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

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Live

November 5, 2002

- Monk fists as hand-to-hand weapons now scale to 15 damage/20 delay at level 65. - Corrected a bug with a few spells that were group or ranged but would only work on the caster. - Corrected faction issues with some form changes (illusions). - Fixed the Magic and Stealth manual quests in Plane of Knowledge. - Change…

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Live

October 16, 2002 4:30 am

** Odd New Objects in the Land ** Folks across Norrath and on Luclin have reported seeing odd new objects in various locations. They appear to be some sort of magical portal, though local spell casters have yet to discover how they arrived or exactly what their purpose is. They have determined, however, that these o…

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Live

September 26, 2002 3:00 am

** Planes of Power Pre-Order Bonus ** If you pre-order the PoP expansion you will be able to purchase the Planes of Power original soundtrack CD for just an additional $4.95. *** Important Notice about Alternate Advancement *** - When a character has 30 or more AA points, they will receive a red message stating: War…

1,712 words 48 changes 3 sources
Live

September 4, 2002 3:00 am

Please note: there are a lot of changes going into the game with today's patch. Some of these changes (such as the changes to resistances and spell stacking) will change aspects of the game that may make gameplay different. Keep this in mind when you log in. With system-wide changes like these it is entirely possibl…

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Live

July 27, 2002 3:00 am

Items fixed over the last few days or with this patch: - Pets summons are now working correctly. We've fixed the error with their maximum hit scores, along with giving some increases in offensive skills to allow them to hit more accurately. - Improved Singing Mastery to match the values given by Instrument Mastery -…

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Live

July 24, 2002

*** New Interface Available *** The new EverQuest user interface is now available for use on Live servers. Many of you will find that it runs faster than the old interface. It is extremely customizable, and offers all sorts of features including resizable windows, fading windows, a pet control window, and flexibilit…

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Live

June 12, 2002

** NPC Spell Caster Changes ** - NPCs are now bound by spell casting distance rules, meaning that an NPC's spell will no longer connect from halfway across the zone - NPCs now have a chance to be interrupted by normal combat when casting newer spells - NPCs that are much lower level than their target have had their …

613 words 45 changes 2 sources
Live

May 8, 2002 3:00 am

** Items ** - We've made some changes that will cause a few proccing items to be out of charges after the patch. Players with such items will need to petition and ask a GM to swap the item out with a new one - Focus items using the "Naki's Pernicity" effects should now be working as intended - Focus items that affec…

2,510 words 118 changes 3 sources
Live

April 23, 2002 3:00 am

NOTE: We are unable to patch "code" right now because we are in the middle of making some changes to the basic structure of the game. This will delay fixes for system bugs and updates (such as Alternate Advancement Abilities and /commands). Please be patient until we can get these much-needed changes finished. Becau…

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Live

April 9, 2002

** EverQuest Pricing Increase ** Due to the increased costs of running the EverQuest game service, we will be increasing our subscription rates in April. Effective April 25, the new monthly subscription rate will be $12.95/month. We will continue to offer discounts from the new rate plan on multi- month subscription…

1,118 words 46 changes 3 sources
Live

March 19, 2002

We wanted to start by letting everyone know how grateful we are for all of the suggestions for improvements that we've received both in EMail and on the various class and server boards. We appreciate all the help you've provided us. ** Changes for Low Level Characters ** - Characters no longer lose experience for de…

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Live

February 25, 2002 3:00 am

- Fixed a problem with the Gnome sitting animation - Fixed a bug that was causing some people to crash when repeatedly right-clicking spell gems - Made adjustments for Quellious monks attempting to do Iksar Shackle quests - Fixed a bug in the way that Alternate Experience was being distributed. Extra experience was …

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Live

February 13, 2002 3:00 am

** General ** - Improved sound for many users. Should eliminate a lot of the "choppy" sound issues - Fixed one of the link-death-while-zoning bugs - Characters who disconnect while zoning shouldn't be 'stuck' for an inordinate amount of time - Renamed all will-o-wisps and will o' wisps to Fred. - Reconsidered and ch…

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Live

January 23, 2002 3:00 am

*** Patch Information *** ** Quests ** - Ragefire portion of the Cleric Epic quest has been changed. Please see the Developer's Corner on our web site for more details - Added Quest NPCs to Thurgadin, Kael and Skyshrine for Beastlord quest armor - Gravel leaf tea will now fit in the combine container for the associa…

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Live

January 8, 2002 3:00 am

** Items ** - All beastlord-usable items are now useable by their requisite races - Regular, medium quality, high quality, mithril, brellium and adamantite rings, as well as their enchanted versions are now stackable. (this time we mean it) - Made Rune Encrusted Short Sword rentable (was No Rent, should not have bee…

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