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Norrath Chronicle 1998-07-07 — 2026-06-24

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2022
Live

January 19, 2022

*** Highlights *** - AAs assigned to Ring of Scale will now correctly auto grant when Terror of Luclin is unlocked. - Corrected an issue that caused Claws of Veeshan raid targets to have increased HP coinciding with the launch of Terror of Luclin, these targets have had their HP reduced to pre-ToL values. *** Items …

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2021
Live

December 7, 2021

*** Highlights *** - The shadows cast by the light of Luclin have been whispering of intrigues. The Akheva are on the move, striving to reassert their power and rebuild their moon-wide empire. Amidst the turmoil of their actions, rumors abound. Mayong Mistmoore has been seen on Luclin. The only known truth is that t…

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Live

Game Update Notes: January 20, 2021

*** Items *** - Made changes to many items that have unlimited charges and instant-cast spells attached: - - Many items that previously had no cast or recast time now have a 1 second recast time. - - Many spells on these items, such as the Poison Fungus Skull Staff, Pale Dragon Bone Ring, and Aspect of the Brood, wi…

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2020
Live

Game Update Notes: December 8, 2020

*** Highlights *** - Claws of Veeshan is now available for anyone that has purchased it. - - Velious is overwhelmed with writhing ice. Frozen undead swarm everywhere. The few survivors throw aside old hatreds, for now at least, and band together to survive. The heroes of Norrath arrive to help them, but they have no…

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Live

Game Update Notes: November 18, 2020

*** Items *** - Fixed the spell description of the Claws of Veeshan Expansion Ticket to say it will grant Claws of Veeshan. - Music Box: Kaladim will now play music even if you do not target yourself when you click. *** Quests & Events *** - Dragons, Dragons, Dragons will allow you to progress further, if you have t…

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Live

Game Update Notes: September 16, 2020

*** Highlights *** - Made many improvements to the Overseer system to make it simpler to find Agents you need when you need them. See the Overseer section below. *** Quests & Events *** - Shared tasks will now accurately display a max duration of 24 hours rather than listing unlimited time remaining. - Franklin Teek…

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Live

Game Update Notes: April 15, 2020

*** Highlights *** - Shadowknight - Your Damage over Time spells at or above level 71 have been adjusted so that they no longer stack with themselves, but now do more damage and cost more mana. - NPCs (except for mercenaries) now display all 97 of their buffs and debuffs in the target window *** Items *** - Hidden a…

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Live

Game Update Notes: February 11, 2020

*** Highlights *** - Modified the Restless Ice spell cast by many creatures in Torment of Velious. Restless Ice is no longer recast when it wears off. Now when Restless Ice wears off it leaves behind Restless Ice Infection, which can be cured with a disease cure. - Three merchants have appeared in Eastern Wastes, se…

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Live

Game Update Notes: January 15, 2020

*** Highlights *** - Crusader Vraket in the Eastern Wastes is looking for adventurers who are willing to prove their crafting skills and pay tribute to Rallos Zek. *** Items *** - Corrected an issue where right-clicking the Compressed Banquet Complete Set would cause the item to poof with no reward if you didn't hav…

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2019
Live

Game Update Notes: November 20, 2019

*** Spells *** - Corrected an issue where bards couldn't interrupt spells if those spells were not originally bard songs. - Beastlord - Fixed the description for Beramos' Maelstrom. - Beastlord - Corrected the description for Akalit's Feralgia. - Beastlord and Magician - Fixed a bug where Promised Alleviation was he…

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Live

Game Update Notes: June 19, 2019

*** Items *** - Fixed an issue that prevented focus effects on items that increase incoming healing from functioning as expected. Ex: Whispering Midnight Soothing, Blazing Euphoria Soothing. - Stone of Tranquility will no longer drop from NPCs greater than level 114. - Changed the attack animation for Blueogre's Blu…

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Live

Game Update Notes: May 15, 2019

*** Highlights *** - Mounts now show their speed in the item display window. - Progression servers that have not reached Underfoot now allow players at level 20 and higher to use the Extended Target Window. - Track now indicates whether your target is above or below you. *** Items *** - Fixed a client crash when ins…

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Live

Game Update Notes: April 17, 2019

*** Highlights *** - There are no longer Progression Server specific spawns in open world zones for Classic, Kunark, Velious, or Luclin bosses. These bosses now spawn at an accelerated rate on all servers, roughly twice the rate that they previously spawned on Live servers. Fabled versions of these NPCs should now w…

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Live

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…

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2018
Live

Game Update Notes: September 19, 2018

*** Highlights *** - Made a number of improvements to the way spells are processed in an effort to improve zone responsiveness. - Changed the icon for several blue diamond items to help differentiate them from regular diamonds. - The commands /targetgroupbuff and /tgb have been removed and the behavior is now enable…

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Game Update Notes: August 15, 2018

*** Highlights *** - Made many changes to the way that glyphs are acquired and activated. See the AA section below for details. *** Items *** - Looting more than one item in a stack will now display the quantity looted in chat. - Lore groups are now enforced in the item recovery tab when obtaining new items. Receivi…

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Game Update Notes: July 18, 2018

*** Highlights *** - Keep an eye out for a special gift for All-Access members coming soon! - Marcia Attamilgad has located a few new items for her stash. We're not asking questions. - The /melody command will no longer be interrupted when singing a song that fails due to targeting or other failures. See the Miscell…

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Live

Game Update Notes: May 16, 2018

*** Highlights *** - The Hero's Journey help text is now directly accessible via a UI button. See the UI section below for details. - Fixed a bug with the last update where the timestamp format in log files was inadvertently changed. - Added a volume slider to the audio triggers window which acts independently of th…

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Game Update Notes: April 18, 2018

*** Highlights *** - EverQuest will no longer run on Windows Vista or older operating systems. Please refer to the minimum system requirements on our website. - Made a number of improvements to hotbars. See the UI section below for details. *** Items *** - Upgraded the model on Jeweled Sarnak Focus of the Elemental,…

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2017
Live

Game Update Notes: September 20, 2017

*** Highlights *** - Added the Find Item Window which allows you to search your inventory. See UI section for details. - Pick Zone Improvement: The ability to /pick as a group has been added. See Miscellaneous section for details. - Illusion Benefit buffs now persist through death. *** Items *** - Stats granted by f…

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Live

Game Update Notes: July 19, 2017

*** Highlights *** - Increased the maximum stack size of most tradeskill components up to 1000. - The default behavior for the advanced loot window pop-up setting will be to only show if new actions are needed. *** Items *** - Spell casting bar and chat now displays the name of the spell being cast from an item. - A…

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Live

Game Update Notes: June 21, 2017

*** Highlights *** - Updated many items in Hardcore Heritage Sebillis (see Items section). *** Items *** - Serisaria's Pearl Stud: Fixed the unprintable character in the lore text. - Added cleave to Darkened Sebilite Scale Vambraces . - Added ferocity to Darkened Dark Scale Greaves and Darkened Sebilite Scale Leggin…

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Game Update Notes: May 18, 2017

*** Items *** - The Reassuring Strike II spell on Darkened Mrylokar's Helm now only requires level 105. - Darkened Bracer of Wrath now fits on wrists instead of heads. *** Quests & Events *** - Kar'zok (Raid) - Added safeguards for the functionality of the frost sphere so that if it can't find a valid target it will…

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Live

Game Update Notes: May 17, 2017

*** Items *** - Corrected a bug where some types of throwing items could not be placed in bandolier containers. - - Bandolier containers will now increase the speed of throwing attacks in the same fashion that quivers increase the speed of archery attacks. - - The 'Bandoleer of Luclin' has been renamed 'Bandolier of…

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