Editing Changelog (section)

== v0.55.13 — The Exchange Saddles Show Their Stats — And Earn Them ==
* PLAYER REPORT — "the weekly saddle doesnt show the stats". It never did. Only the two permanent exclusives LOOKED like they did, because their numbers were typed into the flavour line by hand; the weekly and this-week-only gear showed a sentence and nothing else. EVERY EXCHANGE GEAR ROW NOW PRINTS ITS STATS, read straight off the item, so it can never quote a number the item does not have.
* '''And they were not worth the marks.''' Half the Exchange gear lost to something you could simply make. Longstride Saddle beat a [[Crafting]]-80 Skyleather Saddle by two swiftness — for a saddle that turns up one week in four. Ridgeback and Huntmaster's were SLOWER than it. Duskwarden and Nightwarden both carried less guard than a smithed Moonstone Barding, while Nightwarden's own description called itself the heaviest guard ever stocked.
* '''All six pieces now top the ladder.''' Huntmaster's Saddle 15 swiftness / worker ×1.32 and Trailwarden Barding 23 guard / 13 power are the entry pair — above every craftable and every trail-cache piece, on every stat they carry. The weekly exclusives specialise from there: Longstride Saddle 20 swiftness is the fastest tack in the game, Ridgeback Saddle worker ×1.42 the hardest-working, Duskwarden Barding 18 power the sharpest, Nightwarden Barding 30 guard the heaviest wall there is.
* '''Priced for what they are.''' The exclusives go 45 → 60 marks, Ridgeback and Duskwarden 75 → 90, Longstride 60 → 80, Nightwarden 90 → 110. Every one still liquidates for less amber per mark than selling the marks raw, so the Exchange stays a gear shop and never an amber printer.
* '''The ladder is pinned now.''' A test walks every Exchange gear offer against every craftable and droppable piece in the same slot and fails if one of them stops winning — and a second test forbids a blurb from quoting a number the row already derives, which is how the stale "+30% worker buff, +10 swiftness" line survived the saddle it described.