Game Update Notes: March 13, 2019 --------------------------------- *** Highlights *** - Added tabs to chat windows. See the UI section for more details. - Look to the Marketplace this month for the Gnomish Heritage Crate. Each crate contains a random item. Trade these Gnomish Heritage items to your friends or collect them all yourself! - Added new emotes. See Miscellaneous for more information below. - Updated the appearance of the Gloomingdeep Mines. - This Saturday the 16th, keep an eye out for brand new progression servers and new content featuring: Gnome Memorial Mountain! *** Items *** - Corrected the spell description of Drogan Goblin Familiar. - The evolving Efreeti Boots and White Satin Gloves will now accept Hero's Forge ornaments in their evolved state. - Look to the Marketplace this month for the Gnomish Heritage Crate. Each crate contains a random item. Trade these Gnomish Heritage items to your friends or collect them all yourself! - Corrected the cast proc on Bloodstaff to the higher damage Sympathetic Blaze of Fire VI. - Corrected both the proc and cast proc on Deep Cavern's Shard to the lesser Spike of Corruption VIII. - As a temporary solution until the core issues with real estate items can be solved we've implemented the following functionality for real estate anchors: - - Activating a Primary Anchor Transport Device or Secondary Anchor Transport Device without possessing the corresponding Anchor item will now give you a replacement Anchor. - - Druids and wizards whose Guild Hall Anchor has gone missing will be granted a replacement when logging in. *** Tradeskills *** - Secret Dawn Mace Muhbis will now return Trillion Cut Elder Mist Diamond and Oval Cut Elder Mist Diamond on failure. *** Quests And Events *** - Celestial Fists (Monk Epic) - The spawn in Karnor's Castle that has a chance to be a drolvarg pawbuster no longer shares an encounter with a drolvarg warlord. The remaining spawns in the room have a higher chance of being a drolvarg warlord. - Prince Ralaifin (Mission) - A Giant Lapillus Lava Spiderling no longer summons. - Lost but Not Forgotten - Added an out of character message when speaking to Dismas Kaneriti that indicates that Lost but Not Forgotten is a two group mission. - Death, Death, Death - This event will be available for four weeks a year now, up from two. - Unfettered Emerald Excellence - Removed particle effects from Unbearable Heat and Magnificent Presence. - Fight Fire - Fixed an issue that prevented the Leading a Charmed Life achievement from completing. - Delivery - The Duende Female Mold is no longer lost upon zoning. - Defending Knowledge - Fixed a problem that prevented the horn from appearing near Bjerg Sen the Tranquil. *** Spells *** - Changed Whispering Midnight Casting Fire, Whispering Midnight Casting Magic, Blazing Euphoria Casting Fire, and Blazing Euphoria Casting Magic to only work with spells that do damage. - Corrected the spell description for Hand of Holy Wrath VI. - Corrected a rounding error that caused critical spells to deal one less point of damage/healing than intended. - Percentage heal spells now display their name in healing messages. *** AA *** - Improved the rate that mercenary alternate advancement experience is gained. - - The mercenary AA experience granted by completing Clayton Teek's daily bonus tasks has been extended to cover levels 106-110. *** Progression Servers *** - Updated the expansion unlock dates for The Broken Mirror and onward to reflect the normal extra time in The Darkened Sea for a level increase expansion. *** Miscellaneous *** - The water in Trials of Smoke is now also stocked with Primordial Lion Fish. - Added the following new emotes: /airlute, /facepalm, /faint, /fight, /fistbump, /freakout, /growl, /maybe, /no, /pie, /pizza, /rps, /ttth, and /yes. - Fixed a bug when looting items in a raid that would display the number of items remaining on the body rather than the number of items looted. - Fixed an issue where the event calendar would report that events end 59 minutes later than their actual end time. - Corrected an issue where melee attacks against slain targets would sometimes report as misses. - Updated the appearance of the Gloomingdeep Mines. - Updated various character models to better reflect lighting and detailing. *** UI *** - Corrected an issue where DoT damage on players would display the victim's name instead of the caster's name. - Improved the layout of the Marketplace window. - Direct damage spells caused by a twincast now have a flag at the end of the damage message instead of a separate twincast message. Twincasts of melee abilities are now indicated as twinstrikes. - Added the option to blink the active chat window when you begin typing. - Added tabs for chat. All existing chat windows will be put into new tabbed chat windows and will appear where they were placed before. - - You can move tabs around in the existing windows, or send the tabs to other windows. - - When using tell windows, by default all of the tells will go into a single tell window in separate tabs instead of opening a new window for each tell. - Added - EQUI_ChatContainerWindow.xml - Changed - EQUI.xml EQUI_Animations.xml EQUI_ChatWindow.xml EQUI_MarketplaceWnd.xml EQUI_OptionsWindow.xml *** Previously Updated *** - Trials of Smoke - Fixed an issue that prevented looting of the sigils in the Trial of the Speaker's Amphitheater. - Spear of Fate - Corrected an issue where Ooglyn would sometimes fail to initiate the Test of Patience. - The EverQuest Team