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Blood Arrow scaling source audit — 2026-10-04

Result

The current Chronicles of Arcadia sources do not establish Blood Arrow's damage bonus at skill level 80. Keep the imported 10% modifier as the existing simulator value until current rank data or an explicit formula is available. Do not derive the cap-80 value from the published level-105 tooltip.

Current source evidence

• Current Scout/Rogue skill list identifies Scout General Blood Arrow as skill 490434. Its tooltip shows +105, says the skill's maximum level is 105, and reports a 104.5% ranged damage increase at that rank. It also describes the 2% HP ranged-attack cost and 10-second cooldown after deactivation.
• Current Knight/Scout skill list identifies Blood Arrow as the distinct skill 499924. Its +105 tooltip likewise reports 104.5% ranged damage and a maximum skill level of 105; it additionally reports 2% HP and 1% MP per offensive ranged-weapon skill, +5% Light Damage, and +15% received healing.

These current pages provide one numeric endpoint per identity: skill level 105. They expose no lower-rank points, rank table, progression formula, API payload, or raw current CoA source record. The game's level-80 character cap does not identify what Blood Arrow value belongs at that cap. One level-105 endpoint cannot establish a level-80 value or curve.

Local RuneWaker boundary

The checked-in src/game/romPlayerCatalog.generated.json maps the imported Scout General row 490434 to rom-scout-general-4. It contains one rank, learned at character level 12. Its source component 500871 has ability modifier type 52 (ranged-damage) with value 10. The row also retains the old 30-second duration and 3% per-second HP loss. The exporter scripts/runewaker-pipeline/export-player-catalog.mjs resolves these MagicCollect / MagicObject records from the local RuneWaker client snapshot. This is evidence for the legacy imported 10% value and its stale behavior, not a current CoA lower-rank curve.

Current verified pair mapping is owner-scoped in code: Scout/Rogue uses CoA source skill 490434; Knight/Scout uses CoA source skill 499924, which the local imported row represents as 490434. Other owners retain the local legacy import. Since no current CoA level-80 curve is available, this audit does not change the catalog's existing 10% ranged-damage modifier for any owner.

Evidence still needed

To replace the retained value safely, obtain at least one independently verifiable current CoA rank point at or below level 80 plus enough matching rank points or an explicit formula to determine the progression. The evidence must distinguish Scout/Rogue 490434 from Knight/Scout 499924, or explicitly show that their rank curves are shared. A current raw source/API record is preferred; historical RuneWaker data and the level-105 tooltip alone are insufficient.

The direct official /wiki/...?...locale=en skill-list URLs above resolve. The alternate /en/wiki/... path may fail and is not the citation used here.