Game Update Notes: October 18, 2017

• Stored AA points greater than 3 times your level will now be removed after logging out. The earned-limit remains 2 times your level. See the AA section below for details.

• Added kick skill damage to Darkened Cobalt Breastplate, Darkened Tolan's Darkwood Breastplate, and Darkened Wild Lord's Tunic. Added Tiger Claw skill damage to Darkened Wild Lord's Tunic.

• Restored the Brew Barrel, Jewelry Table, Kiln, Oven, and Pottery Wheel to the neighborhood.
• Corrected an issue that restricted the spell research table in the Plane of Knowledge to casters only.

• Doorstep of War (Raid & Mission) - Fixed a bug that could cause the 'You Be The Hero' achievement to fail if enemies are killed by certain spell effects.
• In Defense of Health - Fixed a text error that could mislead people into trying to kill things out of order in the Vile Brutes version.
• Edmuund's Plight - Icecore will now spawn in Frostcrypt.
• Key to Charasis - Reduced the chance for Chancellor of Di`Zok to spawn.

• Paladin - Modified the recourse from the Challenge for Honor line so that it will absorb incoming melee damage even if there is a Vie effect on you.
• Shaman - Extended the range for the healing portion of all ranks of the Healing Counterbias line to 300.
• Made the following improvements to the amount of aggro generated by spells:
• Fixed an issue that prevented abilities like Spell Casting Subtlety and Bold Attacks from improving the aggro of your first spell against a target.
• Fixed an issue that prevented abilities like Bold Attacks from improving the aggro generated by hate-over-time spells (Ex: Impose for Honor).
• Fixed an issue that prevented abilities like Spell Casting Subtlety from reducing the aggro generated by damage-over-time spells.

• Stored AA points greater than 3 times your level will now be removed after logging out. The earned-limit remains 2 times your level.
• You will now be prompted to purchase any available AA abilities prior to camping if you are over the stored-limit.
• Free-to-play members who exceed the stored-limit will be allowed to purchase abilities until their stored AA total is below the stored-limit.
• Added a 'Buy All' button to the Alternate Advancement Window which allows you to purchase as many ranks of an AA ability as you can afford.
• All - Moved Item Effect abilities from the General to the Special tab.
• All - Fixed a bug that prevented abilities that grant resistance to specific effects, such as Mental Fortitude, from working. Reduced the effective percentage of these lines now that the abilities function.
• Multiple - Consolidated Shielding Resistance, Sinister Strikes, and Slippery Attacks to be ranks of Ambidexterity.
• Multiple - Consolidated Quicker Damage to be additional ranks of Quick Damage.
• Multiple - Consolidated Body and Mind Rejuvenation to be rank 4 of Mental Clarity and an equivalent rank 7 of Innate Regeneration. The ability lines were refunded with this change.
• Multiple - Consolidated Natural Healing to be ranks 4-6 of Innate Regeneration. The ability lines were refunded with this change.
• Multiple - The ability line Tactical Mastery has been renamed Strikethrough.
• Multiple - Consolidated Fortify Companion and Companion's Agility, Blessing, Durability, and Sturdiness into a single ability, Companion's Fortification.
• The ability retains the passive benefits of all the consolidated lines.
• Activating the ability triggers Fortify Companion and Companion's Blessing.
• Companion's Blessing now serves as a preemptive buff that will trigger its healing and mitigation effects if your pet drops below 40% health.
• Multiple - Consolidated Companion's Aggression, Alacrity, Fury, and Wrath into a single ability, Companion's Fury. The ability lines were refunded with this change.
• Multiple - Renamed Companion's Divine Aura to Companion's Intervening Divine Aura and changed its functionality. The ability now places a buff on your pet that will trigger invulnerability should its health drop below 20%.
• Multiple - Consolidated Pet Affinity to be a rank of Suspended Minion and renamed the line Companion's Suspension.
• Multiple - Consolidated Pet Discipline and Companion's Relocation into a single line, Companion's Discipline.
• Bard, Rogue - Consolidated Advanced Trap Negotiation to be ranks of Thief's Intuition.
• Berserker, Warrior - Consolidated Ferocity, Flurry, and Punishing Blade to be ranks of Burst of Power.
• Cleric, Shaman - Refunded Extended Elixirs and reduced the level required to purchase ranks 1-3 of Prolonged Salve.
• Druid, Wizard - Refunded Hastened Recall and added 6 additional ranks to the Secondary Recall and Tertiary Recall abilities that offer hastening.
• Necromancer, Shadowknight - Consolidated Feigned Minion to be ranks of Companion's Discipline. The ability lines were refunded with this change.
• Necromancer, Shadowknight - Consolidated Deathly Pact and Intrinsic Efficiency to a single line, Embalmer's Efficiency. The ability lines were refunded with this change.
• Paladin, Shadowknight - Consolidated Flurry, Knight's Advantage, and Speed of the Knight to be ranks of Burst of Power.
• Paladin, Shadowknight, Warrior - Fixed an issue that prevented the buffs triggered by Weapon Stances from taking effect immediately upon changing weapons.
• Bard - Staunch Recovery will now restore mana for bards.
• Bard - Consolidated Allegretto of Battle, Flurry, Harmonious Attack, and Vivace of Conflict to be ranks of Burst of Power. The ability lines were refunded with this change.
• Bard - Consolidated Total Domination to be ranks of Domination Mastery.
• Beastlord - Consolidated Bestial Frenzy and Primal Fury to be ranks of Burst of Power.
• Beastlord - Consolidated Bestial Bloodrage to be ranks of Companion's Fury.
• Cleric - The ability line Righteous Zeal has been renamed Burst of Power.
• Druid - Consolidated Mastery of Nature to be ranks of Dire Charm.
• Enchanter - Consolidated Animation Empathy and Companion's Relocation to be ranks of Companion's Discipline. The ability lines were refunded with this change.
• Enchanter - Consolidated Forceful Banishment to be ranks of Beguiler's Banishment and Beguiler's Directed Banishment.
• Enchanter - Ability: Enchant Planar Alloy and Ability: Mass Enchant Planar Alloy will now activate at level 85 and 86 respectively.
• Magician - Refunded Hastened Heart of the Elements and added 7 additional ranks to Heart of Flames, Ice, Stone, and Vapor that offer hastening.
• Magician - Consolidated Frenzied Burnout to be ranks of Companion's Fury. Reduced the number of counters on Virulent Talon and increased the amount of damage done by Virulent Talon Strike.
• Magician - Consolidated Quick Summoning, Improved Reclaim Energy, and Intrinsic Efficiency to be ranks of Conjurer's Efficiency.
• Monk - Consolidated Ferocity, Punishing Blade, and Rapid Strikes to be ranks of Burst of Power. The ability lines were refunded with this change.
• Monk - Consolidated Tactical Mastery to be ranks of Strikethrough. The ability lines were refunded with this change.
• Monk - Consolidated Critical Mend and Hastened Mend into a single line, Improved Mend.
• Necromancer - Consolidated Frenzy of the Dead to be ranks of Companion's Fury.
• Ranger - Consolidated Ferocity, Lightning Strikes, and Punishing Blade to be ranks of Burst of Power. The ability lines were refunded with this change.
• Ranger - The ability line Keen Blade has been renamed Strikethrough.
• Rogue - Consolidated Flurry to be ranks of Burst of Power.
• Shaman - Fixed a bug that prevented Focus: Regenerating Counterbias from functioning.
• Shaman - The ability line Double Attack has been renamed Burst of Power.
• Shaman - Consolidated Pathosis and Extended Pathosis to be ranks of Malosinete.
• Shaman - Consolidated Wind of Pathosis to be ranks of Wind of Malosinete.
• Warrior - Fixed a bug that prevented Hastened Flash of Anger from functioning.
• Wizard - Consolidated Sustained Devastation and Hastened Devastation to be ranks of Frenzied Devastation.
• Wizard - Consolidated Hastened Fury of the Gods and Fury of Druzzil, E`ci, Kerafyrm, and Ro into a single line, Fury of the Gods.
• All ranks of this ability will now focus all direct-damage spells, abilities, and effects.
• The damage focus now scales from 75 at rank 1 to 3600 at rank 53.
• All ranks now increase base-damage rather than ranks 1-7 increasing total-damage and 8+ increasing base-damage.
• Reduced the hastening ranks from 3 to 2 minutes per rank and reduced the duration to 4 minutes.

• Added the /run command to make your character run if it isn't. This command is not toggleable (i.e. /run will never make you walk).

• Fixed a crash related to the Find Item Window and custom UIs.
• Added a new message to the server select screen that indicates when the server is too busy to process your login request.
• Fixed a crash related to the /pick window and custom UIs.
• Updated the spell information window so that it shows more consistent information when you inspect buffs or debuffs.
• Added the ability for spell descriptions to display links to other spells.
• Clicking on a spell icon from the spell description will generate a new link in your chat window. Press enter to share the spell in a clickable link.
• You can also right-click on any of your buffs and choose the option 'Link spell to chat' to generate a spell link.
• Corrected an issue where the advanced loot window sometimes wouldn't list group members in the Give to: and Set all to: fields.
• Corrected an issue where loot filters in the loot filters window could have duplicate item entries.

• Changed -

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• Corrected an issue that allowed flagged players to exist in Anguish but not enter it.
• Access to Anguish (Quest) - It is no longer necessary to get a hidden 7th flag in order to loot items within Anguish.
• Access to Anguish (Quest) - Fixed a problem with 85/15 access not working for Anguish.

• The EverQuest Team