but I haven't noticed any issues in my normal gameplay. Code: for Side = 1, 2 do -- <snip> else local RightLine = _G[TooltipName .. "TextRight" .. i] CurrentParseText = RightLine:GetText() if (not CurrentParseText) or (CurrentParseText == "") then break end RegexTable = PawnRightHandRegexes CurrentDebugMessages = false IgnoreErrors = true local r, g, b = RightLine:GetTextColor() if r > 0.98 and g < 0.13 and b < 0.13 then -- red: 0.99999779462814, 0.12548992037773, 0.12548992037773 return end r, g, b = LeftLine:GetTextColor() if r > 0.98 and g < 0.13 and b < 0.13 then return end end Feel free to incorporate any/all of these changes in the official version. __________________ Retired author of too many addons. Message me if you're interested in taking over one of my addons. Don’t message me about addon bugs or programming questions. Last edited by Phanx : 10-29-15 at 01:21 AM.

01-19-15, 12:00 AM
VgerAN A Cyclonian Forum posts: 40 File comments: 253 Uploads: 6	Re: incompatibility? Hi! Yes, Pawn is not currently compatible with Italian WoW. Translating Pawn is quite a lot of work, but if you don't mind some tedious trial and error, you can find out more about what it takes here: http://wow.curseforge.com/addons/paw...calizing-pawn/

01-07-15, 12:09 PM
groin A Cyclonian Forum posts: 45 File comments: 86 Uploads: 3	incompatibility? why it doesn't work with elvui ? i have pawn loaded but i can't see anything on tooltip EDIT: ok english needed. so can i help you with Italian localization? Last edited by groin : 01-07-15 at 01:11 PM.

12-10-14, 11:51 PM
VgerAN A Cyclonian Forum posts: 40 File comments: 253 Uploads: 6	The other likely case is for quest rewards. If your game client hasn't gotten the name and stats of an item from the server by the time that it shows up on-screen, then Pawn won't be able to add the green arrow icon on top of it. If you don't see the arrow on a quest reward, but then when you hover over it and the tooltip has a green border and does have an icon on it, then that's what happened. (In that particular case, Pawn won't show any icons on any of the rewards if one of them wasn't downloaded in time, to make sure it doesn't give the wrong suggestion.)

12-10-14, 03:22 AM
Xully A Cyclonian Forum posts: 44 File comments: 180 Uploads: 0	Thanks, but I wasnt only speaking of resources, now I understand its a bug, but what about gear, even on gear sometimes the green up arrow doesnt show to me, unless i'm understanding it wrong

12-09-14, 02:19 PM
VgerAN A Cyclonian Forum posts: 40 File comments: 253 Uploads: 6	Hi! Yes, there's a bug in which the Garrison Resources chest will show the upgrade arrow when you loot it IF the last thing that you won (where "won" means anything that showed the "you won!" popup) was an upgrade. For now, whenever it happens, just imagine that you got some Complicated Wood instead of Simple Wood that will get used in your upgraded building. Exciting!

12-08-14, 10:47 AM
Xully A Cyclonian Forum posts: 44 File comments: 180 Uploads: 0	Is there a bug with the "show up-arrow upgrades percentage" the green up-arrow that tells "upgrade" underneath item, or even when I gather resources sometimes it shows upward green arrow for one of my chars. and the other character it doesn't show that at all, both characters are the same name that could be the only reason I'm thinking why its bugging for me.

11-18-14, 12:44 AM
VgerAN A Cyclonian Forum posts: 40 File comments: 253 Uploads: 6	I appreciate the kind words. I'm glad you're enjoying Pawn! Now excuse me while I send all of my needy followers out on missions.

11-14-14, 10:08 AM
Gallian A Deviate Faerie Dragon Forum posts: 15 File comments: 33 Uploads: 0	Thank you so much for this! I have always had a hard time understanding if what I just got is better than what I have on, for my class/spec. Now an add-on actually tells me! I can't believe, people just keep suggesting I get out of the game and go to a website and compare on a website. I can compare manually in game with this, or I can let it do it for me via the tooltips (which I do). It's awesome! Ever since I've been using this, I've been able to survive better, and kill things faster on my Elemental Shaman. I haven't tried group content with him yet, he's level 91 right now. This is now an essential add-on for me. Without it, I don't know what I'd do... I guess break my immersion with the game's story lines, and alt tab out and use my browser to search... which I'm so glad I don't have to do. I never understood why people just accept things how they have known them and never try to change them. You clearly aren't like that, because you took it upon yourself to create an add-on that does what was lacking in game for this particular reason! There needs to ne more people like you, and less that say "Just go to a website..." or "that's just the way it is" and just be lazy!

02-08-14, 09:58 AM
vikkyne A Murloc Raider Forum posts: 4 File comments: 114 Uploads: 0	Yes it does. Thanks very much.

01-15-14, 12:07 PM
VgerAN A Cyclonian Forum posts: 40 File comments: 253 Uploads: 6	Hi! For purposes of deciding which item is best for a slot, and upgrades versus that item, Pawn will only scan your currently-equipped items and items that you have in equipment sets. Beyond those items, it will also remember the best thing that you've equipped since the last time something changed that invalidated the score (such as by changing the values in the weight scale). So, if there are items in your bank that you don't want considered, (1) If they're in one of your character's equipment sets (for easy withdrawal, for example), then there isn't currently any way to get Pawn to stop thinking about those items. (2) If they're just something you've worn before but you swapped them out, the "Re-scan gear" button on the Options page will make Pawn forget about them until the next time you equip them. I hope that helps!

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