Canaway
Funny you ask I did this before I took my dinner break. this is a long read but infor in there to be gleaned and looked at.
Analyzed combat log patterns and mob attack mechanics
Analyzed combat log patterns and mob attack mechanics
This confirms something important right away — even bare fists use the "punch" verb, which tells us "punch" was never Hadir's-specific; it's just the generic unarmed/H2H verb. Let's process this properly.
Calibrated weapon damage ratings through cross-validation methods
Calibrated weapon damage ratings through cross-validation methods
Results: Bare Fists (No Weapon), 175 STR/52 DEX, Sun Style
DPS: 45.91 (773.5s clean duration, 11 of 13 rows survived strict cleaning)
Analyzed combat metrics and reconciled damage calculations
Analyzed combat metrics and reconciled damage calculations
Major finding: this both validates old estimates AND corrects a long-standing assumption
Bare fist damage rating: 19.09 — remarkably close to our very old inferred estimate (19.5) from early in this project. Good validation that our reverse-engineering methodology has been sound all along.
Bare fist delay: 3.58-3.92s (avg 3.75s, cross-calibrated two independent ways — Mother's Sorrow and Savage Club, both agreeing closely with each other this time).
But here's the big one — this reveals the "+3/+3" enhancement assumption we've used for months was likely wrong:
Bare Fist (measured) Hadir's (established) Implied Enhancement
Damage rating 19.09 23.4 +4.31 (not +3)
Delay 3.75s 4.3s (center estimate) +0.55s (not +0.3s)
This is a real, direct correction, not a guess. We'd been assuming Hadir's tooltip "+3/+3" meant a flat +3 damage/+0.3s delay bonus, but with an actual bare-fist baseline now measured directly, the math says the true bonus is closer to +4.3 damage and +0.55s delay. That's a meaningfully bigger gap than "+3/+3" on both stats.
What this means for the write-up: we now have a cleaner story — base fist (postpatch): 19.1 dmg / 3.75s delay. Hadir's total (postpatch): 23.4 dmg / 4.1-4.6s delay. The enhancement itself is larger than the tooltip's "+3/+3" phrasing suggested, which could itself be worth flagging as a separate tooltip-accuracy question (maybe the tooltip shows a flat historical value that never got updated for the rework, similar to how Hadir's own dmg/delay was never given directly).
This is a genuinely strong, well-triangulated result — it didn't just answer the bare-fist question, it retroactively improved our confidence in the whole Hadir's-enhancement chain of reasoning.
