November 17, 2021
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*** Highlights ***

- Grab your bags for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. All bags sold for Daybreak Cash are 15% off from 11/25/2021 to 12/01/2021!
- Priests of Luclin no longer require soulstones to complete their tasks. Speak with them instead.


*** Items ***

- Fixed a bug where selling a stack of items via barter would sometimes only sell partial stacks.
- Fixed the recourse spell in Claws of Veeshan Bard breastplate click effects.
- Lore items will no longer disappear from a cancelled trade when there is a lore item conflict.


*** Tradeskills ***

- Corrected multiple issues with the success chance label on the Tradeskill window.


*** Quests & Events ***

- Quests with rewards that will result in a lore conflict will now return your items.
- Priests of Luclin no longer require soulstones to complete their tasks. Speak with them instead.
- Fixed an issue with the To Kill a Thel Ereth Ril quest where turning in the quest item to Alchemist Vaskerin would result in getting the wrong quest item in return.


*** Spells ***

- Enchanter - The proc portion of Night's Endless Terror and Night's Perpetual Terror now have a unique buff icon. The illusion portion retains the standard illusion icon.
- Corrected an issue where a combination of Troubadour's Synergy and Evoker's Synergy would proc Ignite Blood.


*** Overseer ***

- Corrected an issue where all available Agents would not always be listed when starting a new quest.
- Fixed a bug that caused Overseer quest stats to sometimes be incorrect after zoning.


*** Progression Servers ***

- Found the missing Agents of Change on Phinigel and made them get back to work.
- Cazic Cenobite will now have a chance to drop Rubicite Boots on Progression servers while in-era.


*** Miscellaneous ***

- The 500 free DBC reward will no longer display "Add Time" for Lifetime accounts as the default.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a client crash when casting spells.
- Added several new zone loading bar messages.
- Corrected an issue with items being removed from the Advanced Loot Window prior to 15 minutes.
- Corrected a bug that could cause the client to crash when zoning.


*** Previously Updated ***

- Corrected an issue where translocate spells resulted in a message about the destination zone not being ready.
- Fixed an issue with the Vex Thal Key Shard drops.
- Corrected an issue where NPCs could strike through a riposte even under the effects of a 100% avoidance discipline, such as Deflection or Deftdance.
- Corrected an issue where the Adventurer's Perk experience bonus didn't apply to AA.
- Corrected an issue where the Merchant's Perk would sometimes display that you got a bonus tradeskill skill-up, but the skill-up chance had failed.
- The Yxxta riddle should function in Avatar of Change instances.


- The EverQuest Team

All EverQuest Live Servers will be brought offline on Wednesday, October 20, 2021 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

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September 15, 2021
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*** Highlights ***

- Agents of Change are now available for All Access members on all servers.


*** Quests & Events ***

- Bloogy Shellcracker will no longer accept Water Dragon Meat. However, his brother, Roogy Shellcracker, will be able to help you with that.
- NPCs that have an active loot lock will now only accept trades from players who belong to the credited party.
- Cikdew has found her voice and will be looking for assistance during Nights of the Dead.
- Arlien Browch has been seen hauling a large shipment of pumpkins. She should reach the Commonlands Tunnel just in time for Nights of the Dead.
- The mission Gorowyn: Balance of Power now correctly references Gorowyn as the target zone in the Quest Journal, rather than Chardok.


*** Spells ***

- Fixed an issue where Steadfast Servants would refuse to cast Servant's Haste on players who have unlocked any ranks of the Item: Hidden Power / Ancestral Memories AA ability line.
- Dark Rites charges are no longer consumed when memorizing spells.
- Updated the confirmation popup box for translocation spells to not disappear if you enter combat.
- - Updated the confirmation popup box for translocation spells to last for 2 minutes.
- - Updated translocation spells to (once again) be cast by casters if they are in combat and land on targets that may be in combat.
- Corrected an issue where the Gambit line of Wizard spells could cause the Wizard to damage themselves with an offensive proc.


*** AA ***

- Corrected an issue with the AA ability, Companion's Discipline, that granted the ability to use the /pet qswarm command at the wrong rank.
- Corrected an issue where pet command hotkeys would issue the wrong command. Hotkeys for target, swarm, qswarm, resume, and swleave will need to be re-made.
- Corrected an issue where the damage bonuses to Archery and Throwing from Weapon Mastery of the Scout and Weapon Mastery of the Juggernaut were giving only a small percentage of the intended bonus. They should now give roughly the same damage bonus seen for melee weapons.


*** NPCs ***

- Venril Sathir is no longer susceptible to mesmerization spells.
- The Seeds of Destruction Hunter achievements now have appropriate completion rewards:
- - The Voidslayer achievement now grants a 28 slot bag and the titles "Voidslayer" and "the Voidslayer"
- - The Expert Hunter achievement now grants a 26 slot bag
- - The Veteran Hunter achievement now grants a 24 slot bag
- - The Adept Hunter achievement now grants a 22 slot bag
- - The Novice Hunter achievement now grants a 20 slot bag
- Added missing hunter targets to their respective achievements:
- - Gates of Discord: Hunter of Riwwi: Pixxt Hihkx
- - Gates of Discord: Hunter of Riwwi: Pixxt Kihkx
- - Gates of Discord: Hunter of Kod'Taz: Enslaved Vrex Zealot
- - Omens of War: Nobles' Causeway: Stone Thrower


*** Overseer ***

- Made a speculative fix to missing Overseer quests.


*** Progression Servers ***

- Fixed an issue with the loot on some prominent Velious raid targets that prevented proper randomization on Mischief and Thornblade.
- Reduced the respawn time of Gloradin Coldheart by some amount.


*** Miscellaneous ***

- Corrected an issue where NPCs would drop you from their hatelist if you were too far away under the wrong conditions.
- Agents of Change are now available for All Access members on all servers.
- Login timeout errors no longer display the wrong error message, such as "String not found."
- Added a chat message when receiving a translocate.
- - The dialog box from the kickplayers command will no longer invalidate other dialog boxes, like those from translocation spells.
- - Translocation spells can now be cast on yourself.
- Broadcasts of system-wide messages will now always have a single space before the message is displayed.
- Logging in with 500 or more items in your Item Overflow will now display a message, suggesting you collect your belongings.


*** UI ***

- Corrected a spelling error when a player is too low level to give PVP points.
- Corrected an issue where heal-over-time spells would display negative values on NPCs.
- Fixed an issue where the reuse time on activated items would sometimes fail to display correctly.

- Changed -
EQUI_Inventory.xml
EQUI_LootWnd.xml

- The EverQuest Team

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July 21, 2021
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*** Highlights ***

- We've updated the Overseer system with new Agent Packs, quests, and traits. See below for more information.
- Merged Selo onto Povar.


*** Items ***

- Rat Ears will no longer be available for purchase from merchants until The Serpent's Spine is active.
- Items that are contained in the Past Expansion Collector's Edition Bundle are now flagged as Heirloom.
- Added text to Guild Teleport items to indicate which zone each item will align the teleporter to.
- Fixed a typo in the Velium Endowed Censer's name.
- All past Heritage Crate wrapped furniture items can now be placed in neighborhoods without having been unwrapped. Restrictions to unwrap these items have now been removed, with the restrictions having been moved to the teleport spells when applicable.
- Renamed the Masterwork Axe Components used for Berserker abilities to Fine Axe Components. Everything will be fine.


*** Quests & Events ***

- Reduced the respawn time for Kurron Ni from about 84 hours to about 4 hours.
- Balls of Ice and Stone and an earthen prison in the Vulak and Aaryonar raid events can now be targeted by bolt spells.


*** Spells ***

- The /disc command has been updated to accept partial discipline names.
- Fixed several instances where bolt-style spells were appearing as bags in flight.
- DoTs and Hate-over-time spells no longer apply hate to players after death or evac.
- Berserker - Corrected the progression of the riposte chance benefits on Ritual Scarification. The values for Rank I and Rank II were swapped.
- Berserker - Raised the HP caps on all ranks of Ritual Scarification.
- Necromancer - Corrected a bad description for Ashen Skin and Frozen Skin.
- Paladin - Increased the stun level cap for Force of Orthiss and Force of the Jade Cohort by 5.
- Rogue - Corrected an issue in the description for Dissident Weapons and Composite Weapons.
- Rogue - Adjusted Pinpoint Defects to improve over previous abilities in the line. All ranks now reduce the target's evasion by 7 percent. The spell now adds an additional amount of damage to every melee strike from the rear arc of its target.
- Multiple Classes - One-tick buffs that trigger other buffs (like Unity buffs or some progressive spells) will now count down in non-combat zones rather than blinking forever.


*** AA ***

- Warrior - The Combatant's Pact description now explicitly lists that it focuses both Druid and Cleric versions of promised healing spells.


*** NPCs ***

- Fixed an issue that prevented The Buried Sea Hunter achievement, Brineslayer, from being completable despite having already completed the Adept Hunter of the Buried Sea achievement.


*** Overseer ***

- New Overseer Agent Packs will be available in late July
- - The Fighter Pack, Worker Pack, and Traveler Pack are coming to the marketplace
- - These packs grant 3 uncommon agents with jobs that match the pack type:
- - - The Fighter Pack can grant Marauders, Spies, or Soldiers.
- - - The Worker Pack can grant Artisans, Harvesters, or Scholars.
- - - The Traveler Pack can grant Diplomats, Merchants, or Explorers.
- New Agents and Quests
- - New Agents of all rarities have been added to the Overseer system.
- - New quests of all levels and rarities, featuring new job and trait combinations exclusive to these new Agents, have also been added.
- - New recruitment quests for new iconic Agents have also been added.
- Quest Party Fixes
- - Quest party slots with a combination of jobs/traits that necessitated using duplicates of the same iconic Agent have been adjusted to NOT have such job/trait combinations; this fixes a few quests that could not be started because of the iconic rule.
- - Quest party slots with a combination of jobs/traits that necessitated using a particular Agent that lacked the requisite job rank have been adjusted to NOT have such job/trait combinations; this fixes a few quests that had a combination of jobs/traits that could not be fully matched.
- - Quest party slots should no longer have duplicates of the same trait assigned to them.
- Agent Lore/Trait Fixes
- - Fixed a number of minor grammatical issues in the Agent lore text of several Agents.
- - Resolved various shenanigans involving Agent lore text and quotation marks.
- - Clockwork VIIX now has lore text calling out his disguise.
- - Guard Orcflayer no longer has any references to Felwithe in his lore text and now has the Warrior trait instead of the Ranger trait.
- - Inquisitive Wanderer now has the Cleric trait instead of the Monk trait.
- - The Fairy trait has been renamed Faerie.
- When choosing an Overseer quest, the window will show the full trait name and the trait will not wrap around to the next line.
- Overseer items, such as Agent Echoes, now have descriptions explaining what they do.


*** Progression Servers ***

- Keys should now drop from the appropriate NPCs on randomized loot servers.
- Removed the auto AFK kick from Aradune.


*** Miscellaneous ***

- Fixed a client crash related to spell particles that would occur most commonly in Claws of Veeshan raids.
- The output from /who now includes the full zone name in addition to the short name.
- Corrected an issue that caused Accuracy, Avoidance, Combat Effects, and Damage Shield Mitigation to be under calculated.
- Merged Selo onto Povar.


*** UI ***

- Healing messages will now be displayed when a player casts a heal over time spell on a damaged pet.
- The /alt list command will now display links correctly.
- Fixed spacing of sections in Achievement_hunter_collect_*.tga.
- Fixed reward window spell links not opening a spell window. Ctrl + click on a spell link the reward window now places a link in the chat window.
- Fixed combat ability links not opening a spell window. Ctrl + click on a skill in the combat ability window or on a skill link now places a link in the chat window.
- The entire armor ornamentation slot is now able to be interacted with.


- Changed -
EQUI_Animations.xml
EQUI_OverseerWnd.xml


- The EverQuest Team

June 16, 2021
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*** Highlights ***

- Check out the new Past Expansion Collector's Edition Bundle in the Marketplace this month from June 16 to June 30! Available on servers with Underfoot unlocked. Individual items are available while the expansion they originally came with is active.
- Made many changes to Gates of Discord through Underfoot hunter achievements. See the NPCs section for details.
- Updated randomized loot tables for Mischief and Thornblade in Classic. See the Progression Servers section for details.
- Granted The Burning Lands for free to Test Server and live players.


*** Items ***

- Starting bag, food, and drink on newly created characters is no longer tradable even on a free-trade server.
- Check out the new Past Expansion Collector's Edition Bundle in the Marketplace this month from June 16 to June 30! Available on servers with Underfoot unlocked. Individual items are available while the expansion they originally came with is active.
- Increased the size and the cap of the Dragon's Hoard for all players. The free to play limit has been increased from 25 to 40 slots, and the all access limit has been increased from 100 to 125 slots.
- Guild Hall packages will now be available in the marketplace when the Veil of Alaris expansion is available, which is when neighborhood guild halls can be used.
- Limited the purchase of Incense of Tranquility to ten per transaction, and altered the packages to match the same limit, keeping the same discount rates. You may purchase more, but doing so will require multiple transactions.


*** Quests & Events ***

- The reward chest for The Amalgam Arbiter will have all of its loot all the time.
- The mail delivery quests offered by members of the League of Antonican Bards have been changed to be non-repeatable.


*** Spells ***

- Hate over time spells no longer apply hate to players after death or evac as long as you don't respawn in the same zone or evac in under 6 seconds.
- Corrected an issue where certain types of healing and damage spells would display focus effect messages even if the Focus Effect filter was turned off.
- Beastlord - The Trushar's Mending line of healing spells will now heal your target if it is an ally, or your target's target if it is cast on a foe.
- Ranger - The Sylvan Light and Desperate Deluge lines of healing spells will now heal your target if it is an ally, or your target's target if they are cast on a foe.
- Paladin - The Burst of Sunlight, Light of Life/Gleaming Light, and Ethereal Cleansing lines of healing spells will now heal your target if it is an ally, or your target's target if they are cast on a foe.


*** AA ***

- Corrected an issue where the 'Buy All' button for AA Abilities was not properly checking remaining points and prerequisite ranks.


*** NPCs ***

- Headshot will no longer work on the wyverns in Cobalt Scar (Claws of Veeshan).
- The following incompletable hunter achievements have been removed:
- - Depths of Darkhollow: Hunter of The Hatchery
- - The Buried Sea: Hunter of Suncrest Isle
- - The Buried Sea: Hunter of Jardel's Hook
- Adjusted hunter achievement point values for Gates of Discord through Underfoot to better reflect their actual hunter target counts.
- The following hunter achievement now grants a title reward:
- - Prophecy of Ro: Hunter of Sverag, Stronghold of Rage (Rageslayer, and the Rageslayer)
- The following hunter achievement components have been removed:
- - Gates of Discord: Hunter of Qinimi, Court of Nihilia: Rarundel`s Memory
- - Gates of Discord: Hunter of Barindu, Hanging Gardens: Colossus of War
- - Omens of War: Hunter of Nobles' Causeway: a murkglider pup, Stone Thrower
- - Dragons of Norrath: The Accursed Nest: Protector Kanadin
- - Depths of Darkhollow: Adept Hunter of Depths of Darkhollow: Hunter of The Hatchery
- - Prophecy of Ro: Hunter of Relic, the Artifact City: a raging spellstream, a relic crushpile, a walking bone pile
- - Prophecy of Ro: Hunter of Sverag, Stronghold of Rage: Martihaz the Destroyer, Zaignoz the Insane
- - The Serpent's Spine: Hunter of Goru`kar Mesa: Lup Calea
- - The Serpent's Spine: Hunter of Blackfeather Roost: a harpy explorer
- - The Serpent's Spine: Hunter of Vergalid Mines: Vegalak
- - The Serpent's Spine: Hunter of Direwind Cliffs: Blackwolf, Direwing
- - The Serpent's Spine: Hunter of Icefall Glacier: a dire wolf pup
- - The Serpent's Spine: Hunter of Frostcrypt: Floe, Ice, Icefloe
- - The Serpent's Spine: Hunter of Valdeholm: tornado servant
- - The Buried Sea: Novice Hunter of The Buried Sea: Hunter of Suncrest Isle, Hunter of Jardel's Hook
- - Secrets of Faydwer: Hunter of Fortress Mechanotus: Oxidilus the Junk Collector
- - Secrets of Faydwer: Hunter of Meldrath's Majestic Mansion: Findlewill
- Corrected a typo in the name Chieftain Darkmaw in Prophecy of Ro: Hunter of Sverag, Stronghold of Rage.
- The following hunter achievement component names have been updated:
- - Prophecy of Ro: Hunter of Sverag, Stronghold of Rage: Chieftain Darkmaw
- - Secrets of Faydwer: Hunter of Fortress Mechanotus: Hardbottom, Recycler Union
- - Underfoot: Hunter of Kernagir, the Shining City: A Shop Sweeper (Trelinna, Lady of Pain)
- - Underfoot: Hunter of Kernagir, the Shining City: A Wary Guard (Sirana, the Knife Mistress)
- Additionally, all hunter achievement component names now use the same casing as their targets.
- The following hunter achievement components are now part of the following achievements:
- - Prophecy of Ro: Slayer of Prophecy: Hunter of Sverag, Stronghold of Rage
- - Prophecy of Ro: Veteran Hunter of Prophecy of Ro: Hunter of Theater of Blood
- - The Buried Sea: Novice Hunter of The Buried Sea: Hunter of Thalassius, the Coral Keep
- - The Buried Sea: Novice Hunter of The Buried Sea: Hunter of Jewel of Atiiki
- - The Buried Sea: Hunter of The Buried Sea: Dreadclaw
- - The Buried Sea: Hunter of The Buried Sea: Helushka
- - The Buried Sea: Hunter of The Buried Sea: Blacksail Bob
- - The Buried Sea: Hunter of The Buried Sea: Bloody Marc
- - The Buried Sea: Hunter of The Buried Sea: Jelly Bones Bud
- - The Buried Sea: Hunter of The Buried Sea: Tetraton
- The following hunter achievement component is now optional:
- - Prophecy of Ro: Slayer of Prophecy: Hunter of Sverag, Stronghold of Rage
- The following hunter targets should now reliably spawn:
- - Dragons of Norrath: Hunter of Stillmoon Temple: Jadewing, Wei Zhang, Stoneskin
- - Dragons of Norrath: Hunter of Thundercrest Isles: Fersama, Fumi the Vigilant, Gox Ironmaw, Hidekazu, Hidetada, Hidetora, Kafu the Turbulent, Kodama the Voltaic, Kunz Boomsetter, Mihoko the Rector, Minoru the Crafty, Ninsei the Tempest, Rinako the Stalwart, Sor Stormreach, Sugita the Vicarious, Toshiharu, Toshinobu, Yoshiaga, Yoshihiro, Yukari the Enlightened
- The following hunter targets can be killed in the given zone and correctly give hunter kill credit:
- - The Buried Sea: Hunter of The Buried Sea: Dreadclaw, Helushka
- The following hunter target can no longer be killed without spawning its adds, correctly spawns its adds at <=50% HP, and correctly gives hunter kill credit (and loot) when the loot granting add is killed:
- - Underfoot: Hunter of The Convorteum: Animated Lava


*** Progression Servers ***

- Updated Phinigel to be a standard live server instead of a progression server, and enabled free to play.
- Mischief and Thornblade now allow character transfers to Firiona Vie when characters have reached the requirements for transfers.
- Made the following changes to randomized loot tables on Mischief and Thornblade in Classic:
- - Moved spite golems to the same loot table as trash in Plane of Hate and Plane of Fear.
- - Moved the Plane of Hate and Plane of Fear mini bosses to their own loot table.
- - Removed the Plane of Sky azaracks from being randomized.


*** Miscellaneous ***

- Fixed an issue where %1 was being displayed when certain spells or combat abilities failed.
- Added a message when security locked accounts log in without LaunchPad.
- Added a message for all unhandled login errors that includes the error code.
- All heroic stats now have diminishing returns for values over 4000.
- Granted The Burning Lands for free to Test Server and live players.


*** UI ***

- Out of date custom EQUI_ItemDisplay files will no longer cause a client crash and instead will log an error.
- Corrected an issue where only 85 debuffs would display in the target window instead of the total 97.
- Invite all DZ in the guild interface now sends invites to people already in raid to the DZ.

- Changed -
EQUI_TargetWindow.xml

- The EverQuest Team