August 10, 2011
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Here are the patch notes from this morning's game update (taken from the patcher):

    *** Highlights ***

    - Seek out Meeka Gharn in the Plane of Knowledge and learn of an ancient book thought to lead to many treasures.
    - Rare NPCs in "House of Thule" now drop tradable large bags.
    - The Dwarven Axe, Dwarven Two-Handed Axe, Bloodruned Mallet, and Fellwinter can now be placed in your house.
    - The click effects on Shellscale Bone Fetish Necklace, Silbacle's Rosary of Conquest, and Carved Bone of the Nighthowler no longer share a timer with Geomantra click effects.

    *** Items ***

    - The Dwarven Axe, Dwarven Two-Handed Axe, Bloodruned Mallet, and Fellwinter can now be placed in your house.
    - Rare NPCs in "House of Thule" now drop tradable large bags.
    - The click effects on Shellscale Bone Fetish Necklace, Silbacle's Rosary of Conquest, and Carved Bone of the Nighthowler no longer share a timer with Geomantra click effects.
    - All items with a Geomantra click effect now share a timer.
    - The Bard Arpeggio breastplate spells now have a limited number of counters for the melee damage they provide.
    - Hardcore Heritage chest armor no longer has type 15 augment slots. These were removed because the items do not support emblems.
    - The Lump of Obsidian's unusable augment slot has been removed.
    - Fixed a preview window bug that "locked" an item into place when the viewing angle was rotated all the way to the top or bottom of the item.

    *** Tradeskills ***

    - Many additional tradeskill components have been marked as ALL/ALL.

    *** Quests & Events ***

    - Seek out Meeka Gharn in the Plane of Knowledge and learn of an ancient book thought to lead to many treasures.
    - "Librarian's Nightmare" - You will no longer have to restart the event if the person carrying the Words of Opening dies before turning it in.
    - "At World's End" - Fixed an issue that would cause the event to to reset improperly if players failed at the ice giant fight.

    *** Progression Servers ***

    - Certain tradeskill research recipes are no longer available too early on Progression Servers.

    *** Marketplace ***

    - Fixed a bug that caused Potion of Companion Amnesia and Potion of Mercenary Amnesia to not function correctly.
    - Items that are on the marketplace or on sale for a limited time now display a timer.

    *** Miscellaneous ***

    - Fixed a bug that caused large zone lag spikes when doing player trades with large stacks of items.
    - Pets and mercenaries will no longer try (and fail) to follow you while you are on a boat.  They will wait at the dock until you disembark before teleporting to you.
    - If you die while on a boat, your corpse will now be moved to the safe point in the zone.

    *** Test Server ***

    - Playing on the test server now grants loyalty crowns over time.  You need to be actively playing to receive loyalty crowns.
    - The Test server is now set to begin and end events two weeks before they will happen on live servers.
    - Alternate currency and some disallowed spell components can now be copied when a player uses the /testcopy command.

    *** UI ***

    - Changed -
    - EQUI_BarterSearchWnd.xml
    - EQUI_EQMainWnd.xml
    - EQUI_MarketplaceWnd.xml

    *** Previously Updated ***

    - Fixed an issue with barter search window where it forgets the vertical size of one of the panes and doesn't display it at all.

    - Changed -
    - EQUI_BarterSearchWnd.xml


    - The EverQuest Team