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

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September 15, 2021

*** Highlights *** - Agents of Change are now available for All Access members on all servers. *** Quests & Events *** - Bloogy Shellcracker will no longer accept Water Dragon Meat. However, his brother, Roogy Shellcracker, will be able to help you with that. - NPCs that have an active loot lock will now only accept…

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Game Update Notes: March 11, 2020

*** Highlights *** - Become the Overseer! Gain the loyalty of iconic Agents and protect Norrath from the ever-present ripples of Discord. See below for more information. - All Access members who log in to EverQuest during our 21st Anniversary Celebration (between March 16th and May 10th) will receive a claimable Her…

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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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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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Game Update Notes: February 21, 2018

*** Highlights *** - Fixed several problems with Ring of Scale items. See the Items section below for details. - Many UI features are no longer expansion restricted on Progression Servers including but not limited to: clicking items from bags, bandolier, blocking spells, and the quest journal. *** Items *** - Items …

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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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Game Update Notes: March 16, 2016

*** Highlights *** - The Mechanical Fortune Teller in the Plane of Knowledge has information for you regarding the 17th Anniversary events! - New rewards are available on a jubilant merchant for Commemorative Coins! Look for her in the Special Celebratory Goods section of your find window in the Plane of Knowledge! …

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May 14, 2013

Here are the patch notes for Tuesday's game update, as posted by Amnerys on the EQ Forums: Highlights The four progressive Living Legacy raids -- Infinitely Regenerative Automaton (1 and 2), Eothar the Sand Golem, and the Avatar of Despair -- will be available from May 24th, 2013 to June 17th, 2013. Added melee skil…

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April 13, 2011

Here are the patch notes for Wednesday's game update (taken from the patcher): *** Highlights *** - Corrected an issue that could cause corpses to lock incorrectly. - Added /kickplayers, a new command that allows expedition leaders to kick everybody from the dynamic zone and shared task leaders to kick everybody out…

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March 9, 2011

Here are the patch notes for today's game update (taken from the patcher): *** Highlights *** - The Neighborhood Beautification Board needs you to vote for the best house or yard in the neighborhoods. Go to your favorite house, click on the plot marker, and vote! *** Items *** - Removed haste from the House of Thule…

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February 9, 2011

Here are the patch notes for today's game update (taken from the patcher): *** Highlights *** - Server Transfers You can now transfer your character to Firiona Vie and Zek for free! This is a one-way server transfer and your character will not remain on the original server. - Housing Layouts Housing layouts allow fo…

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January 13, 2011

Here are the patch notes for Thursday's game update as posted by Piestro (EverQuest's new Community Relations Manager) over on the EQ Forums: *** Highlights *** - Fellowships can now have up to 12 members. - Several enhancements were made to the Firiona and Zek rule sets. Please see the details below. *** Items *** …

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December 8, 2010

Here is a preview of the patch notes for Wednesday's game update (as posted by Aristo over on the EQ Forums): *** Special Ruleset Server Changes *** - The first round of changes for our special ruleset servers are complete - stay tuned for more to come: Firiona Vie - This server will have a permanent 50% experience …

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June 10, 2009

Here is the patch message from this morning (from the patcher): *** Highlights *** - Some items from the Seeds of Destruction expansion have had right-click effects added to them. Additionally, the power of some of the clicks on the highest end Secrets of Faydwer items has increased slightly. - Poisons have had a sm…

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January 20, 2009

Here is the patch message from today: *** Items *** - Created new stat and weapon augments for tier 4 and 5 as well as purity augments for all tiers of SoD. - Effects have been added to appropriate breastplates and robes from the SoD expansion. - There are now global rare drop augments in the earth and discord theme…

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December 9, 2008

Here is the patch message from this morning. It's a big one, so get settled: *** Highlights *** - Frostfell: As the air starts to chill and the frost begins to cover the ground, the season of Frostfell begins. No holiday season is perfect though and a couple of your fellow Norrathians need your help to make Frostfel…

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May 7, 2008

Here are the patch notes from today's patch: *** Highlights *** - Improvements have been made to the functionality of the EQPlayers pages. - Secrets of Faydwer pet focus items have had their effects improved. *** Items *** - Changed variations of the same SoF evolving item that were not on lore groups to now share l…

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June 13, 2006

*** Headlines *** *** We've now upgraded to DirectX 9.0c! *** - Continuing our efforts to keep pace with current technology, EverQuest will be upgrading to DirectX9.0c to allow us to take advantage of many of the new features and fixes since our last upgrade in the middle of 2003. You will need to be sure that you a…

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March 15, 2006

*** Headlines *** - EverQuest turns 7! Starting on March 16th, join us for a month long anniversary celebration! - We believe we have fixed all issues related to the increased network lag when re-forming groups in a raid. Please let us know if you have any further issues related to this. *** Anniversary Events *** -…

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October 27, 2005

*** Headliners *** *** New Default UI Skin *** - We have updated the default UI skin with new art and icons! This is the same artwork that has been on display on our Escape to Norrath server (www.escapetonorrath.com) and our test server. For those of you that prefer to use the old default UI Skin, you can type /load…

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March 3, 2005

*** Bazaar & Barter Zone *** --------------------------------- We have made the Bazaar zone free for everyone. In addition to this, we have consolidated the Barter zone and the Bazaar zone into one hybrid zone, which uses the existing Bazaar zone. You will now be able to activate both the /buyer commands and the /tr…

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December 15, 2004

*** Update Headlines *** ___________________________ * Backflagging * Gates AA point refunding * New Hot Spots * Mistmoore Backflagging * ___________________________ As you know, when a guild gains or loses members, they often find themselves dedicating a large amount of time re-playing content that they have long s…

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August 11, 2004

Headlines! _____________________ New PVP System goes live * Raid Leaders can set up and change groups from the Raid Window * Special Skies are back! New Hot Zones EQ will now be more friendly in Windowed mode All New PVP System for PVP Servers * _____________________ The Watch List: - Safe Zones: We’’re still lookin…

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