Pawn: an Enhance User Guide

I'm all about user guides. Here's a quick-and-easy guide for using Pawn addon.

Wondering if that level 72 neck is better than the SSO neck? Or if you should replace the Belt of the Black Eagle with a level 80 green? Pawn will help you make those calls in a snap. It allows you to assign values to all possible attributes, then integrates those values into tooltips for your gear.

Start by downloading the addon here. Once installed open your character window and you should see the Pawn icon in the lower right-hand corner like this:

Click that button and you'll see this screen:


My screen shows Enhancement values already input. But starting out new you want to

1. Click New Empty button to create a new scale
2. Name the scale
3. Start entering the values according to your EP

Pretty simple really. Just click a stat in the left-hand window and it will pop up in the middle. For example below I clicked on Agility:

And entered 1.88 which updated the window automatically.

Keep changing your pawn values all the way down until you have everything in, then click Close and mouseover your gear. You should see a blue line of text in your tooltip that indicates the Pawn value for that particular item.

You can create multiple rating scales and each one will appear on its own line in the tooltip. For example if you want to collect healing gear then you can have a resto version with different Pawn values.

"Yes yes Stoney, this is all well and good, but where do I get the damn values in the first place?!"

Good question, voice-in-my-head. Here's the answer: from me. Actually your best bet is to run EnhSim to create your own customized EP values. But short of that you can cheat and use some I came up with a few weeks ago:

AP	1.00
Crit Rating	1.87
Hit Rating	2.53
Expertise Rating	3.02
Haste Rating	1.49
Armor Pen. Rating	1.40
Spellpower	0.48
Strength	1.00
Agility	1.79
Intelligence	1.17
MH DPS	6.80
OH DPS	4.13

Those values were optimized for WF/WF and right now I'm going WF/FT so I imagine the values will be a bit different. But for leveling it's not going to make that much of a difference.

If you have EP values you've calculated for leveling or for other builds please share with the rest of us.

Happy leveling!