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

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2025
Hotfix

Emergency Downtime Notes - December 10, 2025

### Tradeskills The recipe for Longbow of Unraveling Order now uses Diminished Longbow. The recipe for Short Bow of Unraveling Order now uses Diminished Short Bow. The Shattered Mask of the Vortex recipe will now return 3x Charged Tempestuous Storm Essence upon failure. ### NPCs A Frostfell fanatic and a Frostfell e…

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2022
Live

February 15, 2022

*** Highlights *** - Type 3 augments have been created for Terror of Luclin spells. They can be found on vendors in the new Maiden's Eye. - Made several improvements to the logic used when entering a zone with multiple instances. See the Miscellaneous section for details. - Ported the servers and clients to 64 bit v…

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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

November 17, 2021

*** Highlights *** - Grab your bags for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. All bags sold for Daybreak Cash are 15% off from 11/25/2021 to 12/01/2021! - Priests of Luclin no longer require soulstones to complete their tasks. Speak with them instead. *** Items *** - Fixed a bug where selling a stack of items via barter wo…

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Live

October 20, 2021

*** Items *** - Look to the Marketplace this month for the Feir'Dal Heritage Crate. Each crate contains a random item. Trade these Feir'Dal Heritage items to your friends or collect them all yourself! *** Tradeskills *** - Updated the Combine button to show your chance of successfully combining the selected recipe. …

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Live

August 18, 2021

*** Items *** - Corrected an issue where many Scars of Velious quest items were not flagged as usable in quests. - Corrected a typo in the names of Cleaver of Vengeance and Endpoint, Greatbow of Vengeance Ornament. - Rat Ears have been removed from all merchants. - Updated the Misty Acorn to look like an acorn rathe…

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Live

Game Update Notes: April 21, 2021

*** Items *** - Added Incense of Tranquility to the marketplace. This is available once Planes of Power opens on your server. - Increased the duration of the 22nd Anniversary food to match that of the drink. - Fixed a typo in Prismatic Lance Ornament's name. - Removed class restrictions on some items that drop from …

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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: October 21, 2020

*** Items *** - Fixed a small spelling error in the description of Nimbus of the Lit Way. - Necromancer - Corrected an issue that caused the Deathwhisper Shard of the Ancients to provide more benefit than intended. It now results in the same total benefit as other class epic augments. - Look to the Marketplace this …

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Live

Game Update Notes: August 19, 2020

*** Highlights *** - Necromancer - The critical DoT focus effects on the Necromancer epic 1.5, 2.0, and 2.5 will now begin to decay in effectiveness when casting spells above level 80. - Fixed an issue where the task window would sometimes display 'left over' task steps from a different task. *** Items *** - Unequip…

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Live

Game Update Notes: July 15, 2020

*** Highlights *** - Made various improvements to world performance and stability related to loading characters, real estate data, and instances. - Fixed several causes of zone and client crashes. - Made a number of speculative fixes to address issues with overseer data not loading as expected. - Added the ability f…

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Live

Game Update Notes: June 17, 2020

*** Highlights *** - Three new pride hares, along with the three introduced last year, will be freely claimable from the Marketplace from June 24th to July 31st. *** Items *** - Fixed a problem with the teleport on Painting: Tassel's Tavern. - Fixed the typo in the Fear-Infused Rachnid Heart. It is now a Fear-Infuse…

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Live

Game Update Notes: May 20, 2020

*** Highlights *** - Consolidated fire, poison, and disease-based Necromancer Damage Over Time spells. See the Spells section below for details. - Look to the Marketplace this month for the Human Heritage Crate. - Made multiple changes to mercenaries. See the Mercenaries section for details. *** Items *** - Correcte…

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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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Game Update Notes: March 18, 2020

*** Items *** - A mysterious presence will only sell McKenzie's Brew's when Veil of Alaris is unlocked. - You may now only gain one Collection Dispener items from the Overseer system. Also, there are some rewards that only offer a chance at gaining a collection item. The chance is in the name. The rewards that only …

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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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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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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: December 18, 2019

*** Torment of Velious *** - The lands and denizens of the continent of Velious are suffering. The icy landscape has seemingly come to life and is flowing oddly upward toward the sky. This restless ice is infecting and animating the inhabitants it touches, turning them into zombie-like beings with a strange icy infe…

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Live

Game Update Notes: August 21, 2019

*** Items *** - To alleviate confusion with the 'Purified Nest Water', we updated the item not needed for progression to have the name 'Potable Nest Water'. - Added equipment slots to Stone Eye of the Guardian from Stillmoon Temple. - Added drakkin to many classic game items. - Added vah shir to Hynid-Hide Bag and T…

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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: 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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Live

Game Update Notes: February 20, 2019

*** Highlights *** - Dramatically increased the chance to gain skills when your current skill level is less than your class' skill cap from 5 or 10 levels less than your current level. - Made various changes to evolving items. See the Items section for details. - Made various improvements to the Coldain ring quests.…

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