December 18, 2001 3:00 am

• Added tools to help us track serverside zone issues that have come up since the release of Luclin in an effort to solve some continuing problems.
• Orb of Lost Souls will now have a casting time.
• Geomantic Focus has had its effect changed.
• Fixed a problem that prevented Barbarian custom Velium helms from being visible to other PCs.
• Corrected a problem with horse acceleration and deceleration in extremely low framerate situations. Acceleration and deceleration now seem the same at high and low framerates.
• Fonts should display correctly, regardless of desktop settings.
• Hoober and his pet have returned. Yes, we used the singular... only one pet.
• The wind instruments "ivory horn" and "ivory flawless horn" can now be equipped.
• Added Beastlord Guildmasters to Firiona Vie and The Overthere
• Added several merchants to Freeport (North and East) to round out the availability of trade supplies there.

In the next patch, we are making a few changes to the monster population in Temple of Veeshan. Places that were previously safe to camp, may not be any longer. Please be sure to not camp deep within the Temple of Veeshan on Wednesday night, or you may be unpleasantly surprised following the patch.

We very much regret that the dramatic upgrades to EverQuest on December 4, 2001 has made EverQuest and all expansions incompatible with Windows 95.

If you are running under the Windows 95 operating system and, therefore, can no longer play EverQuest, and your account was in good standing as of December 3, 2001, you may be entitled to receive a refund of the purchase price for the EverQuest product(s) you recently bought and any subscription money paid for the period December 4, 2001 onward.

In order to obtain a refund, you may do any of the following:

(1) Call (858) 537-0898 M-F, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. PST (this is NOT a toll free call) or (2) Send an email to refunds@soe.sony.com or (3) Send a written request for a refund to:

EQ Refunds 8928 Terman Court San Diego, CA 92121

Please include in your email or written request your name, address, telephone number, email address and station name (but NOT your password).

You will be asked for information verifying your request and, upon the issuance of a refund, your account and characters will be permanently removed from EverQuest. Please allow four to six weeks for processing.

• The EverQuest team