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Pawn

Version: 2.9.6

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 2.9.6

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 (2)

File Name	Version	Size	Author	Date
Pawn	2.9.5	725kB	VgerAN	05-29-24 11:25 PM
Pawn	2.9.3	724kB	VgerAN	05-13-24 09:23 PM

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11-30-11, 03:41 PM
VgerAN A Cyclonian Forum posts: 40 File comments: 253 Uploads: 6	Yeah, I removed those a couple versions ago when you're on 4.3 realms, and entirely in the latest version since 4.3 is live. This information is available on your character sheet now, even without Pawn. The "epic gear level" number isn't really relevant anymore I think because Blizzard seems to treat item rarity different than they used to. (In Wrath, blue 200s and epic 200s both existed, and the epic 200s were definitely stronger, and contributed more toward vehicle scaling in Wintergrasp and Ulduar. In Cataclysm there are no epic 346s or blue 353s; there seems to just be the one item level number. It's nicer and simpler.)

11-30-11, 04:08 AM
menace97 Premium Member Forum posts: 4 File comments: 101 Uploads: 0	new version of pawn i don't see 'average item level' or 'epic gear level' when hovering over the pawn icon on the character screen. were these removed?

10-14-11, 01:51 PM
VgerAN A Cyclonian Forum posts: 40 File comments: 253 Uploads: 6	Current is as the item currently is (after gems, enchantments, enchantment-like things such as armor kits, and reforging). Base is after the item has been modified using the suggestions from Pawn's advisors (so using the "proper" gems and reforging, but without any enchantments). Base is the one you want to pay attention to most of the time at endgame; the current value is only useful in a few specific cases, like to determine whether you want to upgrade to a new item right away before it's gemmed or reforged.

10-13-11, 09:00 PM
menace97 Premium Member Forum posts: 4 File comments: 101 Uploads: 0	"show both current and base values" so base would be without gems or enchantments, right? i just noticed that gear with armor kits applied don't get recognized as having a base level that is less because of the armor kit. love the addon! i have been using it for so long, thank you for all your hard work!

06-27-11, 04:50 PM
VgerAN A Cyclonian Forum posts: 40 File comments: 253 Uploads: 6	Yeah, someone (maybe you :-P) suggested Ask Mr. Robot scales too. I should really get around to checking them out. Maybe during one of the graveyard runs in my first Firelands fail-raid... One thing I could easily do is make the window that pops up when you click Copy on a scale start with the existing scale's name pre-selected. That would make it easier to make a bunch of similar scales.

06-24-11, 11:36 AM

elaundar

A Kobold Labourer

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Originally posted by VgerAN
No, there's no way to sort them any other way than alphabetically right now.

The trick I use is to number my scales or use something like P-D1 (paladin dps scale 1). I can manually re-order them by changing that value.

06-24-11, 11:27 AM
elaundar A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 24 Uploads: 0	Still loving the mod VgerAN! As a suggestion for the scales, could you consider importing the askmrrobot.com scales? I've found those scales are much better than the default ones and tend to be updated much quicker (for many classes/specs at least). On a related note, I've found the best way to handle stat caps is to just create several scales for the caps. For example, You want to be exactly at 8% hit and 26 expertise. After reforging and gemming, you can get to that exact point, but when evaluating gear you really need to make an informed decision on both sides. The tool tips get long, but I have found adding multiple scales to be ideal. For example, my paladin has the following scales (from the askmrrobot scale): ( Pawn: v1: "P-D1 4.1 Hit<8 Exp<6.5 ": HitRating=1.55, ExpertiseRating=1.30, MasteryRating=1.13, Strength=2.33, Ap=1, CritRating=0.98, HasteRating=0.79, Speed=18.848, Dps=9 ) ( Pawn: v1: "P-D1 4.1 Hit<8 Exp>6.5 ": HitRating=1.55, ExpertiseRating=0.00, MasteryRating=1.13, Strength=2.33, Ap=1, CritRating=0.98, HasteRating=0.79, Speed=18.848, Dps=9 ) ( Pawn: v1: "P-D2 4.1 Hit<17 Exp<6.5 ": HitRating=0.22, ExpertiseRating=1.30, MasteryRating=1.13, Strength=2.33, Ap=1, CritRating=0.98, HasteRating=0.79, Speed=18.848, Dps=9 ) ( Pawn: v1: "P-D3 4.1 Hit>17 Exp<6.5 ": HitRating=0.00, ExpertiseRating=1.30, MasteryRating=1.13, Strength=2.33, Ap=1, CritRating=0.98, HasteRating=0.79, Speed=18.848, Dps=9 ) ( Pawn: v1: "P-D4 4.1 Hit<17 Exp>6.5 ": HitRating=0.22, ExpertiseRating=0.00, MasteryRating=1.13, Strength=2.33, Ap=1, CritRating=0.98, HasteRating=0.79, Speed=18.848, Dps=9 ) ( Pawn: v1: "P-D5 4.1 Hit>17 Exp>6.5 ": HitRating=0.00, ExpertiseRating=0.00, MasteryRating=1.13, Strength=2.33, Ap=1, CritRating=0.98, HasteRating=0.79, Speed=18.848, Dps=9 ) It would be awesome to auto-generate these scales (I know it is an often requested feature, but maybe a quick way would be to just have quick clone button similar to copy that would append the various levels cap<x text).

06-10-11, 11:29 AM
VgerAN A Cyclonian Forum posts: 40 File comments: 253 Uploads: 6	Yeah, you'll either need to disable skinning, or if you don't care about Pawn's suggestions, its feelings will not be hurt if you uncheck the option for the socketing advisor on Pawn's options tab.

06-08-11, 11:50 PM
Petrah A Pyroguard Emberseer Forum posts: 2988 File comments: 334 Uploads: 10	I think this may be a skinning issue with ElvUI, but I'm not entirely sure.. thought I would ask though just in case. The Pawn advice window covers up the socketing button. Is there anything you can do, or do I need to just disable the skinning for this window? If I need to disable the skinning for that window, it's cool as I can live with it. __________________ ♪～ (￣。￣ ) I ♥ My Sonos! AddOn Authors: If your addon spams the chat box with "Addon v8.3.4.5.3 now loaded!", please add an option to disable it!

05-04-11, 03:46 PM
VgerAN A Cyclonian Forum posts: 40 File comments: 253 Uploads: 6	No, there's no way to sort them any other way than alphabetically right now.

05-04-11, 10:43 AM
Mars85 A Deviate Faerie Dragon Forum posts: 15 File comments: 65 Uploads: 1	Is it possible to sort default (Wowhead) scales? I'm mainly a shadow and want it above the healing-weight (discipline). (I don't want to copy them because then they won't update with Pawn update, and default ones can't be renamed) Last edited by Mars85 : 05-04-11 at 10:44 AM.

03-25-11, 02:20 AM
VgerAN A Cyclonian Forum posts: 40 File comments: 253 Uploads: 6	Caps in stat weights are a common request, and a long-term goal. There are other features that I need to build before I can make that happen.

03-23-11, 01:26 PM
SpecOpsBear A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 3 Uploads: 0	Not sure if this has been mentioned already, but I'm getting reforge advisories for stats that are already capped at my level. Is it possible for introduce capped weights for stats into the add-on?

03-21-11, 06:27 PM
TrotskyIcepick A Warpwood Thunder Caller Forum posts: 92 File comments: 14 Uploads: 0	Hi VGerAN, I think you may have hit the nail on the head, my guess is that any gear with +int and +spirit that is shown as an upgrade is for the resto scale since I haven't turned any scales off as yet, will give your suggestion a try. TBH, most of the theorycraft stuff I see on EJ, shadowpanther and the like just confuses me at the moment having not spent much time thinking about it. But thanks again and well done on what I think will soon become one of my most important addons.

03-21-11, 04:09 PM
VgerAN A Cyclonian Forum posts: 40 File comments: 253 Uploads: 6	It's definitely geared toward level 85 players, but I've used it while leveling and it's worked out pretty well for me. In particular the stat weights given are definitely for level 85 players. One thing that comes to mind is that Pawn will track upgrades for all of your scales that are active. If you have all of the bear, kitty, resto, and balance scales visible, it'll show you upgrades for all of those sets. Maybe you're seeing upgrades for your balance and resto sets while you're questing as feral? If you're not actively maintaining gear for those sets, you can turn them off and you won't see upgrades for them anymore. Open up the Pawn window and shift-click on the scales you don't care about anymore. (You can always find them in the list and shift-click them again to get them back.) Does that help?

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