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April 9, 2019 _____________________ *** Highlights *** - There are no longer progression server specific spawns for Classic, Kunark, or Luclin bosses. These bosses now spawn at an accelerated rate on all servers, roughly twice the rate that they normally spawn on live servers, with a variance equal to a quarter of their respawn time. Fabled versions of these NPCs should now work correctly on progression servers. - A few new statless mounts will be available on the Marketplace when Luclin is open on progression servers. These mounts are equivalent in speed to silk bridles, and will go away when Omens of War unlocks. - The evolving items from The Burning Lands will gain experience from all NPCs, at least light blue con, in The Burning Lands that give experience. This includes Gnome Memorial Mountain. - Increased the range that direct-damage and damage-over-time spell messages are reported from 75 feet to 200 feet. *** Uncategorized *** - Fixed an issue with the Rallos Zek Puppet's name changing back after using a Potion of Familiar's Amnesia to change its name. - Tinzenwen Geargoggler has now been given the title "Overseer of Repairs" *** Items *** - Added the correct version of Soothing Breath to Transverse Yaw Stabilizer and Mana Battery Pendant - Fixed the spelling of Exceptional-Quality Scrap Metal - Removes the extraneous quest flag from the book Revenge on the Fallen. - Added a minimum level to trigger combat activated spells from a handful of weapons and augments that lacked an appropriate required level. - Added Cleave and Ferocity to The Burning Lands Cleric armor, and Ferocity to Shaman armor. - Added a chance for NPCs in some of the Burning Lands zones to drop Whispering Midnight Augments. - Added the appropriate click spells to the Burning Lands evolving ring and shoulder items that offer rewards. - Changed the cast proc of Ascending Sun Devotional Staff to Sympathetic Arms of Holy Wrath VI. - Beastlords - Minion of Darkness effects will now work on warders summoned between levels 56 and 75, when they previously only worked on warders summoned between levels 66 and 75. - Beastlords can now use the Gloves of Dark Summoning. *** Quests And Events *** - Bristlebane Events - These events will run for two more weeks in late April this year. The Mischief continues! - This Ain't Right - Bristlebane will appear when needed again. - Danger Zone - Player spells will no longer heal ballistae. - Dragon in the Works - Added an enrage mechanic. After 30 minutes of fighting the dragon will grow stronger. - Mechagnomic Whirlrender event - there is now an "enrage" mechanic. If the event is not defeated after 30 minutes new enemies will begin to spawn. - Fates Accumulator and Blazing Utopia augments now drop in all The Burning Lands raid zones. - - The chance of each of these to drop per kill is reduced. - Night at the Museum - Added a delay between when you get the warning the the roboboar is chasing you and the boar slams into you, allowing the target time to get away if they were standing next to the boar at the time the chase is announced. - Dragon in the Works - changed some of the warnings to use user event colors, and made the dragon immune to knockback effects. - Added loot to Consul of Cooperation. - The Mechanical Fortune Teller will now mention the cake-eating challenge if queried for details of 20th Anniversary events. - Trial of Stoning - Fixed a problem that was preventing the pitiless avengers from shooting the accused prisoners during the trial. - Removed erroneous particles from the mission zone for Defending Knowledge. - Unfettered Emerald Excellence - Made the following balance changes to this raid event: - - Lowered the boss's regeneration slightly. - - Increased the damage done to mephits by bane abilities slightly. - - Increased the amount of time between mephit waves in the final phase of the encounter. - - Increased the amount of time between armor suit waves in the final phase of the encounter. - - Decreased the number of mephit spawns per wave in the final phase of the encounter. *** Spells *** - DoT spells once again display a twincast message when the spell first lands, and no longer reassociate with their caster if they zone or die. - PVP Servers: Damage shield damage received from attacking players will now deal a maximum of 5% of the attacker's health in damage per hit. Damage shield damage received from non-player targets is unchanged. - Spell interrupts, fizzles, and reflect messages now contain the name of the spell that failed. - - Moved spell reflect messages to the spell failures chat filter. - Attached the correct recourse to the Hand/Arms of Holy Wrath VI spells. - Fixed the roman numeral in the name of Arms of Holy Wrath VI Recourse. - Beastlord - Ogre Beastlord warders are now a little bit larger by default. - Ranger - Corrected the name of the Irae Faycite Shard that adds damage to the Hornet Swarm spell. - Enchanter - Adjusted the stacking of Night's Endless Terror to better coexist with a number of other abilities. - Druid - Lowered the required level to cast Zephyr: Lavastorm to 47. Lowered the spell difficulty and price. Moved the scroll from Wanderer Frardok to Wanderer Qenda. *** NPCs *** - All racnors are now racnars. - Added coin to Gnome Memorial Mountain NPCs. *** Mercenaries *** - Increased some of the statistics of The Burning Lands mercenary items. *** Progression Servers *** - Changed the drop rate for the Blade of the Black Dragon Eye to drop for one month after Ruins of Kunark launches. - Ruined Blackburrow Gnoll Pelt drops have been restricted to the unlock of Planes of Power. - - Scalded Rat Skin drops have been restricted to the unlock of Gates of Discord. This will now only drop from rats in Dagnor's Cauldron. - Many quest items for Planes of Power era newbie quests no longer drop until Planes of Power has unlocked on the server. - Essence of Shadow, Moonlight, Sunlight, and Winter drops have been restricted to the unlock of Shadows of Luclin. - Quest drops for Escape to Norrath tasks no longer drop until Dragons of Norrath has unlocked on the server. - Removed many Planes of Power era quest items from low level zones. - Added the appropriate teleportation item to Collectors of Transference in the Nexus and Overthere on Selo. - Updated the dates for Legend of Ykesha unlock to run on the same day as the Planes of Power unlock on Mangler. *** Miscellaneous *** - Corrected an issue where /nod would cause you to disagree wholeheartedly. - Players who log in on their character's birthday will have a rainbow colored name for the day. Updated the /played command to include your age in Norrath. - Fixed spelling and grammar errors in the 20th Anniversary Achievement Challenge. *** UI *** - Using the faction window while shrouded should fail now, instead of crashing your client. - If a task rewards a faction change, the task window will now correctly link to that faction in your faction window. - Disabled the context menu to move the main chat tab into another chat window. - Fixed an issue that prevented audio triggers from matching text that contains formatting data such as spell or item links. - Messages indicating the start of a spell cast now include a link to the spell description. - - Fixed a messaging issue where non-song spells activated by bards would report as the bard 'singing' the spell. - Riposte messages are now reported before their resulting hit damage. - Added the ability to customize the color that chat windows are highlighted with when displaying a new message. - Messages indicating that a spell has worn off now include a link to the spell description. - Dealing direct-damage with spells now reports the caster as 'You' rather than your name. - The spell name in damage reporting messages will now function as a link to the spell description. *** Previously Updated *** - Fixed an issue that caused the Tsaph Katta Leather Ornaments set to glow neon blue. - Fixed an issue where characters would fail to create but the name would still appear in use. - Gnome Memorial Mountain - Removed chance that some items could spawn where characters could not go at the lowest level of the zone. - Gnome Mountain Raids - Fixed some errors that were preventing travel between the raids. - Gnome Mountain Raids - NPCs will no longer drop loot that they were not intended to drop. They will also not remain to hold loot between events that they should not. - Increased the AA experience rate on Selo. - The EverQuest Team

and updating your (non default) ui files

well we have next month's patch before we have to worry about it too

someone on the forums said it was "just 1 more" but would be nice to see for ourselves what exactly

they removed it, wasn't very much anyways

February 12, 2019 _____________________ *** Items *** - Corrected an issue where classes that were not plate couldn't claim the reward for several TBL evolving items. - Equipping multiple evolving items will no longer cause item experience to be split. - - Removed the evolving items tab in the inventory window now that the concept of 'active' vs 'inactive' evolving items has been deprecated. - - Evolving items will now display their evolution progress percentage in the lower left corner of the item's icon, similar to activated items with charges. - Swapping augments no longer requires a specific solvent and instead looks for a solvent of equal or higher level, like removing an augment. - Items with spent charges that are sold to a vendor now display the correct amount of charges remaining in the purchase tab. - Increased the proc rate of: Ascending Sun Arcane Staff, Ascending Sun Devotional Staff, Ascending Sun Mace, Bloodstaff, Breaker Bar, Divine, Bludgeon of the Inferno, Enraptured Bludgeon, Harmonious Tightener, Heavy Onyx Heart Scepter, Mute Spiral, Premier Staff, Ralaifin's Dogma, Rustdown, Secret Dawn Arcane Staff, Secret Dawn Devotional Staff, Secret Dawn Mace, Sun's Golden Orb, and Vanda glow - The Burning lands charm items will include Rank 3 and up evolving boots and gloves from that expansion. - Added disease and corruption focus to Ice Star, Hoarfrosted Bow, and Arc of the Saffron Sky - The evolved step of the cloth class Djarn's Platinum Amethyst Ring will allow a claim. - Added icons to Immortal Curio of Ondine Force and Elemental Curio of Ondine Force - Updated the descriptions of the Whispering Midnight Casting * spells on the items of the same name. - Corrected the reward set name for Golden Efreeti Boots on Silver Efreeti Boot. - The Burning Lands Evolving items will offer the correct items, and offer options if more than one item is available to your class. - Added spaces to the name of the recources of the Hand Of Holy Wrath # spells on healer weapons. *** Tradeskills *** - Sagacious Great Jade no longer sells Etching Tools - Released poison making components and recipes for the initial poison revamp when Seeds of Destruction opens. *** Quests And Events *** - The Conflagration Generals - Increased the size of the area that's checked when the bosses need to be near the towers. - Trials of Smoke: Trial of the Wending Ways: Falling down the center, and failing the Don't Trip achievement, gives a message. - Unfettered Emerald Excellence - Lowered the boss's regeneration slightly. Increased the amount of time between mephit spawns and armor suit spawns in the final phase of the encounter. Decreased the number of mephit spawns per wave in the final phase of the encounter. - Tyrant of Fire - The mission will no longer be in an unwinnable state if one or more of the adventurer NPCs runs away. - - Tyrant of Fire - Fixed some problems with text and messaging in this mission. - Remodeling and Delivery missions - an update to these tasks will not happen when speaking to Unrepentant Sunrise or entering the instance. This was a bug and may have been a cause of other issues in these missions. - Trial of the Ashes of Rusted Cliff's Glory - Fixed an error that would allow completion of the All Alone achievement when there were ashen elementals alive when Indomitable Onyx was defeated. - All raid events in Underfoot will now drop more items, keys, and backflag items. - Raid: Prince Ralaifin - Volcanic Billow Shards are removed from players when the raid resets. - - Raid: Prince Ralaifin - Volcanic Billow Shards must finish their casting time to activate a tower. - - Raid: Prince Ralaifin - When informing the raid who is safe from the billow, it should not add the new name to the existing name if there is more than one safe person. Each player will have their own line. - - Raid: Prince Ralaifin - All of the spiderlings will despawn on reset. - Skyfire Mountains - Ring of Scale - (raid) - Fixed a bug that could cause the Unhammered and No Outbreaks achievements to fail when they should not. - Brass Palace - Discipline of Flame will no longer try to target pets with Spreading Heat and he will shout his warning about it. - Trials of Smoke - The reward chest in the Trial of Three will no longer try to appear over and over again (though it was failing to actually do so). - Trails of Smoke - The Trial of Three will no longer reset after success - Contract of War (Raid) - The binding breeze NPCs will now spawn at the location of an adventurer near Radiant Fog Evening instead of a random person in the zone. In addition, the binding breezes will not choose to spawn at the location of the person tanking Radiant Fog Evening, unless there is no one else nearby. - The Rise of Smoke - Causing the mephits in the Trial of Three will now gain the power to cast their spells faster each time they are drawn out of their elemental domes. - Royal Visits - Fixed an error where Heart of Flawless Brass refers to the Aalishai as the home of the djinn. - Relic Raider - mission - When the elemental deep earth tell you that you are too close to the earth, moving to the top of the steps will now be high enough for anyone that is very short. - Sky Orchid Understanding in Esianti will now respond to [continue] properly. - Trials of Smoke - If you have a lockout for any trial, you will no longer be able to loot items from the chest for that trial. - 10th Ring Questline - Made the following changes: - - 2nd ring quest - It's now necessary to have the Copper Coldain Insignia Ring to receive the Dull Bladed Axe from Garadain Glacierbane. - - 4th ring quest - It's now necessary to have the Gold Coldain Insignia Ring to receive the Note to Tain from Garadain Glacierbane or to loot the Frozen Elixir. Handing the Note to Tain to Tain Hammerfrost now triggers the attack wave instead of his dialogue. The Note to Tain is now lore and no drop. - - 5th ring quest - It's now necessary to have the Platinum Coldain Insignia Ring to hand in the Ry`Gorr Invasion Plans to a coldain lookout. Only someone who has handed in the Invasion Plans can loot the Head of Scarbrow. - - 6th ring quest - It's now necessary to have the Obsidian Coldain Insignia Ring to loot the Note from Kromrif. - - 7th ring quest - Only someone who has handed in the Shackle Key and Mithril Coldain Insignia Ring to Corbin Blackwell can hand in the Mithril Coldain Insignia Ring to Dobbin Crossaxe. - - 8th ring quest - Only someone who has handed in the Adamantium Coldain Insignia Ring to Garadain Glacierbane can loot Chief Ry`Gorr's Head. Garadain Glacierbane now stays up after the attack on the Ry`Gorr fort much longer. Handing in Chief Ry`Gorr's Head to Garadain Glacierbane no longer despawns Garadain Glacierbane. - - 10th ring quest - Only someone who has handed in the Coldain Hero's Insignia Ring and the Declaration of War to Sentry Badain can loot Narandi's Head. - - Key NPCs that are being protected or escorted are now flagged as PC friendly. This applies to Boridain Glacierbane (2nd ring quest), Tain Hammerfrost (4th ring quest), Corbin Blackwell (7th ring quest), and Garadain Glacierbane (8th ring quest). Icefang (6th ring quest) was already set to friendly during its escort. - - Hand-ins can no longer be multiquested. - - Several dialogue triggers are bracketed that weren't previously. - - Fixed many minor bugs and typos. *** Spells *** - Paladin - Corrected bad descriptions for several spells in the Ward of Tunare line. - Fixed several spell scrolls from The Buried Sea that were not able to be scribed correctly. - Druid - Fixed a problem that prevented the enervation heals from the Remote Manaflux and Remote Moonfire lines of spells from landing on pets and mercenaries. - Enchanters - Corrected a problem that prevented the Arcane Disjunction Aura debuff from landing on most NPCs. *** Mercenaries *** - Made a first pass at improving level 106 to 110 Mercenaries. There will be further tuning in later patches. *** Progression Servers *** - Drowned Katta Castrum Powerstone is available when The Darkened Sea unlocks. - Erollisi Day - Fixed an issue that was preventing Gilbina from spawning while the event is running on servers that had not yet unlocked The Darkened Sea. *** Miscellaneous *** - Fixed a bug where typing /pick in your guild hall would send you to another location in your guild hall. - Dramatically increased the chance to gain skills when your current skill level is less than your class' skill cap from 5 or 10 levels less than your current level. - - Ex: A level 50 ranger with a 1-Hand Blunt skill less than 210 will gain skill at 16 times the normal rate. - - These bonuses do not apply to tradeskills. - The Broken Mirror and Empires of Kunark are now free to play on Live, non-progression servers. - Fixed an issue that could cause taunt to report that your target is too far away despite being in melee range. - Names that were rejected when creating a new character will now display more information about why. - Removed some legacy experience code so that experience-per-level is now uniform for all races/classes. Warriors, Rogues, and Halflings will no longer gain experience faster than other classes/races. *** UI *** - Fix an error noting no additional shared bank slots when logging onto progression servers. - Added a (Riposte) tag to hits and misses that occurred due to a riposte. - Throwing damage is now reported as a hit instead of a shot. - Updated the Alternate Currency page of the inventory window to include an expansion name and brief description for each of the point types. - Added the ability to change the color for faction links and messages through the options window. - - Also added a new chat filter for 'Faction Messages' to stop the overflow into the 'Other' filter. - Added the spell name and resist type to spell damage messages. - Strikethrough messages are now reported at the end of a hit message instead of in a separate line. The Strikethrough chat filter has also been removed. - Mana and endurance regeneration from bard songs will no longer incorrectly display the focused amount in the Stats window. - Made the following changes to DoT reporting: - - - DoT filters should be working again. - - - If the caster of a DoT dies, their damage will now be reported as being cast by their corpse. - - - If the caster zones or is charmed, their damage will be reported without a caster's name, and the damage will not be focused. - - - If the caster returns to the zone or is resurrected, these DoT messages will once again associate with them and be focused. - - - NPC's awakened by a DoT cast by someone who has left the zone or died will now display a message. - Changed - EQUI_Inventory.xml - The EverQuest Team

January 08, 2019 _____________________ *** Items *** - Duende Hero's Forge Ornaments will drop in The Burning Lands zones. - Altered the HP/mana-endurance values of Secret Dawn Gem of Vigor and Secret Dawn Gem of Brilliance. - Corrected the proc and casting proc on Ascending Sun Bodkin to the one-handed version. - Fixed an issue where Secret Dawn Compound Bow, Secret Dawn Longbow, Ascending Sun Compound Bow, and Ascending Sun Longbow were not granting the passive AA ability Prismatic Ward. - - Added the appropriate Disease/Corrupt damage focus to Secret Dawn Longbow and Ascending Sun Longbow. - Crystallized Luck is available on the NPCs that sell nobles. - The Torn Efreeti Boots and Tattered White Satin Gloves line will change worn looks to plate and chain as they turn more class specific. They both start with the leather/cloth look. - Increased the drop rate of Dark Elf and Bixie Hero's Forge Ornaments. Bixie Ornaments can now drop from the bixies in Bixie Warfront. - Fixed the icon and appearance of Fiery Quill of Rumination. - The Burning Lands items now have appropriate tribute values. - Removed the tradeskill flag from Primordial Pod of Water. - Fixed an issue where several ranks of the item effect 'Strike of the Archer' were not dealing archery damage. - Dark Water's Lifeblood, Flask of Evening Fog, and Essential Relentless Flames no longer look like bags. - Altered the hate done by some Breastplate click spells from recent expansions. This specifically affects Unleashed Fury, Demon Crusher, and Nature's Fury. - Corrected typos in the name of Lemon Breaded Primordial Filets and Purified Plasma Shot. *** Tradeskills *** - Updated the recipe for Secret Dawn Mace Muhbis to properly use Oval Cut Elder Mist Diamond and Trillion Cut Elder Mist Diamond. - Change The Burning Lands Purified Coal to Primordial Coal to differentiate it from the other Purified Coal. *** Quests And Events *** - Reduced the chance to get Mortal Corporeal Type 5 augments from NPCs and Chests. The primary source for these is the vendor. - Trials of Smoke / Plane of Smoke: The fling pad from the water room in the arena should land you in a safer location. - Task Sneaky Sarnak: Step 15th should spawn Lcea if she is not already up. - Fight Fire - Fixed a typo in a pop-up message. - Crypt Robbers - Corrected several NPCs that were errantly on the Damsel of Decay faction. - Prince Ralaifin: Raid and Mission. Prince Ralaifin's Enfeeblement and Prince Ralaifin's Softening now explode from the target instead of the boss when they go off. The raid versions of these spells increased in effectiveness. - Prince Ralaifin (Mission) - Increased the power of enemies in this mission. - Trial of the Wending Ways: This trial will no longer give the Appointments Required achievement if the trial is done out of order. - Prince Ralaifin Raid: The message about the Ralaifins filling with holly light will no longer display the 00 in the text. *** Spells *** - Fixed an issue that could cause progressive spells to fail to grant you their necessary component spells. - - Ex: Scribing 'Dissident Companion' could fail to grant 'Dissident Companion 1-5'. - Whispering Midnight Warding Fire, Whispering Midnight Warding Magic, Blazing Euphoria Warding Fire, and Blazing Euphoria Warding Magic show which damage type they protect in their spell description. *** AA *** - Poison Mastery AA's now state that they effect Make Poison instead of Tinkering. - Bard - Fixed a bug where ranks 9-10 of Domination Mastery were not extending the duration of single target mesmerization songs. *** NPCs *** - Sagacious Great Jade no longer sells Runic Sortilege Sheets or Fine Runic Sortilege Sheets *** Miscellaneous *** - Fixed a typo with the messages displayed when successfully picking a lock or sensing a trap. - Fixed an issue where some items in the Marketplace Window could not be inspected. - Fixed a bug that could cause the 'Add Funds' button in the marketplace purchase window to fail to work under certain conditions. - The game will now launch all external web pages in your default browser. - The default name of text files created when using the /outputfile command will now include a server name. Ex: Soandso_Test-Inventory.txt. - Added a hidecorpse alwaysnpc command, which hides current and future NPC corpses, but leaves player corpses intact. - - Corrected an issue where hidecorpse always would leave a phantom version of your corpse after being resurrected. - Entering a load balanced zone from character select will now send you to the least populated instance of the zone. *** UI *** - Charms will now display the correct luck for items when inspected. - Fixed an issue where you could not open the last two bags if you had 40 slot bags in every slot and had each of them open. - The Faction Window now allows you to sort entries by Reaction or Standing in addition to Faction Name. - Spell and combat ability resist messages will now include the name of the target (if you are the caster) or the name of the caster (if you are the target.) Additionally, the name of the spell will now function as a link to the spell description. - - Ex: 'You resist the Skunk Spray spell!' is now 'You resist a large skunk's Skunk Spray!' - - Ex: 'Your target resisted the Fireball spell.' is now 'A large skunk resisted your Fireball!' - Corrected an issue where pet damage wouldn't report at a large distance if you turned on other's hits. - Specifying an optional filename for /outputfile now automatically appends '.txt' to the end of the filename if it is not already specified. - Made the following adjustments to the Alternate Currency tab of the Inventory Window: - - Moved the 'maximum items in a stack' label and the 'Show currencies that you don't have' button down so that it doesn't overlap the currency list. - - Changed the Reclaim button to automatically reclaim the currency type on your cursor rather than requiring you to first select an entry in the currency list to reclaim to. - - Added a 'Reclaim All' button that reclaims all currency items in your inventory. - - Adjusting the column widths of the currency list will now save per character. - The speed of your target's name flash is no longer dependent on FPS settings. Added a slider in options to adjust the flash speed. - Changed - EQUI_AdvancedDisplayOptionsWnd.xml EQUI_Inventory.xml - The EverQuest Team

December 13, 2018 _____________________ *** NPCs *** - The four speakers that spawn in the center of the Speaker's Amphitheater will no longer crowd each other and will obey the rules and only take their places once the previous speaker has left. *** Mercenaries *** - Fixed Jann and Drolvarg Mercenary strings that displayed bad information. *** Miscellaneous *** - Many zones in The Burning Lands, Seeds of Destruction, Underfoot, and House of Thule now have load balancing enabled. *** UI *** - The Item Fuse Window will no longer pop up a marketplace window if you choose "No" after pressing the Fuse button when you have no Crystallized Luck. *** Previously Updated *** - The claim for Goblet of Adventure II and Shared Goblet of Adventure II from the Collectors and Premium Edition of The Burning Lands now give the correct and functioning potions. - Contract of War - mission - fixed a bug that was causing the bosses to disappear and break the event. - Virtuous Dusk in Stratos: Zephyr's Flight can now correctly remedy problems with a [reminder] about your dissident spells. - The EverQuest Team

November 6, 2018 _____________________ *** Items *** - If a player purchases item(s) from the marketplace, and all inventory and bank slots are filled, then items will now be placed in Item Overflow instead of causing the purchase to fail. - Added a new type of item, lore equipped items. Players can own many of these items, but may only wear one at a time. - Corrected the typo on the spell for Lifesoothing Potion - Corrected the spelling of several 'Crystalized' items to be 'Crystallized' items. *** Spells *** - Added messaging when a spell fails to hit a target due to being in a different environment than the caster. - Healing spells now report actual and potential healing to all players in the area. Added an additional chat filter option to turn off heals that land for zero. - Paladin - Corrected an inconsistency in the maximum targets hit by the Splash of Sanctification. All ranks are now unlimited as intended. *** Miscellaneous *** - Changed how guild data works on the server to help alleviate server lag. *** UI *** - Added chat messages for player summoned healing auras. - Fixed an issue where players with large bags could not open all of their bags at once. - The EverQuest Team

October 17, 2018 _____________________ *** Items *** - Fixed an issue that prevented Unwritten Glyph from granting the expected AA abilities. *** Tradeskills *** *** Quests And Events *** - The Master of Dreadspire - Mayong Mistmoore will now remember his entire hatelist and resume attacking them after the effect from the Burst of Dawn from the Glimmering Dawnstone wears off. - The Sathir Line - Slightly increased the health of Rile Sathir and Venril Sathir. - Hoshkar (Ring of Scale Raid) - Removed the four braziers on Hoshkar's platform to improve line of sight on the island. - The Kar'Zok raid in Kor'Sha - the assualters will once again drop their shields under the proper circumstances. - Proving Grounds: The Mastery of Corruption - Fixed the bugs that were causing the Wizard NPCs' scripts to not work correctly. - Atrebe Raid - Completely rewrote the way the reset mechanism works. Hopefully this will stop the random resets that have been reported. Note, however, that as usual you will have to engage the enemy to prevent event reset. - Talendor no longer drops his trophy, it is only available in the hero's satchel. *** Spells *** - Beastlord - Spiritual Unity, Stormblood's Unity, and Feralist's Unity now cast the highest rank you know of their component spells. Higher ranks will cast more quickly. - Ranger - Shout of the Bosquetender, Copsestalker, and Wildstalker now cast the highest rank you know of their component spells. Higher ranks will cast more quickly. - Ranger - Changed Strength of the Bosquetender, Copsestalker, and Wildstalker to single-target spells and reduced the mana cost. - Shaman - Fixed an issue where Recourse heals were casting their Watch components multiple times in some instances. - Removed the "Cast on Other" messages from all alliance heals. - Magician - Removed the "Cast on Other" message from Arcane Distillect Effect. - Shaman - Removed the "Cast on Other" messages from healing rains. *** AA *** - Multiple - Reduced the effectiveness of Double Riposte to 5% per rank. - Beastlord - Adjusted Pact of the Wurine to stack with the shaman ability Group Pact of the Wolf. - Beastlord - Burst of Power ranks 4+ now add a chance to hit one additional time when double attacking with a 2-handed weapon. - Beastlord - Consolidated Steadfast Resolve to be ranks 8-13 of Playing Possum. - Beastlord - Reduced the range of Companion's Sacrifice from 100 to 25 feet to fix a bug that prevented your pet from shielding you if the ability was activated at large distances. The ability now triggers Companion's Tether which will gravitate your pet to within 25 feet of you for the duration of the shielding effect. - Cleric - Modified all ranks of Celestial Rapidity to function for heal-over-time spells in addition to instant-duration healing and damage spells. - Druid - Adjusted Spirit of the Black Wolf, Spirit of the White Wolf, Group Spirit of the Black Wolf, and Group Spirit of the White wolf to stack with numerous self-only mana regeneration effects (Yaulp, Manaskin, and Pact of the Wurine.) - Enchanter - Crippling Aurora has been renamed Enveloping Helix and the ability line has been changed to trigger the highest rank of your Helix line of slow spells on multiple targets. - Enchanter - Dreary Deeds has been renamed Slowing Helix and the ability line has been changed to trigger the highest rank of your Helix line of slow spells on your target. - Enchanter - Added 3 ranks to Bite of Tashani and changed the ability line to trigger the highest rank of your Tashina line of spells on multiple targets. - Enchanter - Changed the icon for Noctambulate to match other mesmerize effects. - Magician - Fixed an error that caused the haste component of Theft of Essence to reduce instead of increase attack speed. - Magician - Removed the range extension from ranks 5-15 of Shared Health and added a healing component to ranks 5-8 to fix a bug that prevented your pet from shielding you if the ability was activated beyond its initial range. The ability now triggers Companion's Tether which will gravitate your pet to within 25 feet of you for the duration of the shielding effect. - Magician - Added a mana cost to all ranks of Force of Elements. - Magician - Elemental Union has been renamed Thaumaturge's Focus and the ability line has been changed to only focus magic based spells. - Necromancer - Adjusted Death Bloom to stack with the Manaskin line of spells. - Necromancer - Scent of Terris has been renamed Scent of Thule and the ability line has been changed to trigger Death's Malaise, your Scent of Terris spell, and the highest rank of your Scent of Gloom line of spells on your target. - Paladin - Fixed an error that prevented rank 2 of Blessing of Purification from triggering Purified Protection on your target. - Shaman - Ranks 2-13 of Pact of the Wolf now scale the buff granted to members of the shaman's group down to an earlier rank for lower level group members. - Warrior - Adjusted Heroic Rage (the recourse from Wars Sheol's Heroic Blade) to stack with the shaman ability Group Pact of the Wolf. - Wizard - Changed ranks 19-23 of Mana Burn to deal direct damage rather than percentage based damage and fixed an error that prevented the ability's debuff from blocking additional Mana Burn spells from landing. *** Progression Servers *** - Restricted merchants to only sell Mechanoinstructions (unless a player sells some) when The Darkened Sea opens. *** UI *** - Fixed an issue where zoning into some instances would display their zone number instead of their name. - Fixed a bug that caused messages indicating that a spell did not land because it was blocked by another spell to appear twice. - - Fixed a visual bug that caused spells that failed to land on a target because they were blocked by other spells to adjust the target's stats as if the buff had landed (when in all cases the target's stats were never changed.) - Fixed a bug that would cause the raid window to act as if you had disbanded from a raid when repeatedly pressing the raid invite accept button. - The EverQuest Team

basically same notes as last week with a few additions (yay new blue diamond icon??? lol)

September 11, 2018 _____________________ *** Items *** - It is no longer possible to use the Fellowship Registration Insignia while invulnerable. - Fixed the text in the lore tab for Erased Research Log. - Changed the icon of the Metamorph Totem: Summer Murkglider. - Corrected the spelling of Rustic Chandelier. - Updated the icon for the blue diamonds to better match a visual representation of a blue diamond. - Enchanter 1.5 Epic Quest: Fixed a typo in the book to say "...oil of a dragon" instead of "...oil ofa dragon." - Lore items can now be recovered again as long as you do not have an item of the same lore group in your inventory and you have not received an item from the same lore group since deleting the item. *** Quests And Events *** - The Sathir Line - Reduced the health of Rile Sathir and Venril Sathir. - Tirranun - Made the following changes to this event: - - Fixed a bug that completed the raid when the first stage of Tirranun was defeated - - Tirranun now switches from stage 1 to stage 2 when his health is lowered below 5% instead of when the stage 1 version has been slain - - All text now uses the Event Messages color and filter - Queen Velazul Di`Zok - Fixed a bug that could cause random NPCs in the zone to enrage instead of Queen Velazul Di`Zok. Fixed a different bug that was causing some of the Queen's enrage mechanics to occur early. - The Captured Portal - Killing the Guardian of the Sword will again increase Astire, the Lunar Eclipse's slashing damage mitigation. - Moved Talendor's Trophy from Talendor to a hero's satchel. - Talendor should leave a corpse when he dies. - Bow staffs and Bow strings: Updated to reflect the correct terminology, which is "Bowstaves" and "Bowstrings". *** Spells *** - Made a number of improvements to the way spells are processed in an effort to reduce zone processing load. - All - Made data changes to all rain spells and updated their descriptions to be more accurate. The spells should behave the same way they did before but the spell data will look different. - Cleric - Changed the level 6 spell Sanctuary to be a free target spell. - Enchanter - Changed the level 5 spell Sentinel to be a free target spell. - Magician and Shaman - The Malaise line of debuffs now has a greater resist modifier so it will land more often. - Paladin - The Challenge for Honor line of spells now has a base cast time of .5 seconds and a base recast time of 3.5 seconds. - Paladin and Shadowknight - The Withstand line of combat abilities will now absorb spell damage in addition to melee damage at an increased cost in endurance. - Shadowknight - The Challenge for Power line of spells now has a base cast time of .5 seconds and a base recast time of 3.5 seconds. - Shaman - Corrected an error Roar of the Lion that caused it to cast itself on the group for every group member it landed on. *** AA *** - All - Enhanced Reformation now increases your current endurance regeneration in addition to the maximum amount of endurance regeneration available from items. - Multiple - Ingenuity and Empowered Ingenuity now affect damage-over-time spells in addition to direct damage spells. - Multiple - Added ranks 6-10 of Innate Enlightenment for intelligence casters. - Multiple - Passive abilities that add damage to each melee hit have been changed to scale the per-hit damage based on weapon delay. This impacts Berserker's Juggernaut's Weapon Mastery and Juggernaut's Mastery of Throwing, Monk's Disciple of the Tonfa and Disciple of the Katori, Paladin's Valiant Blade, Ranger's Close Combat Mastery and Bow Mastery, Rogue's Weighted Strikes, Shadowknight's Bloodthirsty Blade, and Warrior's Merciless Grip. - Multiple - Changed buff stacking for spells and abilities that restore mana or endurance when they land to not conflict with other buffs that do the same. - - Ex: Swift Tail's Chant and Killing Spree will now coexist. - Bard - Fixed a bug that prevented Glyph of Arcane Secrets from functioning for bards. - Cleric - Consolidated Unfailing Divinity, Reaching Divine Intervention, and Hastened Divine Intervention into a single line, Improved Divine Intervention. - Cleric - Consolidated Enhanced Forgetfulness and Hastened Atonement into a single line, Improved Atonement. - Druid - Quickened Blessing of Ro has been replaced with a new ability line, Wildtender's Survival, which will trigger the highest rank spell you have scribed from the Survival of the Fittest line. - Druid - Reduced the base cast time of ranks 4+ of Blessing of Ro and all ranks of Vortex of Ro from 1.5s to 0.75s to match the quickening previously offered by Quickened Blessing of Ro. - Druid - Rank 2 of Flight of Eagles can now be activated on your own group without a target. - Druid - Removed the mana and cast time restrictions from Wrath of the Forest Walker. - Necromancer - Consolidated Willful Death to be ranks of Death Peace. - Necromancer - Increased the chance for lifetap spells to trigger Reluctant Benevolence from 25 to 30% and added a 15% chance for damage-over-time spells to trigger this ability. - Ranger - Fixed a bug where the damage-over-time component on all ranks of Flaming Arrows and Poison Arrows was dealing less damage than was intended and flagged Flames, Frost, and Poison of Kesh`yk to not twincast. - Ranger - Fixed the descriptions on all ranks of Scout's Mastery of the Elements. - Rogue - Increased the base damage modifier of ranks 5-7 of Improved Onslaught by 10%. - Shadowknight - Consolidated Willful Death to be ranks of Death Peace. - Shadowknight - Removed the 5 hit limit from Cascading Theft of Defense. - Shadowknight - Changed Presence of Fear into a toggled-passive ability, replaced the mesmerization and fear components with an intimidation effect, and reduced the proc chance. - Shaman - Activating Soothsayer's Intervention will no longer cause any memorized version of spells in the Ancestral Intervention spell line to inherit a recast timer. - Shaman - Ranks 3 and 4 of Lupine Spirit can now be activated on your group without a target. - Shaman - Fixed a bug where ranks 8-12 of Spirit Guardian were healing less than was intended and rank 7 had a lower reuse time than intended. - Shaman - Changed the illusion component of Pact of the Wolf to prevent it from landing on NPCs and corrected a bug that caused it to overwrite other illusion spells. - Wizard - Removed the mana and cast time restrictions from all ranks of Sorcerer's Vengeance. *** Progression Servers *** - Culturist Devari, a cultural smithing historian, a cultural tailoring historian, a cultural tinkering historian, and scribe Zikett will spawn when Dragons of Norrath unlocks. - The Shadows of Luclin gate potions can now be created once Luclin unlocks. - Quartermaster Grik will once again be available before Gates of Discord is open. He will not be a tribute master until Gates of Discord. *** Miscellaneous *** - The slash command /targetgroupbuff and its alias /tgb have been removed and its behavior is now implicitly enabled. - Fixed a bug with auto-hide afk that could cause some models to display as a default human instead of rendering them invisible. - Adjusted various UI sounds (like bag opening and looting coin) to be more in line with the rest of the game's sound levels. - Adjusted how re-leveling after death is processed in an effort to reduce zone processing load. - Fixed an error where you could not unpack your crate of eviction following server transfers. *** UI *** - The slash commands /alt buy and /alt buyall now use the same AA ability Group ID that the command /alt act uses, rather than an AA ability's individual ID. - Corrected an issue where loot messages displayed the quantity remaining on the corpse instead of the amount looted. - Corrected an issue where hotbuttons that toggle between two states would not change their name. - When loading into instanced zones, the correct zone name should now be displayed. *** Previously Updated *** - Planes of Power Progression - Fixed a bug with Grand Librarian Maelin's "lore" dialogue. - The EverQuest Team

September 4, 2018 _____________________ *** Items *** - Changed the icon of the Metamorph Totem: Summer Murkglider. - Corrected the spelling of "Rustic Chandelier" - Items: Mounted Blue Diamond, Faceted Blue Diamond, Fabled Blue Diamond, and Blue Diamond: Updated the icon for the blue diamonds to better match a visual representation of a blue diamond. - Enchanger 1.5 Epic Quest: Fixed a typo in the book to say "...oil of a dragon" instead of "...oil ofa dragon". *** Quests And Events *** - Tirranun - Made the following changes to this event: - - Fixed a bug that completed the raid when the first stage of Tirranun was defeated - - Tirranun now switches from stage 1 to stage 2 when his health is lowered below 5% instead of when the stage 1 version has been slain - - All text now uses the Event Messages color and filter - Queen Velazul Di`Zok - Fixed a bug that could cause random NPCs in the zone to enrage instead of Queen Velazul Di`Zok. Fixed a different bug that was causing some of the Queen's enrage mechanics to occur early. - The Captured Portal - Killing the Guardian of the Sword will again increase Astire, the Lunar Eclipse's slashing damage mitigation. - Moved Talendor's Trophy from Talendor to a hero's satchel. - Talendor should leave a corpse when he dies. - Bow staffs and Bow strings: Updated to reflect the correct terminology, which is "Bowstaves" and "Bowstrings". *** Spells *** - Made a number of improvements to the way spells are processed in an effort to reduce zone lag. - All - Made data changes to all rain spells and updated their descriptions to be more accurate. The spells should behave the same way they did before but the spell data will look different. - Cleric - Changed the level 6 spell Sanctuary to be a free target spell. - Enchanter - Changed the level 5 spell Sentinel to be a free target spell. - Magician and Shaman - The Malaise line of debuffs now has a greater resist modifier so it will land more often. - Paladin - The Challenge for Honor line of spells now has a base cast time of .5 seconds and a base recast time of 3.5 seconds. - Shadowknight - The Challenge for Power line of spells now has a base cast time of .5 seconds and a base recast time of 3.5 seconds. - Paladin and Shadowknight - The Withstand line of combat abilities will now absorb spell damage in addition to melee damage at an increased cost in endurance. *** AA *** - All - Enhanced Reformation now increases your current endurance regeneration in addition to the maximum amount of endurance regeneration available from items. - Multiple - Ingenuity and Empowered Ingenuity now affect damage-over-time spells in addition to direct damage spells. - Multiple - Added ranks 6-10 of Innate Enlightenment for intelligence casters. - Multiple - Passive abilities that add damage to each melee hit have been changed to scale the per-hit damage based on weapon delay. This impacts Berserker's Juggernaut's Weapon Mastery and Juggernaut's Mastery of Throwing, Monk's Disciple of the Tonfa and Disciple of the Katori, Paladin's Valiant Blade, Ranger's Close Combat Mastery and Bow Mastery, Rogue's Weighted Strikes, Shadowknight's Bloodthirsty Blade, and Warrior's Merciless Grip. - Cleric - Consolidated Unfailing Divinity, Reaching Divine Intervention, and Hastened Divine Intervention into a single line, Improved Divine Intervention. - Cleric - Consolidated Enhanced Forgetfulness and Hastened Atonement into a single line, Improved Atonement. - Druid - Quickened Blessing of Ro has been replaced with a new ability line, Wildtender's Survival, which will trigger the highest rank spell you have scribed from the Survival of the Fittest line. - Druid - Reduced the base cast time of ranks 4+ of Blessing of Ro and all ranks of Vortex of Ro from 1.5s to 0.75s to match the quickening previously offered by Quickened Blessing of Ro. - Druid - Rank 2 of Flight of Eagles can now be activated on your own group without a target. - Druid - Removed the mana and cast time restrictions from Wrath of the Forest Walker. - Necromancer - Consolidated Willful Death to be ranks of Death Peace. - Ranger - Fixed a bug where the damage-over-time component on all ranks of Flaming Arrows and Poison Arrows was dealing less damage than was intended and flagged Flames, Frost, and Poison of Kesh`yk to not twincast. - Ranger - Fixed the descriptions on all ranks of Scout's Mastery of the Elements. - Shadowknight - Consolidated Willful Death to be ranks of Death Peace. - Shadowknight - Removed the 5 hit limit from Cascading Theft of Defense. - Shadowknight - Changed Presence of Fear into a toggled-passive ability, replaced the mesmerization and fear components with an intimidation effect, and reduced the proc chance. - Shaman - Activating Soothsayer's Intervention will no longer cause any memorized version of spells in the Ancestral Intervention spell line to inherit a recast timer. - Shaman - Ranks 3 and 4 of Lupine Spirit can now be activated on your group without a target. - Shaman - Fixed a bug where ranks 8-12 of Spirit Guardian were healing less than was intended and rank 7 had a lower reuse time than intended. - Shaman - Changed the illusion component of Pact of the Wolf to prevent it from landing on NPCs and corrected a bug that caused it to overwrite other illusion spells. *** Miscellaneous *** - The slash command /targetgroupbuff and its alias /tgb have been removed and its behavior is now implicitly enabled. - Fixed a bug with auto-hide afk that could cause some models to display as a default human instead of rendering them invisible. *** Previously Updated *** - Planes of Power Progression - Fixed a bug with Grand Librarian Maelin's "lore" dialogue. - The EverQuest Team

August 7, 2018 _____________________ *** Items *** - Looting more than one item in a stack will now display the quantity. - Lore is now enforced in the item recovery system when gaining new items. Receiving an item while another in the same lore group exists in the recover tab will result in the previously destroyed item being removed from this tab and becoming unrecoverable. - Did a full sweep on items for item names and lore descriptions that didn't follow convention. Updated recipe name and spell name as well, where necessary. Fixed a number of typos in the process. - Fixed an issue that prevented Kapok Leaves from dropping on specific servers. - Fixed the name of many 'Bow Staff' items to use 'Bo Staff' instead. - Fixed the texture for a rock graphic that was incorrectly displaying as music notes. How's that for rock music? - Incarnadine Legplates now accept plate and chain Hero's Forge ornaments. *** Quests And Events *** - Corrected an issue where certain instances were missing a zone name. *** Spells *** - Mercenaries will now correctly report how much they've healed you. - Fixed a bug with /outputfile missingspells that prevented spells with no base mana cost from being displayed. - Ring of Scale Raids - Changed the visual of the hero's chest to help differentiate it from the chest that contains statted raid rewards. Changed name to a hero's satchel. - Drusella's Vault and The Sathir Line - Fixed mechanics that were intended to make the raids become more difficult after too much time had elapsed. - Drusella's Vault - Fixed a bug that could cause the event to start when there were no players in the zone. - The Sathir Line - Adjusted Drusella's pathing when chasing a target to be more predictable. - Hatchery Wing: Hatching a Plan - This zone now offers reduced experience and the inhabitants will no longer drop global loot. - Summoner Ring event in Kod'Taz (raid) - Made the following changes to the event. - - The Stoneservant golems should reliably spawn in the circle without falling under the world. For reals this time. - - The Stoneservant golems that don't drop Grand Summoner's Glyph items no longer leave a corpse or drop loot. - - The Stoneservant golems are now body type Construct instead of Humanoid. - Veeshan's Peak Access - Reduced the respawn time and added a respawn variance to the Swamp of No Hope and Kaesora Veeshan's Peak medallion pieces. - Innoruuk's Curse - Made the following changes to Marl Kastane: - - When given the Note to Marl, Marl will no longer despawn and respawn as a new version of himself with fewer dialogues and an inability to receive the Note to Marl again. - - When given the Blood of Kyrenna, Marl will no longer despawn. - - Reduced the respawn time and initial spawn delay of Marl. *** AA *** - All - Banestrike can now be triggered by damage-over-time and target's-target spells. It will no longer play an animation, particles, or sound effects when activating. - All - Made the following changes to Glyph abilities: - - All Glyph abilities now persist through death. - - All Glyph abilities now have 4 ranks which are available for levels 65-69, 70-84, 85-99, and 100+. - - Increased the cost of Glyphs to better reflect the intended time investment for each level range. - - Once you exceed the level range to active a Glyph ability, purchasing it will cause that rank to disappear and reveal the next available rank of the ability for purchase. - - There is no longer a differentiation between a Glyph ability granted by consuming a loyalty item and the same ability purchased normally. - - Consolidated the various Glyph abilities into the following 4 lines: - - - Glyph of Dragon Scales - Increases your base health, mana, endurance, mitigation, avoidance, and protects against spell and melee damage for 5 minutes. - - - Glyph of Arcane Secrets - Reduces the mana cost of all spells for 10 minutes. - - - Glyph of Destruction - Increases the chance your spells with apply critically, increases the damage of your critical spells, increases the chance you and your pet will deal critical melee damage, and increases the damage of your and your pet's critical melee attacks for 2 minutes. - - - Glyph of Angry Thoughts - Increases the hatred generated by your spells and combat abilities for 10 minutes. - - Adjusted the stacking of Glyph of Dragon Scales to prevent conflicts with other buffs. - - Adjusted the stacking of Glyph of Destruction and Intensity of the Resolute to prevent conflicts with other buffs. - - - Intensity of the Resolute and Glyph of Destruction should only conflict with one another and not any other ability. - Multiple - Gravitate and Fling abilities have been changed to work on targets up to 3 levels above the caster (up from 1 level below the caster), this includes Bard's Lure of the Siren's Song, Enchanter's Rune of Banishment, Monk's Moving Mountains, Paladin's Divine Call, Shadowknight's Hate's Attraction, and Warrior's Warlord's Grasp. - - Rare creatures and raid bosses are now globally immune to gravitate and fling effects. - Multiple - Hold the Line has been changed into a passive ability called Improved Recovery that increases incoming healing by 2% per rank and is now available to rogues in addition to berserkers, monks, and warriors. One additional rank has been added to the ability line. - Wizard - The buffs triggered from ranks 21-24 of Call of Xuzl (Gift of Arcana, Gift of Fire, and Gift of Ice) will now persist until they focus their intended element or fade to duration, rather than dissipating after a single cast. Slightly increased the likelihood that Gift of Ice or Gift of Arcana will be triggered. - Bard - Modulation Effects (beneficial spells that instantly reduce HP and restore mana) now function for bards. - Bard - Increased the base reuse time of Dissonant Chord to 9 minutes, added 4 additional ranks that reduce the reuse time and increased the max NPC level of the ability. Increased the duration of the ability from 6 to 12 seconds. - Bard - Adjusted Fierce Eye to reduce stacking conflicts with other buffs. - Beastlord - Added two additional ranks to Frenzied Swipes. - Cleric - Adjusted ranks 30-36 of Turn Undead to resolve some issues that were introduced when Smite the Wicked was previously consolidated into this line. - Druid - Increased the duration of Spirit of the Bear and fixed several stacking conflicts with other buffs. - Druid - Increased the duration and mana cost of Protection of Direwood and fixed several stacking conflicts with other buffs. - Druid - Increased the initial number of hits Wrath of the Wild lasts from 1 to 5, then up to 10 at the highest rank. - Druid - Changed Preincarnation to trigger the highest rank spell version that you have scribed. Rank 2 now extends the duration of your Preincarnation spells by 30 minutes. - Druid - Changed Blessing of Ro to cast the highest known spell in the Grasp of Ro line that you have scribed depending on rank. - Druid - Changed Vortex of Ro to cast the highest known spell in the Pillar of Ro line that you have scribed depending on rank. - Druid - Changed Spirit of Eagles to cast the highest rank spell version that you have scribed. - Enchanter - Adjusted Illusions of Grandeur to reduce stacking conflicts with other buffs. - Magician - Malosinete and Wind of Malosinete have been renamed Malaise / Wind of Malaise and will now trigger the highest known spell in the Malaise spell line that you have scribed depending on rank. An additional rank has been added for level 106. - Monk - The ability line Vehement Rage is now available to monks. - Monk - Fixed a bug where rank 1 of Ton Po's Stance had a reuse time of 10 minutes instead of the intended 15 minutes. - Paladin - Added endurance restoration to all three ranks of Marr's Gift. - Paladin - Activating Lay on Hands on an unfriendly target will now direct the heal to that target's target. Ranks 31+ of Lay on Hands now have a 100% chance to heal critically. - Paladin - Gift of Life has been changed to an area-effect heal and is now on timer 38 so it can be activated independently of Lay on Lands. Adjusted the healing values. Ranks 4+ now have a 100% chance to heal critically. - Paladin - Added the ability line Hastened Undivided Affirmation. - Paladin - Adjusted the hate-override value of Tunare's Grace and Blessing of Tunare. - Ranger - Adjusted the Flaming Arrows, Frost Arrows, and Poison Arrows ability lines to have a permanent duration. These abilities now consume mana when successfully triggering rather than constantly draining mana while the buff is active. The triggered effects from these buffs will no longer break root. - Ranger - Consolidated Scout's Mastery of Fire and Scout's Mastery of Ice into a single passive ability line, Wrath of the Forest Stalker, which increases the damage done by fire, ice, and magic spells and abilities. - Ranger - Added 4 additional ranks to Scout's Mastery of the Elements starting at level 80. - Ranger - Changed Spirit of Eagles to cast the highest rank spell version that you have scribed. - Ranger - Fixed a bug where the trigger chance for ranks 1-4 of Headshot were not consistent with ranks 5-31. - Shadowknight - Ranks 38+ of Harm Touch and ranks 37+ of Leech Touch now have a 100% chance to deal critical damage. - Shadowknight - Capped the potential mana and endurance return of Thought Leech at 150% of the initial return percentage of the base damage. - Shadowknight - Mindless Hatred has been changed to rank 1 of a new ability line Hastened Undivided Acrimony. - Shaman - Malosinete and Wind of Malosinete have been renamed Malaise / Wind of Malaise and will now trigger the highest known spell in the Malaise spell line that you have scribed depending on rank. The Pathosis component has been changed to trigger the highest known spell in the Putrid Decay spell line that you have scribed depending on rank. Additional ranks have been added for levels 106 and 107. - Shaman - Consolidated Spirit Walk and Group Spirit Walk into a single line named Lupine Spirit, which will now cast Spirit of Wolf, Spirit of Bih`Li, or Spirit of Tala'Tak on your target's group based on rank. - Shaman - Turgur's Swarm now triggers the standard spell form of Turgur's Insects in addition to Turgur's Diminishment. - Shaman - Consolidated Crippling Apparition, Crippling Spirit, and Tigir's Insect Swarm into a single line, Turgur's Virulent Swarm. This ability triggers the standard spell form of Turgur's Insects in addition to Turgur's Diminishment on multiple creatures around your target. - Shaman - Changed Preincarnation to trigger the highest rank spell version that you have scribed. Rank 2 now extends the duration of your Preincarnation spells by 30 minutes. - Shaman - Activating Pact of the Wolf now triggers an aura that buffs your group with Group Pact of the Wolf. Increased the health and mana offered by the self and group buffs and added a maximum endurance component. - Shaman - Group Pact of the Wolf has been replaced with a new ability line, Soothsayer's Intervention, which will trigger the highest rank spell you have scribed from the Ancestral Intervention line. - Warrior - Removed the hatelist-override component of Warlord's Grasp. - Warrior - Renamed Hastened Unbroken Attention to Hastened Undivided Attention and added 2 additional ranks to the ability. *** NPCs *** - Drachnids across Norrath, celebrate by shaking your spinnerets! In classic zones, drachnids have reverted to their classic appearance. - Rare creatures and raid bosses are now globally immune to gravitate and fling effects. *** Progression Servers *** - The research recipe to create Remove Greater Curse now requires The Serpent's Spine. - The Artisan Essence for the level 7 tradeskill trophies will now combine when Prophecy of Ro is open. - Quartermaster Grik will be available pre Gates of Discord. He will not be a tribute master until Gates of Discord. - Consigned items in the marketplace are available once Kunark unlocks. The maximum level of items you receive should no longer exceed the current level cap. - Froglok Monk NPCs will no longer appear in the Rathe Mountains until Call of the Forsaken has been activated on that server. - Wood Elf Beastlord NPCs will no longer appear in Greater Faydark until Call of the Forsaken has been activated on that server. *** Miscellaneous *** - Fixed an issue where NPCs would not consistently attribute proper hate for casters of beneficial spells that have hate override values. - - Ex: The healing component of the Paladin spell Valiant Defense will now generate the intended amount of hatred. - Berserker - Removed the push from the additional attacks that occur when activating the Frenzy skill. The push generated from the initial attack is unchanged. - Monk - Removed the push from the additional attacks that occur when the AA ability Technique of Master Wu is applied to skill attacks. The push generated from the initial attack is unchanged. - Bash attacks that do not deal damage and do not stun the target will no longer have an 80% chance to interrupt the target's spell casting. - Made the following changes to root spells: - - Reduced the likelihood that direct-damage spells will break root on a target. - - The chance for direct-damage spells to break root is now further reduced if you are a higher level than your target. - - Archery and throwing attacks now have a small chance to break root. - - Hitting yourself with a direct-damage spell will no longer roll a chance to break root/snare. - Fixed a client crash issue when trying to login to a zone that isn't running from character select. - Corrected some Out of Combat timer inaccuracies. - Changing your volume while in range of a sound will no longer cause the volume to jump unexpectedly. - Fixed a bug where social animations were not properly checking if they could run by default. - Re-enabled voice chat. - Traps will now scale accordingly in Heroic Adventures. - Made pathing improvements within some of the buildings in the Ring of Scale Overthere zone. - Updated the pathing in Crescent Reach to coincide with some minor geometry changes to the zone. *** UI *** - Removed the message "You haven't recovered yet..." when attempting to cast a spell before recast timers have completed. - Added new chat filters for heals, damage over time spells, direct damage spells, and songs. - Archery damage is now reported as shots instead of hits, and double bow shots are indicated at the end of the same line. - Made the message on deleting trial heroic characters more clear. - Raid invites will now properly send to players who are zoning. - The ESC to Close option on the in-game Marketplace window now functions correctly. - Changed - EQUI_MarketplaceWnd.xml EQUI_PurchaseWnd.xml - The EverQuest Team

July 10, 2018 _____________________ *** Items *** - Fixed several bugs with the focus effects from Sebilis Hardcore Heritage breastplates. - Changed a number of fishing pole items to be unbreakable. Fishing poles that have a chance to break when used now display the Expendable flag when inspected. - Augments can now be removed with distillers of greater rank than the one specified. For example, an augment requiring a Class V Augmentation Distiller to be removed can also be removed with a Class XI Augmentation Distiller. The system will start with the lowest possible rank distiller and move upwards until it finds an applicable distiller. Augments requiring a unique distiller (like the Small Gem Glue Solvent) will still need that specific distiller or the Perfected Augment Distiller to be removed. - Horn of Unity - Adjusted spell stacking for Blessing of Unity to reduce the number of other buffs it conflicts with. - If one of new augment based ornaments made from the old container based ornaments is attunable, it is now also tradable on Free Trade servers. - Fixed the mixed up descriptive text for the various Rallosian Ornamentations. - Bottle of Clarity Pack will give out the appropriate level potions from level 30 to 60. - Removed the no longer required spells from Bottle of Healing Pack, Bottle of Clarity Pack, Bottle of Alacrity Pack, Bottle of Spirits Pack, and Bottle of Replenishment Pack. These items now allow you to preview the potion you will get from them. - Darkened Coif of Wrath is now a head item. - Darkened Sleeves of Wrath is now an arms item. - Removed the endurance cost from Rousing Zeal, Soothing Zeal, Rousing Consumption, and Consuming Zeal, the click effect on some Paladin and Shadowknight Breastplates. - Hero's Forge ornaments can now be placed in Donal's Vambraces of Mourning. *** Quests And Events *** - Fixed an issue that caused some characters not to have credit for tasks that they had previously completed but cannot repeat. - Under the Robe - Arsin the Blaze should be spawning properly in this errand. Note that he will not spawn 100% of the time. - The Handmaiden - Render should be spawning properly in this errand. Note that he will not spawn 100% of the time. - Sathir's Tomb (Raids) - Pets will no longer attempt to open or close the hallway doors in the tomb. - The Silent Schism - Spells that do not have a mana cost will no longer cause the achievement 'Burn the Heretics' to fail. - Drusella's Vault - The Whirlwind Slash cast by the animated bladestorms should now sync up better with the warning aura disappearing. - Melalafen is no longer a required target for the achievement Conquerer of The Western Wastes. - Made several changes to Frostcrypt Raids: - - Beltron will no longer leave his room. - - Harfang will no longer leave his room. - - Hearol the Tactician will now clear detrimental spells when he teleports away. - - Shades of Calm - the meditating shades will engage more often now. - - Construction of Shadows should work properly now. *** Spells *** - Fixed a bug that caused Sanctuary buffs to drop when consuming some types of potions. - Items, Familiars, and Glyphs that previously conflicted with the Wild Growth line of spells will no longer have stacking conflicts. - Druid - Adjusted Pack Regeneration, Pack Chloroplast, Regrowth of the Grove, Oaken Vigor, and Blessing of Oak so that they match other regeneration spells and gain power as the caster gains levels. - Added a message and chat filter when you or others take damage from auras. *** AA *** - Numerous abilities that can only be obtained by completing quests or as achievement rewards will now display in the AA window prior to obtaining rank 1. The descriptions for these abilities have been updated to include information on how to obtain them. - All - Banestrike has been changed to a passive ability that triggers off of melee attacks, ranged attacks, and direct-spell damage. - All - Consolidated ranks 1-3 of Hastened Banestrike to be ranks 2-4 of Banestrike. - Melee Classes - Adjusted the bonuses granted by Innate Darkblade, Duelist, Fellstrike, Fury, Holyblade, Innerflame, Natureblade, Rage, and Songblade. Reduced the bonuses granted by these lines for levels 40-80 and increased the bonuses for levels 85-110. - Bard - Fixed a bug where A Tune Stuck In Your Head was extending the duration of Vainglorious Shout. - Berserker - Removed the hit limit from Blood Sustenance. - Enchanter - Fixed a bug that prevented Rank 8 of Color Shock from functioning. - Monk - Doubled the duration for all ranks of Swift Tails' Chant. - Monk - Significantly increased the effectiveness and endurance cost for all ranks of Ton Po's Stance. - Ranger - Reduced the base damage of all ranks of Headshot and increased the maximum melee damage cap from 750k to 6m. This should result in critical Headshot attacks dealing significantly more damage than before. - Shadowknight - Removed the hit limits from melee leech effects and removed the 8% chance for Mortal Coil to trigger Mortal Residue. *** NPCs *** - Many Chest NPCs that were body type Humanoid, Magical, or Undead are now body type Construct. - All raid bosses should be able to mitigate heroic effects more equally. Previously some bosses were much weaker than their counterparts. - Sul Vius Life - Party goers will no longer be so aggressive toward visitors. - Assistant T'os has returned to dry land. - Marcia Attamilgad has located a few new items for her stash. We're not asking questions. *** Progression Servers *** - Bottle of Health Pack, Bottle of the Ursine Pack, Bottle of the Avian Pack, and Bottle of the Cetacean Pack will now create potions with actual effects on progression servers. - Progression Server instances given by Agents of Change will no longer send characters into the instance if too low level. - The "Voice of *" NPCs in Veeshan's Peak are no longer charmable. - The books to make Exalted Cultural Symbols are available when The Serpent's Spine expansion unlocks. - Slayer achievements and the Banestrike AA ability are no longer restricted to Rain of Fear. *** Miscellaneous *** - Trial heroic characters can once again be deleted. - Added an on/off argument to autofire. This does not change current functionality, it just allows you to specify on or off. - Bard - The /melody command will no longer be interrupted when attempting to sing a targeted song without a target, a song with no cast-time (Alliance of Sticks and Stones), or a song that costs more mana than the bard has available. - This forage button no longer gets into a "stuck", unusable state when zoning. If it would have been stuck, it may not be in a receptive state, but will follow up with a warning message and re-computation of the timer. - Improved the classic Giant's ability to hold weapons in its left hand. *** UI *** - The group window should no longer show group information to players if the group is disbanded or they are removed and/or leave. - The EverQuest Team