Editing Changelog (section)

== v0.55.14 — Exchange Gear Beats The Forge Too, Not Just The Bench ==
* FOLLOW-UP TO v0.55.13, AND A CORRECTION TO IT. That version made the Mark Exchange's tack beat every saddle and barding you can CRAFT or find. It missed the forge — and the forge was the real rival all along, because a forged saddle takes the SAME slot as a bought one. Fitting one unequips the other; they never stack.
* '''The test could not see it.''' Forged pieces are blueprint ROLLS, not items, so the v0.55.13 check walked right past them and stayed green while four of six Exchange pieces lost to a forge. Two of those forges need no ascension at all: a Sunstride Saddle rolls up to 17 swiftness off [[Crafting]] 60, a Frostbound Barding up to 26 guard off [[Smithing]] 70 — both reachable long before you could grind the marks.
* '''Every piece now clears the ungated forge outright.''' Huntmaster's Saddle 18 swiftness / worker ×1.30 and Trailwarden Barding 27 guard / 13 power hold the 60-mark entry pair.
* '''And each slot keeps a crown no blueprint can take.''' Longstride Saddle 23 swiftness beats even a PRIMAL Moonshadow roll; Nightwarden Barding 35 guard beats a primal Moonlit; Duskwarden Barding 18 power beats the best Moonlit that will ever come off the anvil; Ridgeback Saddle's worker ×1.48 is untouchable by construction, because no forge can roll a worker buff at all. The top-wave forge still carries power a saddle never will, so it keeps the best TOTAL sheet — the Exchange owns the records, not the game.
* '''The rotation is 100 marks flat.''' Four one-week-in-four specialists are not a price ladder, and the old spread had Nightwarden costing 20 marks more than Duskwarden for exactly the same expedition score.
* '''Three blurbs that were false are gone.''' V0.55.13 shipped lines claiming no crafter cut a better saddle and nothing forged matched the guard — both untrue against a forge roll, and one of them named the forge directly. Two new pins now walk every Exchange piece against every ungated forge band and check each slot still holds its crown, so a blurb cannot outlive the numbers again.