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10.2.7

Pawn

Version: 2.9.10

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 2.9.10

Cataclysm Classic: Fixed a problem where the default stat weights for expertise were incorrect for all classes and specs.

Version 2.9.9

Cataclysm Classic: Fixed a problem where certain items with mastery and certain haste enchantments had those stats ignored when playing in Russian, European Spanish, and Latin American Spanish.
You can now click an item link in chat and then Alt+LeftClick the popup that appears to get a window that lets you copy all of the text on that item to the clipboard. (This is mostly only useful to me when I need to type Искусность but my keyboard doesn't have those letters.) Previously this feature only worked on Pawn's Compare tab.

Version 2.9.8

Fixed a problem introduced in Pawn 2.9.7 that caused the "Show icons next to tooltips" feature to cause an error. (Actually, Ulidan did. Thanks Ulidan and Kraturnus!)
Cataclysm Classic: Ranged Attack Power no longer appears as a distinct stat you can give a weight to; just use Attack Power for both melee and ranged.
Cataclysm Classic: Updated the default stat weights for retribution paladins.

Version 2.9.7

The War Within: Pawn now works on The War Within beta and WoW 11.0.
Mists of Pandaria Remix: Fixed another case where the socketing advisor could appear and give dubious advice.

Version 2.9.6

Mists of Pandaria Remix: Pawn's socketing advisor is now disabled in this mode, since gems work differently.
Cataclysm Classic: Updated default stat weights for all specs and classes are included, thanks to the WoWSims team. Simulations are still in their early stages, so expect some oddities—let me know if you find something egregiously wrong. Simulating your character with WoWSims (or any other favorite sim) will get you the most accurate results, and you can export custom stat weights to use in Pawn for quick in-game advice.
Cataclysm Classic: You can now set a weight for the non-stat effect of meta gems like you could in Burning Crusade Classic and Wrath Classic.
Cataclysm Classic: The deprecated stats Defense Rating and Block Value will no longer show up in Pawn.
Classic Era and Season of Discovery: Fixed a harmless error message about gem data.

Version 2.9.5

Fixed some problems introduced in Pawn 2.9.4 where Pawn could give you an error when socketing an item.
Cataclysm Classic: Added support for the armor specialization skills such as Mail Specialization.

Version 2.9.4

Cataclysm Classic: Cogwheel sockets on engineering goggles will now be considered in the item's value like any other gem socket.
Cataclysm Classic: Fixed a bug that caused gems with bad secondary stats to be valued more highly than they should have been (it was calculating things as if you could reforge the gem's bad stat into something better). The bug shouldn't have affected the values of existing items unless you were using gems that are bad for your spec.

Version 2.9.3

Cataclysm Classic: Fixed a problem where the "track for each scale (advanced)" option could cause an error.
Cataclysm Classic: Pawn will no longer display a warning when logging in if you play in French.

Version 2.9.2

Cataclysm Classic: When visiting an Arcane Reforger, Pawn will now display advice on how to reforge the item to maximize its power. (You can turn this off with the "show reforge advisor" option.)
Cataclysm Classic: Pawn's Compare tab will now show you how much an item's score can be improved by reforging it (assuming you make the change that Pawn suggests).
Cataclysm Classic: Pawn will now take reforging into account when determining an item's score and whether or not it's an upgrade.

Version 2.9.1

Cataclysm Classic: Pawn will now recommend the proper gems based on the new colors and stats of existing gems.
Cataclysm Classic: Fixed a bug that caused a few stat weights to get reset to 0 when editing in the Weights tab and then reloading.
Cataclysm Classic: Added support for all of the new Cataclysm gems, which Pawn will start recommending as you get Cataclysm gear.
Fixed a bug that caused gems to always appear as upgrades.

Version 2.9.0

Cataclysm Classic: Added basic support for Cataclysm Classic. The following important work is not yet done:
Updated stat weights (if you know of a good source, please let me know!)
Reforging support
I'm not playing Classic, so I'll need your help pointing out remaining things that are broken!

Archived Files (3)

File Name	Version	Size	Author	Date
Pawn	2.9.9	728kB	VgerAN	06-10-24 10:40 AM
Pawn	2.9.8	727kB	VgerAN	06-08-24 07:46 PM
Pawn	2.9.7	727kB	VgerAN	06-06-24 02:16 PM

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01-14-14, 07:20 PM
vikkyne A Murloc Raider Forum posts: 4 File comments: 114 Uploads: 0	I'd like it if we had the option to consider things in on our character and/or bags only, and exclude the bank. This would enable us to rate gear without heirlooms screwing everything thing up (because while leveling they are almost always the best gear). And it would give us a place to store other gear that we might not want to have considered.

11-21-13, 11:37 AM

VgerAN

A Cyclonian

Forum posts: 40

File comments: 253

Uploads: 6

Originally Posted by luckton

Is there a way to turn off item level consideration in the calculations?

Item level is shown on the Compare tab if the two items have different item levels, but it's never taken into account when calculating anything.

11-21-13, 08:17 AM
luckton A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 5 Uploads: 0	Is there a way to turn off item level consideration in the calculations?

08-05-13, 05:20 PM
VgerAN A Cyclonian Forum posts: 40 File comments: 253 Uploads: 6	Did you try to install updates to addons and then just log out and back in or do a /reload? You need to close WoW and restart it so that WoW will pick up all of the latest files.

08-05-13, 02:31 PM

Khisanth

A Deviate Faerie Dragon

Forum posts: 13

File comments: 35

Uploads: 0

Hi,
Got this error when I log a new toon or now every 30 seconds with a fresh 90

Message: Interface\AddOns\Pawn\Pawn.lua:1075: attempt to index global 'PawnWrathionUpgradeableItems' (a nil value)
Time: 08/05/13 22:30:09
Count: 12
Stack: [C]: ?
Interface\AddOns\Pawn\Pawn.lua:1075: in function <Interface\AddOns\Pawn\Pawn.lua:970>
(tail call): ?
Interface\AddOns\Pawn\Pawn.lua:1258: in function `PawnUpdateTooltip'
Interface\AddOns\Pawn\Pawn.lua:226: in function <Interface\AddOns\Pawn\Pawn.lua:226>
[C]: in function `Outfitter_OrigSetBagItem'
Interface\AddOns\Outfitter\Outfitter.lua:7906: in function `SetBagItem'
Interface\FrameXML\ContainerFrame.lua:815: in function `ContainerFrameItemButton_OnEnter'
[string "*:OnEnter"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnEnter"]:1>

Locals:

07-31-13, 02:00 AM

Worcester

A Deviate Faerie Dragon

Forum posts: 13

File comments: 91

Uploads: 0

Originally Posted by VgerAN

What's the name of the tooltip cleaner addon you use? I'll look into it sometime when I'm feeling more ambitious than I am at the moment.

Thanks for letting me know that deleting that SavedVariables file fixed things; I can suggest it to someone else in case they hit the same issue.

You're totally welcome! Thank you for the help!

I'm currently running ItemTooltipCleaner, and also ReforgeTooltip. In addition, Gearscore, Informant and idTip are running on at least some of my toons. I might disable all of those, since I don't think I check any of them. I admit I do run a ton of addons, probably mostly useless or cosmetic in nature.

Cheerio!

UPDATE: I disabled the tooltip addons and logged in. Pawn was still showing a usage of almost 4mb. If there's a memory leak/conflict with another addon, I'll have to keep looking.

__________________

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
--Alexandre Dumas

Last edited by Worcester : 08-07-13 at 03:25 PM.

07-27-13, 09:01 PM
VgerAN A Cyclonian Forum posts: 40 File comments: 253 Uploads: 6	What's the name of the tooltip cleaner addon you use? I'll look into it sometime when I'm feeling more ambitious than I am at the moment. Thanks for letting me know that deleting that SavedVariables file fixed things; I can suggest it to someone else in case they hit the same issue.

07-27-13, 07:31 PM

Worcester

A Deviate Faerie Dragon

Forum posts: 13

File comments: 91

Uploads: 0

Originally Posted by VgerAN

Thanks for the report. Over the months and years I've been trying to track down why that happens for some people with very little luck. For some reason some PCs load addons in a different order and I haven't been able to reproduce the problem myself so I don't have a way to work on it. You can try deleting this file:

World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\(account name)\(server)\(character)\SavedVariables\Pawn.lua

I don't really know why that would affect things but someone reported that it fixed the problem for them once. As far as memory usage goes, Pawn should take practically no memory, like 1-2 MB. Almost all of it is just saving some item stats and values in memory so that it works faster. The number might be a little higher right after you first log in, or temporarily after changing a scale or setting, if Pawn needs to recalculate things. If you want to see the "real" usage without waiting, you can run "/script collectgarbage()" and then check memory usage again. If you're seeing something higher than like 2-3 MB after running that command to clean up unused memory, something unusual is going on.

Clearing out the Saved Variable file definitely fixed the error. The scales seem a bit weird right now, but I'll double check to make sure I didn't mess something up. Currently Blood shows much higher than all other specs. Sometimes the others are set at 1 and Blood shows more than 150. Seems like an odd calculation, but I'm not very familiar with the class.

It's still showing 3.3-3.5 for the memory usage, even after the dump. Not sure what other addons might be interacting with it, although I do run a "tooltip cleaner" add-on to simplify the tooltips. That could be it.

Thanks for the help!

__________________

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
--Alexandre Dumas

07-17-13, 02:14 PM
VgerAN A Cyclonian Forum posts: 40 File comments: 253 Uploads: 6	Thanks for the report. Over the months and years I've been trying to track down why that happens for some people with very little luck. For some reason some PCs load addons in a different order and I haven't been able to reproduce the problem myself so I don't have a way to work on it. You can try deleting this file: World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\(account name)\(server)\(character)\SavedVariables\Pawn.lua I don't really know why that would affect things but someone reported that it fixed the problem for them once. As far as memory usage goes, Pawn should take practically no memory, like 1-2 MB. Almost all of it is just saving some item stats and values in memory so that it works faster. The number might be a little higher right after you first log in, or temporarily after changing a scale or setting, if Pawn needs to recalculate things. If you want to see the "real" usage without waiting, you can run "/script collectgarbage()" and then check memory usage again. If you're seeing something higher than like 2-3 MB after running that command to clean up unused memory, something unusual is going on.

07-17-13, 12:57 AM
Worcester A Deviate Faerie Dragon Forum posts: 13 File comments: 91 Uploads: 0	Error spam: Missing scales & options Hey there... Trouble with Pawn on my DK. When I mouseover an item, I get tons of spam in chat to the effect of... ERROR: The per-character options for (character name-realm) are missing. The Pawn scale values for (spec) are missing. I'm only using the wowhead scales. Also things seem to be working well on my rogue. I think other classes too. The scales do show up in the tooltip, but they're in the tens-of-thousands. Looks weird. Let me know if I can give any more detail. Thanks for keeping the addon up to date! Oh, and Pawn seems to be a bit of a memory hog. Anything I can do to reduce it's usage? Thanks again! __________________ I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest. --Alexandre Dumas Last edited by Worcester : 07-17-13 at 01:08 AM.

06-02-13, 04:14 AM

Dridzt

A Pyroguard Emberseer

Forum posts: 1362

File comments: 831

Uploads: 59

Originally Posted by VgerAN

Hi! Thanks for the report. Unfortunately those "tainted execution path" errors are misreported sometimes. I see new reports on Altoholic (http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/altoholic) and Auctionator (http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/auctionator?page=2) with the same issue for JoinBattleground. It doesn't look like you use either of those addons; do any of the addons you use interact with PVP/battlegrounds or maybe track when you queue?

This post and following to the end of that thread (you can ignore the posts above it) describes the issue and possible workarounds.

Unfortunately it's another problem with dropdown menus in the long string of taint issues over the years.

04-24-13, 08:41 PM
VgerAN A Cyclonian Forum posts: 40 File comments: 253 Uploads: 6	Hi! Thanks for the report. Unfortunately those "tainted execution path" errors are misreported sometimes. I see new reports on Altoholic (http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/altoholic) and Auctionator (http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/auctionator?page=2) with the same issue for JoinBattleground. It doesn't look like you use either of those addons; do any of the addons you use interact with PVP/battlegrounds or maybe track when you queue?

04-24-13, 07:11 PM

Mortarius

Premium Member

Forum posts: 21

File comments: 10

Uploads: 0

Error

Hello,
Just wanted to share that I receive an error randomly when I click to join a battleground.

This is the error I receive:

Code:

Date: 2013-04-24 21:08:11
ID: 1
Error occured in: AddOn: Pawn
Count: 1
Message: Error: AddOn Pawn attempted to call a forbidden function (JoinBattlefield()) from a tainted execution path.
Debug:
   [C]: JoinBattlefield()
   Blizzard_PVPUI\Blizzard_PVPUI.lua:469: HonorFrame_Queue()
   [string "*:OnClick"]:2:
      [string "*:OnClick"]:1
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Last edited by Mortarius : 04-24-13 at 07:12 PM.

02-18-13, 06:25 PM
VgerAN A Cyclonian Forum posts: 40 File comments: 253 Uploads: 6	Hi! Shift-click the mage scales (or click them and then uncheck "show this scale in tooltips" at the bottom of the list) to get rid of them. If you only care about one or two monk specs you can get rid of those the same way.

02-16-13, 06:58 AM
natassja72 A Wyrmkin Dreamwalker Forum posts: 59 File comments: 73 Uploads: 0	Pawn shows mage values for my monk. @VgerAN - Thanks! I was blind not to notice the checkbox at the bottom and "Show scale in tooltip". I looked all over inside options tabs and not at the main screen That was a great tip, I already removed unneeded scales from my other characters as well, which I had no idea that it was doable untill now.. ---- Hi, my monk is 30 atm and at some point I've noticed that Pawn shows values for all 3 Mage specs in tooltip along with Monk specs. I've searched options and I can't see way to detach mage scales from tooltip. Here's what it looks like. And just in case you might wonder, the character IS a monk, not mage Last edited by natassja72 : 03-04-13 at 05:45 AM.

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