diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/entities/display.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/entities/display.rs
index 66bc19ba..c096a160 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/entities/display.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/entities/display.rs
@@ -227,6 +227,15 @@ pub(super) fn new_gameobject_display(
     asset_server: &AssetServer,
 ) -> DisplayModel {
     let Some(path) = catalog.model_path(display_id) else {
+        // One line per display id, since a display is built once and cached. A GameObject with no
+        // model draws nothing *and* cannot be hovered — the pick set is built from mesh parts
+        // (`GoPickPart`), so there is nothing for the ray to hit and no plate can follow. That is
+        // the shape "mousing over it gives no tooltip" takes for a server's own GameObject whose
+        // `GameObjectDisplayInfo` row this chain's DBC does not carry, a hardcore gravestone
+        // included.
+        info!(
+            "gameobject display {display_id} names no model — it draws nothing and cannot be picked"
+        );
         return empty_display();
     };
     let handle = if path.to_ascii_lowercase().ends_with(".wmo") {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_tooltip/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_tooltip/mod.rs
index 70f335f7..c5c83636 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_tooltip/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_tooltip/mod.rs
@@ -569,6 +569,8 @@ pub(crate) struct HoverMemo<'s> {
     /// The last `(corpse guid, reason)` the corpse plate gave up on, so a hover that cannot draw
     /// one says why **once** instead of every frame it is held.
     corpse_miss: Local<'s, Option<(u64, &'static str)>>,
+    /// The last GameObject guid whose plate waited on a template, same rule.
+    go_miss: Local<'s, Option<u64>>,
 }
 
 /// Report a corpse plate this hover could not build, once per corpse and reason.
@@ -803,7 +805,15 @@ fn drive_mouseover_tooltip(
             );
         }
         let Some(template) = go_inputs.templates.get(guid).cloned() else {
-            // Template in flight: ask once, and show it when it lands.
+            // Template in flight: ask once, and show it when it lands. Said out loud once per
+            // object, because this is the plate's only silent exit and the one place a server's
+            // own GameObject — a hardcore gravestone, say — can go nameless: no
+            // `SMSG_GAMEOBJECT_QUERY_RESPONSE`, no plate, however well the pick landed. A line
+            // that never gets a sequel means the query went unanswered.
+            if *memo.go_miss != Some(guid) {
+                *memo.go_miss = Some(guid);
+                info!("go plate: {guid:#x} has no template yet — asked, drawing nothing");
+            }
             go_inputs.templates.request(guid, &commands);
             return;
         };