July 19, 2023
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*** Highlights ***
- The Coirnav server has been merged into Vox.
*** Items ***
- Kaznak's Bulwark Emblem, Fragment of Ethereal Steel, Dour Blue, Sleeper's Essence, Petrified Sharktooth, Sylra's Trinket and Smoldering Core of Radir will now work on charms and range items with appropriate augment slots.
- Mixolydian Arpeggio on the on the Spectral Loremaster Breastplate and Loremaster Breastplate of Spectral Luminosity will now cast Masterful Mixolydian Root instead of Masterful Mixolydian Third.
- Geerlok Party Bot now has more appropriate lore text.
*** Quests & Events ***
- Added a replay timer to the task for the Bloodmoon Keep raid "Ralkor's Crystals" and "The Soulbleeder Must Bleed" event.
- Fixed the Superior Standard to scale properly. Also adjusted the spell to add additional effects and account for the proper scaling.
*** Spells ***
- Magician - Adjusted damage values for the Shock Of Many spell line. All spells now do increased damage with fewer pets (tier 1) and many do increased damage with many pets (tier 2 and 3), but Shock, Jolt, Clash, Strike, and Barrage have had their tier 2 and 3 damage reduced.
- Corrected an issue where certain spell reagents (Essence Emeralds, Fuligan Soulstones of Innoruuk, and Cloudy Stones of Veeshan) would not be consumed.
*** AA ***
- Necromancer - Added Rank 11 of the Archetype AA Summon Corpse, which casts Thanatos' Proclamation.
- Shaman - Fixed an issue with the Class AA Spirit Call that caused certain ranks to summon the wrong pet.
- Berserker - Updated Ranks 10 and 11 of the Focus AA Focus Arcslice to correctly focus Arcshear.
*** NPCs ***
- The general supplies merchant Duath Untez in Abysmal Sea can now send and receive parcels.
*** Overseer ***
- Several new event-specific Agents have been added to Overseer, available only during the Stone Cold Summer event in August.
- - A new line of event-specific Overseer Quests, available at all Overseer levels, are also available for a limited time during Stone Cold Summer.
- - New achievements, found in the Overseer >> Holiday category, have also been added for completing each of the new Stone Cold Summer event Overseer Quests.
*** Progression Servers ***
- Corrected an issue that could cause an Encounter Locked NPC to become unattackable if it killed the only person on its hatelist.
- Disarm will no longer affect NPCs that you cannot attack due to it being Encounter Locked to someone else.
- Updated the /yell command to unlock all Encounter Locked NPCs that you're able to and added a one second reuse timer.
- Corrected an issue with Legacy experience bonuses appearing for other characters in the group who did not have a bonus.
*** Miscellaneous ***
- The /bug command will now only report target information for NPCs.
- World server lag during raid win completion and receiving rewards should be reduced.
*** UI ***
- Fixed the location of the Quantity Window when opening it from windows using the old UI engine, or when the UI scale is not 1.
- Fixed some spots on item cursor attachments.
- Fixed cursor trails sticking around when the UI is scaled below 1.0.
- Switching between windowed and full screen modes and resolutions should be more responsive and interactive.
- Fixed links in the Story Window. They now will either open into the story window (local files only) or in an external browser. It's strongly recommended that players go through their existing custom story files and verify that any HTML is correct (all tags are properly closed, no missing quotation marks, etc.) to ensure they display properly.
- Guild banners have learned to include the zone instance number where they are planted.
- The EverQuest Team
Click on Read More to see the updates for the month of June.
Here is the patch notes for the June 2023 game update.
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*** Highlights ***
- Claws of Veeshan is now free-to-play.
- New "Superior Standards" are available as an option for guild banners. See details in Quests & Events.
*** Items ***
- The Tradable: Night of Shadows Expansion Ticket will check that you do not already own the expansion and stop if you do.
*** Quests & Events ***
- Yxtta Door puzzle: Made a speculative fix for this puzzle getting stuck.
- The Expanding Spores in the Insatiable an Appetite raid will once again display their decal.
- New "Superior Standards" are available as an option for guild banners. These standards will only function in instances of zones within expansions that have been released for at least six months. These banners offer enhanced buffs to have an "easy" option for raids. We will evaluate these buffs and see if they need further adjusting. These will also function on progression servers with a one-month delay (except Vaniki).
- The enrage mechanic for Animated Derakor and Restless Avatar of War have been fixed. Now if the event runs too long each of the bosses will hit harder.
- Increased the drop rate of various Veeshan's Peak and Sebilis key drops. There will be more key pieces that drop from other mobs in the zones that they key pieces already currently drop in. Items dropped on the ground have had their spawn times reduced as well.
*** Spells ***
- Updated all spells in the Shock of Many spell line to have only 3 damage tiers and to require significantly fewer in-combat pets per tier.
- Player spells that trigger on kills no longer trigger when killing player pets.
*** AA ***
- Necromancer - Fixed an issue where the AA ability Summon Corpse would always resolve on the caster rather than on the caster's target.
- Updated the following swarm pet Class AAs to spawn fewer pets. The damage and health values of each pet have been increased to compensate for the reduced number of spawns.
- - Bard - Song of Stone
- - Beastlord - Attack of the Warders
- - Druid - Spirits of Nature
- - Magician - Host of the Elements
- - Necromancer - Rise of Bones
- - Necromancer - Swarm of Decay
- - Ranger - Pack Hunt
- - Shadow Knight - Chattering Bones
- - Shaman - Spirit Call
- - Wizard - Call of Xuzl
*** NPCs ***
- Tin Merchant I in The Overthere and Glinya Sweetpie in Firiona Vie can now send and receive parcels.
*** Progression Servers ***
- Corrected an issue where encounter locking would cause charmed pets to behave erratically.
- Pets should no longer repeatedly report their inability to fight an encounter locked target when instructed to /guard a location.
- Corrected an issue where encounter locked NPCs would sometimes remember a player who DoTed them after their lock had reset.
- Corrected an issue where the ring event at the top of Harbinger's Spire would sometimes fail to reset.
- Removed Copperfang from randomized loot.
- City guards have been convinced to guard their city again on Encounter Locked servers.
*** Miscellaneous ***
- The Claws of Veeshan expansion is now free-to-play on Test and Live servers.
- Parcel merchants are once again delivering self-addressed parcels, subject to customs.
- Added an on-screen message when a pickzone will be closing soon.
- Added a chat message that provides the names of conflicting lore group items when attempting to loot an item that is in the same lore group as an item that the looter already has in their possession.
*** UI ***
- Removed the specific display of Legacy bonuses in experience messages to be more consistent with other bonus messaging.
- Power sources will no longer display colored lines on the screen when in the bank.
- Hotbuttons with an assigned icon will now show the proper icon when on the cursor.
- The quantity window now opens at the location of the cursor (for items only), and its input is automatically focused. It also now appears over other UI windows.
- Fixed a bug in the bazaar window that removed results from the list when sorting by quantity or weapon ratio.
- Added text samples to the Spell Display Window of what is seen when the spell wears off for spells that have such a description.
- Added commas to messages received upon login about purchases (or sales) you made on an offline buyer or trader.
- The Heroic Upgrade button on the Inventory Window will now properly disable immediately after being clicked.
- Heroic stats on the Stat page of the Inventory Window now have the proper tooltips again.
- Improved the display of skill damage mod stat differences (e.g. kick) when comparing items.
- Fixed the mail notification on the Selector Window to no longer indicate you always have unread mail.
- Clicking on something that brings up the quantity window will now do so at the location of the click, not halfway across the screen.
- The EverQuest Team
Click on Read more for updates that happened for the month of May.
Plenty of updates for the month of April. Click on Read More to see them all.
All EverQuest Live Servers will be brought offline on Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 6:00 AM PT* for an update. Downtime is expected to last approximately 6 hours.
Patch notes for this update will be found in the Game Update Notes section of the forums once they are available.
*Convert to your local time
April 19, 2023
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*** Items ***
- Runnyeye Adventurer's Head teleport item has had its casting requirement of Depths of Darkhollow removed.
- Heritage crates have been altered so that they will not offer items that are not usable on your server at the time of opening.
- Ornate Restless Great Axe weapon ornament will now fit into 1-hand and hand-to-hand weapons.
- Restless Griffon and Restless Wolf Saddles are now claimable when Shadows of Luclin is active.
- The Mask of Sparks illusion item should now be using the intended Arc Worker appearance.
- Evolving Selenelion cloaks have had their luck stat increased.
- Drop rates for Luclinite Laced Nigriventer, Mamba, Gormar, Taipan, and Choresine venoms have been increased in Night of Shadow zones.
- Fixed some cases of misspelling of the word 'transvergence' in some item and spell names.
- Changed the name of Dentrik's Dementia to Drentik's Dementia to match Drentik the Mad in Valdeholm who drops it.
- The Hammer of Magic line of weapon procs can now be focused by the Sympathetic Alleviation Alternate Advancement ability.
- Updated NPC resistance checks against elemental weapon damage to apply full damage if the NPC is not immune to the resist type.
*** Quests & Events ***
- Misgnomer - While on the quest, Captain Nalot in Iceclad and Welno Tanlonikan in Ak'Anon now have a greater threshold for talking to people they may otherwise dislike.
- Changed the way raid Loot Lockouts work. It should much more reliably apply only to raid basepop going forward.
- The Vintage Toy Ships (Stone Hive) achievement under the Events >> Collections category now grants both AA and XP instead of one or the other.
- The Champion of Night of Shadows achievement no longer requires the following Quest achievements:
- - The Cunning of a Tiger: Cunning Copycat
- - The Strength of a Wolf: Leader of the Pack
- - The Bravery of a Bear: Bearer of Bravery
- Pit Fight (Raid) - The Stay Close achievement works now. Sorry.
- Under Siege (Raid) - We no longer refer to it as Under Seige when sending the success message.
- Myconid Mutany (Raid) - The vibrating crystalkin will now fight back.
- Reetuk the Inexorable - Killing NPCs before reaching the corresponding quest step will now count those kills toward quest completion.
*** Spells ***
- The Setting Sun and Rising Sun spells from the Shadows Move event will no longer zone with the bearer.
- Beastlord - Added all ranks of Ferocity and Shared Ferocity to a spell stacking group to prevent lower ranks from overwriting higher ranks.
*** AA ***
- Paladin - Fixed an issue that could cause Force of Disruption to have no reuse timer.
- Fixed some typos in descriptions for the fighter archetype ability Concentration.
- The Twinproc AA Ability will no longer affect player abilities that trigger other player abilities. Its effectiveness on procs should be unchanged.
- Updated the description for Twinproc to more accurately reflect the types of procs it can twincast.
- Ranks 3-6 of the Shadowknight Focus AA, Hastened Lifetaps can now be auto-granted.
*** NPCs ***
- Decreased the number of placeholders for Rare NPCs in Shadeweaver's Tangle, as well as lowered the health of the placeholders.
*** Overseer ***
- Fixed a typo in the name of the Overseer quest One Kobold's Garbage.
*** Progression Servers ***
- Vaniki Server - Dermott Saltagger in The Foundation and Vendor-Bot Model CM in Kernagir, the Shining City have had their purchase level requirements adjusted.
*** Miscellaneous ***
- The heritage crate art collector achievements will only show on progression servers if the expansion required for any of the components is opened. This restriction lasts through Legends of Ykesha. Any components that require later expansions are optional.
- Campfire and Guild Banner pick zones will now be prioritized over group members' when teleporting to either.
- Updated the /yell command to include your target's name.
- Added a new chat message with the zone name and ID for the group or raid leader when a member requests a new instance.
*** UI ***
- Spells activated from items now include the 'cast as level' when displaying the spell description.
*** Previously Updated ***
- Disabled the disconnect mechanism for pressing the same keys too many times on multiple clients on Coirnav.
- Vaniki Server - Dermott Saltagger in The Foundation and Vendor-Bot Model CM in Kernagir, the Shining City have had their purchase level requirements adjusted.
- The EverQuest Team
Another producer's letter was posted today from Jchan. Check out the link below.
Here is a general summary from the post for the rest of the year.
In May, new content will be added for the Tempest Festival event, we'll make sure to get that content up here on the site.
Also a new Progression server, Oakwynd with a unique ruleset. We'll get it added to our progression server wiki's soon.
In June we'll see new pride month familiars as well. We'll get those items added to the site.
For the rest of the year they'll be working on more zone performance fixes and more work on porting over the default UI to the new UI engine.
I'm quite exicted to dive into the new UI code and start building new interface pieces. I like the scaling slider and can't wait to see what's new for the UI. There is some discussion on the new UI happening over at eqinterface.com if you are looking to contribute to testing the new UI engine.
Also if you know any system designers or artists looking for work, Daybreak Games is hiring for Everquest.
Plenty of updates over the month of March, click on Read More... to see all of them.
It's the 24th Anniversary for Everquest and with that, there is new content!
Here are the new 24th Anniversary Quests.
Here is one of the new Brew Day quests, we'll get the other(s) entered as well.
Click on Read More to see all the updates for the month of February.
I pushed some code fixes out last night for aug slots on items. You should now see type 19's and some slot descriptions were fixed. The advanced item search tool should now pick up type 19's.
Anniversary is just around the corner and new content is coming for it. We will be working on entering in all of those new quests and such.