Game update hit today. With it, new anniversary content is released. Check out our Anniversary Page to see information on the new content. We'll keep adding the new anniversary content as they release it.

Patch notes are below.

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Highlights

• Added the 'inventory' option to the /pet command to interact with your pet's currently equipped items. See details below.
• The DirectX 11 API Port is now Live. Please see forums for details.

Items

• Harmonious and Reactive versions of Goliath's Amphibian Skin augment can now be equipped in range weapons, and all three augments now share a lore equip group.
• Charms from Laurion's Song that require rare creature kills to improve stats should now function correctly.
• Achievements for collecting Copperleaf and Echoing Memoryforge Hero's Forge armor should now function correctly.
• Rallos Zek augments from Torment of Velious now share Lore Equip groups with Legacies Lost augments from Laurion's Song.
• Memoryforged Desolation weapons have had their damage ratios adjusted.
• Memoryforged Desolation items have had their procs and focus effects adjusted to bring them in line with original intentions.
• The Captain's Strength and Concentrated Goblin Smarts augments received slight adjustments to heal amount and spell damage stats.
• Devotee's Focus of Legacies Lost will now drop off raid base population in Laurion's Song raids rather than chests.

Tradeskills

• Dried Vanilla Beans are no longer tagged as No Trade.

Quests & Events

• Added bonus experience to Laurion's Song evolving items for opening chests in Laurion's Song missions.
• Year of Darkpaw collections will now reward Timeless Tokens instead of experience.
• Removed the experience from giving wine to Lady Shae or Lokar To`Biath. The quests will continue to grant faction rewards.
• Updated the Calendar events for Laurion's Song raids to properly mention Laurion's Song raids.
• Final Fugue (Mission)
  • Achievements now will be credited properly.
  • Player characters will no longer suffer longer combat rest lockouts.
  • Any stun should help to make Kar movable again after he draws his shield.
  • The boars are now animals.
• Heroes are Forged (Mission) -
  • Entry into the Spider Queen's web should work properly.
  • The slimes will now drop a Glob of Slippery Slime.
  • The mender now mends properly.
  • Enemies will now summon.
• Shadow of my Shadow (Raid) - Fixed a few issues with miscommunications.
• Fixed a typo with the 'easy-going layabout' in Timorous Falls.
• Fixed an issue with Snart's Riddle not dropping for groups correctly.
• Fixed a typo in the quest 'Shadier Neighbors'.

Spells

• Added monsters from The Burning Lands in zones for magician's monster summoning spells.
• Added monsters from Ring of Scale in zones for magician's monster summoning spells.
• Added monsters from Empires of Kunark in zones for magician's monster summoning spells.
• Beneficial spells that target the caster's group, if cast by a pet, will now include the mercenaries and pets (subject to their leader's pet affinity AA) in the pet leader's group.
• Fixed an issue with Krizad's Malosinera triggering the wrong version of Malosinera.

AA

• Berserker/Monk - Added a new activated Archetype AA, Devastating Assault, available starting at level 112, that provides a percentage of weapon damage as AE damage in a 40-foot radius for 2m every 5m (using timer 30).
• Berserker - Updated the Archetype AA, Veteran's Wrath, ranks 31 through 35, increasing the melee crit damage bonus to 325% at max rank.
• Berserker - Added a new passive Focus AA, Hastened Mangling Discipline, available starting at level 112, that provides up to 5 minutes of reuse reduction at max rank to all ranks of Mangling Discipline.
• Monk - Updated the Class AA, Zan Fi's Whistle, starting at rank 31, to passively buff base melee, hand to hand, 1 and 2 handed blunt, and Flying Kick damage. Additionally, the activated ability now exclusively provides damage procs of up to 240k at max rank, with a bonus 50% proc chance, on up to 30 successful hits with Tiger Claw, Eagle Strike, and Dragon Punch attacks for 3m every 10m (using timer 41). A new rank of Zan Fi's Whistle has also been added for Laurion's Song, available at level 125.

NPCs

• The Nokk Rallosians have better trained their battleworgs to assist them in battle.
• Fixed an issue with Dhakka Nogg's height.

Mercenaries

• Gave weapon visuals to the level 125 player race Healer and Tank mercenaries.
• Mercenaries will once again use their abilities to the fullest while in combat.
• Corrected an issue with unspent mercenary AA points decreasing when swapping personas.
• Mercenary AA experience is now based off the highest level persona your character has rather than the level of your current persona.

Collections

• The Spirit of the Lost collectible finder can now locate Year of Darkpaw collection item spawns.
• Fixed an issue with the 'Mind Your Steppe' collection from Timorous Falls not dropping correctly.
• Fixed an issue with a 'Have A Drink on Me' collection spawn point being under the map in Timorous Falls.

Overseer

• Corrected an issue with Overseer data not loading when swapping personas.

Progression Servers

• Added a level 90 check for Empires of Kunark Amorphous armor items for Vaniki.

Miscellaneous

• Corrected an issue with triggered spells not functioning when swapping personas.
• Corrected an issue where you would log in as your most recently created persona. This will occur one more time for existing personas, as the information needed to load the correct persona does not yet exist.
• Character equipment will visually update correctly when swapping personas and equipment sets.
• Fixed an issue where Player A's pet could sometimes have Player B's name if Player B's name started with Player A's name, such as Sam and Samwise.
• Increased the maximum number of Hero's Forge key ring items to 500.
• Reward previews now factor in: perk, legacy character, and level and server-based experience modifiers.
• Added a minimum viability check to ensure that the client has at least Windows 7 Service Pack 1 installed.
• Added the 'inventory' option to the /pet command to interact with your pet's currently equipped items.
  • /pet inventory check - This will return a list of your pet's currently equipped items.
  • /pet inventory destroy slot - This will destroy the item your pet has in the chosen slot.

UI

• Converted the Breathing window to the new UI engine.
• Added a confirmation popup when selecting the UI reset checkbox on the Character Select screen.
• The Legacy experience tooltip is now visible when not using the new UI engine.
• Corrected an issue with the Alternate Advancement window showing an incorrect experience percent split value.
• Made the following changes to chat filters:
  • Direct Damage and Damage Over Time filters have been split into Yours, Your Critical Hits, You Being Hit, Others, and Other Critical Hits.
  • Healing filters have been split into Yours, Your Critical Heals, Heals Received, Others, and Other Critical Heals.
  • Added a separate chat filter for others' melee critical hits, Others Hits (Critical).
  • Moved auto attack on/off and other attack-related messages to the Melee Warnings chat filter. Also renamed 'Too far away (melee)' to 'Melee Warnings' in Chat options.
  • Added new chat filter 'Chat Channel Info' for universal chat messages such as output from commands /list and /autojoin.
  • Created new chat filter for Consider Messages generated by right clicking or using /consider on a target.
• Updated the Guild, Raid, and Fellowship windows to properly display class changes.
• Deleting a character with multiple heroic personas will now refund all heroic features that qualify.
• The minimum and maximum required levels for a task are now displayed in the task window.
• Fixed item name colors in the Item Display Window when a persona is unable to use an item.
• Corrected an issue with the Faction window being blank after swapping personas.
• The tooltip for the AA and normal EXP bar should now display correctly in the new UI engine.
• The Spell Display window caster field no longer persists from one instance to the next.
• Fixed an issue where the new UI engine Casting Window could slowly move out of position.
• Fixed the Actions window not updating Abilities and Combat buttons after swapping personas.
• Removed display gamma options and replaced them with a rendering effect that enhances brightness in the scene.
• Corrected an issue where mercenaries didn't update their displayed level when their owner's level changed.
• Corrected an issue where the Target window didn't update its consider color when your target's level changed.

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• BreathWindow.html
• ctxinventory.html
• ctxpersona.html
• EQUI_AdvancedDisplayOptionsWnd.xml
• EQUI_Animations.xml
• EQUI_CharacterListWnd.xml
• EQUI_GuildBankWnd.xml
• EQUI_Inventory.xml
• EQUI_OptionsWindow.xml
• EQUI_TaskWnd.xml
• index.html
• InventoryWindow.css
• InventoryWindow.html
• InventoryWindowPersonas.html
• main.css
• style.css

Previously Updated

• Fixed the missing NPCs in the Bidils the Quickhand raid.

The EverQuest Team

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November 15, 2023
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*** Tradeskills ***

- The recipe for Song: Pests of the Piper Rk. II should now make much more sense.


*** Quests & Events ***

- Fixed a bug where rewards from shroud missions wouldn't display properly and were unable to be selected.


*** AA ***

- Added an additional rank of Disruptive Persecution to the Terror of Luclin AAs, available at level 120, that procs Knight's Yaulp VI.


*** Overseer ***

- Optimized UX for starting quests and improved performance.


*** Miscellaneous ***

- Updated /camp to accept the 'fast' parameter which allows camping immediately in zones that allow fast camping. This can be used in conjunction with existing parameters.
- The /follow command will no longer consider player corpses as potential targets when a name is provided.


*** UI ***

- Adjusted the color of the health bar in the Target of Target window and the window's default position.
- Windows using the new UI engine can no longer be resized if they are locked.
- Fixed a bug where duplicate buffs would always display the last caster as the caster of the buff.
- Created a new chat filter for Raid Victory Messages to reduce system messages spam.
- Converted the Casting Window to the new UI.
- Added commas to the display of guild tribute amount.
- Fixed an issue where the Respawn Window could become unresponsive.

- Added -
CastingWindow.html


- Changed -
EQUI_TributeBenefitWnd.xml
EQUI_TributeMasterWnd.xml
TargetOfTargetWindow.html
index.html
main.css


- The EverQuest Team

Click on Read More to see all of the updates for the month of October.

Also, we're busy working on the beta for Laurion's Song so stay tuned...

Here are the patch notes for the September 2023 game update.

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July 19, 2023
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*** Highlights ***

- The Coirnav server has been merged into Vox.


*** Items ***

- Kaznak's Bulwark Emblem, Fragment of Ethereal Steel, Dour Blue, Sleeper's Essence, Petrified Sharktooth, Sylra's Trinket and Smoldering Core of Radir will now work on charms and range items with appropriate augment slots.
- Mixolydian Arpeggio on the on the Spectral Loremaster Breastplate and Loremaster Breastplate of Spectral Luminosity will now cast Masterful Mixolydian Root instead of Masterful Mixolydian Third.
- Geerlok Party Bot now has more appropriate lore text.


*** Quests & Events ***

- Added a replay timer to the task for the Bloodmoon Keep raid "Ralkor's Crystals" and "The Soulbleeder Must Bleed" event.
- Fixed the Superior Standard to scale properly. Also adjusted the spell to add additional effects and account for the proper scaling.


*** Spells ***

- Magician - Adjusted damage values for the Shock Of Many spell line. All spells now do increased damage with fewer pets (tier 1) and many do increased damage with many pets (tier 2 and 3), but Shock, Jolt, Clash, Strike, and Barrage have had their tier 2 and 3 damage reduced.
- Corrected an issue where certain spell reagents (Essence Emeralds, Fuligan Soulstones of Innoruuk, and Cloudy Stones of Veeshan) would not be consumed.


*** AA ***

- Necromancer - Added Rank 11 of the Archetype AA Summon Corpse, which casts Thanatos' Proclamation.
- Shaman - Fixed an issue with the Class AA Spirit Call that caused certain ranks to summon the wrong pet.
- Berserker - Updated Ranks 10 and 11 of the Focus AA Focus Arcslice to correctly focus Arcshear.


*** NPCs ***

- The general supplies merchant Duath Untez in Abysmal Sea can now send and receive parcels.


*** Overseer ***

- Several new event-specific Agents have been added to Overseer, available only during the Stone Cold Summer event in August.
- - A new line of event-specific Overseer Quests, available at all Overseer levels, are also available for a limited time during Stone Cold Summer.
- - New achievements, found in the Overseer >> Holiday category, have also been added for completing each of the new Stone Cold Summer event Overseer Quests.


*** Progression Servers ***

- Corrected an issue that could cause an Encounter Locked NPC to become unattackable if it killed the only person on its hatelist.
- Disarm will no longer affect NPCs that you cannot attack due to it being Encounter Locked to someone else.
- Updated the /yell command to unlock all Encounter Locked NPCs that you're able to and added a one second reuse timer.
- Corrected an issue with Legacy experience bonuses appearing for other characters in the group who did not have a bonus.


*** Miscellaneous ***

- The /bug command will now only report target information for NPCs.
- World server lag during raid win completion and receiving rewards should be reduced.


*** UI ***

- Fixed the location of the Quantity Window when opening it from windows using the old UI engine, or when the UI scale is not 1.
- Fixed some spots on item cursor attachments.
- Fixed cursor trails sticking around when the UI is scaled below 1.0.
- Switching between windowed and full screen modes and resolutions should be more responsive and interactive.
- Fixed links in the Story Window. They now will either open into the story window (local files only) or in an external browser. It's strongly recommended that players go through their existing custom story files and verify that any HTML is correct (all tags are properly closed, no missing quotation marks, etc.) to ensure they display properly.
- Guild banners have learned to include the zone instance number where they are planted.


- The EverQuest Team

Here is the patch notes for the June 2023 game update.

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All EverQuest Live Servers will be brought offline on Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 6:00 AM PT* for an update. Downtime is expected to last approximately 6 hours.

Patch notes for this update will be found in the Game Update Notes section of the forums once they are available.

*Convert to your local time

 

April 19, 2023
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*** Items ***

- Runnyeye Adventurer's Head teleport item has had its casting requirement of Depths of Darkhollow removed.
- Heritage crates have been altered so that they will not offer items that are not usable on your server at the time of opening.
- Ornate Restless Great Axe weapon ornament will now fit into 1-hand and hand-to-hand weapons.
- Restless Griffon and Restless Wolf Saddles are now claimable when Shadows of Luclin is active.
- The Mask of Sparks illusion item should now be using the intended Arc Worker appearance.
- Evolving Selenelion cloaks have had their luck stat increased.
- Drop rates for Luclinite Laced Nigriventer, Mamba, Gormar, Taipan, and Choresine venoms have been increased in Night of Shadow zones.
- Fixed some cases of misspelling of the word 'transvergence' in some item and spell names.
- Changed the name of Dentrik's Dementia to Drentik's Dementia to match Drentik the Mad in Valdeholm who drops it.
- The Hammer of Magic line of weapon procs can now be focused by the Sympathetic Alleviation Alternate Advancement ability.
- Updated NPC resistance checks against elemental weapon damage to apply full damage if the NPC is not immune to the resist type.


*** Quests & Events ***

- Misgnomer - While on the quest, Captain Nalot in Iceclad and Welno Tanlonikan in Ak'Anon now have a greater threshold for talking to people they may otherwise dislike.
- Changed the way raid Loot Lockouts work. It should much more reliably apply only to raid basepop going forward.
- The Vintage Toy Ships (Stone Hive) achievement under the Events >> Collections category now grants both AA and XP instead of one or the other.
- The Champion of Night of Shadows achievement no longer requires the following Quest achievements:
- - The Cunning of a Tiger: Cunning Copycat
- - The Strength of a Wolf: Leader of the Pack
- - The Bravery of a Bear: Bearer of Bravery
- Pit Fight (Raid) - The Stay Close achievement works now. Sorry.
- Under Siege (Raid) - We no longer refer to it as Under Seige when sending the success message.
- Myconid Mutany (Raid) - The vibrating crystalkin will now fight back.
- Reetuk the Inexorable - Killing NPCs before reaching the corresponding quest step will now count those kills toward quest completion.


*** Spells ***

- The Setting Sun and Rising Sun spells from the Shadows Move event will no longer zone with the bearer.
- Beastlord - Added all ranks of Ferocity and Shared Ferocity to a spell stacking group to prevent lower ranks from overwriting higher ranks.


*** AA ***

- Paladin - Fixed an issue that could cause Force of Disruption to have no reuse timer.
- Fixed some typos in descriptions for the fighter archetype ability Concentration.
- The Twinproc AA Ability will no longer affect player abilities that trigger other player abilities. Its effectiveness on procs should be unchanged.
- Updated the description for Twinproc to more accurately reflect the types of procs it can twincast.
- Ranks 3-6 of the Shadowknight Focus AA, Hastened Lifetaps can now be auto-granted.


*** NPCs ***

- Decreased the number of placeholders for Rare NPCs in Shadeweaver's Tangle, as well as lowered the health of the placeholders.


*** Overseer ***

- Fixed a typo in the name of the Overseer quest One Kobold's Garbage.


*** Progression Servers ***

- Vaniki Server - Dermott Saltagger in The Foundation and Vendor-Bot Model CM in Kernagir, the Shining City have had their purchase level requirements adjusted.


*** Miscellaneous ***

- The heritage crate art collector achievements will only show on progression servers if the expansion required for any of the components is opened. This restriction lasts through Legends of Ykesha. Any components that require later expansions are optional.
- Campfire and Guild Banner pick zones will now be prioritized over group members' when teleporting to either.
- Updated the /yell command to include your target's name.
- Added a new chat message with the zone name and ID for the group or raid leader when a member requests a new instance.


*** UI ***

- Spells activated from items now include the 'cast as level' when displaying the spell description.


*** Previously Updated ***

- Disabled the disconnect mechanism for pressing the same keys too many times on multiple clients on Coirnav.
- Vaniki Server - Dermott Saltagger in The Foundation and Vendor-Bot Model CM in Kernagir, the Shining City have had their purchase level requirements adjusted.


- The EverQuest Team