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Here are the game update patch notes.
Highlights
- A new heritage crate, the Drakkin Heritage Crate, is available in the marketplace.
- The PVP flag can now be disabled on non-PVP servers. See below for more details.
- Increased the experience characters gain for killing NPCs between levels 109 and 125. See below for more details.
Items
- Added a cast time and recast time to Midnight Mallet and Ivandyr's Hoop.
- Fixed an issue where equipment sets would not load augments correctly if augments were loaded before a piece of armor. This bug will occur one more time after the next server restart.
- The Argent Clockwork Boar Saddle is no longer Free Storage. This mount can now also be sold back to Miacallie Herlsas in Tides of Time.
- Added backstab damage to Bestowed Dagger.
- The heroic intelligence stat on the Terracotta Torc has been adjusted to bring it in line with original intentions.
- Fixed an issue that allowed more than one augment of the same lore-equipped group to be equipped.
- Aspect of the Brood is now flagged as Heirloom.
- Metamorph: Menacing Samhain and Metamorph: Putrid Rotdog are now tagged Heirloom. Additionally, the appearance of the Putrid Rotdog should work much more reliably.
Quests & Events
- Priest of Discord will now allow players to enable and disable PVP on non-PVP (Zek) servers through dialogue and quest turn-in. Players who wish to enable PVP will need to turn in a Tome of Discord, while players who wish to disable PVP will need to turn in a Note of Order.
- The Earring of Rallos Zek quest line will now give all appropriate recipes, regardless of class, at each step.
- Oasis of the Jungle: Barrels will no longer defend themselves.
- Oasis of the Jungle: Altered the boss activation so that the task should always be completable even if steps are completed out of order.
- Broken Key of Swamps: Eggs killed by pets should now count towards progress.
- Oasis of Forests: This task should now execute properly if two skeleton pairs are the random choice for pre-boss NPCs.
- Oasis of Forests: Altered the damage and duration of Howl of the Undying.
Spells
- The Veil of Alaris teleports can be purchased from Grelulden if that character has completed the task The First Pilgrimage.
AA
- Required levels for enchanting Honed Reflective Emberquartz and Honed Reflective Luclinite have been adjusted
Progression Servers
- Corrected an issue where level locked progression servers were not using the adjusted minimum level of a shared task when checking if a persona swap should be allowed.
- Corrected an issue where trophies did not have their level requirement reduced by 10 on level locked progression servers.
- Corrected a bad check that was causing AA scrolls to be consumed when not granting the AA on level locked progression servers.
- Vaniki: Added challenge achievements for Night of Shadows, Laurion's Song, and The Outer Brood.
Miscellaneous
- The level-based experience modifier will no longer apply to experience earned from rewards and some types of quests.
- Increased the experience characters gain for killing NPCs between levels 109 and 125, inclusive. This change is based on the player's level, not the NPC's or the expansion. This change does not affect experience gained through other types of experience such as quests or rewards.
- You can no longer swap personas while holding items on your cursor. Additionally, items that overflow to your cursor are not destroyed during a persona swap.
- The /assist main/group/raid commands should now prioritize those roles over characters with names beginning with those words.
- Made speculative changes and improvements to pathing to try to prevent NPCs from pathing slightly under the world.
- Added several new loading screen tips.
- Updated the various chat messages when using /beta to be more accurate and to use the System Messages chat filter.
- Players may now persona swap in the Tides of Time base zone.
UI
- Added a Max Active Quests label to the Quests tab of the Overseer window.
- Switching between a fullscreen EQ window and other app windows, using the ALT+TAB shortcut, should work as expected on the primary display monitor.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the Mercenary Merchant window from refreshing its contents when the desktop window mode changes.
- The Combat Abilities window will now correctly update hot buttons that share the same reuse timer.
- The Video Modes window now updates its list of resolutions correctly.
Changed
- EQUI_OverseerWnd.xml
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Game Update today. Here are the patch notes.
Highlights
- Increased the maximum number of all Year of Darkpaw collection spawns to 20 (up from 10).
- Added a swag store category in the marketplace to give an easy link to the swag store marketplace.
Items
- Added the quest flag to the following Shadows of Luclin items: Taskmaster's Pouch, Zazuzh's Idol, Zherozsh's Ring, and Ssraeshzian Insignia.
- Quest flag added to Call of the Forsaken raid armor templates (Bracer/Gloves/Boots/Helm/Armguards/Leggings/Tunic of Suppressed Ether and Flowing Ether).
- Added a speculative fix for augments occasionally not saving to equipment sets.
- Fixed an issue where an equipment set swap would fail due to an inaccurate lore equipped group conflict.
Quests & Events
- Increased the maximum number of all Year of Darkpaw collection spawns to 20 (up from 10).
- An NPC will now return all items given in the trade window upon quest completion failure.
- The following achievement has been restored as the underlying quest has been fixed:
- The Hero's Journey - Cabilis Quests - Blood Ink
- The Hero's Journey - Cabilis Quests - Illweed Parchment
- The Hero's Journey - Oggok Quests - Craknek Hero
- Final Fugue (Raid) - Yarith will now cast all of her spells as she should. Previously she was pretty much doing nothing. Also, Firethorn's signature defense will no longer trigger on spells that cost less than 10 mana, so it should no longer trigger on procs.
- Slightly increased the amount of platinum players receive for some event rewards for characters greater than level 100.
Spells
- Corrected an issue where asymmetrical cone spells would hit targets between the wrong angles (mirrored over the y axis).
Progression Servers
- Trinket of the Center can no longer be activated before Heart of Fear: The Epicenter unlocks.
Miscellaneous
- Added a swag store category in the marketplace to give an easy link to the swag store marketplace.
- Added more details to the message you get when a character transfer fails.
- Optimized zone performance.
- Updated /autoskill to allow an additional parameter to force a skill to be on or off instead of toggle it.
UI
- Updated the minimum level in the Task Window to display correctly for Level Locked Progression servers.
- The quantity column of the Alternate Currency tab in the Inventory window can now be resized.
- Fixed a bug where in-game windows could reopen when the desktop window loses focus.
- Fixed a bug where the /copylayout window would open when the client is launched in maximized windowed mode.
- Fixed a bug, with New UI Engine display option disabled, where certain in-game windows, including chat windows, would not save their positions for each desktop window mode: restored, maximized, and fullscreen.
- Fixed a bug that caused container and other UI windows to close when switching focus away from the game client while in fullscreen mode.
Changed
- EQUI_Inventory.xml
- InventoryWindowAltCurr.html
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Game Update coming tomorrow. If you are looking for the new Tides of Time content, check it out here.
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Items
- Changed the icons of some gem items to match the color specified in the item's name.
- Inner Turmoil (Raid) - Fixed the 'Destroy the rubbish' effect on the Trash item. The cast and recast times were removed and the number of charges has been set to 1.
- Daily hotzone quest rewards for levels 100 and 105 now have stats and sockets.
Quests & Events
- Altered the way rares spawn in the Dranik Sewers, Catacombs, and Hollows instances. After killing a number of NPCs in the zone, the chance for the rare to spawn will be activated. They will not spawn 100% of the time, but their chance to spawn has been increased.
- Altered the way that Xenevorash spawns and activates so it will now be loot-locked.
- Missions from The Burning Lands that take place in Plane of Fire will no longer send corpses to the graveyard.
- Added a calendar event that highlights when the Extra Life bonus period will happen.
- Final Fugue (Raid) - The Tertiary Echo will now break Margator out of his spin and break his speed increase. This means that the 'Speed Limit' achievement can be achieved using this method.
- The following achievements have been restored as the underlying quests have been fixed:
- The Hero's Journey - Surefall Glade Quests - Gnoll Paws
- The Hero's Journey - Ak'Anon Quests - Tinmizer's Fabulous Compactor
Spells
- Shrink spells will no longer cause pets to grow if they are already smaller than the new spell would make them.
- Spells that triggercast the highest rank of another spell should no longer consume an extra Frenzied Devastation counter.
Miscellaneous
- Added the item quantity, item name, and sender's name to the chat message when receiving a parcel delivery.
- Auras will no longer cast shadows.
- Improved zone server performance to reduce lag spikes during raid wins.
- Reduced world server lag during raid events.
- Fixed an issue that caused the Expansion column on the Server Select screen to be blank for servers with Laurion's Song unlocked.
- Fixed an issue where attempting to enter a house or guild hall would send you to a different neighborhood.
UI
- Added a minimum height to the Task Selection window's list of offered tasks.
- Added commas to the DoN currency, coin, and Alternate Currency quantities in the Inventory window.
- Adjusted the default column widths of the Alternate Currency list in the Inventory window.
Changed
- EQUI_BlockedBuffWnd.xml
- EQUI_BlockedPetBuffWnd.xml
- EQUI_Inventory.xml
- EQUI_TaskSelectWnd.xml
- InventoryWindowAltCurr.html
- InventoryWindowInv.html
- main.css
Previously Updated
- In-game window positions should be as expected when launching the game, for the first time, with a maximized desktop window.
- Fixed an issue that was causing display device reset failures with a fullscreen window.
- Made a speculative fix to correct the game window's rendering resolution.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the client from opening a fullscreen mode window.
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Below are the July 2024 patch notes.
Highlights
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- The Thornblade server has been merged into Mischief.
- Sodden Staff of the Kedge's teleport to Dagnor's Cauldron no longer places players underwater. The new location is still potentially dangerous for players lower than level 15, but should now be less drown-y.
- Eye of Fear and all tiers of Rain of Fear armor template items (Dread Touched, Dread, Dread Washed, and Dread Infused Armguards, Boots, Bracer, Gloves, Helm, Leggings, and Tunic) have been flagged as Quest Items.
- The type 7/8 augments available from Miacallie Herlsas in Tides of Time will now be in Lore-Equip groups based on the predominant stat they give.
- Fixed an issue where "The Golden Pick" has been doing more damage than intended.
- Updated Beryl Hero's Forge Ornaments to drop in all of the hotzones. Additionally, there are new updated hotzones that can be picked up to level 105.
- Fixed an issue where Sienn Kastane doesn't respond correctly if the player did the the epic 1.5 pre quest.
- Fixed an issue with "The Rise of Marnek" quests not correctly registering the death of Skeleton L`rodd.
- Fixed an issue with the "Predators of the Sea" quest not registering the location of the goblin camp after the zone was changed.
- Fixed an issue with "Into the Leviathan's Lair" that wouldn't allow you to accept the quest with the correct amount of people in your group.
- Reduced the melee and spell damage done by NPCs from level 30 to 75 in heroic adventures, including the Tides of Time, that use the "Normal" heroic adventures table.
- Tides of Time (Heroic Adventures): Reduced the damage of spells cast within the Tides of Time. The level 60 range will see the most significant change.
- Fixed an error in the spell damage scalar for NPCs above level 120. This will result in increased spell damage in heroic adventures when an NPC is above level 120.
- Added a minimum level to Franklin Teek hotzone quests.
- Buffs that are too powerful for a mercenary will now be removed when it is unsuspended.
- Removed the additional rules acceptance dialog box from Aradune and Rizlona.
- Task replay and request timer chat messages will now show seconds remaining.
- Corrected an issue with the Tribute Gain Modifier not affecting guild tribute donations.
- Improved world performance when a large number of players are online.
- Weapons will no longer give a damage bonus if they are equipped but unusable.
- Optimized spell processing which should result in increased zone performance.
- Made performance improvements to the Tradeskill Depot.
- Added the option to use /who on a player by clicking their name in a chat window.
- Minimizing the game's desktop window no longer causes the client to become unresponsive.
- The game client's desktop window correctly saves its state when camping out by clicking the close window button.
- The game client once again saves the size and position of its desktop window immediately after manually moving/resizing the window.
- Updated the server select screen to fit a resolution of 1024x768.
- With the New UI Engine display option disabled, most in-game windows will now save their positions distinctly for each desktop window mode: restored, maximized, and fullscreen. Notable exceptions that are not yet fixed include: Main Chat Window.
- Fixed an issue where some game windows would reopen automatically after the player closes them.
- Fixed a visual artifact where the cursor would incorrectly display the previously held item.
- Reduced game hitching when using ALT+TAB while in full screen mode.
- Fixed a bug that unmaximized the game's desktop window if it was minimized.
- Fixed a bug that caused the game's desktop window to unminimize when it was deactivated.
- The game's desktop window once again correctly toggles between maximized and minimized state.
- The game client no longer crashes when spamming the WINDOWS+D key.
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Highlights
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- The server select screen has been updated to include additional information about each server. All servers now display the ruleset, current expansion, population level, True Box status, membership requirements, and a description.
- Enabled free transfers off Thornblade and updated it to Free-to-Play.
- The Ring of Scale expansion items are available in the Marketplace for a limited time on Agnarr and other servers that have unlocked Ring of Scale.
- Fixed a few typos in messages associated with the Lost and Found rings.
- The spell name attached to Summoned: Modulation Shard VIII has been fixed.
- Emerald of Abjuration, Tourmaline of Alteration, Citrine of Conjuration, Peridot of Divination, and Topaz of Evocation are no longer in a Lore Equip group, and are instead Lore.
- Lowered the level requirement to cast the Transfrogify spell on Transfrogifying Hoops.
- Ankexfen Regalia quest items are now Lore.
- Portho's Spore Pendant, Mycelium Amulet, and Fungal Chain now have Tribute values.
- Fixed an issue with the Traveler's Tapestry incorrectly saying that it was for North Qeynos.
- Adjusted the spawn rate on some older quests where the items would rarely drop.
- Springy Young Branches will be easier to collect in the Hills of Shade.
- Odd Looking Beetles should spawn more in Foundation.
- Tayla Ironforge only needs rescuing once. Her father, Brohan Ironforge, will only reward you once.
- Spymaster Gephes will be able to spawn as Fabled during the next Fabled event.
- Fixed an issue with "Trust is Earned, Outsider" in Timorous Falls not updating correctly when speaking with the paladins.
- Fixed a typo in Arias dialogue when starting the tutorial.
- Fixed the Korascian Warrens quests "Unusual Properties" and "Primal Terrors" steps to better clarify each step.
- Tides of Time, Year of Darkpaw - Oasis of Sand - The NPCs should no longer attack players during zone-in. They should wait until players take their first step into the room
- Speed Focus will no longer be overwritten by a refresh of Fists of Fury.
- Fixed an issue where spells cast by clicking an item failed to complete.
- Increased the maximum number of blocked buffs and blocked pet buffs to 60.
- Shadowknight - Updated the Class AA, Mortal Coil, all ranks, to show the raw value applied to base AC by the triggered spell in addition to the effective AC value.
- All Classes - Updated the General AA, Mystical Attuning, with 7 new ranks available from levels 105 to 120, that add an additional mystical effect slot per rank.
- Cleric/Druid/Enchanter/Magician/Wizard - Updated the Archetype AA, Improved Twincast, all ranks, to count down in safe zones and guild halls.
- Necromancer - Updated the Class AA, Heretics Twincast, all ranks, to count down in safe zones and guild halls.
- Paladin - Updated the Class AA, Blessing of the Faithful, all ranks, to show the base value applied to AC by the triggered spell in addition to the effective AC value.
- All Classes - Updated the General AA, Armor of Wisdom, all ranks, to show the base value applied to AC in addition to the effective AC value.
- Shroudkeepers have returned to the Plane of Knowledge.
- Removed the expansion and progression server restrictions on out of combat regen.
- Enabled free transfers off Thornblade and updated it to Free-to-Play.
- Backstab angles of attack have been restored to their previous arcs.
- Fixed rendering artifacts caused by TextureQuality settings of 2 (Medium) or 3 (Low) in eqclient.ini.
- The Terror of Luclin expansion is now free-to-play on Test and Live servers.
- Corrected an issue that caused same-level groupmates to receive different amounts of AA experience when killing NPCs in zones that they are considered too high level for.
- Corrected an issue with the final name reservation block displaying incorrect information for the next name reservation block.
- Corrected an issue that caused some teleport spells that landed on players while they weren't in control of themselves (such as from a fear spell) to move them to 0, 0, 0.
- Fixed some Rain of Fear Collection achievement components where the names did not match required item names.
- Corrected an issue where a name change could time out if the desired name was taken.
- Fixed various instances of the word "Crystallized" being spelled incorrectly.
- The display option to overlap the Windows taskbar once again works while in normal windowed mode.
- Updated how owned expansions display on the server select screen.
- Added the current expansion to the server select screen.
- Server status updates at server select should happen more quickly than before.
- Added a server's True Box setting to the server select screen.
- Now showing server status as Low, Med, or High based on player population instead of just "UP".
- The game's desktop window can once again be moved partially offscreen and keep its position, in unmaximized windowed mode.
- EQUI_BlockedBuffWnd.xml
- EQUI_BlockedPetBuffWnd.xml
- EQLSUI_ServerSelectWnd.xml
- Laurion's Inn collectibles will not be available on the Collection Item Dispenser until the next expansion unlocks.
- Tides of Time, Year of Darkpaw - Oasis of Sky - The spiroc novices will no longer respawn, preventing a level 100 novice from spawning.
- Fixed a crash while in the server selection window.
- Fixed a crash while using the character selection window.
- Made adjustments to allow more players online simultaneously.
- The Year of Darkpaw key quests now reward coin via the Achievement reward instead of the quest completion.
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