healer-man/docs/ROM_HEALING_PARTY_RANGED_FOLLOWUP_2026-10-04.md

# RoM healing, party selection and ranged follow-up (2026-10-04)

The owner approved four follow-ups to the Stockade continuation: Group Heal's
recipient radius, the active native-five party complement, recurring player
Auto Shot, and source verification of Blood Arrow's damage curve through the
level-80 cap. Independent GPT-6 Luna extra-high subprocesses implement and
audit the mechanics; the parent coordinates shared files, build and live QA.

## Current implementation and source boundary

Group Heal source 490281 already supplied an ability radius of 12 metres, but
its party-heal effect omitted that field and the shared resolver used its
30-metre fallback. The catalog now copies the sourced radius onto only that
spell's party-heal effect. Player and companion execution share the living,
distance and line-of-sight recipient rules. Other spells keep their existing
recipient contracts. See [the radius report](ROM_GROUP_HEAL_RADIUS_2026-10-04.md).

Party generation now receives the player's exact ordered RoM class pair from
ordinary entry and avatar preloading. If the other active identities can fill
the requested roles, generation excludes the player's identity. The full
five-person party therefore uses the other four canonical identities around
each supported player. Unsupported pairs and unfillable compositions keep the
prior role-pool fallback. Actor stat rulesets and readiness remain independent.
See [the selection report](ROM_NATIVE_PARTY_SELECTION_2026-10-04.md).

Scout/Rogue player Auto Shot now uses learned primary skill 492589 through
ordinary ability bindings. Its independent timer produces recurring ranged
Physical attacks at 80% ranged weapon DPS. Supported native actors use the
source ranged damage and interval; unsupported/custom gear falls back to the
resolved item's shared DPS and speed. The existing automatic Training Gear
bow is valid with an empty inventory; compatible assigned gear overrides it
and unequipping that gear restores the training bow. Haste is resolved once in
both stat modes. The active mode suppresses melee/off-hand swings, follows
target selection, can always be stopped and clears on target loss, missing resolved gear,
death and reset. Owned Blood Arrow charges its 2% maximum-HP cost once per
committed shot attempt and skips unaffordable attempts. The source does not
quantify its contribution from the last offensive skill; that bonus remains
omitted. Local range and other runtime constraints are documented in
[the Auto Shot report](ROM_PLAYER_RANGED_AUTOSHOT_2026-10-04.md).

The Blood Arrow audit has not established a current skill-rank formula through
80. Current Scout/Rogue and Knight/Scout pages each publish only the maximum
skill-rank-105 value of +104.5%; that single point does not establish rank 80.
The local RuneWaker snapshot supplies one historical +10% component. Retain
the current 10% approximation until additional matching source evidence is
available. See [the source audit](ROM_BLOOD_ARROW_SCALING_2026-10-04.md).

## Validation and evidence

The final seven-file mechanic regression selection passes 96 checks: Auto
Shot 13, native auto attacks 5, Blood Arrow/Blood Punishment integration 15,
Group Heal radius 3, party selection 32, Blood Arrow evidence boundary 1 and
catalog semantics 27. Ready-five passes seven Vitest and twenty Python checks,
for 103 distinct Vitest and twenty Python checks in the required selection.
The shared production build passes TypeScript/Vite, prebuild asset audits,
static compression and release-bundle verification. Its frozen entry is
`index-CLGdfcYj.js` for the initial probe. The initial live run exposed an
explicit-assignment-only guard that rejected the automatically supplied bow.
The authoritative resolved-loadout correction now passes its fresh-profile
and custom-item fallback checks. The replacement production build passes all
hooks with entry `index-Cvmh-YKE.js`; its recursive 123-JavaScript manifest
SHA-256 is `ed3cb65752426810c84be15184306114fdf36d3804a23f917213fc854f4651d4`.
Bounded full Stormwind Stockade run `20261005-042203897` passes its three
required live criteria in 61.051 seconds on that unchanged freeze. Both
normally generated parties are the player's exact four-identity native-stat
complement. Normal Attack order supplies natural injuries; a completed player
Group Heal gives Caelan 92 effective HP. Its full-health self event is entirely
overheal. Two sourced Auto Shot Physical hits deal 37 effective damage each,
2,612 ms apart. Normal stop input clears the mode and produces no Auto Shot
hit during the observed stop window. The captured restart is not attempted
after target death, so restart remains inconclusive live. The focused recurring
test verifies stop-window silence/no cost, reactivation without an immediate
or catch-up hit, and a fresh full-interval deadline followed by one shot.

Blood Arrow is already owned and active at the Scout entry. Its raw HP windows
overlap combat and recovery; exact HP-only cost is integration-test evidence,
not inferred from aggregate live deltas. NPC recipient position is unavailable
in the Group Heal snapshot, so the 12 m boundary remains deterministic test
proof. Actual screenshots show loaded bodies, equipped silhouettes and HUD,
with doorway/party overlap and camera occlusion. There are no page or asset
HTTP errors; the console records a favicon 404. Raw JSON and images are in
`playtest-artifacts/rom-healing-ranged-stockade/20261005-042203897/` and details
are in [the live report](ROM_HEALING_RANGED_STOCKADE_PLAYTEST_2026-10-04.md).

Initial run `20261005-040846797` preserves the fixture name-casing failure.
Run `20261005-040932648` preserves the rejected automatic bow and unengaged
Defend/selection-only encounter. Neither is relabeled as successful. This
follow-up proves bounded mechanics, not another full clear or balance pass.
Supplemental same-build run `20261005-042845955` passes the same criteria in
61.658 seconds: Caelan again receives 92 effective Group Heal HP and two
Physical Auto Shot hits deal 36 each. Normal Stop party order preserves the
target briefly, then Auto Shot cancellation clears its state with no shot in
the observed stop window. The target still dies before restart; the original
Defend order is restored. Root also inspects that run's stopped-party and
cancel/restart screenshots. No further live run is required for this scope.

A supplemental generic `combatStore.test.ts` run passes 110 of 111 checks and
reports a Chronomancer resource expectation mismatch (414 expected, 369
observed). The same exact test fails with committed HEAD versions of the
changed production modules, so this mismatch predates the follow-up. The
[baseline replay report](../artifacts/rom-healing-ranged-baseline/README.md)
records its source-only scope and both logs. It is not hidden inside the
passing required selection.

Final validation also passes the standalone TypeScript check after the new
restart assertions, using the project's 8 GB Node heap setting. A preceding
check with Node's smaller default heap exhausted memory. `npm run release:check`
passes for all 20 changed game paths, including untracked files. Exact EOF
newline/trailing-whitespace checks pass for 26 changed game and relevant vault
text files; both Git diffs are reviewed and the real index remains unstaged.

Earlier Stockade full-clear and Vow captures remain evidence for their recorded
builds. They do not verify this new code. New live checks use ordinary entry,
bindings, movement and casts, with read-only runtime telemetry. Any isolated
level-30 profile preparation must be identified in the live report.

The baseline is clean game commit `6114a229`; pre-existing vault changes are
preserved. This task does not add loot or ammunition, raise the level cap,
promote a Needs Testing build, commit or deploy.