January 11, 2012
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Here are the patch notes for this morning's game update (from the patcher):

    *** Highlights ***

    - Mercenary Roster Quest - A new tradeskill quest is available to obtain a mercenary slot for your roster by adding Hero's Barracks as a reward, if it has not been maxed at 4. See Mercenary Captain Cecille in the Plane of Knowledge. You must have mastered all basic tradeskills to take this quest.
    - The achievement "Master of Alaris" now grants Hero's Barracks as a reward, which grants an additional mercenary slot, up to the maximum of 4.
    - Players who participated in Beta can now Claim their reward!

    *** Items ***

    - Vyer's Stud is now usable by beastlords.
    - Prescient Fleeting Quiver now has 39% haste.
    - Rustic Coat of Carnage and Modest Warmonger Coat now have Sundering Discipline Quickening.
    - Rustic Coat of the Assassin and Modest Carnifex Coat now have Eradicator Discipline Quickening.
    - Empowered Trophies now have their intended graphics.
    - The Token of Fanfare should now be far less intrusive.

    *** Tradeskills ***

    - Some tradeskilled ornamentations were showing the incorrect icons. These have been fixed.
    - Soloist Ascension Sleeve Seal of the Warchief now correctly has String Resonance.

    *** Quests & Events ***

    - Mercenary Roster Quest - A new tradeskill quest is available to obtain a mercenary slot for your roster by adding Hero's Barracks as a reward if it has not been maxed. See Mercenary Captain Cecille in the Plane of Knowledge. You must have mastered all basic tradeskills to take this quest.

    *** Spells ***

    - Scent of Terris should now correctly modify corruption resists instead of counters.

    *** NPC ***

    - Krongar the Enrager may now appear after killing Rallosian defectors in the Valley of Lunanyn.
    - Prowlers in Beasts' Domain will no longer remain in the same spot where they lose agro.

    *** AA ***

    - Origin is now auto-granted at level 5 to all players. The reuse time has been lowered to 18 minutes.
    - Hastened Origin has been refunded, as it is no longer relevant.

    *** Achievements ***

    - The achievement "Master of Alaris" now grants Hero's Barracks as a reward, which grants an additional mercenary slot, up to the maximum of 4.
    - The achievement "Make Haste" for the mission "Secrets of the Stones" now requires the fragment delivery within 15 minutes, as intended, rather than 8 minutes.
    - Fixed a bug that would prevent the completion of the "Pillars of Success" achievement during the mission "The Growing Threat."

    *** Progression Servers ***

    - Sooty Fine Runic Papyrus is now dropping on progression servers.
    - Unfired Shade Summoning Figurine and Shade Summoning Figurine, for the quest "Vampyre Troubles," can now be combined on progression servers.

    *** Miscellaneous ***

    - Changed the default window size for EQ on a fresh install to default to the current desktop resolution.
    - Made a change to prevent out-of-memory crashes on 64-bit systems.  On 64-bit operating systems, EverQuest will now use 4GB of address space instead of only 2GB.
    - Changed the default display for chat filters to automatically hide SPAM marked messages.

    *** UI ***

    - Added the ability to tint any control a certain color from the UI XML.  The new property is called BackgroundTextureTint.
    - Converted the button tinting from the "Buy Slot" button in the Mercenary window to use the new tinting option.

    - Changed -
    EQUI_MercenaryManageWnd.xml
    SIDL.xml

    *** Previously Updated ***

    - Corrected a flag that was hiding Veil of Alaris type 3 augment spells on live servers.
    - Corrected a bug that was causing players to fall through the world in the air maze portion of the East Sepulcher of Order.
    - Sarith City - Rebel Assault - Experience for most opponents in the mission has been reduced.
    - Sarith City - Rebel Assault - Riago Barthes no longer summons extra sets of NPCs when spam-hailed.
    - Resplendent Temple - Two Sides of the Stone - The raid should now reset properly during the second phase.
    - Resplendent Temple - Two Sides of the Stone - Vision of Splendor should no longer heal itself during the second phase if all players manage to remove the spell “Filth” within the time limit.
    - Resplendent Temple - Two Sides of the Stone - The split portions of the event (Shadow/Vision) should now reset the raid if they are idle for more than 5 seconds after being aggroed.
    - Quests - Frostfell - The "a hungry predator" mobs will now return to their spawn points when idle.