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# CoA catalog promotion — October 3, 2026
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The active catalogs now use the pinned August 12 Vol'Jin talent capture and global
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BASE spell evidence. CoA remains **Needs Testing**. This completes the source and
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catalog foundation for further class mechanic implementation.
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## Source selection and offline reuse
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The builder capture comes from `srhinos/coa-datamine` revision
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`5078f9ac22541c45c17a866c23aac6c12073de23`. CoA spell/class evidence uses the paired
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local client extraction's global `patch-T` Spell, `patch-M` class metadata, and
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`patch-S` supporting tables. Classic Ascension data retains its original Area 52
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records, including linked spell payloads. Separate accessors prevent shared IDs
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from crossing those scopes.
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The archive supplements your extraction rather than replacing it. Its supporting
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tables match the local copies. Eleven missing August node spell IDs were found
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in the archive's global patch-T table. The selective download cached 26 compressed
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raw shards (4,650,843 bytes) and selected 48 records including class-only references
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and linked payloads. Forty-one records supplement missing local global rows.
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It retains all raw columns and inferred types, with pinned metadata and checksums.
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No full client archive or repeated Exiles crawl is needed.
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`npm run coa:reference:promote` reads verified local caches. Promotion and historical
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reference rebuilds produced identical bytes with network access disabled. The
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lossless July baseline remains tracked separately for comparison.
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## Active catalog changes
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- 21 classes, 91 playable tabs, and 3,618 nodes: six added, 436 changed, none removed.
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- 701 ability entries and 2,917 talent entries, with 3,933 node-rank references.
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- Resolved 174 encoded description fields from the original builder capture.
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- Regenerated all 21 CoA runtime and talent UI shards. Non-CoA talent runtime
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records and UI shards are unchanged.
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- The runtime catalog has 1,276 ability families, 3,395 ranks, 3,348 distinct
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rank spell IDs, and 578 hidden triggered payloads. Sourced starter spells
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include class-catalog-only references such as Rejuvenating Venom.
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- Exported six missing icons from local BLPs, with zero placeholder fallbacks.
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- Preserved all 1,822 progression-chain identities, 1,266 classic chains, 7,268
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protected classic spell records, and the outputs of all 612 classic abilities.
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The six added nodes are Mycelial Healing, Devourer, Dark Channeler, Crusher,
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Houndmaster's Whistle, and Skewer. Full before/after evidence and coverage gaps
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are in `data/coa-reference/promotion-report.json`.
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## Saved builds and remaining work
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Saved CoA node keys remain resolvable under their original class. Saved ranks
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clamp to the captured maximum. Source changes include Agonizing Burns 1→2, Timed
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Attacks 2→1, Cultist node 6274 2→1, and Advisor's Perfidy 2→1.
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Numeric IDs are not a guarantee of identical effects across source versions.
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August swaps the spell payloads of Agonizing Burns/Timed Attacks. It also swaps
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Dark Infusion/Darkward between Cultist nodes 30036 and 6274, including a change
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of tree. Existing saves contain no CoA capture-version metadata, so this update
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does not attempt an ambiguous semantic migration. Affected builds need review.
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All August node ranks have global DBC evidence. Thirteen older progression ranks
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are absent from both selected global sources: 501862–501865, 501918–501920,
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501922–501925, 502889, and 560469. Their IDs are retained and gaps are reported.
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The wider catalog/context audit reports 224 missing BASE spell records and three
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source connection warnings. These are not filled from Area 52.
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Descriptions and client effects do not establish server-side proc timing,
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acquisition rules, or complete class behavior. Bespoke mechanics and targeted
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player/companion tests remain the next class-by-class phase.
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## Validation and browser evidence
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All 44 pipeline/cache/source-policy tests and 62 focused game tests pass. The
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focused tests verify source separation, classic preservation, saved-rank
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clamping, runtime shard loading, sourced spell semantics, and explicit source
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gaps. Ready-five checks pass (7 game tests and 20 Python checks); no all-class
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balance sweep was run. All 21 runtime shards match their generated snapshot.
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The negative DBC cast-time sentinel on Berserker Axe is retained in source
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evidence and clamped to an instant CoA runtime cast. Classic behavior is
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unchanged. A Tinker resource test was corrected to copy the matching maximum
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pools alongside the current pools; no production stats behavior was changed.
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With network requests blocked, fetch reuses the complete cache, promotion repeats
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identically, and historical build/audit/lookup succeed. The promoted candidate
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SHA-256 is `9208e973c43c31d263fb429f7ab82a2cc6732e2a70bc14f482b6428c9b296091`.
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The historical snapshot is
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`e86031775dfac7e336361087c50ca23a0a7a86c36a760c85803bee4bcdb89351`.
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The production build and release-bundle verification pass. A browser smoke check
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created the local offline `Coaaudit` Witch Hunter and opened its five talent tabs.
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Houndmaster's Whistle displays the new icon, full description, and prerequisite
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gate. No warning/error logs were captured. This checks presentation at level 1;
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it does not exercise unlocked combat mechanics.
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The optional local API server was absent during this offline preview. Development
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proxy policy/layout requests failed and offline defaults were used. Online roster
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and server policy synchronization were outside this check.
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Screenshot: `playtest-artifacts/coa-catalog-promotion/houndmaster-whistle.jpg`.
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See [the pipeline guide](COA_REFERENCE_PIPELINE.md) for repeatable commands.
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