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Expansion era
*** 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…
Expansion era
*** 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…
Expansion era
*** 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…
Expansion era
*** 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…
*** 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,…
*** 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 …
Expansion era
*** 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…
Expansion era
*** 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! …
Expansion era
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…
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…
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…
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 *** …
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 …
Expansion era
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…
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…
Expansion era
*** 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…
*** 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 *** -…
Expansion era
*** 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…
Expansion era
*** 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…
Expansion era
*** 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…
Expansion era
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…
Expansion era
** Information Gathering ** You will soon notice a new dialogue box appear when you log in (it appears after logging in three times to prevent spam for new players). We are asking you to let us gather a bit of information about your computer that will help us build the future of EverQuest. The important thing here i…
** So You Want to Design Games? ** The EverQuest team is expanding and we currently have openings for experienced game designers. If you have professional game design experience, at least one level 60+ character and regularly play EverQuest, then we'd love to see your resume. Please go to http://soe.sony.com/corp/em…
Expansion era
** 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…
*** 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…
** 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…
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…
*Patch Changes* - Fixed a problem that resulted in excessive swapping for people with particles turned off. - Fear spells should again be working correctly. - AoE fear spells will no longer work versus players on PvP Servers. - Fixed a crash caused by a familiar dying. - Fixed a bug with the "Alternate Advancement" …
Expansion era
** Project M Implemented ** Tonight we have patched something to the PvP servers that many players have been waiting for. The ability to play that gnoll, orc, or the cute and fuzzy rat. On your character select screen you will notice another button in the upper right part of your screen called "Monster". Clicking th…
*** Item Changes *** - Increased the duration on Song of the Deep Seas (the proc on a bardic weapon) dramatically. - Modified the effect of Feast of Blood (weapon proc) it is now a DoT lifetap - Added a texture to Flayed Barbarian Skin Leggings. - Added Illusion: Barbarian to the Flayed Barbarian Hide Mask. *** Misc…
Firiona Vie server is available on Test now: Or it will be very shortly... You can get to this server by running testeverquest.exe from your EverQuest directory. Please read the Test Server disclaimer (available in the Test Server patch message) carefully before playing on the Test Server. Here is part of the messag…
** Gameplay Changes ** - Aggro Changes: We've made an adjustment to the way that NPCs choose their targets. It's a rather simple change, one that makes a lot of sense. But we want you to be aware of it so that it won't surprise you too much, and so that you won't think that it is a bug. NPCs are now much more aware …
*** Patch Addendum *** This evening we put in another patch to correct some issues that arose with the patch yesterday. The changes implemented include some that weren't announced previously: - Resist-debuffs will do 1.5 times their normal value for PvP encounters. In other words, if the spell did -60MR in PvP befor…
** PvP changes ** We have made the first of our upcoming changes to the PvP aspects of EverQuest: - Consider: /Consider will only have three results when used to consider a Player Character. The character will show as 'green' if he is below the range that allows you to attack him. The character will show as 'white/b…
Expansion era
***Patch Day*** Today's patch includes the announced code-updates to use technology included with DirectX 7. You MUST have DirectX 7 or higher installed in order to play EverQuest. Please refer to http://everquest.station.sony.com/f_requirements.shtml prior to contacting technical support for procedures prior to con…
*Patch Day* Greetings! The live servers have been updated to reflect the newest data on the Test Server: *General* - Some new spells are available for the hybrid classes. Check your Kunark spell vendors. - Found and corrected a problem causing people to fall to their deaths upon zoning. The majority of these issues …
Expansion era
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…
***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…
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.…
*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…
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…
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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