prosolis d7fe32d893 D&D: class-balance Phase 3 — off-tier caster lift (druid + sorcerer) ...

Design steer from user — "relatively easy but not too easy" — narrowed the
target: lift the embarrassing caster trailers on off-tier cells (a casual
player walking into a slightly too-hard dungeon underleveled) without
pushing the already-saturated in-tier ceiling.

Levers:
- Druid passive: was the only chassis with a purely defensive passive
  (5% DR, no offense), and it read it — L1/T1 mean 0.77 (lowest at the
  entry tier), L1/T2 0.04. Added a level + WIS-scaled FlatDmgStart burst,
  same shape as the Phase-2 Bard/Mage/Warlock pass. Kept the DR; no
  DamageBonus rider so high-tier ceilings stay flat.
- Sorcerer passive: burst base 3→5. Sorcerer was second-worst caster
  off-tier (L1/T2 0.10 vs Mage 0.27 pre-tune) despite a comparable stat
  line; the bump pulls it toward arcane-chassis parity.

Observed lifts:
- Druid L1/T1: 0.77 → 0.86 (+9pp) — chassis now functional at its
  intended tier
- L2/T2 cross-class spread: 77pp → 63pp; druid trailer 0.23 → 0.35
- L1/T1 spread: 23pp → 14pp

Off-tier diagnostic: added a focused log to TestClassBalance_Phase1_FullMatrix
that names the trailing class at each off-tier (lvl, tier) cell. Not
asserted — L1 in T2 is *supposed* to be hard, so the diagnostic is for
watching the gap, not the absolute number.

In-tier parity assertion (35pp band on the diagonal) still passes;
TestApplyClassPassives updated for the new druid/sorcerer FlatDmgStart
values; full plugin -short suite clean.

2026-05-14 20:32:41 -07:00

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