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Expansion era
*** 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…
*** 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 …
Expansion era
*** 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…
*** 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…
*** Highlights *** - We've updated the Overseer system with new Agent Packs, quests, and traits. See below for more information. - Merged Selo onto Povar. *** Items *** - Rat Ears will no longer be available for purchase from merchants until The Serpent's Spine is active. - Items that are contained in the Past Expan…
*** Highlights *** - Check out the new Past Expansion Collector's Edition Bundle in the Marketplace this month from June 16 to June 30! Available on servers with Underfoot unlocked. Individual items are available while the expansion they originally came with is active. - Made many changes to Gates of Discord through…
*** Highlights *** - For the first time, you can quickly identify the gains and losses of equipping an item to determine if an item is an upgrade and by how much. See the UI section below for more information. - New Hunter Achievements have been added for expansions Gates of Discord through Underfoot. See the NPCs s…
*** 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 …
Expansion era
*** Items *** - Fixed the spell description of the Claws of Veeshan Expansion Ticket to say it will grant Claws of Veeshan. - Music Box: Kaladim will now play music even if you do not target yourself when you click. *** Quests & Events *** - Dragons, Dragons, Dragons will allow you to progress further, if you have t…
*** 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 …
*** Highlights *** - Made many improvements to the Overseer system to make it simpler to find Agents you need when you need them. See the Overseer section below. *** Quests & Events *** - Shared tasks will now accurately display a max duration of 24 hours rather than listing unlimited time remaining. - Franklin Teek…
*** 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…
*** 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…
*** 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…
Expansion era
*** Spells *** - Corrected an issue where bards couldn't interrupt spells if those spells were not originally bard songs. - Beastlord - Fixed the description for Beramos' Maelstrom. - Beastlord - Corrected the description for Akalit's Feralgia. - Beastlord and Magician - Fixed a bug where Promised Alleviation was he…
*** Highlights *** - Made significant changes to fade and leap abilities. See the AA section for details. - When using Search in the Barter Window, the results will only display the most expensive buy line from each buyer per unique item matched from the search. *** Items *** - Increased the proc rate of Whispering …
*** Items *** - Removed the stacking on 5 Dose Potion of the Bone Field and 10 Dose Potion of the Bone Field items. Changed Toy Eye Ball to one charge. - Fixed a typo in the lore of Overgrowth Shears. - Restored mana preservation to The Burning Lands evolving shoulders that include classes with mana. - Consolidated …
*** 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…
*** Items *** - Fixed a bug that prevented the zonewide rare drops in Harbingers' Spire and The Bloodfields from dropping from non-rare NPCs. - Wooden Wand of Whispers is now usable by healers and casters. - Updated the spell description for Erollisi's Boundless Heart Hare, Erollisi's Trueheart Hare, and Erollisi's …
*** 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…
Expansion era
*** Items *** - Fixed an issue that prevented Unwritten Glyph from granting the expected AA abilities. *** Tradeskills *** - Fixed an issue where characters that have learned nearly every Research recipe could stop receiving the expected post-300 skill cap bonus. *** Quests And Events *** - The Master of Dreadspire …
*** Highlights *** - Made a number of improvements to the way spells are processed in an effort to improve zone responsiveness. - Changed the icon for several blue diamond items to help differentiate them from regular diamonds. - The commands /targetgroupbuff and /tgb have been removed and the behavior is now enable…
*** Highlights *** - Made many changes to the way that glyphs are acquired and activated. See the AA section below for details. *** Items *** - Looting more than one item in a stack will now display the quantity looted in chat. - Lore groups are now enforced in the item recovery tab when obtaining new items. Receivi…
*** Highlights *** - Keep an eye out for a special gift for All-Access members coming soon! - Marcia Attamilgad has located a few new items for her stash. We're not asking questions. - The /melody command will no longer be interrupted when singing a song that fails due to targeting or other failures. See the Miscell…
*** Highlights *** - Charm items with right click effects can now be activated from your inventory. - Look to the Marketplace this month for the Northman Heritage Crate. Each crate contains a random item. Trade these Northman Heritage items to your friends or collect them all yourself! *** Items *** - Charm items wi…
*** 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…
Expansion era
*** Highlights *** - Updated the way all merchant windows function and added a search function. See the UI section below for details. - Delayed the votes for Gates of Discord on Lockjaw and Ragefire by two weeks. Ragefire voting will begin December 25th, and Lockjaw will begin December 27th. *** Items *** - Added th…
*** Highlights *** - Stored AA points greater than 3 times your level will now be removed after logging out. The earned-limit remains 2 times your level. See the AA section below for details. *** Items *** - Added kick skill damage to Darkened Cobalt Breastplate, Darkened Tolan's Darkwood Breastplate, and Darkened W…
*** Highlights *** - Added the Find Item Window which allows you to search your inventory. See UI section for details. - Pick Zone Improvement: The ability to /pick as a group has been added. See Miscellaneous section for details. - Illusion Benefit buffs now persist through death. *** Items *** - Stats granted by f…
*** Highlights *** - Look to the marketplace August 16th for the Ayr`Dal Heritage Crate. See details below. - Pick zones with grouping have been improved. See details below. *** Items *** - The Scimitar of the Mistwalker pet now attacks its target before disappearing. - Enraged Goblin Beads no longer have an augment…
*** 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…
*** Highlights *** - Updated many items in Hardcore Heritage Sebillis (see Items section). *** Items *** - Serisaria's Pearl Stud: Fixed the unprintable character in the lore text. - Added cleave to Darkened Sebilite Scale Vambraces . - Added ferocity to Darkened Dark Scale Greaves and Darkened Sebilite Scale Leggin…
Expansion era
*** Highlights *** - Modified NPC pathing logic when an NPC is in combat against a PC. See NPC section for details. *** Items *** - Increased the rank of Form of Endurance on Mask of Immortal End and Hardened Mask of Immortal End from 25 to 30. - Placing Jade Tiger in your real estate will no longer place Schrodinge…
*** Highlights *** - Look to the marketplace this October for the Big Cat in a Bag. Each one contains a random adoptable big cat familiar. Trade them to your friends or collect them all yourself, and keep an eye out for some rare and unique feline familiars! - The Mount Key Ring will now be accessible on progression…
*** Highlights *** - Corrected several issues with the pet window. Existing pet command hotkeys will need to be recreated. See UI section for additional information. - Many AA consolidations. See AA section for additional information. *** Items *** - Items that adjust their stats under particular conditions (typical…
*** Highlights *** - The new Quarm Event Server is now available for all All-Access members! All members who create a character and log on to Quarm before July 27th at 11PM PDT get two Bottles of Shared Adventure III to claim! One can be claimed on Quarm and one can be claimed on any other server. *** Items *** - Co…
*** Highlights *** - Look to the marketplace this July for the Bird in a Cage. Each one contains a random adoptable bird familiar. Trade them to your friends or collect them all yourself, and keep an eye out for some rare and unique feathered familiars! - Lynea the pet collector in the Commonlands will purchase your…
*** Items *** - Fixed an issue where merchants with 255 or more items would sometimes not allow for purchase of a specific item. - Items that previously had Cleave VII - 26 (Scaling), Cleave VII - 27 (Scaling), Ferocity X (Scaling), and Ferocity XI (Scaling) now use the non-scaling versions of these worn effects, as…
Expansion era
*** Highlights *** - Passive AA abilities that can be toggled off can now be toggled back on by pressing the same hotkey. *** Items *** - Look for the new Legend of the Storm Break item in the Marketplace, featuring prized items from Storm Break, Travelers, Vengeful Gods, and Doom of the Ancient Ones! - Dead Hills a…
*** Highlights *** - Modified the way that a weapons damage bonus is calculated. This should result in increased weapon damage bonuses, especially for two-handed weapons. - Most clickable buff items will now grant you a passive AA ability with a permanent effect! See the Items section for details. - Look out for new…
*** Highlights *** - Fixed an issue with turbo processors causing players to run very fast/very slow. - All non-caster classes have gained a set of innate AAs that increase skill damage at all times. Some burn disciplines have had power reduced. See the Spell and AA sections for details. - Added an AA ability for al…
*** Highlights *** - Proc effect stacking - Multiple procs can now trigger from the same triggering action. Each proc effect that is active will be processed independently. See the Spells section for details. - Damage shields now report the damage that they do in all cases and can be directed to chat filters. - Spel…
*** Highlights *** - Big bags are returning to Norrath for a limited time! Special larger bags will be available on the Marketplace starting at noon (PDT) on July 2nd. Act quickly, as they will disappear after July 6th! *** Items *** - Girdle of the Weaponmaster - The focus effect Boon of the Seeress has been adjust…
*** Highlights *** - Fixed an issue where a player could crash after logging back into a load-balanced zone (/pickzone) or gating to a point in a load-balanced zone when that particular instance had closed. - Corrected an issue causing players entering mission instances of some zones to be teleported to the non-inst…
Expansion era
*** Highlights *** - Implemented several requests from SOE Live! These items are marked with an asterisk in the notes below. - Players now have the ability to sell all of the items within a container in the merchant window. See details in the UI section. * - The forges of Rallos Zek have been issuing new helms to th…
*** Highlights *** - New Hero's Forge armor can be found in Argin-Hiz! Seek out Embersmith Nicha for more information. - Numerous changes have been made to the way pets deal and receive damage. See the "Spells" section for more details. - All items with appearances from Call of the Forsaken can now be placed in real…
-We deeply regret the recent service interruption that is currently impacting all SOE games. As a thank you for your patience, we will add two days of membership time to all members’ accounts. Thank you for playing EverQuest! *** Call of the Forsaken: Argin-Hiz *** - Call of the Forsaken: Argin-Hiz has been released…
*** Call of the Forsaken: The Tower of Rot *** - Call of the Forsaken: The Tower of Rot has been released! A mysterious tower looms over the Dead Hills, and a long-forgotten presence comes to life within its walls. As cultists and treasure hunters seek the source of rot within the tower, will you arrive in time to c…
*** Highlights *** - SOE All Access is coming to EverQuest! Please see http://www.everquest.com/membership for details. - A Make All toggle has been added to the tradeskill window. Please see the Tradeskills section below for details. - All characters can now participate in the Heroic Character quest granting access…
**Highlights** * The Plane of War is now available! Enter this extremely challenging plane and challenge the Zek brothers to learn their strategic and tactical secrets... but bring strong allies, as only the most skilled (level 95 and above) can hope to survive on an eternal battlefield such as this. **Items** * All…
Expansion era
Here are the patch notes for this morning's game update (taken from the patcher): *** Highlights *** - New Hero's Forge robes have arrived! You can change existing Hero's Forge robes between the new and old versions by right-clicking them. New robes will be available in the same places the old robes were found. The …
Here are the patch notes from this morning's game update (taken from the patcher): *** Highlights *** - Heart of Fear, the final chapter in Rain of Fear, is now available to everyone who has Rain of Fear! - - Explore three new zones inside the source of Cazic-Thule's power, the Heart of Fear: The Threshold, The Rebi…
Here are the patch notes for this morning's game update (finally some new hot zones!): *** Highlights *** - Hero's Forge armor has a new look! You can change your existing Hero's Forge ornaments between the new and old versions by right-clicking them. - Corrupted Shissar Fangs may now be found on many Shissar. Norx …
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…
Here are the patch notes for Wednesday's game update (as posted by Piestro on the EQ Forums): *** Highlights *** - Shadow of Fear, the second chapter in Rain of Fear, is now available to everyone who has Rain of Fear! - - Explore two new zones: Chelsith Reborn, and the mysterious Plane of Shadow, with new quests, mi…
Here the patch notes for Wednesday's game update (as posted by Piestro on the EQ Forums): *** Highlights *** - Celebrate 14 years of EverQuest with our classic anniversary events, starting March 15th, 2013 and running until April 26th! - New missions, many created with your help at SOE Live 2012, are available start…
Expansion era
EverQuest: Rain of Fear, EQ's 19th expansion, is all set to launch! As of this posting, servers are expected to be down until around 10:00 A.M. Pacific Time (1:00 P.M. Eastern Time). (We all know that could be +/- a few hours, of course.) In the meantime, you may want to check out some tips for getting started in Ra…
Here are the patch notes for this morning's game update (as posted by Piestro on the EQ Forums): *** Highlights *** - Look to the sky! While the sky itself is not falling, parts of it may seem to be. Magus Burlshin, who has hidden himself in the lands around Erillion, has a curiosity about these things. If you share…
Here are the patch notes for this morning's game update (taken from the patcher): *** Highlights *** - Three new Hero's Forge armor sets are now available! Keep an eye out for Sylvan, Insidious, and Eternal Grove ornaments. - Cloth ornaments are now available for Ebon, Viridian, Violet, Beryl, and Auburn Hero's Forg…
Here are the patch notes for this morning's game update (as posted by Dexella over on the EQ Forums): *** Highlights *** - The Hero's Forge is now live! Players who purchase the Hero's Forge armor feature will be able to equip new armor ornaments that are found throughout Norrath. - All augmentations can now be adde…
Here are the patch notes for this morning's game update (from the patcher): *** Highlights *** - Changed the "Return Home" time to 18 minutes since the last time you logged in. Previously you had to wait 6 hours to use this button. Now it's set to the same time as Origin without any use of the hastened AAs. *** Item…
Here are the patch notes (as posted by Piestro on the EQ Forums) for today's game update: *** Highlights *** - Hardcore Heritage zone revamps begin with Blackburrow and the Temple of Cazic Thule on May 11th, 2012! Lower Guk and Unrest will transform on June 1st, and Crushbone and Permafrost will transform on June 22…
Expansion era
Here are the patch notes from this morning's game update (taken from the patcher): *** Highlights *** - All currently active accounts and some recently lapsed subscriptions will be granted a one-time gift of 250 Station Cash the next time they log in! *** Items *** - Berserker leg armor from House of Thule now has t…
Here are the patch notes from this morning's game update (taken from the patcher): *** Highlights *** - Something is about to happen in Steamfont. Gnomes are running all over the place, babbling about "the project". - The current method of fellowship experience sharing has changed. See the "Fellowships" section belo…
Here are the patch notes from this morning's game update (taken from the patcher): *** Highlights *** - Seek out Meeka Gharn in the Plane of Knowledge and learn of an ancient book thought to lead to many treasures. - Rare NPCs in "House of Thule" now drop tradable large bags. - The Dwarven Axe, Dwarven Two-Handed Ax…
Here are the patch notes from this morning's game update (taken from the patcher): *** Highlights *** - The Weapon Crate of the Mercenary, Traveler's Rucksack, Journeyman's Rucksack and Journeyman's Pocketed Rucksack now have a chance to drop from rare mobs in House of Thule zones. - Items with appearances from the …
Here are the patch notes from this morning's game update (as posted by Piestro on the EQ Forums): *** Highlights *** - Mount control has been tightened up considerably. When using a mount you will reach top speed much faster than before, and stop even faster. While in combat, the movement is still tighter than befor…
Here are the patch notes from this morning's game update (taken from the patcher): *** Items *** - House of Thule Tier 4 group armor AC was a bit lower than it should have been. It has been raised to the proper level. - Circle spells such as Guardian Circle I will now only land on players, their pets, and mercenarie…
Expansion era
From the patcher, here are the update notes from a hotfix pushed live today: ***Hotfix*** *** Highlights *** Fixed several issues with the Loyalists of Norrath program. *** Quests & Events *** Long Live the King and I Want to Conquer the World Corrected issues causing some ground spawns and NPCs involved in these la…
Here are the patch notes from a game update pushed live today (from the patcher): *** Highlights *** We were able to make several changes in response to feedback we received at Fan Faire. These changes are noted with an asterisk. Additional changes are scheduled for upcoming updates. Thanks to everyone who joined us…
Here are the patch notes for tomorrow's game update as posted by Kiara over on the EQ Forums: *** Highlights *** Resurrection and Revival Sickness will no longer trigger OOC timers on their own. They will still have their normal detrimental effects on resurrected or revived players, however. There is a new 3D previe…
Here is the patch message from this morning's game update (notes from the patcher): *** Highlights *** - A new set of Hot Zones are available. See Franklin Teek in the Plane of Knowledge for details. - DPS mercenaries are now available. See your favorite mercenary liaison and pick up a "Melee Damage" type which uses…
Here is the sneak peek version of Wednesday's patch notes, as posted by Zatozia on the EQ Forums: *** Highlights *** - Detached the "looking for guild" from the guild lobby. You can now access the looking for guild window in any zone through the slash command "/lfguild" or from the EQ menu. The command /lfg still de…
Here is the sneak peek version of Wednesday's patch notes, as posted by Grimwell on the EQ Forums: *** Highlights *** All classes have new Alternate Advancement abilities available for purchase. Underfoot raids have had another tuning pass. See the Quests and Events section for details. *** Items *** Damascite Encru…
Expansion era
Here's a sneak peek at Wednesday's Game Update Notes (from the patcher): *** Highlights *** - AC and Attack values on food and drink will now be properly added to your character. - Corrected the description on The Frightening Writ. It now properly mentions that it grants access to a scarecrow mercenary rather than t…
Here is the sneak peek version of today's patch (from the patcher): Ancient Heroes Game Update *** Highlights *** - Ancient Heroes: Old Man McKenzie, a frequent patron of the taverns in the Plane of Knowledge, thinks you adventurers have it too easy these days! Back in his day they didn't have all this fancy armor a…
From the patcher: Here's a sneak peek at the Game Update notes for Wednesday, August 12, 2009. Please note that these notes may be updated before the update goes live! * * * Highlights * * * - Giants Giants Giants: Angered by Norrathian adventurers' blatant disregard for Dragonkind, Tzudani, Emissary of Veeshan, has…
Here is the "sneak peek" version of today's patch message (from the patcher): *** Highlights *** - New Hot Zones are now available!: Hot Zones offer an increase in normal adventure experience for the zone and have the additional bonus of some new content. Franklin Teek in the Plane of Knowledge will be happy to poin…
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…
Here is the patch message from this morning's patch: *** Highlights *** - A new window has been implemented that appears when you log in to the game. It is designed as a portal to display information pertinent to your character and the EQ community as a whole. This screen will be updated regularly with EverQuest inf…
Expansion era
*** Highlights *** - Seeds of Destruction Zone Sneak Preview: All active EverQuest subscribers with accounts in good standing will be able to experience all new EverQuest Seeds of Destruction zones two week before commercial release! During this special event players can participate in quest lines and group encounte…
*** Highlights *** - New Hot Zones: Franklin Teek has arrived in the Plane of Knowledge and will be happy to point you to the current location of a Hot Zone appropriate for your level. Franklin also has a series of tasks that can be done in each of the current Hot Zones. Each task can only be completed one time each…
*** Highlights *** - A series of quests have been created within and around the Secrets of Faydwer expansion. See Fenden Helter in the Ladies of the Light tower for more information. These tasks include various Secrets of Faydwer faction rewards as well as a new currency that can be used to purchase items from Fende…
Here's a sneak peek at Wednesday's Game Update message. This may or may not be updated before the update is live. *** Returning Players *** - If you're returning to the game following a break, be sure to visit the Scholars in the northeast portion of the Plane of Knowledge. They can help guide you through the many c…
Here is the patch message from today: *** Highlights *** - Reduced experience requirements and increased bane damage on SoF evolving bane weapons. - Several speed and stability changes have been made to address issues with proximity loading. - Critical heals should be calculating their effectiveness correctly again.…
Here are the patch notes from today's patch (this is the 'sneak peek' version, subject to change). *** Highlights *** - The 10th Veteran Reward, Summon Resupply Agent, is now available! - Alternate Advancement experience has been accelerated significantly for those with fewer AAs spent and will scale back down to th…
Expansion era
*** Highlights *** - Legends of Norrath: Legends of Norrath: Oathbound is now live! Legends of Norrath is an online-only trading card game, based on the richly-detailed sword-and-sorcery world of Norrath from the massively multiplayer online role-playing games EverQuest and EverQuest II. EQ and EQII players have bee…
*** Highlights *** - AA Window Changes: The AA window has been revamped and many of the AA lines have been consolidated to make them easier to find. The biggest change you'll notice when you first open the AA window is that there are only 4 tabs now - General, Archetype, Class and Special. The first three tabs are f…
*** Highlights *** - Jardel's Hook Mission: Long ago, a holy war brewed between the Redfeather aviaks and the Suncrest goblins. Using a blessed artifact of the ocean god, Prexus, the Suncrest goblins shaped the tide in the Buried Sea. The aviaks, fearful of the power the goblins possessed countered with their own ar…
*** Items *** - Changed the spell effect for Shattered Mask of Ancestral Rage. - Corrected issues with Scarlet Harbinger's Cloak. - Moved a misplaced mod from Bladed Silver Pendant of Zek to Magmaband of Cestus Dei. - Corrected the focus effect for Cape of the Lavaborn. - Sicklesting Blade now has the correct type 4…
*** Highlights *** New Veteran AA! We are proud to introduce our 9th Veteran AA - Armor of Experience! New Hot Zones! A brand new set of zones have been selected to be "Hot." The previous zones have had their experience levels returned to normal but the special events in those zones remain. The following zones are n…
*** Highlights *** Happy 8th Anniversary EverQuest! On March 16, 2007, EverQuest will celebrate its 8th Anniversary. To commemorate this landmark occasion, we have introduced dozens of Fabled Luclin NPCs and have brought back all the fabled fiends of years past. There is also a new scavenger hunt! Speak with Tyla Fi…
Expansion era
*** Highlights *** - The way that AA experience is granted within each con range has been adjusted. NPCs that are higher level within the con range will now give more AA experience than NPCs that are lower level, but con the same. - In order for Sony Online Entertainment to provide you with the best possible custome…
*** Highlights *** Welcome to EverQuest: The Serpent's Spine, the 12th expansion for EverQuest! - New Player Race: The Drakkin have been created from both human and dragon blood to protect the future of all dragon kind. Several colors and customizations will be available to make each Drakkin character unique, such a…
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 *** -…
*** Headlines *** - Prophecy of Ro Launches! - The Desert of Ro and the city of Freeport have been revamped - Alchemy system has received an overhaul - New Hot Zones *** Prophecy of Ro Launches! *** As a demi-god, Mayong Mistmoore -- the greatest vampire ever known -- is threatening Norrath and its gods. Druzzil Ro,…
Expansion era
*** Depths of Darkhollow*** Many of the single group attainable rewards from the Depths of Darkhollow expansion have received significant upgrades. This includes more than 1,000 items from all over the expansion. Also, to allow players who have deleted items a chance to get them again, the rewards you get for comple…
*** 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…
*** Headlines *** A new edition of the city newspapers is hot off the presses. See your local Town Crier! Lesser Faydark and Mistmoore Castle have been returned to their previous states. *** Missions *** - The mission, Brownies of Doom, has been made easier. We will continue to monitor this mission to see if it rema…
** Spells ** - Modified Abundant Healing so it should no longer have stacking problems with other regeneration effects. ** Items ** - Placeholder items inside Monster missions will now display the highest level reward for reference. - New tradeskilled javelins in Depths of Darkhollow now have required levels. Some o…
Expansion era
A large patch was implemented today. Grab a coffee for this one. ================================== *** Headlines *** - Plane of Time Instancing! - Plane of Time has been fully instanced. Every raid that enters the zone will now get its own instance of the zone. - New Tutorial! - A new tutorial is now available, fea…
*** Headlines *** -Many quests in city zones that give XP as a reward now give significantly more. -Four new missions are available that take you back to Qeynos, Unrest, Befallen, and Hate's Fury. -Veteran's Rewards will be available on May 13th. You can find out more details about these rewards here. -The required …
*** Headlines *** ------------------------------------ - A new button has been added to character select: Return Home. If a character has not been played in the past 6 hours, this button is enabled and pressing it will log the character into the game in their starting city. - If a character is logged out for more th…
*** 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…
** Welcome to Dragons of Norrath! ** A series of events has transpired across the world of Norrath and the familiar faces of Firiona Vie and her nemesis Lanys T'Vyl return to find themselves at the forefront of the events. Unbeknownst to them, a dark influence has seeped into the world of Norrath causing new tension…
Expansion era
Mistmoore and SplitPaw revamps live for all servers New and improved Lavastorm! Item Changes ________________________ - Many Epic 2.0 effects have been modified. Please see the EQforums at Eqforums.station.sony.com for details. - These items are now primary and secondary slot usable: Totem of Shattered Hope Wand of …
We apologize for the recent issues with our attempt to ease backflagging. Our coders and designers have worked tirelessly through the night to come up with tonight's update which should resolve the backflagging solution issues. We have also identified a few other issues and added corrections for them as well. - Back…
*** 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…
- Summoned pets no longer vanish when their owner turns invisible - Froglok animations are now fixed, seriously, no really we mean it this time. - Continue the Adventure! Read the first in the new series of EQ Novels. Warrior Epic ______________________ - Modified the way Decaying Lord Galuk Drek is spawned in Veksa…
Monk Epic - Speaking to certain monk epic mobs will no longer reset the monk's progression. - Monks that turned in their letters will now be able to continue the quest from where they currently are. - Monks should have an easier time locating the lost Disciple. Guild Tribute - Players with Gates, but not Omens, shou…
Headlines ___________________ Omens of War is live! New Teleportation Spells to Barindu. Just me and my shadooooow! Reflective Water? Register now for the New Orleans Fan Faire. Omens of War ___________________ Explore the war torn lands of Kuua and reap the benefits of new AAs, spells and items including the new, p…
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…
- Issues for shaman and druids with the Healing Adept AA have been corrected. - Finishing Blow will correctly be capped by level. - Kick Mastery, Vicious Smash and Strengthened Strike no longer increase the damage on all melee attacks. They now only apply to their intended attacks. - You will again have to hide to u…
Headlines! -Collision sees more improvements. -A portal to Gunthak has been added to the Plane of Knowledge. -/guidehelp is now available! -Gates of Discord sees more changes. Collision Updates Many remaining collision issues have been fixed. -Floating NPCs in the Plane of Disease should be more down to earth. -NPC …
Headlines -Refining some DX9 functionality. -Some adjustments have been made to pets. -Some general bug fixes. -Added a new rogue discipline line, Assassins Strike. The tomes can be found in the East Commonlands and the Plane of Knowledge. DirectX 9 -The center of collision for all players -We have made improvements…
Headlines DirectX 9 is now REQUIRED to play on all SOE EverQuest servers and Venril Sathir! Stormhammer received a new adventure zone. Another story for you to peruse in your storybook. Screenshots in .JPG? What will they think of next! More Grammar changes (no not Grandma, Grammar) DirectX 9 -We have added more det…
Headlines ------------------------ Combines work again! Melee Part II! A new story has been added to your storybook! The grammar police have invaded EQ and they have made many minor spell, item and quest text fixes that are too numerous to list here. We'd like to thank all of the players that took time to provide fe…
Expansion era
Headlines! Melee Enhancements Part 1 New Spell Effects Live Casino Now Open In Shadowhaven HEAR YE! HEAR YE! Check with your Town Crier for new editions of your hometown paper! *** AA REFUND *** - Extended Notes 3 and Sionachie's Cresendo have been refunded (More details below). If you had these bard AAs and were cl…
** Quests, Adventures and Encounters ** - We have added one more new LDoN raid to Stormhammer. This raid was created with Elemental capable characters in mind. - Changed the minimum required number of group members to request an adventure from 4 to 3. - We have increased the consolation prize on level 65 hard advent…
* Zones and NPCs ** - Two new raid zones have been added to the Lost Dungeons on the Legends server. These are Guk-themed raids, one for Elemental Plane and one for Time Plane capable raiders. - The revamped Plane of Mischief is now available on all Live servers. - There were some situations where the warders in Vex…
*** Lost Dungeons of Norrath Launches! *** Make sure to check out this groundbreaking new expansion! EVERY new zone has something fun and rewarding just waiting for everyone levels 20-65, and there's always something available for you! For the first time in EverQuest you have the ability to interact with your enviro…
Expansion era
** Zone Revamps ** - The Deep, Charasis (Howling Stones), Dragon Necropolis, Siren's Grotto, The Hole, The City of Mist, and The Accursed Temple of Cazic- Thule have been partially revamped. Gameplay in these zones has been improved, based on feedback from players and careful review of the content. The changes are n…
** 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…
** Experience System Change - Grouping ** We've made some improvements to the way experience is rewarded in EverQuest. These improvements are aimed at positively reinforcing the act of grouping. After all, this is a Massively Multiplayer game. Prior to this update groups gained a 2% to 20% experience bonus for havin…
** Hate Plane ** The new Plane of Hate is now available on all servers! The Plane of Hate is an old favorite of many players, and we were careful to retain as much of its old charm as possible (and all of its old quests). At the same time we created all new geometry for the zone using our newer tools and newer desig…
** Tip of the Day ** When you first log in you will be presented with a Tip of the Day window. We've added this window to provide helpful insight to new players, and perhaps a few tips for experienced players as well. ** Gameplay ** - Any character 10th level and under that attempts to attack a 'red' /con NPC will r…
** 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
As the afternoon heat grows, a trickle of adventurous folk can be seen moving through the rocky vales of the mountains called Stonebrunt. These quiet lands, normally inhabited by panda bears and kobolds, are slowly becoming a throughway for heroes, mercenaries and adventures of all races. Are you one of them? And in…
Note: Some folks have had trouble getting the elves' beard colors to work properly. In order to get them to show up, you may need to set DoProperTinting=TRUE in your Eqclient.ini file. You can do that by typing /dopropertinting in game. ALSO NOTE: We have changed a lot of UI Files. Here's the list: ** UI File Change…
** ANNOUNCEMENT ** The response to The Legacy of Ykesha(tm) extension has been overwhelming; we want to thank all of you who have pre-ordered. In order to better serve ALL of our customers, including those who do not have a credit card, we've decided to make a relatively small number of The Legacy of Ykesha CD-ROMs …
*** Announcing The Legacy of Ykesha *** The Legacy of Ykesha will be the first download-only extension for EverQuest. This product will not be available in stores. This extension will include some great new gameplay features, as well as new zones for characters ranging from level 35 up to level 60. Legacy of Ykesha …
** Demise of the Classic/Velious Interface ** Over the last six months we have been keeping the Classic EverQuest interface as well as the Velious interface working through all of the features that we have added (built-in MP3 player, item links, compass, enhanced /bug reporting tool, and others). However, with the r…
Expansion era
** 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…
** 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…
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…
*** 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…
Contact buffs have once again been disabled for bards to prevent songs from locking up - Fixed a bug that was causing the "Soandso begins to cast a spell" message to not display - Fixed the bug that was causing the last hit message for another player to be displayed even if you had other's hits off - Added more info…
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…
*** Important Reminder *** Due to some of the things we are going to be doing, there is a small chance that some corpses might disappear during the patch. GMs will have the ability to verify any corpses that are lost. That means that they can help you get them back if you do indeed lose one. It is also important to …
** 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…
** Food Changes ** - Food items now have a 'duration'. This means that some food items will not sustain a character as long as others, and some items will sustain your character longer than they did before. ** Bug Fixes ** - We THINK we've fixed the problem with the Dusty Werebat. This fellow has been steadfastly re…
***Fan Faire Reminder*** Registration for the San Diego Fan Faire closes on Wednesday, March 28th, and we are running out of spaces. Once all the spaces are taken, we will not be accepting any further registrations (or walk-ins). So if you plan to attend sign up before someone else gets your spot. Head over to www.e…
Expansion era
*Patch Day* Today's patch addresses a few problems noted by customers since last week's big patch. The following changes were made: - Fixed some problems with sound volume being set above the maximum or below the minimum. - Fixed a problem that caused sound volume to be reset regardless of the slider setting upon zo…
***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…
*Important System Configuration Announcement*. As many of you know, over the past couple of months we've made numerous enhancements to the EverQuest client. In addition to things such as new /-commands and other changes of that nature, we've enhanced the UI itself to allow moveable and resizable windows, among other…
*Level 1 Character Purge* The Level 1 character purge announced several weeks ago will take place on Wednesday, September 27, 2000, at 7:00am PST (GMT-7). Any level 1 characters that haven't been played within the previous 30 days will be deleted. If you wish to keep any level 1 characters that you may have, please …
***Patch Day*** *Miscellaneous Changes/Fixes* - The "Safe Points" have been moved in Field of Bone and Lake of Ill Omen to someplace "safer". - You can no longer cast invisibility on any pet. - Foul language issued through /emote will now be handled by the profanity filter. - Corrected a bug that allowed linkdead pl…
*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
***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…
Listed below are the enhancements introduced in this patch. *Item Enhancements* The entire set of the Armor or Ro (Paladin class specific armor) and Darkforge (ShadowKnight class armor) has received an increase in AC. *Class Enhancements* Rogue Specific - The minimum backstab damage is now same as their level. - Rog…
*General Enhancements* User Adjustable Clipping-plane We have recently implemented a user adjustable clipping-plane. This will allow players with higher-end hardware to move out the distance at which the 3D world geometry is drawn into view, as well as the ability for players with lower-end hardware to pull this dis…
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…
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 …
Expansion era
Patch server message: Several Test server bugs have been fixed in this update: * The bow pulls a line on the interface and sometimes crashes occur. * The line goes down when using the "/corpse" command. * Mesmerize's effect on Beard and Enchanter has been fixed and works as planned. * When you go out of the characte…
New keyboard shortcuts: (These work when the chatbar is NOT up, just like "Z" now) "T" = Target nearest entity (Player or NPC), "N" = Target nearest NPC, "U" = Use center of view, which is just like a double-left click at the center of the 3dview. Which has many uses, such as opening a door, starting a transaction w…
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