Ground truth: how our data compares with the surviving retail sources

This page compares what Bezgelor holds with the facts harvested from archived retail sources (Jabbithole pages, Dulfy's guides and patch notes, all kept by the Internet Archive, and the retail spawn captures of the NexusForever world database; see ground-truth.md for the sources and how far each can be trusted). Thank you to everyone who recorded this data while the game was live. Each comparison is confirmed (we agree with the source), contradicted (both values exist and differ), filled (we had nothing, the source has a value) or no source (the source says nothing). The fact store is apps/bezgelor_data/priv/data/ground_truth/; the machine-readable result is ground-truth-reconciliation.json. Updated automatically from the data; see how.

Coverage

Scope of this pass: every creature spawned in Northern Wilds, Algoroc, Celestion, Everstar Grove, Crimson Isle, Levian Bay and Whitevale, every creature of a built instance, the vendors among them, and the quests of those zones. "Items our data touches" are the items in the stock of those vendors, the junk, material and meat pools of those creatures, and the reward items of those quests. Pages not yet fetched count as no source; the harvest is resumable (tools/ground_truth/harvest.py).

The ids in the facts are the client's: ability rows: 8,566; ability spell ids that exist in Spell4: 8,564; ability names equal to the Spell4Base name: 8,521; distinct item ids in drops, stock and rewards: 14,845; of those, ids that exist in Item2: 14,845.

Summary by area

How to read the creature rows

• Level: our level is the Level stat of the retail spawn capture (NexusForever world database) where there is one, otherwise the built instance's level. A Jabbithole creature page pools every level variant of a (name, zone) pair, so the source gives a range and "confirmed" means our level lies inside it.
• Health: the server computes max health as BaseHealth' + 14 x Stamina', where each is the creature's Creature2OverrideProperties value or CreatureLevel x archetype x difficulty x tier (BezgelorWorld.CreatureProperties; semantic registry, "Creature max health"). We evaluate that formula at the source's own levels and compare with the source's health (tolerance 1.5%). For a page with a level range the two ends are compared.
• Abilities: compared by name with the ability lists of our encounter data (only built instances have one). For every other creature the source fills a list we do not have.
• Versions (eras): Bezgelor targets the final live game (after Reloaded and free-to-play), the build of our client. A Jabbithole page records the last game version it was seen in (open beta, launch, Drop 3, 4 or 5, "live"); for the pages used here the newest is Drop 5, which is before WildStar: Reloaded (Drop 6, 2015-09-29), which re-levelled dungeons and changed some creature health (for example Kel Voreth, now level 25, normal-mode trash health lowered by 10-15%). Dulfy's guides are from July 2014 (launch era). The NexusForever retail captures are from the final era: their zones hold free-to-play NPCs (the Protostar Store Consultant in every starting zone, the zone envoys) and Thayd an Arcterra Emissary. Where an older source agrees with the final era, our value is checked by both; where it disagrees, Bezgelor keeps the final build's value and the row is a version difference; where a dated patch note settles it the row says so.
• Drops: the source's percentages are shares of recorded drops, never per-kill rates. We compare membership (is each retail item one our pool for that creature can produce: family junk, body materials, family meat; gear is a level-based pool?) and, per loot tier, the relative weights of the item classes.

Health: the formula against the retail captures (final era)

The NexusForever world database holds, for each captured spawn, the Health and Level the retail server sent; the captures are from the final live era (see Versions above). For the 2,257 scope creatures that have both, the server's formula gives the captured health (within 1.5%) for 2,242; median ratio ours/retail 1.000. Before the correction of 2026-10-12 (the table default alone: no Stamina term, no Creature2OverrideProperties) it was 25, median 0.797. Where Jabbithole also has a page for the same creature, the captured health equals the archive's health at the same level in 1715 of 1992 comparisons, so the two sources corroborate each other.

The server gives a creature CreatureProperties.max_health(creature, level) and does not read the captured Health: the formula reproduces it, and the captures it does not reproduce are mostly creatures captured hurt (several healths for one creature and level, the largest equal to the formula) or scripted below full health. How the formula was found: semantic registry, "Creature max health"; #229.

Health: the formula against the archive (Jabbithole)

3403 comparisons at the source's own levels; median ratio ours/retail 1.000; 2595 within 1.5%.

By the game version each page records (its era):

Open-world pages (Drop 5) agree with the formula, as the final-era captures do. Most built-instance pages that differ are level-50 veteran creatures whose Drop 5 health is 10-20% below the final build's: the final client's Creature2OverrideProperties rows were raised after Drop 5 (Blade-Wind's veteran page says 1,000,014, the Drop 5 override of 1,000,000 plus 14 x a Stamina override of 1; the final build has 1,150,000), and level-50 trash comes out 1.2 times the Drop 5 figure. Those are an older era, and Bezgelor keeps the final build's value. Others pool several Creature2 rows of one name (a page cannot say which row its figure belongs to).

Built-instance bosses and creatures

Tracked in #230 (health) and #231 (encounter numbers and ability lists).

Health contradicted

448 contradicted.

... 388 more in the JSON.

Level contradicted

16 contradicted.

Abilities in the source that our encounter data lacks

50 contradicted.

Boss numbers from Dulfy's veteran guides and the July 2014 patch notes

Dulfy's numbers are for level-50 veteran mode, rounded as the guide rounds them (health within 8% counts as agreeing). "filled" means we hold no comparable value (trash interrupt armor, add health, loot rules, world-boss figures). The guides are of July 2014 (launch era): a veteran health they give below ours is the older era, since the final build's Creature2OverrideProperties rows are higher (see the archive section above); Bezgelor keeps the final build's value.

52 further facts have no counterpart in our data (listed in the JSON): Aethros, Blood Pit Gladiator, Blood Pit Necromancer, Doomthorn, Enslaved Augmentor, Enslaved Protector, Hellrose Bowl, Initialization Core Y-83, Laveka the Dark-Hearted, Metal Maw, Metal Maw Prime, Mordechai Redmoon....

Open-world creatures

Level contradicted

91 contradicted.

... 71 more in the JSON.

Health contradicted

279 contradicted.

... 259 more in the JSON.

Vendors

241 vendors (the scope, and every merchant that stands in the world we spawn) have a retail stock list; 0 of them differ from ours, 228 of them are exactly the retail list.

A vendor with an archived page gets exactly that list (vendor_inventories.json, provenance reference, built by tools/vendor_inventory_generator.py from jabbithole_vendors.json). Every other vendor keeps the list generated from its type, provenance guess, filtered of the client rows retail never sold and the rows it cannot price; the server offers that filtered list (#213). "confirmed" here measures the generator's output against the page it was built from, so a vendor with a page is expected to read confirmed; the open question is the vendors with no page and the era of the pages (2014-2017).

Drops

1342 creatures have a retail drop list (79,409 items in all). For those, the share of recorded drops our pools can produce: 27% (junk, materials, meat), a further 2% are gear a level-based pool covers, 71% are items no pool of ours produces (quest items, path items, schematics, and so on).

Relative weights: what the recorded drops were made of

Per loot tier (Creature2Difficulty rank and group size, as BezgelorWorld.Loot.Profile maps them), the share of recorded drops that were junk, survivalist material or meat, runecrafting signs, gear, or something else (quest, path and tradeskill items, consumables, schematics). "Ours" is the share the tier's configured rates imply (expected items per kill by class, normalised; the rates are designed values). Both columns are shares of items, so they say nothing about how many items a kill yields.

Quests

654 quests have a retail page. Level, minimum level, giver, experience and credits are compared with the formulas of BezgelorWorld.Quest.Info; reward items are compared as sets. The archived reward lists predate Reloaded, whose patch notes say quest rewards were adjusted so that their item levels more closely represent the challenge level of their quests: items we add on top of an archived list are not counted as a disagreement, and an archived reward we lack is often that version difference.

Level contradicted: 2

Minimum level contradicted: 2

Giver contradicted: 2

Reward items contradicted: 64

Experience contradicted: 1

Credits contradicted: 1

Proposed follow-ups (not done in this pass)

1. Health (#229, #230): done for the formula (BaseHealth' + 14 x Stamina', with Creature2OverrideProperties; the server and these tools use it). Left: the built-instance rows above that differ are older-era pages or pages that pool several rows; the other override properties (interrupt armor, move speed) are #240.
2. Vendor stock (#213): done for every vendor with an archived page (see Vendors above). Left: the vendors no page matched (a name the archive lacks, or two pages for one name that cannot be told apart).
3. Abilities: give open-world creatures the ability lists of jabbithole_creatures.json (Spell4 ids, checked against our Spell4 table in the coverage section; #232).
4. Loot pools: add the retail items (quest, path, tradeskill and dungeon gear) to the pools of the creatures that drop them, keeping our rates, which stay designed values. The shares in jabbithole_drops.json give the relative frequency of items within one creature only (#233).
5. Quests (#239): the level, minimum level, giver, experience and credit checks above are a regression test for the quest formulas; look at the reward lists that differ, and extend the harvest to the quests no page matched by title.
6. Re-run: harvest.py fetch is resumable; after more pages arrive, build_facts.py, apply_facts.py and reconcile.py refresh everything.