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

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Live

March 29, 2000

This morning's update consisted primarily of server-side changes to improve performance of the game engine in general. No items, spawns, spells (with the exceptions below), etc., were changed as a result of this patch. Area Effect "Fear" spells will no longer work in PvP. This affects a bard song, as well as the Cle…

112 words 1 changes 3 sources
Live

February 17, 2000 7:00 am

***Announcements*** The City of Paineel, home to the infamous Heretics of Erudin, is now available via the Optional Patch. In addition, Erudites may now also be Shadowknights in addition to the other classes available to them. All Erudite Necromancers, Shadowknights, and Clerics who worship the God of Fear, Cazic-Th…

1,219 words 22 changes 3 sources
Live

February 3, 2000 8:00 am

The following changes have been implemented on the live servers: *Spells* - Lay On Hands: Enhanced to heal more hitpoints per level. - Enveloping Roots: Casting time reduced to match Immobilize - Skin Like Nature: Small Damage Shield added. This will stack with other shields. - Insidious Fever: Casting time reduced.…

335 words 13 changes 3 sources
Live Inferred year

January 20th, 7:00am

*Announcements* The Plane of Sky is now open!!! As a reminder to our customers, the alternate planes of reality do not necessarily follow the same physical or ethereal rules as Norrath proper. Enjoy! Today is patch day! The EverQuest servers have been patched with the following changes: *General Changes / Fixes* - S…

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Live

December 21, 1999

After a week of thorough testing, the Summon Corpse spell is now functioning properly (we promise!), and available on all servers. - In addition, it is now possible to cast Cancel Magic on non-grouped players on the PvP and PvP-teams servers. - All changes were made on the server-side, therefore no patch is required…

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Live Inferred year

October 14th, 10:00am

We will be bringing up a new server at approximately 11:00 am pacific, this morning. The server known as "The Nameless" will have a standard server configuration (i.e. not a pvp/pvp-team server). - The EverQuest Team

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Live

September 28, 1999

The following changes have been implemented with the latest patch, most importantly, changes to corpse resurrection. It should be noted that all corpses generated previous to this patch may not be resurrected, however, all corpses generated from this point forward may be resurrected with the changes listed below app…

312 words 13 changes 3 sources
Live

August 31, 1999

We apologize for the short notice for this Server Update, but it was neccessary to correct some problems that had arisen. This server side patch contains the following: 1. Rangers now get Critical Hits with Bows. 2. Rogues now get Critical Hits with Thrown Weapons. 3. Parry and Dodge Skill Caps for Rangers have been…

111 words 5 changes 1 source
Live

July 31, 1999

* Tallon Zek Update - Please Read * Well, folks, we totally underestimated the number of people wanting to check out the PvP-Teams server and the demand is far too great for one server. Unfortunately, we were forced to bring Tallon Zek down soon after its launch because we had more than 5,000 people online at once. …

161 words 2 changes 1 source
Live

July 27, 1999

The EverQuest servers will be coming down at 7:00 AM Pacific, tomorrow morning for an update. The estimated downtime is approximately 2 hours. This update will require a minor client-side download. The following enhancements and new features will be activated once the update is complete. *General Announcements* We a…

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Live

June 8th, 1999

The EverQuest servers will be coming down tonight at Midnight PDT for a client and server-side update. Listed below are the newly implemented features and bug fixes which will be updated. General Changes - Scrolls are no longer lore items - this means that you can have more than one. - Research components were made …

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Live Inferred year

April 12th, 7:00pm

We will be updating the servers at 3:00am Pacific Standard Time on Tuesday, April 13th. A patch is required. The following changes were made: 1) The proper model will appear while selecting a previously created character in the Character Selection screen. 2) Players will be properly notified when entering a PK(Playe…

131 words 9 changes 1 source

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