Pawn

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 100 mastery or the one with 80 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. If you're a huge nerd you can also find Pawn on GitHub.

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.

Hello bag addon authors!

Unfortunately in 9.0, replacing IsContainerItemAnUpgrade can cause taint errors, leading to (for example) being unable to swap weapons using the character sheet during combat lockdown. That's how Pawn used to let your addon know whether it should show upgrade arrows. But as of Pawn 2.4.2, Pawn supplies PawnIsContainerItemAnUpgrade instead of replacing the built-in version. To get Pawn suggestions working again with your bag addon, just use PawnIsContainerItemAnUpgrade whenever it's non-nil, and IsContainerItemAnUpgrade otherwise.

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