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Warlock/Mage Soul Brand Sting (498710)

Source priority

• Current Chronicles of Arcadia Warlock/Mage skill list identifies Soul Brand Sting as Warlock/Mage skill 498710. It specifies a 2 Psi cost, range 150, 1-second cast, use only in Willpower Blade, 3737.5 + 1 × Intelligence Dark damage and Fire damage, and a Flaming Heart Strike cooldown reset.
• The same CoA list describes Willpower Sharpening 1494096 as entering Willpower Blade for 30 seconds upon reaching full Psi. RuneWaker's generated 497955 is named Willpower Blade and describes a related state, but the IDs and names differ; no explicit patch bridge linking them was found.
• CoA patch 11.1.1.4000 records the damage update to 3737 + 1 × Intelligence and Psi cost increase from 1 to 2. The current skill-list amount 3737.5 is used as the current value; the patch is historical confirmation of the mechanic and cost.
• CoA patch 12.1.0.5000 explicitly changes the Flaming Heart Strike reset to occur on cast instead of on hit. This patch clarifies current trigger timing.

The project backlog and audit do not currently list 498710. RuneWaker's generated row matches the exact skill ID, name, and Warlock/Mage pairing, but its local payload has no resource cost, a 22.5 range, and component damage derived from local DBC fields. Its tooltip describes Dark and Flame damage and resetting Flaming Heart Strike but omits the Willpower Blade requirement and CoA's quantified amount. The current CoA skill row is preferred for this exact identity/pair; the generated RuneWaker values remain source evidence and are not silently treated as equivalent.

Implemented behavior

src/game/romWarlockMageSoulBrandSting.ts makes the CoA pair identity and values explicit. romAbilityCatalog.ts applies the source's 2-Psi cost to both the parent ability and rank only for Warlock/Mage 498710, and the tooltip states the full sourced damage and state requirement. The local RuneWaker range 22.5 is preserved because no verified conversion relates it to CoA's 150.

Each sourced damage packet uses base 3737.5 and intellectCoefficient: 1; the shared damage scaler adds the attacking player's or generated companion's derived Intelligence. Dark maps to the simulator's Shadow school and Fire remains Fire. The class-specific cast gate requires an active aura tagged for the locally observable “Willpower Blade” state. It does not equate the different skill IDs: current CoA's Willpower Sharpening is 1494096, while the local RuneWaker aura source is 497955. On cast, the runtime resets Flaming Heart Strike, matching patch 12.1.0.5000. Focused tests cover exact pair/skill gating, player and companion state rejection/readiness, the derived Intelligence contribution, 2-Psi cost, tooltip, packets, cooldown reset, and nonmatching-class controls.

Remaining simulator and catalog limits

• CoA's range 150 has no verified unit conversion to RuneWaker's local 22.5, so the local range is retained. The CoA base-MP component is not on this skill; its 2-Psi cost is supported and applied.
• The state-name gate uses the active local generated aura because it exposes the “Willpower Blade” state; this is a simulator bridge to the sourced condition, not an assertion that local 497955 and current CoA 1494096 share an ID or implementation.
• Damage resolves one combined 3737.5 + 1×Int amount in each of the two available damage-school packets. The simulator has no composite Dark-plus-Fire packet type, so both packets remain distinct as the current CoA entry describes.
• Passive Soul Brand 498705 is documented separately in its feature note; this skill's cast does not trigger that passive unless its actual damage packet is Fire and the passive is learned.