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!

Pawn Values for Enhancement

Pawn. It's an add-on that allows you to assign weighted values for different stats (i.e., Strength or Haste or Hit Rating). It then multiplies each stat by the weighted value and sums it up for total score. This allows you to compare items according to your own customized scale. This scale for Enhancement Shamans is often referred to as "Enhancement Points" which is a spin on the mod that started this concept "Tank Points."

If you've ever wondered, is this piece better than what I've got now Pawn helps figure that out in-game.

With Unorthodox clearing deeper into BT I figured it was time to look at my gear choices and compare those to the loots we're seeing drop. Here are the values I plugged in for Stoney:

Stat	EP
Attack Power	1.00
Strength	2.20
Agility	1.50
Hit Rating	1.21
Crit Rating	1.54
Haste Rating	1.38
Armor Pen.	0.18
Expertise	3.37
Red Socket	22.00
Yellow Socket	18.69
Blue Socket	11.00
Meta Socket	25.00
MH DPS	9.03
OH DPS	3.70

Now keep in mind these are my own customized values built around our current progression level. That is, they are probably best suited for those of you at the T6 level.

Reapplying these values I took a hard look at my gear and made some significant changes. It all started when one of our raiders was on her Enhance Shaman alt and asked me why I was wearing the Shattered Sun Pendant of Resolve. My answer was that I wanted the extra hit and expertise, and that the stam didn't hurt for heavy damage boss encounters. This got me thinking... was this really the best use of my gearing options?

After applying the Enhancement Points and looking at my gear I realized I could get my +hit from other sources and use a better neck piece.

I ended up replacing Coif of the Jungle Stalker with Grimgrin Faceguard that keeps my AP and damage output up there while bringing in the hit I need to replace the tanking SSO neck. Next I replaced that neck with the Shattered Sun Pendant of Might. Just those two swaps ended up being a total gain of nearly 74 EP for me which should translate into slightly more damage over the long haul.

For those of you not at the T6 level or interested in reading more into this I recommend going to Elitist Jerks (of course) and getting their recommended scales. But in case you are too lazy to click... here they are for your enjoyment:

Stat	T4 EP	T5 EP	T6 EP	Sunwell
Attack Power	1	1	1	1
Strength	2.2	2.2	2.2	2.2
Agility	1.91	2	1.69	1.89
Crit Rating	1.97	2	1.74	1.94
Haste Rating	1.28	1.48	1.82	1.98
Hit Rating	1.34	1.4	1.69	1.8
Armor Penetration	0.22	0.28	0.35	0.41
Expertise Rating	3	3	3.18	3.53

* assumes you have Blessing of Kings

As you can see my personal EP values differ slightly which is the result of extensive modeling I did for myself on Yo's Simulator.

Good luck setting up your values. Post any questions you have about EP or gear and I'll be happy to help.