diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/CraftFrame.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/CraftFrame.xml
index 4d108dcec..a3e354774 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/CraftFrame.xml
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/CraftFrame.xml
@@ -583,26 +583,37 @@
     </Button>
 
     <!--
-        One reagent slot (ref CraftItemTemplate inherits QuestItemTemplate, l.29-53 — TradeSkillFrame's
-        own BenillaTradeSkillReagentTemplate shape, byte-identical layout): a 28×28 icon, the reagent
-        name to its right, "have /need" below the name.
+        One reagent slot. The ref's `CraftItemTemplate` (l.29-53) inherits `QuestItemTemplate` and
+        overrides **only scripts** — same as TradeSkillFrame's `TradeSkillItemTemplate`, so the two
+        windows' slots really are the byte-identical layout this comment always claimed; what they
+        share is QuestItemTemplate's shape, which neither window had until B250 (decision 1595).
+        A 39×39 icon, the `UI-QuestItemNameFrame` plate riding its right edge, the name centred ON the
+        plate, and the "have /need" count on the icon's own BOTTOMRIGHT. This file keeps its OWN copy
+        (StackSplit.xml's "not a cross-file inherits" note), kept in sync by hand.
     -->
     <Button name="BenillaCraftReagentTemplate" virtual="true" hidden="true">
-        <Size><AbsDimension x="140" y="32"/></Size>
+        <Size><AbsDimension x="147" y="41"/></Size>
         <Layers>
             <Layer level="BACKGROUND">
                 <Texture name="$parentIcon">
-                    <Size><AbsDimension x="28" y="28"/></Size>
-                    <Anchors><Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativePoint="TOPLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-2"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
+                    <Size><AbsDimension x="39" y="39"/></Size>
+                    <Anchors><Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativePoint="TOPLEFT"/></Anchors>
                 </Texture>
+                <!-- Declared AFTER the icon (same parent+level ⇒ z-tiebreak): the plate's 128×64
+                     texture starts 10px INSIDE the icon's right edge, but its art only begins 11
+                     texels in, so the visible plate opens 1px clear of the icon. -->
+                <Texture name="$parentNameFrame" file="Interface\QuestFrame\UI-QuestItemNameFrame">
+                    <Size><AbsDimension x="128" y="64"/></Size>
+                    <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="$parentIcon" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="-10" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
+                </Texture>
+                <FontString name="$parentName" inherits="GameFontHighlight" justifyH="LEFT">
+                    <Size><AbsDimension x="90" y="36"/></Size>
+                    <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="$parentNameFrame"><Offset><AbsDimension x="15" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
+                </FontString>
             </Layer>
             <Layer level="ARTWORK">
-                <FontString name="$parentName" inherits="GameFontHighlightSmall" justifyH="LEFT" justifyV="TOP">
-                    <Size><AbsDimension x="104" y="14"/></Size>
-                    <Anchors><Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="$parentIcon" relativePoint="TOPRIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="4" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                </FontString>
-                <FontString name="$parentCount" inherits="GameFontNormalSmall" justifyH="LEFT">
-                    <Anchors><Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="$parentName" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-1"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
+                <FontString name="$parentCount" inherits="NumberFontNormal" justifyH="RIGHT">
+                    <Anchors><Anchor point="BOTTOMRIGHT" relativeTo="$parentIcon"><Offset><AbsDimension x="-4" y="1"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
                 </FontString>
             </Layer>
         </Layers>
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/TradeSkillFrame.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/TradeSkillFrame.xml
index 61221aa7b..3d8cf556e 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/TradeSkillFrame.xml
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/TradeSkillFrame.xml
@@ -860,28 +860,45 @@
     </Button>
 
     <!--
-        One reagent slot (ref TradeSkillItemTemplate inherits QuestItemTemplate, l.11-35 — the base
-        vanilla QuestItemTemplate isn't in the session's ref extraction, so its icon/name/count shape is
-        our own content, sized to the 2-column ~290px-wide grid the ref's own anchor chain implies):
-        a 28×28 icon, the reagent name to its right, "have /need" below the name. Gray-out + the
-        SetTradeSkillItem(sel, index) hover are the ref's own SetSelection reagent loop + OnEnter.
+        One reagent slot. The ref's `TradeSkillItemTemplate` (l.11-35) inherits `QuestItemTemplate` and
+        overrides **only scripts** — so the slot's whole visual IS QuestItemTemplate: a 39×39 icon, the
+        `UI-QuestItemNameFrame` plate riding its right edge, the name centred ON the plate, and the
+        "have /need" count on the icon's own BOTTOMRIGHT. Kept in sync by hand with QuestFrame.xml's
+        `QuestItemTemplate` and CraftFrame.xml's own copy (per-window duplication, StackSplit.xml's
+        "not a cross-file inherits" note).
+
+        This shape REPLACES a hand-rolled 28×28-icon / name-above / count-below slot that was written
+        when the session that built this window could not find the base QuestItemTemplate (bug B250,
+        decision 1595): TradeSkillFrame/CraftFrame are load-on-demand Blizzard ADDONS, so the ref lives
+        at `Interface\AddOns\Blizzard_TradeSkillUI\`, not in `Interface\FrameXML\`.
+
+        Gray-out + the SetTradeSkillItem(sel, index) hover are the ref's own SetSelection reagent loop
+        + OnEnter.
     -->
     <Button name="BenillaTradeSkillReagentTemplate" virtual="true" hidden="true">
-        <Size><AbsDimension x="140" y="32"/></Size>
+        <Size><AbsDimension x="147" y="41"/></Size>
         <Layers>
             <Layer level="BACKGROUND">
                 <Texture name="$parentIcon">
-                    <Size><AbsDimension x="28" y="28"/></Size>
-                    <Anchors><Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativePoint="TOPLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-2"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
+                    <Size><AbsDimension x="39" y="39"/></Size>
+                    <Anchors><Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativePoint="TOPLEFT"/></Anchors>
                 </Texture>
+                <!-- Declared AFTER the icon (same parent+level ⇒ z-tiebreak, this file's own note):
+                     the plate's 128×64 texture starts 10px INSIDE the icon's right edge, but its art
+                     only begins 11 texels in, so the visible plate opens 1px clear of the icon — the
+                     small gap the reference renders. -->
+                <Texture name="$parentNameFrame" file="Interface\QuestFrame\UI-QuestItemNameFrame">
+                    <Size><AbsDimension x="128" y="64"/></Size>
+                    <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="$parentIcon" relativePoint="RIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="-10" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
+                </Texture>
+                <FontString name="$parentName" inherits="GameFontHighlight" justifyH="LEFT">
+                    <Size><AbsDimension x="90" y="36"/></Size>
+                    <Anchors><Anchor point="LEFT" relativeTo="$parentNameFrame"><Offset><AbsDimension x="15" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
+                </FontString>
             </Layer>
             <Layer level="ARTWORK">
-                <FontString name="$parentName" inherits="GameFontHighlightSmall" justifyH="LEFT" justifyV="TOP">
-                    <Size><AbsDimension x="104" y="14"/></Size>
-                    <Anchors><Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="$parentIcon" relativePoint="TOPRIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="4" y="0"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
-                </FontString>
-                <FontString name="$parentCount" inherits="GameFontNormalSmall" justifyH="LEFT">
-                    <Anchors><Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="$parentName" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-1"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
+                <FontString name="$parentCount" inherits="NumberFontNormal" justifyH="RIGHT">
+                    <Anchors><Anchor point="BOTTOMRIGHT" relativeTo="$parentIcon"><Offset><AbsDimension x="-4" y="1"/></Offset></Anchor></Anchors>
                 </FontString>
             </Layer>
         </Layers>
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply.rs
index 654fc4413..9808962e3 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply.rs
@@ -309,6 +309,11 @@ pub(super) fn apply_net_updates(
             // The GO one-shot Custom play (`SMSG_GAMEOBJECT_CUSTOM_ANIM` — the bobber's bite
             // splash, decision 1086), the step-8 sibling of the `GoLidOpen` writer above.
             MessageWriter<crate::go_anim::GoCustomAnim>,
+            // Are *we* already swinging? The ref's `[player+0xc48]`, mirrored by the
+            // server-echoed [`crate::creature_anim::Engaged`] — read by the GO handler's deferred
+            // auto-attack start (`0x6e83e7`, decision 1593). Filter-only, so it conflicts with
+            // nothing else in this drain.
+            Query<(), (With<crate::creature_anim::Engaged>, With<SelfPlayer>)>,
         ),
     ),
     // The aura feed's duration side-table + the clock to stamp arrivals (decisions 0255/0257): the
@@ -1290,6 +1295,11 @@ pub(super) fn apply_net_updates(
                     &net_commands,
                     &mut pet_bar,
                 ),
+                (
+                    &mut ui_actions.12,
+                    &mut audio.15 .2,
+                    !audio.15 .4.is_empty(),
+                ),
                 play_seq.next(),
             ),
             SessionEvent::SpellChainTargets {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/spells.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/spells.rs
index df5377793..a9eed2c40 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/spells.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/net/apply/spells.rs
@@ -349,6 +349,13 @@ pub(super) fn spell_go(
         &crate::net::NetCommands,
         &mut crate::ui_pet::PetBar,
     ),
+    // The GO-deferred melee auto-attack start's write set (`0x6e83c0`, the arm below), plus the
+    // attack lock it gates on: our server-echoed `Engaged`, the ref's `[player+0xc48]`.
+    attack_ctx: (
+        &mut crate::ui_action::AutoRepeatActive,
+        &mut MessageWriter<crate::creature_anim::SheathRequest>,
+        bool,
+    ),
     seq: u64,
 ) {
     debug!(
@@ -365,6 +372,7 @@ pub(super) fn spell_go(
         go_lid.write(crate::go_anim::GoLidOpen { go_guid, spell_id });
     }
     let (cooldowns, spells, items, net_commands, pet_bar) = cooldown_ctx;
+    let (auto_repeat, sheath, engaged) = attack_ctx;
     let now = Instant::now();
     let display = spells.and_then(|s| s.catalog.get(spell_id));
     // **A chest's loot-target arm** (wow-re `loot-anim-leg.md` §6, byte-verified §5 trio; decision
@@ -423,6 +431,44 @@ pub(super) fn spell_go(
         // ring) opens exactly here, like the ref's inflight finish on the matching GO.
         queued_melee.clear_if(spell_id);
 
+        // **The GO-deferred melee auto-attack start** (`HandleSpellGo 0x6e7a70` @ `0x6e83c0`,
+        // wow-re `combat-feel-law.md` §A3; bytes re-read for decision 1593). This is the exact
+        // complement of the send-time tail in [`crate::ui_action::cast_send`]: a spell carrying
+        // `AttributesEx2 & 0x100000` has its optimistic start *suppressed* there and armed here
+        // instead, so the swing begins only once the server confirms the strike landed. That is
+        // the whole 5875 stealth-opener class — Backstab, Garrote, Ambush, Cheap Shot, Shred,
+        // Ravage, Pounce — plus Judgement, none of which started an auto-attack in benilla at all
+        // before this (the deferred path was left unbuilt on a ten-row proof by absence; the real
+        // file carries the bit on 36 rows, censused in `benilla-formats`' `catalog_tests`).
+        //
+        // **The target** is the reference's, verbatim (`0x6e83e9`–`0x6e83fe`): `hits[0]` when the
+        // GO carries a hit list, else the null pair — which `0x612df0` resolves to the current
+        // selection and, failing that, acquires as the nearest hostile. We take the packet's own
+        // target guid as that fallback and stop there: the acquire-nearest leg is `target::scan`'s
+        // and reaching it from here would target something the player never named. A hostile
+        // single-target strike always fills the hit list, so the fallback is the quiet case.
+        //
+        // **The gate** is `[player+0xc48] == 0` (`0x6e83e7`) — already swinging, nothing happens,
+        // which is also what keeps the auto-repeat cancel in `start_attack_local`'s tail from
+        // firing on every strike of a fight.
+        if display.is_some_and(|d| d.initiates_auto_attack_at_go()) && !engaged {
+            if let (Some(&me), Some(guid)) =
+                (index.0.get(&caster), hits.first().copied().or(target))
+            {
+                debug!("net: spell go {spell_id} — deferred auto-attack start at {guid:#x}");
+                crate::creature_anim::start_attack_local(
+                    me,
+                    guid,
+                    engaged,
+                    false,
+                    auto_repeat,
+                    sheath,
+                    commands,
+                    net_commands,
+                );
+            }
+        }
+
         // Our own launch starts the cast's cooldown locally, at the GO — byte-VERIFIED (the
         // 2026-07-10 wow-re follow-up, `wave-handlers.md` ADDENDUM): `HandleSpellGo 0x6e7a70`'s
         // self-insert tail forks on the packet guid pair — itemCaster == caster ⇒ the NO-ITEM
@@ -948,6 +994,7 @@ mod tests {
             .add_message::<SpellGoTargets>()
             .add_message::<CombatTextSpawn>()
             .add_message::<GoLidOpen>()
+            .add_message::<crate::creature_anim::SheathRequest>()
             .init_resource::<GuidIndex>()
             .init_resource::<SelfGuid>()
             .init_resource::<CastBarFeed>()
@@ -996,7 +1043,8 @@ mod tests {
                           mut go_lid: MessageWriter<GoLidOpen>,
                           mut cooldowns: ResMut<Cooldowns>,
                           mut pet_bar: ResMut<crate::ui_pet::PetBar>,
-                          mut items: ResMut<crate::items::Items>| {
+                          mut items: ResMut<crate::items::Items>,
+                          mut sheath: MessageWriter<crate::creature_anim::SheathRequest>| {
                         let net_commands = crate::net::NetCommands(tx.clone());
                         spell_go(
                             10,
@@ -1029,6 +1077,11 @@ mod tests {
                                 &net_commands,
                                 &mut pet_bar,
                             ),
+                            (
+                                &mut crate::ui_action::AutoRepeatActive::default(),
+                                &mut sheath,
+                                false,
+                            ),
                             1,
                         );
                     },
@@ -1108,6 +1161,7 @@ mod tests {
                 .add_message::<SpellGoTargets>()
                 .add_message::<CombatTextSpawn>()
                 .add_message::<GoLidOpen>()
+                .add_message::<crate::creature_anim::SheathRequest>()
                 .init_resource::<GuidIndex>()
                 .init_resource::<SelfGuid>()
                 .init_resource::<CastBarFeed>()
@@ -1146,7 +1200,8 @@ mod tests {
                           mut go_lid: MessageWriter<GoLidOpen>,
                           mut cooldowns: ResMut<Cooldowns>,
                           mut pet_bar: ResMut<crate::ui_pet::PetBar>,
-                          mut items: ResMut<crate::items::Items>| {
+                          mut items: ResMut<crate::items::Items>,
+                          mut sheath: MessageWriter<crate::creature_anim::SheathRequest>| {
                         let net_commands = crate::net::NetCommands(tx.clone());
                         spell_go(
                             caster,
@@ -1179,6 +1234,11 @@ mod tests {
                                 &net_commands,
                                 &mut pet_bar,
                             ),
+                            (
+                                &mut crate::ui_action::AutoRepeatActive::default(),
+                                &mut sheath,
+                                false,
+                            ),
                             1,
                         );
                     },
@@ -1233,6 +1293,7 @@ mod tests {
             .add_message::<SpellGoTargets>()
             .add_message::<CombatTextSpawn>()
             .add_message::<GoLidOpen>()
+            .add_message::<crate::creature_anim::SheathRequest>()
             .init_resource::<GuidIndex>()
             .init_resource::<SelfGuid>()
             .init_resource::<CastBarFeed>()
@@ -1282,7 +1343,8 @@ mod tests {
                       mut go_lid: MessageWriter<GoLidOpen>,
                       mut cooldowns: ResMut<Cooldowns>,
                       mut pet_bar: ResMut<crate::ui_pet::PetBar>,
-                      mut items: ResMut<crate::items::Items>| {
+                      mut items: ResMut<crate::items::Items>,
+                      mut sheath: MessageWriter<crate::creature_anim::SheathRequest>| {
                     let net_commands = crate::net::NetCommands(tx.clone());
                     spell_go(
                         10,
@@ -1315,6 +1377,11 @@ mod tests {
                             &net_commands,
                             &mut pet_bar,
                         ),
+                        (
+                            &mut crate::ui_action::AutoRepeatActive::default(),
+                            &mut sheath,
+                            false,
+                        ),
                         1,
                     );
                 },
@@ -1476,4 +1543,181 @@ mod tests {
         removed_spell(14788, &mut actions);
         assert!(!actions.dirty, "a spell we never knew is not a repaint");
     }
+    /// **The GO-deferred auto-attack start** (`HandleSpellGo` @ `0x6e83c0`, decision 1593) — the
+    /// half of `combat-feel-law.md` §A3 benilla shipped without, because ten hand-picked warrior
+    /// rows were read as a census of `AttributesEx2 & 0x100000`. The real file carries the bit on
+    /// 36, so the class that never started an auto-attack here is every stealth opener and
+    /// positional strike: Backstab, Garrote, Ambush, Cheap Shot, Shred, Ravage, Pounce, Judgement.
+    ///
+    /// Four things, and each is a way this arm could be subtly wrong:
+    /// - a bit20 spell's own GO sends `CMSG_ATTACKSWING` **at the GO's first hit target**
+    ///   (`0x6e83e9`: `hits[0]`, not the packet's target field, and not our selection);
+    /// - a spell without the bit sends nothing — **bug B280's own control**: the hunter's instant
+    ///   shots carry Ex2 bit **17** (`DO_NOT_RESET_COMBAT_TIMERS`), not bit 20, so casting Serpent
+    ///   Sting starts no attack of either kind, which is what 0994 §4 recorded;
+    /// - already swinging sends nothing (`0x6e83e7`'s `[player+0xc48]` gate) — which is also what
+    ///   keeps the start's own auto-repeat cancel off every strike of a fight;
+    /// - somebody else's Backstab going off sends nothing (the handler's self gate).
+    #[test]
+    fn a_go_deferred_spell_swings_at_its_first_hit_and_the_hunter_shots_do_not() {
+        use crate::combat_text::CombatTextSpawn;
+        use crate::creature_anim::{Casting, Engaged};
+        use crate::go_anim::GoLidOpen;
+        use crate::net::{ClientCommand, Guid, SelfPlayer};
+        use bevy::ecs::system::RunSystemOnce;
+
+        const BACKSTAB: u32 = 53;
+        const SERPENT_STING: u32 = 1978;
+        let spell = |name: &str, ex2: u32| benilla_formats::SpellDisplay {
+            name: name.into(),
+            attributes_ex2: ex2,
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+        let make_spells = || crate::ui_action::Spells {
+            catalog: benilla_formats::SpellCatalog::from_displays(
+                [
+                    // The real 5875 words for the two: Backstab Ex2 0x100000, Serpent Sting
+                    // Ex2 0x20000 (bit 17, one bit below — the whole distinction).
+                    (BACKSTAB, spell("Backstab", 0x0010_0000)),
+                    (SERPENT_STING, spell("Serpent Sting", 0x0002_0000)),
+                ]
+                .into_iter()
+                .collect(),
+            ),
+            forms: Default::default(),
+            ranges: Default::default(),
+            cast_times: Default::default(),
+            durations: Default::default(),
+            radii: Default::default(),
+        };
+
+        // `caster` casts `spell_id`, landing on 20; `engaged` is our mirror of `[+0xc48]`.
+        // Returns every command the seam put on the wire.
+        let fire = |caster: u64, spell_id: u32, engaged: bool| -> Vec<ClientCommand> {
+            let mut app = App::new();
+            app.add_message::<CastEvent>()
+                .add_message::<SpellGoTargets>()
+                .add_message::<CombatTextSpawn>()
+                .add_message::<GoLidOpen>()
+                .add_message::<crate::creature_anim::SheathRequest>()
+                .init_resource::<GuidIndex>()
+                .init_resource::<SelfGuid>()
+                .init_resource::<CastBarFeed>()
+                .init_resource::<PendingCast>()
+                .init_resource::<QueuedMeleeSpell>()
+                .init_resource::<Cooldowns>()
+                .init_resource::<crate::ui_pet::PetBar>()
+                .init_resource::<crate::items::Items>();
+            let self_e = app
+                .world_mut()
+                .spawn((Guid(10), SelfPlayer, ObjectStore::default()))
+                .id();
+            if engaged {
+                app.world_mut().entity_mut(self_e).insert(Engaged);
+            }
+            let other_e = app
+                .world_mut()
+                .spawn((Guid(11), ObjectStore::default()))
+                .id();
+            {
+                let mut index = app.world_mut().resource_mut::<GuidIndex>();
+                index.0.insert(10, self_e);
+                index.0.insert(11, other_e);
+            }
+            app.world_mut().resource_mut::<SelfGuid>().0 = Some(10);
+
+            let (tx, rx) = crossbeam_channel::unbounded();
+            let spells = make_spells();
+            app.world_mut()
+                .run_system_once(
+                    move |mut commands: Commands,
+                          index: Res<GuidIndex>,
+                          casting: Query<&Casting>,
+                          mut cast_events: MessageWriter<CastEvent>,
+                          mut go_targets: MessageWriter<SpellGoTargets>,
+                          self_guid: Res<SelfGuid>,
+                          stores: Query<&mut ObjectStore>,
+                          mut cast_bar: ResMut<CastBarFeed>,
+                          mut pending: ResMut<PendingCast>,
+                          mut queued_melee: ResMut<QueuedMeleeSpell>,
+                          mut text: MessageWriter<CombatTextSpawn>,
+                          mut go_lid: MessageWriter<GoLidOpen>,
+                          mut cooldowns: ResMut<Cooldowns>,
+                          mut pet_bar: ResMut<crate::ui_pet::PetBar>,
+                          mut items: ResMut<crate::items::Items>,
+                          mut sheath: MessageWriter<crate::creature_anim::SheathRequest>| {
+                        let net_commands = crate::net::NetCommands(tx.clone());
+                        spell_go(
+                            caster,
+                            spell_id,
+                            0,
+                            vec![20],
+                            vec![],
+                            // The packet's own target field is deliberately a DIFFERENT guid: the
+                            // arm must take `hits[0]`, and this is what catches it reading here.
+                            Some(99),
+                            None,
+                            None,
+                            None,
+                            None,
+                            &mut commands,
+                            &index,
+                            &casting,
+                            &mut cast_events,
+                            &mut go_targets,
+                            &self_guid,
+                            &stores,
+                            &mut cast_bar,
+                            &mut pending,
+                            &mut queued_melee,
+                            &mut text,
+                            &mut go_lid,
+                            &mut crate::ui_loot::LootLatch::default(),
+                            (
+                                &mut cooldowns,
+                                Some(&spells),
+                                &mut items,
+                                &net_commands,
+                                &mut pet_bar,
+                            ),
+                            (
+                                &mut crate::ui_action::AutoRepeatActive::default(),
+                                &mut sheath,
+                                engaged,
+                            ),
+                            1,
+                        );
+                    },
+                )
+                .unwrap();
+            rx.try_iter().collect()
+        };
+
+        let swings = |cmds: &[ClientCommand]| {
+            cmds.iter()
+                .filter_map(|c| match c {
+                    ClientCommand::AttackSwing { guid } => Some(*guid),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect::<Vec<_>>()
+        };
+
+        assert_eq!(
+            swings(&fire(10, BACKSTAB, false)),
+            vec![20],
+            "a bit20 spell's own GO starts the swing at its first hit target"
+        );
+        assert!(
+            swings(&fire(10, SERPENT_STING, false)).is_empty(),
+            "Serpent Sting carries Ex2 bit 17, not bit 20 — it starts nothing (B280 / 0994 §4)"
+        );
+        assert!(
+            swings(&fire(10, BACKSTAB, true)).is_empty(),
+            "already swinging: `0x6e83e7`'s attack-lock gate refuses"
+        );
+        assert!(
+            swings(&fire(11, BACKSTAB, false)).is_empty(),
+            "somebody else's Backstab is not our attack-start"
+        );
+    }
 }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/target/by_name.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/target/by_name.rs
index 6aa7f584b..6081fbf1d 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/target/by_name.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/target/by_name.rs
@@ -610,13 +610,13 @@ pub(super) fn follow_requests(
 pub(crate) struct SelectCommit<'w, 's> {
     pub(super) selection: ResMut<'w, Selection>,
     seam: crate::creature_anim::AttackSeam<'w, 's>,
-    // `Entity` first because a caller can need our own body as a SELECTION target, not only as the
-    // comparison the classification runs against (`TargetUnit("player")`, the player frame's click).
+    // Our own body, read only for what the classification needs: the guid to compare against, the
+    // store `can_attack` reads, and whether we are mid-swing. It used to carry the `Entity` too,
+    // for `TargetUnit("player")`; that resolves through `crate::ui_unit::UnitTokens` now.
     me: Query<
         'w,
         's,
         (
-            Entity,
             &'static Guid,
             Option<&'static ObjectStore>,
             Has<crate::creature_anim::Engaged>,
@@ -629,11 +629,6 @@ pub(crate) struct SelectCommit<'w, 's> {
 }
 
 impl SelectCommit<'_, '_> {
-    /// Our own body's entity + guid, for a caller that can be asked to select it.
-    pub(super) fn me(&self) -> Option<(Entity, u64)> {
-        self.me.single().ok().map(|(e, g, _, _)| (e, g.0))
-    }
-
     pub(super) fn commit(&mut self, entity: Entity, guid: u64) {
         let me = self.me.single().ok();
         // The new-target classification `scan::commit` expects from its callers (it does not
@@ -642,15 +637,15 @@ impl SelectCommit<'_, '_> {
             self.stores.get(entity).ok(),
             self.factions.as_deref(),
             &self.reputations,
-            me.and_then(|(_, _, store, _)| store),
+            me.and_then(|(_, store, _)| store),
         );
         scan::commit(
             &mut self.selection,
             &mut self.seam,
             entity,
             guid,
-            me.is_some_and(|(_, _, _, engaged)| engaged),
-            me.map(|(_, g, _, _)| g.0),
+            me.is_some_and(|(_, _, engaged)| engaged),
+            me.map(|(g, _, _)| g.0),
             attackable,
         );
     }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/target/click.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/target/click.rs
index 6b7c3668a..82afe3286 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/target/click.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/target/click.rs
@@ -734,9 +734,10 @@ pub(super) fn clear_target_requests(
 #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
 pub(super) fn target_unit_requests(
     script: Option<NonSendMut<UiScript>>,
-    group: Res<crate::ui_party::GroupState>,
-    index: Res<crate::net::GuidIndex>,
-    pet: Res<crate::ui_pet::PetBar>,
+    // The one unit-token resolver (`crate::ui_unit::UnitTokens`) — the arms this drain used to
+    // spell out inline. It is shared with the reach feed precisely so `TargetUnit("target")` and
+    // `CheckInteractDistance("target", …)` can never mean two different units (B304).
+    tokens: crate::ui_unit::UnitTokens,
     // The one SetSelection tail, shared with `/target` and `/assist` (decision 1583). It carries
     // the classification too, which is why this drain no longer states one: hand-stating it here
     // is exactly how a `false` that the binary refutes got written down.
@@ -749,50 +750,10 @@ pub(super) fn target_unit_requests(
     if requests.is_empty() {
         return;
     }
-    let me = commit.me();
-    let self_guid = me.map(|(_, g)| g);
     for token in requests {
-        let resolved = match token.as_str() {
-            "player" => me,
-            "target" => commit.selection.target.zip(commit.selection.guid),
-            // The ToT frame's left click (decision 1576) — the target's own target, one hop off
-            // `UNIT_FIELD_TARGET`, resolved exactly as the `"targettarget"` snapshot and `/assist`
-            // resolve it. An unstreamed guid no-ops like every other arm here.
-            "targettarget" => commit
-                .selection
-                .target
-                .and_then(|e| commit.stores.get(e).ok())
-                .and_then(|s| s.0.unit_target())
-                .filter(|g| *g != 0)
-                .and_then(|g| index.0.get(&g).map(|e| (*e, g))),
-            // The pet resolves off the bar's cached guid, the same word `"pet"`'s snapshot and
-            // `UNIT_PET` read (`crate::ui_pet::feed_pet_unit`). An unstreamed pet no-ops, exactly
-            // as an out-of-range party member does.
-            "pet" => (pet.spells.pet_guid != 0)
-                .then(|| index.0.get(&pet.spells.pet_guid))
-                .flatten()
-                .map(|&e| (e, pet.spells.pet_guid)),
-            // `raidN` before the `partyN` arm for the same reason the reference's own resolver
-            // orders `partypet` ahead of `party`: a prefix test that runs first wins. These are
-            // the RaidFrame rows' left-click (decision 1549); like a party slot, an out-of-range
-            // member no-ops until the guid-only selection lands.
-            t if t.starts_with("raid") => t
-                .strip_prefix("raid")
-                .and_then(|n| n.parse::<usize>().ok())
-                .filter(|n| (1..=40).contains(n))
-                .and_then(|n| {
-                    crate::ui_party::raid_row_guids(&group, self_guid)
-                        .get(n - 1)
-                        .copied()
-                })
-                .and_then(|g| index.0.get(&g).map(|e| (*e, g))),
-            t => t
-                .strip_prefix("party")
-                .and_then(|n| n.parse::<usize>().ok())
-                .filter(|n| (1..=4).contains(n))
-                .and_then(|n| group.party_slots().nth(n - 1).map(|m| m.guid))
-                .and_then(|g| index.0.get(&g).map(|e| (*e, g))),
-        };
+        // Resolved before the commit borrows the selection mutably. An unstreamed unit — an
+        // out-of-range party member, a despawned pet — resolves to nothing and no-ops.
+        let resolved = tokens.resolve(&token, &commit.selection);
         if let Some((entity, guid)) = resolved {
             commit.commit(entity, guid);
         }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_inspect.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_inspect.rs
index 310174134..8f96406c7 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_inspect.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_inspect.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 //! The app-side **inspect feed** (decision 0631) — the bridge that turns another player's PUBLIC
-//! descriptor into the slot views the inspect window's Lua reads, and the one place the
-//! `CanInspect` range gate is computed.
+//! descriptor into the slot views the inspect window's Lua reads.
+//!
+//! The `CanInspect`/`CheckInteractDistance` distance map used to be fed from here too, back when it
+//! held popup tokens only and only for players. It is unit-general now (B304) and lives with the
+//! other unit-token feeds — `crate::ui_unit::feed_unit_reach`.
 //!
 //! This is [`crate::ui_char`]'s pattern turned onto a *foreign* unit, and the difference between
 //! the two is the whole reason this module exists rather than a flag on that one:
@@ -16,13 +19,8 @@
 //! rendering their gear). That is exactly why the reference's inspect paper doll shows no stack
 //! counts and no durability: the client has none either.
 //!
-//! Four jobs, each frame, before the VM ticks:
+//! Three jobs, each frame, before the VM ticks:
 //!
-//! - **Feed the reach map.** For every popup token that resolves to a live, inspectable player, its
-//!   squared distance from us — the input to both verified range predicates (`CanInspect` and
-//!   `CheckInteractDistance`), which the VM cannot compute because it holds no positions. Computed
-//!   for party tokens as well as `"target"`, which is why it can't ride `UnitState` (only
-//!   player/target/mouseover get one).
 //! - **Drain the intents.** `NotifyInspect(unit)` → resolve the token to a player guid → send
 //!   `CMSG_INSPECT` and latch the token as the inspect target. `ClearInspectPlayer()` → drop it.
 //!   The window does not wait for `SMSG_INSPECT` (it carries only the echoed guid, and the ref
@@ -51,27 +49,6 @@ use crate::net::{ClientCommand, GuidIndex, NetCommands, ObjectStore};
 use crate::portrait::InspectBooth;
 use crate::ui_script::UiInput;
 
-/// The unit tokens a UnitPopup row can name for another player — the popup menus' own set
-/// (`UnitPopupMenus["PLAYER"]` is driven by the target frame, `["PARTY"]` by the four party
-/// frames). The reach map below is computed for exactly these each frame.
-const REACH_TOKENS: [&str; 5] = ["target", "party1", "party2", "party3", "party4"];
-
-/// The squared distance between two world positions, in the binary's own accumulation shape: `f32`
-/// inputs widened to `f64`, summed `(dz² + dx²) + dy²` (wow-re's transcription of
-/// `0x48a26f..0x48a27d`, the kernel `caninspect_dist2` and `check_interact_dist2` share).
-///
-/// Our axes are Bevy's rather than the client's WoW triple. d² is invariant under that rotation, so
-/// the only conceivable divergence from the binary is a last-ulp one — which can only change the
-/// verdict for a unit standing *exactly* on a threshold. The thresholds and comparison operators,
-/// which are what actually decide each gate, are transcribed exactly at the two bindings
-/// (`benilla_ui::script::inspect`).
-fn dist_sq(q: Vec3, p: Vec3) -> f64 {
-    let dx = f64::from(q.x) - f64::from(p.x);
-    let dy = f64::from(q.y) - f64::from(p.y);
-    let dz = f64::from(q.z) - f64::from(p.z);
-    (dz * dz + dx * dx) + dy * dy
-}
-
 /// Which unit the inspect window is bound to — the ref's `InspectFrame.unit`, mirrored app-side so
 /// the feed knows whether to resolve anything. The **token** is the identity (not the guid): the
 /// reference re-reads the token on every retarget, so `"target"` follows the selection.
@@ -197,12 +174,6 @@ fn feed_inspect(
     stores: Query<&ObjectStore>,
     selection: Res<crate::target::Selection>,
     group: Res<crate::ui_party::GroupState>,
-    // The range gate's inputs (the same Transform distance `ui_session`'s service-range check uses)
-    // plus the faction pair `can_attack` needs.
-    self_q: Query<(&Transform, &ObjectStore), With<crate::net::SelfPlayer>>,
-    transforms: Query<&Transform>,
-    factions: Option<Res<crate::target::Factions>>,
-    reputations: Res<crate::net::Reputations>,
 ) {
     let Some(mut script) = script else {
         return;
@@ -211,51 +182,6 @@ fn feed_inspect(
     // memo re-pushes the view into the VM that replaced the one which last saw it.
     let memo = feed.vm.get(&script);
 
-    // The reach map: for every popup token that resolves to a **live unit object**, its squared
-    // distance from us plus whether it passes the two non-distance refusals vmangos makes for an
-    // inspect — the target is a player (`sObjectMgr.GetPlayer`) and is not attackable
-    // (`IsValidAttackTarget`, `MiscHandler.cpp:945-956`). That the *client* checks those two is
-    // INFERRED (the 348-byte `0x48a1b0`'s non-math part isn't in the RE record), but a wrong guess
-    // can only cost a request the server would drop.
-    //
-    // **Membership is the object lookup and nothing else** (report B316). An absent token is one
-    // the object manager holds no unit for, and the bindings answer `nil` there — the reference's
-    // own null-object arm. So the attackable refusal rides IN the entry as `inspectable` rather
-    // than keeping the token out of the map: dropping it would make `CheckInteractDistance` — a
-    // pure distance test in the binary — gray Follow and Duel on an enemy player the reference
-    // leaves live.
-    let self_pair = self_q.iter().next();
-    let mut reach = std::collections::HashMap::new();
-    if let Some((self_tf, self_store)) = self_pair {
-        for token in REACH_TOKENS {
-            let Some(guid) = crate::ui_unit::player_token_guid(token, &selection, &group) else {
-                continue;
-            };
-            // The object-manager miss: a party member outside the local area has a GUID (the
-            // roster wire carries it) and no object, which is exactly the case B316 reported.
-            let Some(&entity) = index.0.get(&guid) else {
-                continue;
-            };
-            let store = stores.get(entity).ok();
-            let inspectable = !crate::target::can_attack(
-                store,
-                factions.as_deref(),
-                &reputations,
-                Some(self_store),
-            );
-            if let Ok(tf) = transforms.get(entity) {
-                reach.insert(
-                    token.to_string(),
-                    benilla_ui::script::UnitReach {
-                        dist_sq: dist_sq(tf.translation, self_tf.translation),
-                        inspectable,
-                    },
-                );
-            }
-        }
-    }
-    script.set_inspect_reach(reach);
-
     // NotifyInspect(unit) → CMSG_INSPECT + latch the token. Resolving here (not in Lua) is what
     // lets the window bind to a token while the wire speaks guids.
     for token in script.take_inspect_notifies() {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_party/feed.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_party/feed.rs
index c607ca240..91324e11a 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_party/feed.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_party/feed.rs
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ pub(super) struct FedParty {
     ready_check: u32,
 }
 
-const PARTY_TOKENS: [&str; 4] = ["party1", "party2", "party3", "party4"];
+pub(crate) const PARTY_TOKENS: [&str; 4] = ["party1", "party2", "party3", "party4"];
 
 /// **The saved-instance edge** — a new LIST *or* a new ANSWER (1561).
 ///
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ fn saved_instances_moved(saved: &[SavedInstanceInfo], answers: u32, fed: &FedPar
 /// and a table of forty `&'static str` costs nothing where forty `String`s per roster change
 /// would (decision 1549). `MAX_RAID_MEMBERS` is the reference's own 40.
 #[rustfmt::skip]
-const RAID_TOKENS: [&str; 40] = [
+pub(crate) const RAID_TOKENS: [&str; 40] = [
     "raid1", "raid2", "raid3", "raid4", "raid5", "raid6", "raid7", "raid8", "raid9", "raid10",
     "raid11", "raid12", "raid13", "raid14", "raid15", "raid16", "raid17", "raid18", "raid19",
     "raid20", "raid21", "raid22", "raid23", "raid24", "raid25", "raid26", "raid27", "raid28",
@@ -481,22 +481,42 @@ pub(super) struct RaidSelf {
 ///
 /// Empty outside a raid, which is what makes every raid-index verb a no-op in a plain party.
 pub(crate) fn raid_row_guids(group: &GroupState, self_guid: Option<u64>) -> Vec<u64> {
-    if group.group_type != GROUPTYPE_RAID {
-        return Vec::new();
-    }
-    self_guid
-        .into_iter()
-        .chain(group.members.iter().map(|m| m.guid))
-        .collect()
+    raid_rows(group, self_guid).collect()
+}
+
+/// **The raid row ORDER, and the one place it is decided** — us first, then the roster in wire
+/// order — as an iterator, so a caller that wants one row does not build all forty.
+///
+/// [`raid_row_guids`] collects it for the feed (which pushes every row anyway) and
+/// [`raid_row_guid`] indexes it for the resolvers, which ask per token: `crate::ui_unit`'s reach
+/// feed asks forty times a frame, and forty `Vec`s a frame for one `u64` each is the kind of cost
+/// that only shows up in a raid, i.e. exactly where it hurts.
+fn raid_rows(group: &GroupState, self_guid: Option<u64>) -> impl Iterator<Item = u64> + '_ {
+    let in_raid = group.group_type == GROUPTYPE_RAID;
+    self_guid.filter(|_| in_raid).into_iter().chain(
+        group
+            .members
+            .iter()
+            .filter(move |_| in_raid)
+            .map(|m| m.guid),
+    )
+}
+
+/// The guid at a 1-based raid row, or `None` for a row that is not there — the allocation-free
+/// [`raid_row_guids`]`[index - 1]`.
+pub(crate) fn raid_row_guid(
+    group: &GroupState,
+    self_guid: Option<u64>,
+    index: usize,
+) -> Option<u64> {
+    raid_rows(group, self_guid).nth(index.checked_sub(1)?)
 }
 
 /// A raid row index (1-based, the Lua scale) → the guid it names, or `None` for a row that is not
 /// there. Every raid-management verb goes through this, so "index 0", "index 500" and "not in a
 /// raid" all collapse to the same quiet no-op the reference's own bindings produce.
 fn raid_guid_at(group: &GroupState, self_guid: Option<u64>, index: u32) -> Option<u64> {
-    let rows = raid_row_guids(group, self_guid);
-    rows.get(usize::try_from(index).ok()?.checked_sub(1)?)
-        .copied()
+    raid_row_guid(group, self_guid, usize::try_from(index).ok()?)
 }
 
 /// A guid → the character name the wire wants for the by-name group opcodes. Ours comes from the
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_party/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_party/mod.rs
index 36c497c7b..b9868f201 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_party/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_party/mod.rs
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ use bevy::prelude::*;
 use crate::ui_script::UiInput;
 
 mod feed;
-pub(crate) use feed::{raid_row_guids, synthetic_raid, synthetic_roster};
+pub(crate) use feed::{raid_row_guid, synthetic_raid, synthetic_roster, PARTY_TOKENS, RAID_TOKENS};
 
 pub(crate) struct UiPartyPlugin;
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/honor_frame_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/honor_frame_tests.rs
index 7858cf099..9bd8524b3 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/honor_frame_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/honor_frame_tests.rs
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ fn shown_inspect_honor_page() -> UiScript {
     s.set_unit("player", Some(alliance_player()));
     // 4 yards away (d² = 16), inside the verified `CanInspect` 100.0 — the window refuses to open
     // otherwise, and a silently-refused open would read as a broken pane.
-    s.set_inspect_reach(HashMap::from([("target".to_string(), reach(16.0))]));
+    s.set_unit_reach(HashMap::from([("target".to_string(), reach(16.0))]));
     s.set_inspect_honor(Some(inspect_reply()));
     s.run(r#"InspectUnit("target")"#).unwrap();
     s.run(r#"ToggleInspect("BenillaInspectHonorFrame")"#)
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/inspect_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/inspect_tests.rs
index 3c1caccbf..6ba96e45f 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/inspect_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/inspect_tests.rs
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ fn armed() -> UiScript {
     s.set_unit("target", Some(target_unit()));
     s.set_inspect(Some(inspect_view("target")));
     // 4 yards away (d² = 16) — comfortably inside the verified 100.0.
-    s.set_inspect_reach(HashMap::from([("target".to_string(), reach(16.0))]));
+    s.set_unit_reach(HashMap::from([("target".to_string(), reach(16.0))]));
     s
 }
 
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ fn shipped_inspect_frame_loads_clean() {
 fn inspect_unit_refuses_out_of_range() {
     let mut s = armed();
     // 11 yards (d² = 121) — past the verified 100.0 threshold.
-    s.set_inspect_reach(HashMap::from([("target".to_string(), reach(121.0))]));
+    s.set_unit_reach(HashMap::from([("target".to_string(), reach(121.0))]));
 
     s.run(r#"InspectUnit("target")"#).unwrap();
     assert!(s.errors().is_empty(), "errors: {:?}", s.errors());
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ fn inspect_unit_refuses_out_of_range() {
     );
 
     // Step inside the threshold: the same call now opens and requests.
-    s.set_inspect_reach(HashMap::from([("target".to_string(), reach(99.9))]));
+    s.set_unit_reach(HashMap::from([("target".to_string(), reach(99.9))]));
     s.run(r#"InspectUnit("target")"#).unwrap();
     assert!(
         s.eval::<bool>("return BenillaInspectFrame:IsVisible()")
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ fn range_predicates_transcribe_the_verified_thresholds() {
         (100.0, true, false),
         (100.1, false, false),
     ] {
-        s.set_inspect_reach(HashMap::from([("target".to_string(), reach(d2))]));
+        s.set_unit_reach(HashMap::from([("target".to_string(), reach(d2))]));
         assert_eq!(
             s.eval::<bool>(r#"return CanInspect("target") ~= nil"#)
                 .unwrap(),
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ fn range_predicates_transcribe_the_verified_thresholds() {
         );
     }
     // Type 4 is the 30-yard row (900.0) — the table is indexed, not hardcoded to one distance.
-    s.set_inspect_reach(HashMap::from([("target".to_string(), reach(899.0))]));
+    s.set_unit_reach(HashMap::from([("target".to_string(), reach(899.0))]));
     assert!(s
         .eval::<bool>(r#"return CheckInteractDistance("target", 4) ~= nil"#)
         .unwrap());
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ fn range_predicates_transcribe_the_verified_thresholds() {
     );
 
     // The `type` argument's three degenerate arms, each the binary's own answer.
-    s.set_inspect_reach(HashMap::from([("target".to_string(), reach(1.0))]));
+    s.set_unit_reach(HashMap::from([("target".to_string(), reach(1.0))]));
     for bad in ["0", "5", "-1", "0.5"] {
         assert!(
             s.eval::<bool>(&format!(
@@ -281,6 +281,20 @@ fn range_predicates_transcribe_the_verified_thresholds() {
             .is_err(),
         "no distIndex is a script error"
     );
+
+    // The token is CASE-FOLDED, like every compare in the resolver both predicates reach their
+    // unit through (`_strnicmp`, 1247) — the same fold `UnitName("Target")` already gets. An
+    // addon that capitalises must not be told the unit is out of range.
+    assert!(
+        s.eval::<bool>(r#"return CheckInteractDistance("TARGET", 1) ~= nil"#)
+            .unwrap(),
+        "an upper-case token names the same unit"
+    );
+    assert!(
+        s.eval::<bool>(r#"return CanInspect("Target") ~= nil"#)
+            .unwrap(),
+        "…for both predicates"
+    );
 }
 
 /// **The doll shows THEIR gear, not ours.** Both sources are fed, with different items in the same
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_unit.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_unit.rs
index 457d20386..2cbcf08cc 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_unit.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_unit.rs
@@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ impl Plugin for UiUnitPlugin {
             Update,
             (
                 feed_units,
+                feed_unit_reach,
                 melee_unit_combat,
                 fire_unit_combat,
                 fire_combat_text,
@@ -503,6 +504,185 @@ pub(crate) fn player_token_guid(
     }
 }
 
+/// **The one unit-token resolver** — token → the live object it names, or `None`.
+///
+/// The reference has exactly one of these (`0x515970`, nine `_strnicmp` compares, then the object
+/// manager), and every binding that takes a unit reaches its unit through it. We had three: this
+/// one (inlined in `TargetUnit`'s drain), [`player_token_guid`]'s players-only popup map, and the
+/// per-token legs [`feed_units`] walks. They disagreed, and the disagreement was report **B304** —
+/// the range map was built from the players-only one, so a creature `"target"` never entered it and
+/// `CheckInteractDistance("target", 4)` answered a constant for every mob at every distance.
+///
+/// So: one resolver, and a caller that wants a *typemask* applies it to the resolved unit rather
+/// than narrowing the token (the same order 1564 §2 settled for the reach map's own entries, and
+/// the one `target::by_name`'s follow drain already keeps for the start gate).
+///
+/// [`Selection`] is a parameter rather than a field because [`crate::target::SelectCommit`] holds
+/// it as `ResMut`, and one system cannot take both.
+///
+/// **Not resolved:** `partypetN`/`raidpetN` (no feed holds those units at all — a token nothing
+/// pushes a `UnitState` for would answer a distance for a unit `UnitExists` denies) and `npc`
+/// (the interaction target, which we do not keep). Both are *recognised* by the grammar
+/// ([`benilla_ui::script`]'s `token_recognised`), so they stay a quiet nil, not a raise.
+#[derive(bevy::ecs::system::SystemParam)]
+pub(crate) struct UnitTokens<'w, 's> {
+    /// `Option` for [`feed_units`]' reason: a UI-only harness runs these feeds with no net stack,
+    /// and a bare `Res` turns that into a system-validation panic rather than a token that names
+    /// nobody. Same for the two below, which belong to the pet and targeting plugins.
+    index: Option<Res<'w, crate::net::GuidIndex>>,
+    pet: Option<Res<'w, crate::ui_pet::PetBar>>,
+    hovered: Option<Res<'w, crate::target::Hovered>>,
+    group: Res<'w, crate::ui_party::GroupState>,
+    pub(crate) stores: Query<'w, 's, &'static ObjectStore>,
+    me: Query<'w, 's, (Entity, &'static Guid), With<SelfPlayer>>,
+}
+
+impl UnitTokens<'_, '_> {
+    /// Our own body's entity + guid.
+    fn me(&self) -> Option<(Entity, u64)> {
+        self.me.iter().next().map(|(e, g)| (e, g.0))
+    }
+
+    /// The guid → entity map, when the net stack is present.
+    fn held(&self, guid: u64) -> Option<(Entity, u64)> {
+        Some((*self.index.as_ref()?.0.get(&guid)?, guid))
+    }
+
+    /// Resolve `token` to the live object it names. Case-folded (`_strnicmp`, 1247), and the
+    /// prefix order is the reference's: `raid` before `party` for the same reason its own resolver
+    /// puts `partypet` before `party` — the first matching compare wins.
+    pub(crate) fn resolve(&self, token: &str, selection: &Selection) -> Option<(Entity, u64)> {
+        let token = token.to_ascii_lowercase();
+        match token.as_str() {
+            "player" => self.me(),
+            "target" => selection.target.zip(selection.guid),
+            // The target's own target, one hop off `UNIT_FIELD_TARGET` — the read `/assist` and
+            // the `"targettarget"` snapshot both run (decision 1576).
+            "targettarget" => selection
+                .target
+                .and_then(|e| self.stores.get(e).ok())
+                .and_then(|s| s.0.unit_target())
+                .filter(|g| *g != 0)
+                .and_then(|g| self.held(g)),
+            // The hovered unit — the same `Hovered` pick `ui_tooltip` pushes `"mouseover"` from,
+            // so `UnitExists("mouseover")` and this can never disagree.
+            "mouseover" => {
+                let h = self.hovered.as_ref()?;
+                h.target.zip(h.guid)
+            }
+            // Off the bar's cached guid, the word `"pet"`'s snapshot and `UNIT_PET` read.
+            "pet" => {
+                let guid = self.pet.as_ref()?.spells.pet_guid;
+                (guid != 0).then(|| self.held(guid)).flatten()
+            }
+            t if t.starts_with("raid") => t
+                .strip_prefix("raid")
+                .and_then(|n| n.parse::<usize>().ok())
+                .filter(|n| (1..=40).contains(n))
+                .and_then(|n| {
+                    crate::ui_party::raid_row_guid(&self.group, self.me().map(|(_, g)| g), n)
+                })
+                .and_then(|g| self.held(g)),
+            t => t
+                .strip_prefix("party")
+                .and_then(|n| n.parse::<usize>().ok())
+                .filter(|n| (1..=4).contains(n))
+                .and_then(|n| self.group.party_slots().nth(n - 1).map(|m| m.guid))
+                .and_then(|g| self.held(g)),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// The tokens [`feed_unit_reach`] offers the map each frame — every token [`UnitTokens`] can
+/// resolve, reusing the party feed's own two tables so this set can never name a row that feed
+/// does not push a `UnitState` for. `"player"` is in it because the reference answers it too
+/// (d² = 0, in range of everything); the popup rows that started this map need only the first few.
+fn reach_tokens() -> impl Iterator<Item = &'static str> {
+    ["player", "target", "targettarget", "mouseover", "pet"]
+        .into_iter()
+        .chain(crate::ui_party::PARTY_TOKENS)
+        .chain(crate::ui_party::RAID_TOKENS)
+}
+
+/// The squared distance between two world positions, in the binary's own accumulation shape: `f32`
+/// inputs widened to `f64`, summed `(dz² + dx²) + dy²` (wow-re's transcription of
+/// `0x48a26f..0x48a27d`, the kernel `caninspect_dist2` and `check_interact_dist2` share).
+///
+/// Our axes are Bevy's rather than the client's WoW triple. d² is invariant under that rotation, so
+/// the only conceivable divergence from the binary is a last-ulp one — which can only change the
+/// verdict for a unit standing *exactly* on a threshold. The thresholds and comparison operators,
+/// which are what actually decide each gate, are transcribed exactly at the two bindings
+/// (`benilla_ui::script::inspect`).
+fn dist_sq(q: Vec3, p: Vec3) -> f64 {
+    let dx = f64::from(q.x) - f64::from(p.x);
+    let dy = f64::from(q.y) - f64::from(p.y);
+    let dz = f64::from(q.z) - f64::from(p.z);
+    (dz * dz + dx * dx) + dy * dy
+}
+
+/// Feed the **unit reach map** — for every token that resolves to a live unit object, its squared
+/// distance from us, plus whether that unit passes inspect's own two non-distance refusals.
+///
+/// **Membership is the object lookup and nothing else** (1564 §2). An absent token is one the
+/// object manager holds no unit for, and both bindings answer `nil` there — the reference's own
+/// null-object arm. Every typemask therefore rides IN the entry:
+///
+/// - *attackable* — vmangos's inspect refusal (`IsValidAttackTarget`, `MiscHandler.cpp:945-956`).
+///   Keeping the token out of the map instead would make `CheckInteractDistance` — a pure distance
+///   test in the binary — gray Follow and Duel on an enemy player the reference leaves live (B316).
+/// - *is a player* — vmangos's other one (`sObjectMgr.GetPlayer`). This is the leg that was applied
+///   at the token and was report **B304**: a creature `"target"` never entered the map, so the
+///   30-yard rung Quiver's Dead Zone band reads answered a constant for every mob — "in range" at
+///   the published tag, "out of range" after 1564 flipped the absent default. Both are the same
+///   defect: the map was never asked about mobs at all.
+///
+/// That the *client* checks those two is INFERRED (the 348-byte `0x48a1b0`'s non-math part isn't in
+/// the RE record), but a wrong guess can only cost a request the server would drop.
+///
+/// Ungated, unlike every other feed here (1439): the numbers change whenever anything moves, so a
+/// change gate would fire every frame anyway and cost a comparison for nothing. Nothing keys an
+/// event off this map, so a re-push is invisible.
+fn feed_unit_reach(
+    script: Option<NonSendMut<UiScript>>,
+    tokens: UnitTokens,
+    selection: Res<Selection>,
+    self_q: Query<(&Transform, &ObjectStore), With<SelfPlayer>>,
+    transforms: Query<&Transform>,
+    factions: Option<Res<Factions>>,
+    reputations: Res<Reputations>,
+) {
+    let Some(mut script) = script else {
+        return;
+    };
+    let mut reach = HashMap::new();
+    if let Some((self_tf, self_store)) = self_q.iter().next() {
+        for token in reach_tokens() {
+            let Some((entity, guid)) = tokens.resolve(token, &selection) else {
+                continue;
+            };
+            let Ok(tf) = transforms.get(entity) else {
+                continue;
+            };
+            let store = tokens.stores.get(entity).ok();
+            let inspectable = benilla_protocol::guid::is_player(guid)
+                && !crate::target::can_attack(
+                    store,
+                    factions.as_deref(),
+                    &reputations,
+                    Some(self_store),
+                );
+            reach.insert(
+                token.to_string(),
+                benilla_ui::script::UnitReach {
+                    dist_sq: dist_sq(tf.translation, self_tf.translation),
+                    inspectable,
+                },
+            );
+        }
+    }
+    script.set_unit_reach(reach);
+}
+
 /// Build a unit snapshot from a streamed object's descriptor (decision 0061's `ObjectFields`) plus
 /// its cache-resolved name and its `UnitReaction` value (`1..8`, or `0` for tokens whose reaction we
 /// don't resolve — everything but `"target"`; see [`feed_units`]).
@@ -1379,6 +1559,133 @@ fn combo_edge(last: Option<(u8, u64)>, now: (u8, u64)) -> Option<bool> {
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
 
+    /// **Report B304 — Quiver's range indicator read Dead Zone on a far target.**
+    ///
+    /// Its Dead Zone rung is `IsActionInRange(AutoShot) ~= 1` **and**
+    /// `CheckInteractDistance("target", 4)` truthy (`Quiver.bundle.lua:3136-3150`), i.e. "cannot
+    /// shoot, but inside 30 yards". The reach map only ever held *players*, so a creature
+    /// `"target"` never entered it and the 30-yard rung answered a **constant** for every mob at
+    /// every distance: "in range" at the published tag (the old permissive default), and — after
+    /// 1564 flipped that default for B316 — "out of range" for a mob standing next to you. Two
+    /// different wrong answers from one defect: the map was never asked about creatures at all.
+    ///
+    /// So this drives the feed with a real creature target at three distances and reads the rung
+    /// itself. The player-only leg it used to apply at the token now rides in the entry, which the
+    /// `CanInspect` assertions pin: a boar three yards away is in interact range and is still not
+    /// inspectable.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_creature_target_enters_the_reach_map_at_its_real_distance() {
+        use benilla_protocol::messages::ObjectFields;
+        use bevy::ecs::system::RunSystemOnce;
+
+        /// `UNIT_FIELD_FLAGS` bit 1 (NON_ATTACKABLE) — one of `can_attack`'s five disqualifiers,
+        /// so a unit carrying it is `inspectable` as far as the entry is concerned.
+        const NON_ATTACKABLE: u32 = 1 << 1;
+        const FIELD_UNIT_FLAGS: u16 = 46;
+        const ME: u64 = 0x0000_0000_0000_0001;
+        const BOAR: u64 = 0xF130_0000_0000_0002;
+        const FRIEND: u64 = 0x0000_0000_0000_0003;
+
+        /// Seat one target `yards` away and answer `expr` against it.
+        fn ask(guid: u64, flags: u32, yards: f32, expr: &str) -> bool {
+            let mut app = App::new();
+            app.init_resource::<crate::ui_party::GroupState>()
+                .init_resource::<Reputations>();
+            app.insert_non_send_resource(UiScript::new().unwrap());
+
+            let me = app
+                .world_mut()
+                .spawn((
+                    SelfPlayer,
+                    Guid(ME),
+                    ObjectStore(ObjectFields::default()),
+                    Transform::from_xyz(0.0, 0.0, 0.0),
+                ))
+                .id();
+            let target = app
+                .world_mut()
+                .spawn((
+                    Guid(guid),
+                    ObjectStore(ObjectFields::from_pairs(&[(FIELD_UNIT_FLAGS, flags)])),
+                    // Along one axis, so d² is exactly yards² and the thresholds are readable.
+                    Transform::from_xyz(yards, 0.0, 0.0),
+                ))
+                .id();
+            app.insert_resource(crate::net::GuidIndex(
+                [(ME, me), (guid, target)].into_iter().collect(),
+            ));
+            app.insert_resource(Selection {
+                target: Some(target),
+                guid: Some(guid),
+            });
+
+            app.world_mut().run_system_once(feed_unit_reach).unwrap();
+            app.world_mut()
+                .non_send_resource_mut::<UiScript>()
+                .eval::<bool>(expr)
+                .unwrap()
+        }
+
+        // The report itself: a mob well past 30 yards is OUT of the 30-yard row, so Quiver's
+        // "inside 30 but cannot shoot" conjunction is false and the bar reads Out of Range.
+        assert!(
+            ask(
+                BOAR,
+                0,
+                40.0,
+                r#"return CheckInteractDistance("target", 4) == nil"#
+            ),
+            "a creature 40 yards away is out of the 30-yard row"
+        );
+        // …and the same rung still says YES inside the band, which is the half a token that is
+        // simply absent can never do — before this, no mob at any distance could light it.
+        assert!(
+            ask(
+                BOAR,
+                0,
+                15.0,
+                r#"return CheckInteractDistance("target", 4) ~= nil"#
+            ),
+            "a creature 15 yards away is inside the 30-yard row"
+        );
+        assert!(
+            ask(
+                BOAR,
+                0,
+                15.0,
+                r#"return CheckInteractDistance("target", 1) == nil"#
+            ),
+            "…and outside the 10-yard one: the table is indexed, not a constant"
+        );
+
+        // The typemask moved into the entry rather than vanishing: a creature in interact range is
+        // still not something `CanInspect` says yes to.
+        assert!(
+            ask(
+                BOAR,
+                0,
+                3.0,
+                r#"return CheckInteractDistance("target", 1) ~= nil"#
+            ),
+            "a creature 3 yards away is in interact range"
+        );
+        assert!(
+            ask(BOAR, 0, 3.0, r#"return CanInspect("target") == nil"#),
+            "…and is still not inspectable — the players-only leg rides in the entry"
+        );
+        // The control: a non-attackable PLAYER at the same spot is inspectable, so the assertion
+        // above is about the guid type and not about the map having gone dark.
+        assert!(
+            ask(
+                FRIEND,
+                NON_ATTACKABLE,
+                3.0,
+                r#"return CanInspect("target") ~= nil"#
+            ),
+            "a non-attackable player 3 yards away is inspectable"
+        );
+    }
+
     /// The combo feed pushes on either half moving but speaks only for the count — the client's
     /// watch is on that byte alone (decision 0879).
     #[test]
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/tests/tradeskill_frame.rs b/crates/benilla-app/tests/tradeskill_frame.rs
index 76bfaedeb..f9a94d4be 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/tests/tradeskill_frame.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/tests/tradeskill_frame.rs
@@ -224,3 +224,140 @@ fn craft_collapse_tab_loads_with_text_and_stays_hidden_for_a_flat_list() {
         "zero headers → the tab hides (ref l.269-282's own scan)"
     );
 }
+
+/// **The reagent slot IS `QuestItemTemplate`** — B250's pin, in both windows.
+///
+/// The ref's `TradeSkillItemTemplate` (Blizzard_TradeSkillUI.xml l.11-35) and `CraftItemTemplate`
+/// (Blizzard_CraftUI.xml l.29-53) each inherit `QuestItemTemplate` and override **only scripts**, so
+/// the slot's whole visual is that template's: 147×41, a 39×39 icon, the `UI-QuestItemNameFrame`
+/// plate on the icon's right edge, the name centred ON the plate, and the count on the icon's own
+/// BOTTOMRIGHT.
+///
+/// Every assertion here is one the shape that shipped before B250 would fail — a 140×32 slot with a
+/// 28×28 icon, no plate at all, the name top-anchored right of the icon and the count *below* the
+/// name. It is written that way on purpose (decision 1107's "so the sibling law would fail it"): the
+/// numbers alone would let a future session drift the slot back toward a hand-rolled shape with no
+/// test going red.
+#[test]
+fn reagent_slots_carry_the_questitemtemplate_shape_in_both_windows() {
+    let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
+    load_ui(&s);
+
+    // Both windows open (a slot's anchors resolve against a laid-out parent), and the slots this
+    // test measures are shown — the ref's own SetSelection shows one per reagent.
+    s.set_trade_skill(Some(state()));
+    s.fire_event("TRADE_SKILL_SHOW", vec![]);
+    s.fire_event("CRAFT_SHOW", vec![]);
+    for w in ["BenillaTradeSkillReagent", "BenillaCraftReagent"] {
+        for i in 1..=3 {
+            s.run(&format!("{w}{i}:Show()")).unwrap();
+        }
+    }
+
+    for w in ["BenillaTradeSkillReagent", "BenillaCraftReagent"] {
+        let num = |expr: &str| {
+            s.eval::<f64>(&format!("return {expr}"))
+                .unwrap_or_else(|e| panic!("{expr}: {e}"))
+        };
+
+        // The row box: 147×41, the ref's QuestItemTemplate <Size>.
+        assert_eq!(
+            (
+                num(&format!("{w}1:GetWidth()")),
+                num(&format!("{w}1:GetHeight()"))
+            ),
+            (147.0, 41.0),
+            "{w}1 row box"
+        );
+
+        // The 2-column grid: column 2 opens exactly one row-width right (Reagent2 anchors
+        // LEFT→Reagent1's RIGHT with a zero offset, so the pitch IS the row width) …
+        assert_eq!(
+            num(&format!("{w}2:GetLeft()")) - num(&format!("{w}1:GetLeft()")),
+            147.0,
+            "{w} column pitch"
+        );
+        // … and row 2 drops one row height plus the ref's own 2px gutter.
+        assert_eq!(
+            num(&format!("{w}3:GetTop()")) - num(&format!("{w}1:GetTop()")),
+            -43.0,
+            "{w} row step"
+        );
+
+        // The icon: 39×39 flush in the row's TOPLEFT corner.
+        assert_eq!(
+            (
+                num(&format!("{w}1Icon:GetWidth()")),
+                num(&format!("{w}1Icon:GetHeight()"))
+            ),
+            (39.0, 39.0),
+            "{w}1 icon"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            num(&format!("{w}1Icon:GetLeft()")),
+            num(&format!("{w}1:GetLeft()")),
+            "{w}1 icon flush left"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            num(&format!("{w}1Icon:GetTop()")),
+            num(&format!("{w}1:GetTop()")),
+            "{w}1 icon flush top"
+        );
+
+        // The name plate — the piece that was missing entirely. Its 128×64 texture starts 10px
+        // inside the icon's right edge and is centred on the icon's own middle.
+        assert_eq!(
+            s.eval::<String>(&format!("return {w}1NameFrame:GetTexture()"))
+                .unwrap(),
+            "Interface\\QuestFrame\\UI-QuestItemNameFrame",
+            "{w}1 name plate art"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            (
+                num(&format!("{w}1NameFrame:GetWidth()")),
+                num(&format!("{w}1NameFrame:GetHeight()"))
+            ),
+            (128.0, 64.0),
+            "{w}1 plate size"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            num(&format!("{w}1NameFrame:GetLeft()")) - num(&format!("{w}1Icon:GetRight()")),
+            -10.0,
+            "{w}1 plate rides the icon's right edge"
+        );
+
+        // The name sits ON the plate (+15 from its left), vertically centred — not above-right of
+        // the icon, where the pre-B250 shape put it.
+        assert_eq!(
+            num(&format!("{w}1Name:GetLeft()")) - num(&format!("{w}1NameFrame:GetLeft()")),
+            15.0,
+            "{w}1 name inset"
+        );
+        let (nc, pc) = (
+            num(&format!("({w}1Name:GetTop() + {w}1Name:GetBottom()) / 2")),
+            num(&format!(
+                "({w}1NameFrame:GetTop() + {w}1NameFrame:GetBottom()) / 2"
+            )),
+        );
+        assert!(
+            (nc - pc).abs() < 0.01,
+            "{w}1 name is centred on the plate ({nc} vs {pc})"
+        );
+
+        // The count rides the ICON's bottom-right corner (-4, +1) — not a line below the name.
+        assert_eq!(
+            num(&format!("{w}1Count:GetRight()")) - num(&format!("{w}1Icon:GetRight()")),
+            -4.0,
+            "{w}1 count x"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            num(&format!("{w}1Count:GetBottom()")) - num(&format!("{w}1Icon:GetBottom()")),
+            1.0,
+            "{w}1 count y"
+        );
+        assert!(
+            num(&format!("{w}1Count:GetBottom()")) >= num(&format!("{w}1Icon:GetBottom()")),
+            "{w}1 count sits ON the icon, not below the row"
+        );
+    }
+}
diff --git a/crates/benilla-formats/src/bin/benilla-extract/scan/geometry.rs b/crates/benilla-formats/src/bin/benilla-extract/scan/geometry.rs
index 41e33d2f5..e4578f8e8 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-formats/src/bin/benilla-extract/scan/geometry.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-formats/src/bin/benilla-extract/scan/geometry.rs
@@ -115,6 +115,26 @@ fn facet_x(s: &benilla_formats::RenderSubmesh) -> Option<f32> {
     (len > 1e-9).then(|| n[0] / len)
 }
 
+/// The widest max/min axis spread a scale track ever holds — `1.0` for a uniform track (the
+/// overwhelming majority: a glow card that only pulses in size), `> 1` for one that stretches its
+/// bone along an axis. A key with an axis at or below zero contributes `1.0`: a zero axis is the
+/// reference's own "hide this" (the eyelid blink's retracted lid), not a stretch, and dividing by
+/// it would report infinity.
+fn scale_spread<T>(keys: &[(T, [f32; 3])]) -> f32 {
+    keys.iter()
+        .map(|(_, s)| {
+            let (lo, hi) = s
+                .iter()
+                .fold((f32::MAX, 0.0f32), |(lo, hi), &v| (lo.min(v), hi.max(v)));
+            if lo > 1e-4 {
+                hi / lo
+            } else {
+                1.0
+            }
+        })
+        .fold(1.0f32, f32::max)
+}
+
 /// Sweep every `.m2` (under `prefix`, if given) and classify its billboard usage — see the
 /// `Bbscan` command doc. Output per model: the authored arms and how many vertices ride each
 /// DIRECTLY (primary bone is the billboard bone — the card path) vs INHERITED (primary bone
@@ -123,6 +143,16 @@ fn facet_x(s: &benilla_formats::RenderSubmesh) -> Option<f32> {
 /// emitter on (or under) a billboard bone has a camera-dependent origin, because the reference
 /// folds the record position through the *replaced* palette matrix
 /// (wow-re `part-anchoring-live-bone.md` §1 row 3 · `m2emitspine::particle_bone_xform`).
+///
+/// The `NONUNIF[…]` column is the third population: billboard bones whose SCALE is animated
+/// **non-uniformly** (in any sequence band, or on a global-sequence loop), listed as
+/// `bone:arm×ratio` where the ratio is the widest max/min axis spread the bone ever holds. The
+/// billboard law preserves the bone's scale under the substituted camera basis (`T·R_cam·S`), so
+/// such a bone stretches its card along one model axis — the Lightwell's lock-Z shaft
+/// (`World\Goober\G_HolyLightWell.m2` bone 0, `×4.26`) is a 0.12 yd card pulled into a 4.5 yd
+/// column of light. Any consumer that reduces the scale to one scalar renders these squat and
+/// blown-out instead (bug B169), and a `d` in the direct column is where that lands on a **card**,
+/// whose transform is rebuilt from the joint rather than skinned from it.
 pub fn bbscan(chain: &mut Chain, prefix: Option<&str>) -> Result<()> {
     let names = super::m2_names(chain, prefix)?;
     let arm = |k: benilla_formats::BillboardKind| match k {
@@ -140,6 +170,10 @@ pub fn bbscan(chain: &mut Chain, prefix: Option<&str>) -> Result<()> {
     let mut fx_total: HashMap<String, u32> = HashMap::new();
     // …and the seam population (see the classification below).
     let (mut seam_models, mut seam_bones) = (0u32, 0u32);
+    // …and the non-uniform-scale population: billboard bones that stretch their card along one
+    // model axis, split by whether geometry rides them DIRECTLY (the card path, where a scalar
+    // scale loses the stretch outright) or only by inheritance (the palette path).
+    let (mut nonunif_models, mut nonunif_bones, mut nonunif_direct) = (0u32, 0u32, 0u32);
     for name in names {
         let Ok(bytes) = chain.read_file(&name) else {
             continue;
@@ -225,6 +259,53 @@ pub fn bbscan(chain: &mut Chain, prefix: Option<&str>) -> Result<()> {
             v.join(" ")
         };
         let bones: String = kinds.iter().flatten().map(|&k| arm(k)).collect();
+        // NON-UNIFORM billboard scale (see the `NONUNIF` column in the doc above).
+        let seqs = benilla_formats::parse_m2_animations(&bytes);
+        let gseq = benilla_formats::parse_m2_global_sequence_bones(&bytes);
+        let mut nonunif: BTreeMap<usize, f32> = BTreeMap::new();
+        for bk in seqs.iter().flat_map(|a| &a.bones) {
+            let r = scale_spread(&bk.scale);
+            if r > 1.01 {
+                let e = nonunif.entry(bk.bone as usize).or_insert(1.0);
+                *e = e.max(r);
+            }
+        }
+        for gb in &gseq {
+            let Some(ch) = &gb.scale else { continue };
+            let r = scale_spread(&ch.keys);
+            if r > 1.01 {
+                let e = nonunif.entry(gb.bone as usize).or_insert(1.0);
+                *e = e.max(r);
+            }
+        }
+        // Only the BILLBOARD bones matter — an ordinary bone's non-uniform scale rides the joint
+        // palette like any other transform and nothing reduces it.
+        nonunif.retain(|&b, _| kinds.get(b).copied().flatten().is_some());
+        let nonunif_col = if nonunif.is_empty() {
+            String::new()
+        } else {
+            nonunif_models += 1;
+            nonunif_bones += nonunif.len() as u32;
+            // Does geometry ride this bone DIRECTLY (primary bone == it, and separable)? That is
+            // the card path — where the stretch has to survive a transform rebuild.
+            let direct_bone = |b: usize| {
+                !seam.contains(&(b as u16))
+                    && m.vertices.iter().any(|v| v.bone_indices[0] as usize == b)
+            };
+            nonunif_direct += nonunif.keys().filter(|&&b| direct_bone(b)).count() as u32;
+            format!(
+                "  NONUNIF[{}]",
+                nonunif
+                    .iter()
+                    .map(|(&b, r)| format!(
+                        "{b}:{}{}\u{00d7}{r:.2}",
+                        kinds.get(b).copied().flatten().map_or("?", arm),
+                        if direct_bone(b) { "d" } else { "i" }
+                    ))
+                    .collect::<Vec<_>>()
+                    .join(",")
+            )
+        };
         let seam_col = if seam.is_empty() {
             String::new()
         } else {
@@ -239,7 +320,7 @@ pub fn bbscan(chain: &mut Chain, prefix: Option<&str>) -> Result<()> {
             )
         };
         println!(
-            "{bones:>4}  direct[{}]  inherited[{}]  fx[{fx_counts}]{seam_col}  {name}",
+            "{bones:>4}  direct[{}]  inherited[{}]  fx[{fx_counts}]{seam_col}{nonunif_col}  {name}",
             fmt_counts(&direct),
             fmt_counts(&inherited)
         );
@@ -281,7 +362,7 @@ pub fn bbscan(chain: &mut Chain, prefix: Option<&str>) -> Result<()> {
         v.join(" ")
     };
     eprintln!(
-        "{scanned} models scanned, {hits} with billboard bones; models by arm — direct(card) [{}]  inherited(palette) [{}]; {fx_models} with EFFECTS on a billboard chain [{fx_tot}]; {seam_models} with SEAM billboard bones ({seam_bones} total) — geometry welded to the model, which a rigid card tears",
+        "{scanned} models scanned, {hits} with billboard bones; models by arm — direct(card) [{}]  inherited(palette) [{}]; {fx_models} with EFFECTS on a billboard chain [{fx_tot}]; {seam_models} with SEAM billboard bones ({seam_bones} total) — geometry welded to the model, which a rigid card tears; {nonunif_models} with NON-UNIFORM billboard scale ({nonunif_bones} bones, {nonunif_direct} of them ridden DIRECTLY = a card whose stretch a scalar scale would lose)",
         tot(&direct_models),
         tot(&inherited_models)
     );
diff --git a/crates/benilla-formats/src/spells/catalog_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-formats/src/spells/catalog_tests.rs
index 6e5df156d..8a0da9908 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-formats/src/spells/catalog_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-formats/src/spells/catalog_tests.rs
@@ -711,29 +711,55 @@ fn real_spell_catalog_reads_tooltip_columns() {
     );
 }
 
-/// The combat-initiation classes on the real build-5875 `Spell.dbc` — the two accessor masks
+/// The combat-initiation classes on the real build-5875 `Spell.dbc` — the three accessor masks
 /// the cast seam's queue/attack-start logic keys on ([`SpellDisplay::on_next_swing`] `0x404`,
-/// [`SpellDisplay::initiates_auto_attack`] adding `AttributesEx & 0x200`), pinned against the
-/// vmangos `spell_template` rows read at decision time (2026-07-14). A column slip or a mask
-/// slip fails loudly. Skips without client data.
+/// [`SpellDisplay::initiates_auto_attack`] adding `AttributesEx & 0x200`, and its GO-deferred
+/// complement [`SpellDisplay::initiates_auto_attack_at_go`] on `AttributesEx2 & 0x100000`),
+/// pinned against the vmangos `spell_template` rows read at decision time (2026-07-14). A column
+/// slip or a mask slip fails loudly. Skips without client data.
+///
+/// **The bit20 column is why this test was rewritten** (decision 1593). It used to assert
+/// `attributes_ex2 & 0x100000 == 0` *for each of the ten spells listed here* and read that as
+/// "no spell carries the bit, so the deferred GO-time start is unbuilt". Ten warrior/mage rows
+/// are not a census: the real file carries it on 36. The census below is the check that claim
+/// needed, and it is now the thing that would catch the bit going dormant for real.
 #[test]
 fn real_spell_catalog_classifies_combat_initiation() {
     let data = crate::wow_data_or_skip!();
     let mut chain = crate::open_chain(&data).expect("open chain");
     let cat = load_spell_catalog(&mut chain).expect("load Spell/SpellIcon");
 
-    // (spell, on_next_swing, initiates_auto_attack)
-    for (id, name, next_swing, initiates) in [
-        (78u32, "Heroic Strike", true, true), // Attributes 0x50014
-        (845, "Cleave", true, true),          // Attributes 0x50014, Ex 0x200
-        (2973, "Raptor Strike", true, true),  // Attributes 0x50404
-        (772, "Rend", false, true),           // Ex 0x8000200
-        (7386, "Sunder Armor", false, true),  // Ex 0x8000200
-        (1464, "Slam", false, true),          // Ex 0x8000200
-        (100, "Charge", false, false),        // Ex 0x400 — neither bit
-        (6673, "Battle Shout", false, false), // Ex 0x0
-        (6603, "Attack", false, false),       // the auto-attack pseudo-spell itself
-        (133, "Fireball", false, false),      // an ordinary cast
+    // (spell, on_next_swing, initiates_auto_attack, initiates_auto_attack_at_go)
+    for (id, name, next_swing, initiates, at_go) in [
+        (78u32, "Heroic Strike", true, true, false), // Attributes 0x50014
+        (845, "Cleave", true, true, false),          // Attributes 0x50014, Ex 0x200
+        (2973, "Raptor Strike", true, true, false),  // Attributes 0x50404
+        (772, "Rend", false, true, false),           // Ex 0x8000200
+        (7386, "Sunder Armor", false, true, false),  // Ex 0x8000200
+        (1464, "Slam", false, true, false),          // Ex 0x8000200
+        (100, "Charge", false, false, false),        // Ex 0x400 — neither bit, and bit20 CLEAR
+        (6673, "Battle Shout", false, false, false), // Ex 0x0
+        (6603, "Attack", false, false, false),       // the auto-attack pseudo-spell itself
+        (133, "Fireball", false, false, false),      // an ordinary cast
+        // The GO-deferred class: bit20 SET, so the send-time tail is suppressed and the start
+        // waits for `SMSG_SPELL_GO` (`0x6e83c0`). Every stealth opener and positional strike.
+        (53, "Backstab", false, false, true), // Attributes 0x50010, Ex 0x8000200, Ex2 0x100000
+        (703, "Garrote", false, false, true),
+        (8676, "Ambush", false, false, true),
+        (1833, "Cheap Shot", false, false, true),
+        (5221, "Shred", false, false, true),
+        (6785, "Ravage", false, false, true),
+        (9005, "Pounce", false, false, true),
+        (20271, "Judgement", false, false, true), // Ex 0x0 — bit20 is its ONLY initiation bit
+        // The hunter's instant shots (bug B280): `Attributes 0x00010002` (ranged slot),
+        // `AttributesEx 0`, `AttributesEx2 0x00020000` — bit 17, vmangos
+        // `SPELL_ATTR_EX2_DO_NOT_RESET_COMBAT_TIMERS`, the shot-weaving bit, and NOT bit 20.
+        // So no client attack-start of either kind fires for them; casting one does not begin
+        // Auto Shot, which is what 0994 §4 recorded and what this pins in data.
+        (1978, "Serpent Sting", false, false, false),
+        (3044, "Arcane Shot", false, false, false),
+        (2643, "Multi-Shot", false, false, false),
+        (75, "Auto Shot", false, false, false), // the auto-repeat itself: Ex2 0x20, not 0x100000
     ] {
         let d = cat
             .get(id)
@@ -747,23 +773,58 @@ fn real_spell_catalog_classifies_combat_initiation() {
         assert_eq!(
             d.initiates_auto_attack(),
             initiates,
-            "{name} ({id}) initiates_auto_attack (Attributes {:#x}, Ex {:#x})",
+            "{name} ({id}) initiates_auto_attack (Attributes {:#x}, Ex {:#x}, Ex2 {:#x})",
             d.attributes,
-            d.attributes_ex
-        );
-        // The §5's one DBC-owed bit (wow-re `combat-feel-law.md` @ c445713b): `AttributesEx2 &
-        // 0x100000` (INITIATE_COMBAT_POST_CAST) defers a spell's attack-start to SMSG_SPELL_GO —
-        // a client path benilla leaves unbuilt because no spell here carries the bit. This pins
-        // that from the real client DBC: in particular Charge (100) is bit20-CLEAR, so vanilla
-        // Charge starts no auto-attack through ANY client channel.
-        assert_eq!(
-            d.attributes_ex2 & 0x0010_0000,
-            0,
-            "{name} ({id}) must not carry INITIATE_COMBAT_POST_CAST (Ex2 {:#x}) — the deferred \
-             GO-time attack-start is unbuilt",
+            d.attributes_ex,
             d.attributes_ex2
         );
+        assert_eq!(
+            d.initiates_auto_attack_at_go(),
+            at_go,
+            "{name} ({id}) initiates_auto_attack_at_go (Ex2 {:#x})",
+            d.attributes_ex2
+        );
+        // The two halves are mutually exclusive by construction — bit20 suppresses the send-time
+        // tail — so no spell may ever start the attack twice.
+        assert!(
+            !(d.initiates_auto_attack() && d.initiates_auto_attack_at_go()),
+            "{name} ({id}) may not start the auto-attack at BOTH the send and the GO"
+        );
     }
+
+    // The census the old ten-row assertion stood in for. 36 rows carry bit20 in the shipped file,
+    // and every one of them is a stealth opener, a positional strike or Judgement — the class
+    // whose attack-start has to wait for the server to resolve the strike.
+    let deferred: Vec<(u32, &str)> = cat
+        .iter()
+        .filter(|(_, d)| d.initiates_auto_attack_at_go())
+        .map(|(id, d)| (id, d.name.as_str()))
+        .collect();
+    assert_eq!(
+        deferred.len(),
+        36,
+        "5875 ships 36 INITIATE_COMBAT_POST_CAST rows, got {}: {:?}",
+        deferred.len(),
+        deferred
+    );
+    let mut names: Vec<&str> = deferred.iter().map(|&(_, n)| n).collect();
+    names.sort_unstable();
+    names.dedup();
+    assert_eq!(
+        names,
+        [
+            "Ambush",
+            "Backstab",
+            "Cheap Shot",
+            "Garrote",
+            "Judgement",
+            "Pounce",
+            "Ravage",
+            "Shred",
+            "Test Stab R50",
+        ],
+        "the deferred-start class is the openers, the positional strikes and Judgement"
+    );
 }
 
 /// The crafting columns (decision 0437) on the real build-5875 `Spell.dbc`: `EffectItemType`
diff --git a/crates/benilla-formats/src/spells/display.rs b/crates/benilla-formats/src/spells/display.rs
index eb980c8da..c191a16cb 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-formats/src/spells/display.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-formats/src/spells/display.rs
@@ -627,6 +627,35 @@ impl SpellDisplay {
             && self.attributes_ex2 & ATTR_EX2_INITIATE_COMBAT_POST_CAST == 0
     }
 
+    /// Whether *this spell's own `SMSG_SPELL_GO`* turns on the melee auto-attack — the **deferred**
+    /// half of the same law, [`Self::initiates_auto_attack`]'s exact complement.
+    /// `HandleSpellGo 0x6e7a70` @ `0x6e83c0` (re-read at the bytes for 1593):
+    ///
+    /// ```text
+    /// 6e83c0  call 0x6e5230(rec); test al,al; jne 6e83da   ; AttrEx2 bit20 SET -> start
+    /// 6e83cb  call 0x6e5200(rec); test al,al; je  6e8407   ; else the triad must hold
+    /// 6e83d4  test byte[rec+0x54],0x8; je 6e8407           ; ...AND rec+0x54 bit3
+    /// 6e83da  lea ecx,[esi+0xc48]; call 0x47bf60; or eax,edx; jne 6e8407  ; NOT already attacking
+    /// 6e83e9  hitCount>0 ? guid = hits[0] : (0,0)          ; [ebp-0x20] count, [ebp-0x1c] array
+    /// 6e8402  call 0x6131a0(ecx=caster, guid)              ; START MELEE AUTO-ATTACK
+    /// ```
+    ///
+    /// **Only the bit20 leg is modelled**, deliberately. The `rec+0x54 bit3` leg can only add
+    /// spells that already pass `0x6e5200` with bit20 CLEAR — and those started their attack at
+    /// the *send* (`initiates_auto_attack`), so by their GO the reference's `[+0xc48]` is set and
+    /// `0x6e83e7` refuses. It is unreachable-in-effect, and `rec+0x54`'s column is still only
+    /// INFERRED in wow-re (`combat-feel-law.md` §A3 owes it to the DBC), so building it would be
+    /// guessing at no gain. Modelling it would also be actively *wrong* here: our engaged mirror
+    /// is the server-echoed `Engaged`, not a local lock, so a leg that the reference silences
+    /// with `[+0xc48]` would fire a second `CMSG_ATTACKSWING` on our side.
+    ///
+    /// The 36 spells that reach this and nothing else are the stealth openers and positional
+    /// strikes — Backstab, Garrote, Ambush, Cheap Shot, Shred, Ravage, Pounce — plus Judgement:
+    /// exactly the class whose attack must wait for the server to say the strike landed.
+    pub fn initiates_auto_attack_at_go(&self) -> bool {
+        self.attributes_ex2 & ATTR_EX2_INITIATE_COMBAT_POST_CAST != 0
+    }
+
     /// Hidden from the player's buff bar — the cache-builder's **display filter**
     /// (`PlayerAuras_Update 0x4e4170`'s append pass, sites `0x4e42b6`–`0x4e42c8`). The `Attributes`
     /// clause is a **byte-width** read — `mov cl,[SpellRec+0x18]; test cl,cl; js` — so it tests
diff --git a/crates/benilla-formats/src/spells/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-formats/src/spells/mod.rs
index 294e55238..30ffe7a2a 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-formats/src/spells/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-formats/src/spells/mod.rs
@@ -454,9 +454,16 @@ const ATTR_EX_CHANNELED: u32 = 0x44;
 /// `AttributesEx2` bit `0x100000` — vmangos `SPELL_ATTR_EX2_INITIATE_COMBAT_POST_CAST` ("Client
 /// will send CMSG_ATTACK_SWING after SMSG_SPELL_GO"). The §5-verified send-tail predicate
 /// EXCLUDES it (`[ebp-2] = 0x6e5200 && Ex2-bit20 CLEAR`): a bit20 spell defers its attack-start
-/// to the `SMSG_SPELL_GO` handler (`0x6e83c0`) instead of starting at send. No spell benilla
-/// meets carries it (asserted against the real 5875 `Spell.dbc` in `catalog_tests.rs`), so the
-/// deferred path stays unbuilt — this bit only *suppresses* the send-time start.
+/// to the `SMSG_SPELL_GO` handler (`0x6e83c0`) instead of starting at send. Both halves are
+/// built — [`SpellDisplay::initiates_auto_attack`] is the send-time one, and
+/// [`SpellDisplay::initiates_auto_attack_at_go`] the deferred one.
+///
+/// This doc used to say "no spell benilla meets carries it, so the deferred path stays unbuilt".
+/// That was a proof by absence over the ten warrior/rogue spells `catalog_tests.rs` happened to
+/// list. The real 5875 `Spell.dbc` carries the bit on **36 rows** — every rank of Backstab,
+/// Garrote, Ambush, Cheap Shot, Shred, Ravage and Pounce, plus Judgement 20271 — i.e. every
+/// stealth opener and positional strike in the game, whose attack must wait for the server to
+/// resolve it. The census is the test beside this now (decision 1593, bug B280's sweep).
 const ATTR_EX2_INITIATE_COMBAT_POST_CAST: u32 = 0x0010_0000;
 
 /// `Attributes` bit 25 (`0x0200_0000`) — `SPELL_ATTR_COOLDOWN_ON_EVENT` (vmangos; "disabled while
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/inspect.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/inspect.rs
index dcf36788d..7bece491a 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/inspect.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/inspect.rs
@@ -24,7 +24,10 @@
 //!   family is already unit-keyed; `super::char_stats::player_inv_slot` routes `"player"` to the
 //!   self feed and the inspected token here.
 //! - **Range:** the two verified d² predicates, `CanInspect` and `CheckInteractDistance`, over one
-//!   app-fed per-token distance map ([`UiScript::set_inspect_reach`]) — the VM holds no positions.
+//!   app-fed per-token distance map ([`UiScript::set_unit_reach`]) — the VM holds no positions. The
+//!   map itself is unit-general (every held unit, creature included) and is fed by
+//!   `benilla::ui_unit`; only `CanInspect`'s players-only leg is inspect's, and it rides in the
+//!   entry.
 //!
 //! The view is keyed by **unit token**, not guid — the ref stores `InspectFrame.unit` as a token
 //! and re-reads it on `PLAYER_TARGET_CHANGED`, so an inspect window follows a re-target exactly as
@@ -52,8 +55,8 @@ pub const INTERACT_DIST_SQ: [f64; 4] = [100.0, 123.45678, 100.0, 900.0];
 /// as `INSPECT_DISTANCE` (`ObjectDefines.h:26`), so client and server agree exactly.
 pub const CAN_INSPECT_DIST_SQ: f64 = 100.0;
 
-/// What the app resolved about one popup token's unit this frame — the input both range predicates
-/// read ([`UiScript::set_inspect_reach`]).
+/// What the app resolved about one unit token's unit this frame — the input both range predicates
+/// read ([`UiScript::set_unit_reach`]).
 ///
 /// An entry exists **iff the token resolved to a live unit object**, which is the distinction the
 /// reference's own bindings turn on: `0x515940` maps the token to a GUID and then asks the object
@@ -68,6 +71,11 @@ pub struct UnitReach {
     /// (`sObjectMgr.GetPlayer` and `!IsValidAttackTarget`, `MiscHandler.cpp:945-956`) — consulted
     /// by `CanInspect` alone. `CheckInteractDistance` is a pure distance test in the binary and
     /// must not read this, or following an enemy player would gray a row the reference leaves live.
+    ///
+    /// `sObjectMgr.GetPlayer` is the whole is-it-a-player leg, and it lives **here** rather than in
+    /// the map's membership: the map is fed for every held unit, creature included (B304), so a
+    /// boar 3 yards away is `inspectable: false` while still answering `CheckInteractDistance`
+    /// truthfully.
     pub inspectable: bool,
 }
 
@@ -86,15 +94,25 @@ pub struct InspectView {
 }
 
 impl super::UiScript {
-    /// Push the per-token **inspect reach** map: unit token → squared distance from the player to
-    /// that unit, for every popup token the app could resolve to a live player this frame.
+    /// Push the per-token **unit reach** map: unit token → squared distance from the player to
+    /// that unit, for **every** token the app resolved to a live unit object this frame. Nothing
+    /// to do with `UNIT_FIELD_COMBATREACH` — this is where each token's unit *is*, not how far it
+    /// swings.
     ///
     /// One app-fed number serves both range predicates, because the binary uses the same d² for
     /// both: `CanInspect` compares it against `100.0`, and `CheckInteractDistance(unit, type)`
-    /// against [`INTERACT_DIST_SQ`]`[type-1]`. It lives here rather than on
-    /// [`super::UnitState`] because the popup rows need it for **party** tokens too, and those have
-    /// no `UnitState` (only `"player"`/`"target"`/`"mouseover"` are fed) — keying it off the unit
-    /// snapshot would have left the party menu's rows permanently dead.
+    /// against [`INTERACT_DIST_SQ`]`[type-1]`.
+    ///
+    /// **The map is unit-general, not a players-only or popup-only one.** It was both, and being
+    /// both was report B304: `CheckInteractDistance` is a pure distance test over any unit token in
+    /// the binary, so a creature `"target"` that never entered the map made Quiver's 30-yard rung
+    /// answer a constant for every mob at every distance. The one typemask that *is* real —
+    /// inspect's — rides in the entry as [`UnitReach::inspectable`], never at the token.
+    ///
+    /// It lives here rather than on [`super::UnitState`] because a distance changes **every
+    /// frame**: the unit snapshots are pushed on diff (1439) and fire `UNIT_*` transitions when
+    /// they move, so folding a moving number into them would re-push and re-fire every token every
+    /// frame. This map is re-pushed wholesale instead, and nothing keys an event off it.
     ///
     /// A token absent from the map is a token the object manager holds **no unit for**, and both
     /// predicates answer `nil` there — the reference's own null-object arm (wow-re
@@ -102,8 +120,11 @@ impl super::UiScript {
     /// `lua_pushnil`). It used to read as *in range*, on the reasoning that missing data must not
     /// gray a row; the binary says the opposite, and that default was report B316 — every distance
     /// row lit up for exactly the party member who was too far away to have an object at all.
-    pub fn set_inspect_reach(&mut self, reach: HashMap<String, UnitReach>) {
-        self.model_mut().inspect_reach = reach;
+    ///
+    /// **Keys are lowercase** — the resolver folds case (`_strnicmp`, 1247), so the lookup does
+    /// too, exactly as `Model::unit` does for the snapshots.
+    pub fn set_unit_reach(&mut self, reach: HashMap<String, UnitReach>) {
+        self.model_mut().unit_reach = reach;
     }
 
     /// Push (or clear, with `None`) the inspected unit's resolved equipment view. The app calls
@@ -135,10 +156,19 @@ impl super::UiScript {
 
 /// What the app resolved for `token`, or `None` when it resolved to no live unit at all — the
 /// reference's NULL-object arm, which both predicates answer `nil` to.
+///
+/// Case-folded on the way in, the same shape `Model::unit` uses for the snapshot map: both
+/// predicates reach the unit through the one resolver `0x515970`, whose nine compares are
+/// `_strnicmp` (1247), so `CheckInteractDistance("Target", 4)` is the same question as
+/// `CheckInteractDistance("target", 4)`.
 fn reach(lua: &Lua, token: &Option<String>) -> Option<UnitReach> {
     let token = token.as_deref()?;
     let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
-    model.inspect_reach.get(token).copied()
+    if token.bytes().any(|b| b.is_ascii_uppercase()) {
+        model.unit_reach.get(&token.to_ascii_lowercase()).copied()
+    } else {
+        model.unit_reach.get(token).copied()
+    }
 }
 
 pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
@@ -150,9 +180,11 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
     // `threshold = DAT_00b4d918 = 100.0` (10 yards, the same number vmangos enforces as
     // `INSPECT_DISTANCE`). The operator is theirs too: `test ah,0x41; jne` skips the out-of-range
     // action on `C0|C3` — Less, Equal, *or unordered* — so the three in-range arms below are that
-    // mask spelled out, and a NaN distance reads as in RANGE, not out. Only the app-fed distance is
-    // consulted here; the is-a-player and not-attackable legs are folded in app-side, since a token
-    // that fails them is never entered in the reach map at all. Decision 0631.
+    // mask spelled out, and a NaN distance reads as in RANGE, not out. The is-a-player and
+    // not-attackable legs are resolved app-side and ride IN the entry
+    // ([`UnitReach::inspectable`]) — not by keeping the token out of the map, which is the map's
+    // own law (a creature `"target"` is in it, at its real distance, and is not inspectable).
+    // Decision 0631.
     g.set(
         "CanInspect",
         lua.create_function(|lua, unit: Option<String>| {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/model.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/model.rs
index 6bf111dfa..3521b6dfa 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/model.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/model.rs
@@ -1157,11 +1157,12 @@ pub(crate) struct Model {
     pub(crate) dressup_intents: Vec<super::dressup::DressUpIntent>,
     /// The dressing-room pane's bake yaw, the fourth of those scalars.
     pub(crate) dressup_yaw: f32,
-    /// Unit token → what the app resolved about it this frame, for every popup token that named a
-    /// **live unit object** — the input to both verified range predicates (`CanInspect`,
-    /// `CheckInteractDistance`). An absent token is one the object manager holds nothing for, and
-    /// both answer `nil` there (see [`UiScript::set_inspect_reach`] and [`super::UnitReach`]).
-    pub(crate) inspect_reach: HashMap<String, super::UnitReach>,
+    /// Unit token (lowercase) → what the app resolved about it this frame, for **every** token
+    /// that named a **live unit object**, creature as readily as player — the input to both
+    /// verified range predicates (`CanInspect`, `CheckInteractDistance`). An absent token is one
+    /// the object manager holds nothing for, and both answer `nil` there (see
+    /// [`UiScript::set_unit_reach`] and [`super::UnitReach`]).
+    pub(crate) unit_reach: HashMap<String, super::UnitReach>,
 
     /// The skills-pane snapshot the app pushes ([`skills::SkillsState`], decision 0437 phase 4) and
     /// the synthesized display tree built from it ([`skills::UiScript::set_skills`]) — the skills
@@ -1615,7 +1616,7 @@ impl Model {
             pet_paperdoll_yaw: 0.0,
             dressup_intents: Vec::new(),
             dressup_yaw: 0.0,
-            inspect_reach: HashMap::new(),
+            unit_reach: HashMap::new(),
             chat_input: Vec::new(),
             skills: skills::SkillsState::default(),
             skills_groups: Vec::new(),
diff --git a/crates/benilla-world/src/billboard.rs b/crates/benilla-world/src/billboard.rs
index e772ab65a..ea64814a9 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-world/src/billboard.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-world/src/billboard.rs
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ use bevy::prelude::*;
 
 use crate::view::WorldCamera;
 
-/// A spawned billboard card: where its pivot sits in the world, the uniform placement scale, how
+/// A spawned billboard card: where its pivot sits in the world, its per-axis scale, how
 /// it tracks the camera (the bone-flag arm), and its optional global-sequence scale pulse. The
 /// per-frame system rewrites the entity transform from these — including `Visibility` (the
 /// hidden-owner mirror), so a card requires it rather than trusting every spawn site's `Mesh3d`
@@ -45,7 +45,16 @@ use crate::view::WorldCamera;
 #[require(Transform, Visibility, MeshTag)]
 pub struct BillboardCard {
     world_pivot: Vec3,
-    scale: f32,
+    /// The card's scale in its OWN (pre-billboard) frame — the joint's/placement's per-axis scale,
+    /// applied before the camera basis, exactly as [`billboard_joint_palette`] applies it to a
+    /// billboard JOINT (`Transform { rotation: camera_basis, scale, .. }` = `T·R_cam·S`). It is a
+    /// `Vec3` and not a scalar because real content animates a billboard bone **non-uniformly**:
+    /// the Lightwell's shaft (`World\Goober\G_HolyLightWell.m2`, bone 0, lock-Z) holds
+    /// `(8.808, 8.808, 37.560)` through its whole Stand loop, a 0.12 yd card stretched into a
+    /// 4.5 yd column of light. Collapsing that to `scale.x` and splatting it — which every lane
+    /// did until 2026-08-25 — rendered the shaft 1.06 yd tall instead: a squat, blown-out card
+    /// sitting on the well's own bowl and drowning it (bug B169, "Lightwell renders very buggy").
+    scale: Vec3,
     kind: BillboardKind,
     /// The billboard bone's looping scale animation (the lamppost glow "breathe"), sampled each frame
     /// and multiplied into [`Self::scale`]. `None` for a static card (no global-sequence scale track).
@@ -91,7 +100,7 @@ impl BillboardCard {
         let world_pivot = placement.transform_point(info.pivot);
         Self {
             world_pivot,
-            scale: placement.scale.x,
+            scale: placement.scale,
             kind: info.kind,
             scale_anim: info.scale_anim.clone(),
             arm_neg_ms: 0,
@@ -147,7 +156,7 @@ impl BillboardCard {
     pub fn frame_following(kind: BillboardKind, pivot: Vec3, owner: Entity) -> Self {
         Self {
             world_pivot: Vec3::ZERO, // re-seated from the owner before the first facing write
-            scale: 1.0,
+            scale: Vec3::ONE,
             kind,
             scale_anim: None,
             arm_neg_ms: 0,
@@ -196,7 +205,7 @@ impl BillboardCard {
     /// placement is fixed at spawn).
     pub fn re_place(&mut self, placement: Transform, local_pivot: Vec3) {
         self.world_pivot = placement.transform_point(local_pivot);
-        self.scale = placement.scale.x;
+        self.scale = placement.scale;
         self.placement_rot = placement.rotation;
     }
 }
@@ -580,7 +589,7 @@ pub(crate) fn face_billboards(
                         benilla_assets::trace::line(
                             "card",
                             &format!(
-                                "card={entity} owner={owner} scale={:.3} a={:.2} pivot={:.2?}",
+                                "card={entity} owner={owner} scale={:.3?} a={:.2} pivot={:.2?}",
                                 card.scale,
                                 tag.map_or(-1.0, |t| crate::mesh_tag::alpha_of(t.0)),
                                 card.world_pivot
@@ -617,7 +626,7 @@ pub(crate) fn face_billboards(
         let placed = Transform {
             translation: card.world_pivot + bob,
             rotation,
-            scale: Vec3::splat(card.scale) * pulse,
+            scale: card.scale * pulse,
         };
         // A parked camera over a still, track-less card recomputes bit-identical values, so the
         // write only lands on real movement: unconditional, it marked every card
@@ -830,6 +839,71 @@ mod tests {
         );
     }
 
+    /// **A card keeps its bone's NON-UNIFORM scale** — bug B169, the Lightwell (2026-08-25).
+    ///
+    /// `World\Goober\G_HolyLightWell.m2` bone 0 is a lock-Z billboard carrying the well's light
+    /// shaft (batch 0, `LIGHTWELLRAY.BLP`, 12 verts all weight-1 on that bone, so the 0028 split
+    /// makes it a card). Its scale is a **sequence** track, not a global-sequence one, so nothing
+    /// in `BillboardInfo::scale_anim` carries it: the value reaches the card only through the
+    /// joint, via `re_place`. Authored (WoW axes, `m2anim`): the Spawn clamp ramps
+    /// `(1,1,1) → (8.808, 8.808, 37.560)` in 0.5 s and the 23.3 s Stand loop holds it there,
+    /// pulsing Z between 35.170 and 37.560 — a 0.18 × 0.12 yd card stretched into a
+    /// **1.59 × 4.51 yd** column of light standing out of the bowl.
+    ///
+    /// `re_place` used to keep `placement.scale.x` and splat it, so the shaft rendered
+    /// 1.59 × **1.06** yd: a squat additive card sitting exactly on the 1.09 yd bowl at the same
+    /// height, blowing it out. Every test above this one used a uniform `Vec3::splat`, which is
+    /// why the collapse survived — the numbers here are the asset's own.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_card_keeps_its_bones_non_uniform_scale() {
+        // The authored WoW-axis scale, permuted to Bevy axes exactly as the clip builder does
+        // (`benilla_assets`: `Vec3::new(s[1], s[2], s[0])` — Bevy Y is WoW Z, the shaft's long axis).
+        const WOW: [f32; 3] = [8.808, 8.808, 37.560];
+        let bevy_scale = Vec3::new(WOW[1], WOW[2], WOW[0]);
+        // The card's authored span (`m2batch`): 0.18 yd across, 0.12 yd tall, in the YZ plane.
+        const CARD_H_YD: f32 = 0.12;
+
+        let mut app = App::new();
+        app.init_resource::<Time>();
+        app.add_systems(Update, face_billboards);
+        app.world_mut().spawn((
+            crate::view::WorldCamera,
+            GlobalTransform::from_translation(Vec3::new(0.0, 0.0, 10.0)),
+        ));
+        let info = BillboardInfo {
+            bone: 0,
+            pivot: Vec3::ZERO,
+            kind: BillboardKind::LockZ,
+            scale_anim: None, // a SEQUENCE track — the joint is the only carrier
+            seq_translations: vec![],
+        };
+        // The joint as the rig composes it: the billboard palette preserves the full scale, so
+        // this is what `re_place` reads back.
+        let joint = app
+            .world_mut()
+            .spawn(GlobalTransform::from(Transform::from_scale(bevy_scale)))
+            .id();
+        let card = app
+            .world_mut()
+            .spawn((
+                BillboardCard::following_joint(&info, joint),
+                Transform::IDENTITY,
+            ))
+            .id();
+        app.update();
+        let tf = *app.world().entity(card).get::<Transform>().unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(
+            tf.scale, bevy_scale,
+            "the joint's per-axis scale reaches the card whole — not `splat(scale.x)`"
+        );
+        let shaft_yd = tf.scale.y * CARD_H_YD;
+        assert!(
+            (shaft_yd - 4.507).abs() < 0.01,
+            "the shaft stands 4.51 yd out of the well, not the 1.06 yd the x-collapse rendered \
+             (got {shaft_yd:.3} yd)"
+        );
+    }
+
     /// **The billboard FRAME an equipped item's emitter rides** (decision 0813), with the real
     /// numbers of nazriel's B118 item (`LShoulder_Mail_PVPAlliance_C_01`: billboard bone 1 pivot
     /// `(-0.012, 0.162, -0.060)`, sparkle emitter position `(-0.252, 0.178, -0.046)`, both raw WoW