Release Healer Man 0.1.44

PLAYTEST_NOTES.md

@@ -4,6 +4,24 @@ This file is the durable record of runtime behavior, regressions, and the
 evidence required before calling a visual bug fixed. Update it whenever scene,
 camera, input, physics, mob-rendering, or asset-loading code changes.
 
+## 2026-09-14 New-character PC bars and missing-spell borders
+
+- A temporary browser fixture used the real desktop bars, ability controls,
+  spellbook, combat store, and character UI activation with memory-only saves.
+  Fresh Priest and Mage profiles populated their PC bars automatically. The
+  Mage started with Frostbolt, Fire Blast, Frost Nova, and Arcane Intellect.
+- Clearing Lesser Heal gave its spellbook entry and ability-picker entry a
+  visible light blue border, including the icon border. Both computed border
+  colors were `rgb(146, 213, 255)`. Assigned and locked spells kept their usual
+  borders. Reassigning Lesser Heal removed the missing-spell border.
+- Switching to the fresh Mage and back retained the Priest's cleared slot.
+  Screenshots of both missing-spell menus were inspected during the playtest.
+  The temporary fixture was removed afterward.
+- Validation: 62 focused tests, TypeScript, production build including bundle
+  verification, and the release-candidate check passed. Full-game verification
+  was limited by a persistent opening-expedition loading screen in both local
+  development and production; menu visuals were verified in the fixture.
+
 ## 2026-09-14 Ability hover tooltips
 
 - Entered Stormwind Stockade with the existing offline level-17 Priest through
@@ -3312,3 +3330,53 @@ Vite's existing large-chunk advisory remains informational.
   an isolated production server and test database. Evidence is in
   `playtest-artifacts/boss-testing/results.json` and screenshots
   `01-main-menu.png` through `12-bottom-display-review.png`.
+
+### Boss Testing health correction
+
+- Testing rooms now use the boss's authored health at the scaled enemy level,
+  without the campaign durability floor or final-boss bonus. A lone testing
+  objective previously made every selected boss qualify as a campaign finale.
+  At character level 1 this produced a 10,987 HP minimum instead of Celebras
+  the Cursed's 575 HP from his level-2 native stats and authored multiplier.
+- Regression checks passed: 24 tests covering testing, campaign boss balance,
+  level scaling, asset preparation, and display snapshots. A full production
+  build passed its asset audits and release bundle validation.
+- Production Edge playtest confirmed a level-1 WoW Priest fighting a level-2
+  Celebras with 575 maximum health. The boss model and active mechanics were
+  visible, and readiness labels, reports, retries, victory review, random
+  selection, mobile layout, automatic downloads, and lower-display review
+  passed without uncaught errors. Victory still uses deterministic damage;
+  natural time to defeat was not measured.
+- Reproduce in PowerShell with `$env:BOSS_TEST_BOSS = 'Celebras the Cursed'`
+  followed by `node scripts/playtest-boss-testing.cjs`. Evidence is in
+  `playtest-artifacts/boss-testing-scaling/results.json` and paired screenshots.
+
+### Regular dungeon health correction
+
+- Regular dungeon scaling now selects the durability minimum using the
+  character's game. WoW uses an interpolated level curve, RoM uses 1.15 times
+  the expanded-class baseline, and CoA uses 1.75 times that baseline. These
+  independently calibrated floors keep every canonical class-role build above
+  the same 25-second ordinary and 45-second final-boss mechanic windows. Native
+  authored health can still exceed the floor. Final-boss and difficulty bonuses
+  remain part of campaign scaling. Boss Testing continues using scaled authored
+  health without a campaign minimum.
+- On Easy, a level-3 WoW Priest now encounters a level-4 Targorr the Dread with
+  1,300 HP in regular Stockades, compared with the prior shared 10,766 HP
+  minimum. The WoW final boss has a 2,340 HP minimum at that level; equivalent
+  RoM and CoA parties receive 7,074.8 and 10,766 HP ordinary-boss floors.
+- Level-3 WoW Priest simulations with three companion seeds cleared the opening
+  boss in 25.7-43.6 seconds and the final boss in 48.2-79.6 seconds. These timing
+  samples assume companions are in range and omit boss attacks; a separate
+  level-3 test verifies real boss attacks execute during the shortened fight.
+- Validation passed for all 271 application test files: 1,759 tests passed and
+  six were skipped. The shared balance cohort covers every WoW, RoM, and CoA
+  class-role build at levels 8, 20, 40, and 80 with three deterministic seeds.
+- The earlier production Edge capture recorded the intermediate 1,200 HP WoW
+  floor and is superseded by the final 1,300 HP calibration. The browser script
+  now checks the final value; a new live screenshot has not been recorded.
+- Reproduce with `node scripts/playtest-dungeon-health.cjs`. Browser evidence is
+  in `playtest-artifacts/dungeon-health-scaling/results.json` and
+  `stockades-level-three.png`. Run the scaling tests with `BOSS_BALANCE_REPORT=1`
+  to record companion timing samples in `artifacts/boss-difficulty/ragefire-balance.json`;
+  the all-class report is `artifacts/boss-difficulty/wow-rom-coa-balance.json`.