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

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Live

December 28, 2001

- Some spots in ToV no longer safe to camp out due to New Drakes and Wurm spawns being added. - A bug allowing multiple pets to be summoned has been fixed.

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December 20, 2001 3:00 am

* Bug Fixes * - Fixed a bug with sleeves not showing properly when wearing robes * Item Changes * - Aqualung charges should now work properly * Trade Skill Changes * - Regular, medium quality, high quality, mithril, brellium and adamantite rings, as well as their enchanted versions are now stackable. - Added a few t…

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Live

December 18, 2001 3:00 am

** Patch Changes ** - Added tools to help us track serverside zone issues that have come up since the release of Luclin in an effort to solve some continuing problems. - Orb of Lost Souls will now have a casting time. - Geomantic Focus has had its effect changed. - Fixed a problem that prevented Barbarian custom Vel…

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Live

December 14, 2001 3:00 am

- Removing or killing your familiar will no longer have the possibility of killing you directly. It can, however, take you down to very few hit points... - Skyshrine key is soulbound once again - Custom Velious helms should now be visible - Plate helmets should now be visible on Vah Shir - Female humans should no lo…

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Live

December 13, 2001 12:00 am

** Texture Cache ** In an effort to improve loading and zoning times, we've added the ability to cache textures to your hard drive. One of the things that your computer is doing when you load up the game or change zones is building textures and putting them into RAM on your computer. Each time you log in or zone the…

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December 12, 2001 12:00 am

* Patch Changes * - Several changes to hair functionality: Expanded beard color choices for Erudite males, pushed back the camera a bit for human males when making hair selections (so they can see themselves) and fixed it so that the camera will no longer rotate around Erudites while in hair selection mode of charac…

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Live

December 10, 2001 3:00 am

*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" …

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Live

December 7, 2001 3:00 am

*Fixes* - Shaved 10 seconds of zoning for every subscriber. - Made it so familiars don't get agroed on. - Fixed several zone crash bugs - Changed a paladin spell - a design error in the spell trivialized several aspects of the high-end game. - Fixed several item and content problems. - Fixed several faction issues -…

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December 6, 2001 3:00 am

*Fixed Bugs* - Fixed a bug that was preventing characters from being bald (those that were allowed to). - Halved the speed of the new Skeleton walk and run animations because they were playing about twice as fast as they should have been. - Fixed a bug that was causing all of the facial features (hair, beard, etc...…

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December 4, 2001 6:00 am

*** Welcome to Luclin *** "As you know, youngster, we of the League of Antonican Bards have made it our primary goal to travel to places before others. It is our duty to see what hasn't yet been seen and to make song of it when we return. We carry news, song and spirit to all of Norrath. We have also taken it upon o…

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Live

Dcember 3, 2001

*EQClient INI Setting* There's some confusion about the information that's been released on the Test server over the past couple of days, and that confusion is resulting in some people having trouble playing EverQuest. To clear it up: The GraphicsDLL setting in your EQClient.ini file should read "GraphicsDLL=EQGfx_D…

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November 28, 2001

** Server Outage for Shadows of Luclin Launch ** In order to update our server for the launch of EverQuest: Shadows of Luclin, all servers will be taken down starting at noon on Monday, December 3rd. They will be brought back up again on Tuesday, December 4th at 8 am (Pacific Time - which is -8:00 GMT). We regret th…

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Live

November 8, 2001 3:00 am

** Follow-up Patch ** We had a couple of bugs pop up in yesterday's patch. Rather than having everyone wait to see them fixed we've elected to roll them in now: Bards lost the ability to use item effects while moving. This has been fixed. Monks can now train mend again. Fixed a collision problem that caused people t…

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Live

November 7, 2001

** 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…

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Live

October 8, 2001

*** 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…

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Live

September 30, 2001

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…

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September 25, 2001 3:00 am

** Spell Changes ** - We have removed the changes to bard song stacking that were made with the recent emergency patch. We will be reviewing those changes for possible update in a future patch. ** Item Changes ** - The Shaman Epic effect has been returned to its previous effect (and it should conflict with fewer Dam…

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September 13, 2001

Sony Online Entertainment, is asking for your help in locating someone involved in the recent terror: Sony Online Entertainment needs your help in locating Gregory Trost. Gregory is a nephew of an SOE employee and his last known location was the 86th floor of Tower Two in the World Trade Center. With the tragic even…

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September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack Response

"The staff of Sony Online Entertainment wish to extend their condolences and prayers to the victims, and the families of the victims, lost in today’s horrific events. We share in your grief during these difficult times." The quote from our front page expresses how we all feel here in the office. I only want to exten…

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September 11, 2001 3:00 am

** Spell Changes ** - Changed all enchanter mesmerization spells so that they overwrite Screaming Terror - Changed Shaman epic effect (Curse of the Spirits) so that it would not conflict with certain Damage over Time spells. - The Emissary of Thule Necromancer pet is now immune to fear - Beneficial buffs that don't …

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Live

August 29, 2001

Located on the small continent of Odus, the Stonebrunt Mountains are rich with vegetation and distinctive hills that give way to the towering Mount Klaw; the largest mountain in Odus and home to the Kerran village of Kejeka. The zone of Stonebrunt is designed to be a mid-level, outdoor zone similar in scope and scal…

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