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

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Live

June 2, 2004

Collision fixes collide with servers! Collision - When you are summoned by NPCs or players smaller than you, the collision system will now scan a limited area near the destination to find a place to put you so that you will not be stuck in the terrain. - A problem related to collision data being out of sync on the c…

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Live

May 27, 2004

Omens of War has a new expected live date of August 31, 2004. We appreciate your pre-order and if you wish to leave it in place, you do not need to do anything. We will not charge your credit card until the day the expansion actually goes live. If you wish to cancel your pre-order you may follow the steps below. You…

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Live

May 12, 2004

Headlines! Gates of Discord content retuned! Gates of Discord - Zone experience modifiers were increased in all zones from Tipt/Vxed and beyond. - Natimbi, Qinimi, Barindu, Riwwi, and Ferubi should be tuned more appropriately for their intended level ranges. - NPCs will no longer hit for max damage as often. Knights…

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Live

May 5, 2004

Happy Cinco De Mayo! EverQuest 2 Beta Sign Ups are now open! Make sure you sign up for the exciting EverQuest 2 beta! Join the folks who have already added their name to the rapidly growing list for this amazing beta opportunity. Go to www.everquest2.com and click on the beta link to get your chance at a beta slot! …

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Live

April 28, 2004

Headlines! - A new storybook has arrived! Make sure you read it to find out what Tondal is up to now. - A new adventure zone is live on Stormhammer! - A new adventure zone has moved from Stormhammer to Live! - What are the "HOT SPOTS"? - Plane of Knowledge open to everyone! New Adventure Zone goes to Stormhammer - W…

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Live

April 21, 2004

Headlines! - Boat Gnomes are now available all the time. (and I thought gnomes were only good as appetizers) - A new edition of the newspaper is available in your home town. Come and get it! Boat Gnomes The boat gnomes and other alternate means of travel are now available. During this period of gnome servitude, the …

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Live

April 14, 2004

Headlines! - You can now set hot keys to cycle through targets! Collision and Targeting - We have improved Collision. - We have improved targeting. - Auto-rewind has been disabled. Auto-rewind has been disabled. Auto-rewind has been disabled. - Short races should be able to manage steps and slopes more easily, so gn…

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Live

April 13, 2004

The Graveyard zone, Shadowrest, is now live! We have introduced the new graveyard zone, Shadowrest, to the live servers. The zone will allow adventurers whose corpse has decayed, after 7 days, to retrieve it. They will merely have to greet the appropriate NPC in one of the following zones to activate their transport…

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Live

March 25, 2004

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…

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March 23, 2004

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…

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Live

March 16, 2004

*Highlights* EverQuest 5th Anniversary Return of the Casino (Again) Check with the Town Criers for the latest edition of the Norrath newspaper! EverQuest Celebrates Five Years. Join us for the 5th Anniversary in-game celebrations for EverQuest. Over the course of the next few weeks you will be able to join in a mass…

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Live

March 10, 2004

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…

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Live

February 18, 2004

We found a bit of code that was, occasionally, causing random zone crashes and corrected it. We are still working on the second part of the 1017 problem and hope that many of you found some relief in the changes we made last night. Thanks again for your patience. We're working hard to solve the problem. Monks once a…

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Live

February 12, 2004

Tribute Update The Tribute system as it was released has caused a greater variance in favor distribution than was intended. In order to make the system more healthy, fair, and balanced, there will be changes made over two updates -- one today and one next week. The following changes have been made today: - Favor Max…

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Live

February 11, 2004

-Corrected an issue with Qinimi that would not allow characters lower than 60th level to enter the zone. -Addendum to 2/10/2004: No change was made to the Chaotic Stab ability.

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Live

February 10, 2004

Greetings Norrath, Highlights for today's update: * EverQuest: Gates of Discord goes live! * The Casino is back and waiting for you high rollers. Go to Shadowhaven to try your luck. * Tradeskillers rejoice, the new UI is here! * Nedaria's landing has evolved further. Gates of Discord Launches! ----------------------…

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Live

February 3, 2004

LIVE CHAT with the EQ Development Team Tonight, February 3rd 6PM PST, the EQ Dev team will be holding an EverQuest: Gates of Discord live chat. Go to EQlive.station.sony.com for details. One week left to Pre-order EverQuest: Gates of Discord, the next exciting expansion for EverQuest. Make sure you check it out.

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January 30, 2004

Tonight we have a small update to fix some general bugs. We are again changing charm (in exactly the way we thought we had last week) No this is not deja vu. You should also look for changes in that evolving zone of Nedaria's Landing. I wonder what is going on there? - An update to the zone, Nedaria's Landing. Make …

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Live

January 22, 2004

We have made a few changes to remove some exploits in our continuing effort to remove any loopholes in EverQuest. In this update we have removed the charm exploit in Plane of Tactics by changing the way that charm works. This change should not affect those who use charm in the manner for which it was intended. We ha…

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Live

December 23, 2003

** Stability Issues ** The team here at the EQ Lab has isolated a memory leak which was causing server instability after 10 to 12 hours of uptime (which we are sure you have noticed) We hope to have this issue resolved during tonight's update. We would like to thank you all for your patience and understanding during…

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Live

December 19, 2003

** Shadowhaven Casino goes on vacation ** We're sorry to have to say this, but the new casino has become too popular. The huge number of players gambling at the casino is causing issues with the servers, and has been responsible for a few zone crashes. Unfortunately, this means that we have had to remove the casino …

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Live

December 18, 2003

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…

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Live

November 5, 2003

** 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…

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Live

October 9, 2003

* 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…

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