healer-man/docs/WOW_REMAINING_SOURCE_FOLLOWUP_2026-10-02.md

WoW Source-Blocker Follow-up

Date: 2026-10-02

Scope

Reviewed the current Vindication, Soul Leech, Nature's Guardian, and Static Shock blocker notes in docs/ACTIVE_CLASS_MECHANICS_BACKLOG.md, docs/WOW_SHAMAN_REMAINING_TALENT_AUDIT.md, docs/WOW_SHAMAN_NATURES_GUARDIAN.md, and docs/ROM_WARLOCK_REMAINING_CONFLICTS_AUDIT.md. The existing Area-52 patch-D and current patch-T DBC review and the exhausted website searches were not repeated.

The new local-source sweep covered source, addon, data, and documentation trees in F:\Projects\WoWee; the backed-up client add-ons in F:\Projects\WoW-Pvt-Server-Backups\wow335a; and spell scripts plus bounded SQL update directories in the AzerothCore snapshots under F:\Projects\WoW-Pvt-Server-Backups and F:\Projects\wow-pvt-server-backups-2.

Findings

• Paladin Vindication (talent 1633, rank 3 spell 209452): No sibling source connected either self-targeted DUMMY effect to an AP operation or a child spell. The backup MultiBotTalent.lua contains only stock Vindication ranks 9452 and 26016. The separate generated SLS row 209451 naming 200067 remains unlinked from 209452. Needed evidence: an Area-52 server/client binding from 209452 to the AP-changing effect and its exact amount or formula, including its rank and proc gate.
• Warlock Soul Leech (talent 1678): No sibling source connected custom rows 830297–830299 to rank spells 30293, 30295, or 30296. The AzerothCore spell_warlock.cpp implementation is the stock 3.3.5a Soul Leech path and does not bind these Area-52 helper IDs. Needed evidence: the custom rank-to-helper link and the event/consumption rule that applies the +30% critical chance after a physical hit during an eligible cast.
• Shaman Nature's Guardian (talent 1699): No sibling source supplies the Area-52 capstone heal formula. The generated rank text still describes only a “small amount” increased by healing power. The AzerothCore spell_shaman.cpp code handles stock spell 30881 and its stock health/threat behavior; it does not establish the custom tooltip's heal amount. Needed evidence: the custom heal's base amount and healing-power scaling formula, with its rank gate.
• Shaman Static Shock (talent 2055): No sibling source resolves the generated condition $?s973827[1 second][1.5 seconds] for rank spells 51525–51527. The AzerothCore spell_shaman.cpp handler is for stock 51525 and only dispatches the Lightning Shield hit and consumes a charge; it does not establish an Area-52 internal-cooldown rank mapping. Needed evidence: the custom condition-to-rank mapping specifying which ranks use each cooldown.

Source-role boundary

WoWee search hits were unrelated item-set references. The backed-up client add-on data describes stock 3.3.5a Vindication IDs. The server code is stock AzerothCore, not an Area-52 patch-D/current patch-T source. These findings are useful for excluding mismatched references, not for supplying Area-52 behavior. No mechanic in this follow-up has a new authoritative binding complete enough to implement.