Validate RoM primary five hybrid stats and pair mechanics

docs/ROM_FIVE_VALIDATION.md

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 # RoM five class validation
 
-Status: **Needs Testing**. This is a targeted diagnostic for Priest healer, Knight tank, Scout DPS, Rogue DPS, and Mage DPS. Elite-skill mechanics remain outside this pass.
+Status: **Needs Testing**. This is a targeted diagnostic for Priest healer, Knight tank, Scout DPS, Rogue DPS, and Mage DPS. The accepted pair elite skills have focused source and runtime checks, with specific unresolved mechanics listed below.
 
 ## Cohort and rules
 
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 | DPS | Scout / Rogue | Caelan | Elf |
 | DPS | Mage / Warlock | Durnik | Dwarf |
 
-`src/game/romFiveIdentities.ts` owns these identities for the live NPC templates and targeted canonical builds. The manual party uses Priest as the active healer and the other four classes as companions. This explicit cohort does not change Ready-only random parties, bracket certification, or the companion readiness registry. Elite skills can appear in a paired kit through the existing RoM catalog, but their mechanics have not yet been validated for this cohort.
+`src/game/romFiveIdentities.ts` owns these identities for the live NPC templates and targeted canonical builds. The manual party uses Priest as the active healer and the other four classes as companions. This explicit cohort does not change Ready-only random parties, bracket certification, or the companion readiness registry. Elite skills can appear in a paired kit through the existing RoM catalog; focused checks now cover their translated effects, selected live casts, and source-conditional procs.
 
-`npm run test:rom-five` checks the named pairings, legal races, level-10 unlock, role-specific hybrid heirloom layouts and level growth, ordinary ability coverage, and focused runtime mechanics. Knight is a tank seat in RoM generated parties. The five loadouts use Knight mace/shield, Priest mace/shield, Scout dagger/bow, Rogue dual daggers, and Mage staff. Their equipment uses WoW combat stats while RoM skills and class-pair mechanics remain distinct.
+`npm run test:rom-five` checks the named pairings, legal races, level-10 unlock, role-specific hybrid heirloom layouts and level growth, ordinary and pair-elite ability coverage, and focused runtime mechanics. Knight is a tank seat in RoM generated parties. The five loadouts use Knight mace/shield, Priest mace/shield, Scout dagger/bow, Rogue dual daggers, and Mage staff. Their equipment uses the same level budget and WoW-shaped fields as the WoW heirlooms, allocated by RoM role. `src/game/wotlkStats.ts` gives these five WoW-equivalent base attribute, HP, and Mana curves with a 10% same-level secondary contribution from level 10. Other RoM classes retain native growth. Mage/Warlock is a RoM dwarf with the Human Mage Wrath curve as its base reference because Dwarf Mage has no Wrath 3.3.5 row.
 
 ## Findings and fixes in this pass
 
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 - Priest Regenerate has one heal-over-time effect. Holy Candle and Scout Blood Arrow drain the caster's HP on their periodic ticks. Mage Flame and Fireball execute one hit, Meteor Shower five, and Thunderstorm three. Source helper summons and zero-damage effects no longer create extra combat actions for these skills.
 - Scout Lasso, Rogue Numbing Dagger, and Mage Static Field apply one break-on-damage control effect to one target at a time. Scout Joint Blow only slows; Mage Discharge applies its stun without unrelated control effects. Knight Shield of Discipline absorbs the documented damage types and reflects a spell hit after the caster is struck, not on cast. Shield-dependent Knight skills require an equipped shield.
 
+## Accepted pair skill checks
+
+`src/game/romPriestKnightOverrides.ts`, `src/game/romScoutRogueOverrides.ts`, and `src/game/romMageWarlockOverrides.ts` specialize the five accepted pairs from source components. `src/game/romCombatMechanics.ts` selects their conditional cast effects; `src/game/combatStore.ts` handles proc actions, damage schools, conditional cooldowns, line and chain targeting, and timed effects. `src/game/partyRuntime.ts` installs learned NPC passive auras on their first cast and passes passive and target tags into the shared selector. The three pair validation files are part of `npm run test:rom-five`; the focused run passed 196 tests across ten files on 2026-09-23. These include direct healing, area healing and damage, taunts, resource changes, offensive and defensive auras, crowd control, and source-conditional skill checks. Pure effect tests are evidence for translation and selection, not proof that every NPC cast and encounter timing is correct.
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+Remaining source and runtime gaps:
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+1. Source replacement skills referenced by several level-60/70 elites are absent from the playable generated catalog: Priest/Knight `499967`/`499966`, Knight/Scout `499925`/`499924`/`499910`, and Scout/Rogue or Rogue/Warrior `499535`/`499537`/`499477`/`499481`. Toxic Splash and Poison Battle Technique cannot execute their replacement-skill proc payloads yet. Several known magnitudes and chances use explicitly tagged hybrid estimates.
+2. NPC passive tags now feed shared conditional casts. Player-side Poisonous Spit has a live proc test; companion proc execution and cooldown/resource side effects still need focused end-to-end coverage. This matters for paired NPCs even when the player-side tests pass.
+3. Holy Chains and Evil Shackles need creature-family data for their Undead/Demon rule. Numbing Dagger also needs living/Humanoid target classification and projectile inventory consumption. Poisonous Spit currently recognizes a Poisonous aura as a stand-in for carrying Poison Powder; an actual Powder inventory item is not modeled. Knight/Scout bow-specific effects need a legal ranged loadout; the current Knight heirloom uses mace/shield. Rogue/Warrior One-Hand Axe Mastery cannot benefit the current dual-dagger layout.
+4. Mage/Warlock damage remains low relative to Scout and Rogue. Check its AI rotation, cast cadence, and WoW-equivalent scaling before adjusting encounter tuning or promoting RoM.
+
 ## Combat diagnostic
 
 The following historical runs predate secondary-class assignment. They used `scripts/balance_lab.py` with `--source rom --party-mode manual`, exactly the five canonical build IDs for that level, and 180-second fights. Reports are under `artifacts/balance-lab/rom-five-primary-*`.
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 4. Validate Priest throughput against encounters that actually demand sustained healing, and run RoM NPC seat tests after the mechanics above are resolved. The current manual run leaves Priest player-controlled.
 5. Verify both Rogue daggers visually from an unobstructed angle. The live roster and dungeon screenshots in `artifacts/playtest/rom-five/` confirm rendered bodies and weapon silhouettes, but the off-hand dagger is unclear at their camera angles. Keep RoM entries at Needs Testing until the full class mechanics and role checks pass.
 
-The RoM source catalog and generated data remain authoritative for ability descriptions and components. The recorded combat results cover primary-only builds; rerun targeted diagnostics before drawing conclusions about the new pairings. Elite skill validation is deferred.
+The RoM source catalog and generated data remain authoritative for ability descriptions and components. The older `rom-five-primary-*` results predate paired builds. The later `rom-hybrid-*` and `rom-hybrid-wowbase-*` manual reports contain the named secondary classes even though the report's specialization column reads "Primary" for the primary orientation.
 
 The chosen gameplay model uses a WoW-stat hybrid instead of requiring native RoM equipment conversion for Ready promotion. `docs/ROM_STATS_AND_GEARING.md` records the source coefficients, active hybrid rules, remaining balance risks, and the players-only RoM online group boundary. Initial three-seed Shadoj screens at levels 20, 60, and 79 defeated the boss without a wipe, but Mage damage was far below the other two DPS builds and the Priest died once in each level-79 run. Those one-encounter results do not establish balance. Leveling bosses award cards but no items. `docs/ROM_LEVELING_GEAR_PACKAGES.md` records the source-confirmed package families; exact historical contents remain unverified and would need a WoW-stat translation before grant.
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+After the WoW-equivalent base change, one-seed manual Shadoj screens at levels 20, 60, and 79 defeated the boss with zero deaths. At level 60, Mage dealt about 185 DPS versus Scout 971 and Rogue 1,026; at level 79 the corresponding values were about 242, 1,418, and 1,538. Reports are under `artifacts/balance-lab/rom-hybrid-wowbase-l20-shadoj`, `rom-hybrid-wowbase-l60-shadoj`, and `rom-hybrid-wowbase-l79-shadoj`. These narrow screens do not certify class or dungeon balance.