Being able to see stats on craftable items.

[Bobo]

For most items there are stats in the crafting recipes and for many pictures as well. Check the crafting section of the forum.
As it takes some time to upgrade the boards in case of stats change, you can also use ItemEditor for MB that displays the stats of all items directly from item_kinds1 file, unfortunatelly except hit points for shields (and ofc usability, which is NI specific).