All EverQuest II Servers will be brought offline on Tuesday May 31th, 2017 at 7:00 AM PT (14:00 UTC) for an update. Estimated downtime is less than 2 hours.

Update notes for this downtime can be found in the Game Update Notes forum once they're available.

GENERAL

• You can now hide your ‘Not For Sale’ items when at a merchant.
• You can now filter the broker by Ascension Classes.

PROVING GROUNDS

• Most cleric reactive heals have been increased in the Proving Grounds by 30-40%.

FAMILIARS

• Fixed an issue where Familiars were not properly persisting through death.

TRADESKILLS

• Mass production crafts will now maintain their quantity when repeating the craft. This option can be disabled in Options [Advanced] > User Interface > Tradeskills > Repeat Craft Maintains Quantity.

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION
General

• Many Kunark Ascending encounters had outgoing damage that was tuned in line with a bug that allowed some wards to act as potent damage reduction. The outgoing damage on these encounters has been tuned and will continue to recieve daily adjustments over the next couple weeks based on encounter damage logs.

Chamber of Rejuvenation [Raid]

• The Reet Ritualist should no longer dispel Glacial Freeze.
• Bursting Spores should no longer attempt to spread to players who already have the spell on them.

ABILITIES

• Fixed an issue that prevented Manaburn from applying damage in the Proving Grounds.

ITEMS

• Crusader's Medal's may now be exchanged for Defender's Medal's from Aldaelon Rootbed, Omarin T'Zaana and Gramdur.

All EverQuest II Servers will be brought offline on Tuesday May 13th, 2017 at 7:00 AM PT (14:00 UTC) for an update. Estimated downtime is less than 2 hours.

Update notes for this downtime can be found in the Game Update Notes forum once they're available.

PROVING GROUNDS
General

• The "All Hands on Deck" and "Nature's Fury" incrementing buffs cast by many of the non-boss NPCs in Battle upon the High Seas and Battle for Felwithe now apply 5.0% strikethrough per increment.

Battle upon the High Seas

• Corrected an issue that granted extra hit points to human Brokenskull pirate's on the blue side.
• The number of pirates answering Cap'n Ketch's calls has been reduced.
• Turbulent spirits (drakes) will no longer attack groups not engaged in combat.

FAMILIARS

• Five new familiars are now available from different merchants around Norrath: Sarya Val'Sara, and Scribbleclaw in Obulus Frontier, Jasper Sodtiller in Kelethin, Naris T'Vaska in Neriak, Durbain in Thalumbra, and Far'Saethe Dom in the Proving Grounds lobby.
• The Hordemother Vespid Familiar's deaggro proc will no longer trigger on fighters in defensive stance.

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION
Fixed an issue that prevented non-members from entering the following zones after the membership restrictions were lifted.

• City of the Nayad [Advanced Solo]
• City of the Nayad [Heroic]
• Scourge Keep [Advanced Solo]
• Scourge Keep [Heroic]
• The Fabled Antechamber of Fate [Raid]
• The Fabled Cavern of the Crustaceans [Raid]
• The Fabled Chamber of Immortality
• The Fabled Nizara
• The Fabled Nizara
• The Fabled Ruins of Varsoon
• The Fabled Sanctum of Fear
• The Fabled Temple of Cazic-Thule
• The Fabled Xux'laio's Roost [Raid]
• Zek, the Scourge Wastes [Heroic]
• Zek, the Scourge Wastes [Solo]
• Zek, the Scourge Wastes: The Siege [Raid]

Chamber of Rejuvenation [Raid]

• If the Reet Ritualist gets removed from the encounter a warning message is now generated to avoid confusion.
• When Massive Jawing is removed any debuff components applied by the spell are also removed.
• Trakanon’s eyesight has been improved so he no longer attempt to kill already dead players and spam the raid with the message.
• Players chosen for the specific challenges involved in the Trakanon encounter should more reliably be able to do damage to their respective targets.
• Trakanon’s summoned challengers should no longer be permanently rooted.
• Descriptions have been added to Fetid Cloud and Toxic Tempest.
• Poison Spray should now grow in damage quicker.
• Using teleport to target type spells or abilities on Trakanon should no longer result in teleporting under the world.
• Adds in the Trakanon encounter have had their health rebalanced for recent buff package changes.

ABILITIES

• Ulla's Resolution will no longer heal hostile targets.
• Most fighter threat snaps are now unresistable.
• Corrected an issue with wards that allowed some ward types to reduce damage without losing ward amount.
• Increased critical damage across the board for both Sorcerer classes by between 8% and 17%.

ITEMS

• Enchanted Slobberjaw Eye may now be used from inventory.
• Glomalin Divining Rod will now equip automatically when double clicked.
• Prestigious Wand of Power no longer requires ammo.

Stormhold

• Several of the red focus adornments available from Kal'Jeketh can now be added to additional equipment slots.

QUESTS

• Toxxulian Flora collection pieces are now spelled correctly.

All EverQuest II Servers will be brought offline on Thursday, May 11th, 2017 at 7:00 AM PT (14:00 UTC) for an update. Estimated downtime is less than 2 hours.

Update notes for this downtime can be found in the Game Update Notes forum once they're available.

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PROVING GROUNDS

• Rewards are now granted upon leaving a match if any were earned by completing objectives.
• When the 2nd objective is completed (on either team), neither teams' numbers can be reinforced by anyone outside the match.
• After the first team completes the final objective, the opposing team's group count will be checked periodically. If their group total falls below 3, the match will end.

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION
Vaedenmoor: Realm of Despair [Raid]

• You should no longer occasionally get spammy messages regarding progression within the zone.

Raids

• Adds in tier 4 raid boss encounters have had their health slightly increased. It should still be less time to kill adds from previous to update 103.

ABILITIES

• Adornment Reclamation will now remove orange adornments.

ITEMS

• Procs on familiars will now be modified by stats.
• Familiars no longer conflict with Deity pets.
• Wantia adornments that have been removed from a piece of gear have had their proper slots restored.
• The Awakened Sedition, Sword of the Bloodmoon now grants Max HP and Armor Mitigation increase.

QUESTS

• The Siege of Zek: Rise of The Sanctifiers - The enchanted Green Hood vessel in Antonica is now available to non-members.
• Light of the Destroyer: Adventurers should now be able to help their friends in the final battle, even if they are not currently on this quest. The instance should pull in the group, as long as the quest holder clicks on the entrance.

TIMELOCKED SERVERS

• Corrected an issue that granted players on the Timelocked server a Tears of Veeshan era hit point buff as soon as they hit level 90. This buff is now locked behind Tears of Veeshan being live on the server.

Hail Norrathians,

We’re grateful for your patience as we worked through some technical issues with our servers. While our fixes seem stable so far, we want to take more time to test and verify our changes before launching GU103: The Menagerie. Since we want to ensure that the launch of our next game update is as smooth and stable as possible, we’ve decided to move the launch of GU103: The Menagerie to Tuesday, May 9, 2017.

To thank you for your patience and support, we’ll be activating Triple XP (AA, Adventure, Tradeskill) for ALL players and ALL servers starting now. This will run until Sunday, April 30, 2017 at 11:59PM PDT (07:00 UTC).

In addition, we’ll be activating Double Ascension Scrolls starting on Monday, May 1, 2017 at 12:01AM PDT (7:00 UTC). This will run through Sunday, May 7, 2017 at 11:59PM PDT (07:00 UTC).

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We’ve updated the dates of GU103: The Menagerie, our next stream, our AMAs, and the level 100 character boost promotion.

• Our next stream will be the morning GU103 launches, Tuesday, May 9 @ 10AM PDT (17:00 UTC). We’re streaming on www.facebook.com/EverQuest2
• For an updated list of AMA dates/times, see the post here.
• The Level 100 Boost Bauble offer will begin on Tuesday, May 9 around noon PDT (19:00 UTC) and end on Monday, May 22, 2017 at 11:59PM PDT (07:00 UTC).

We’ve also updated dates in these posts. If you haven’t seen these posts about what we have coming up for EverQuest II, check them out here:

• Producers’ Letter – April 2017
• Kander’s Candor - What’s Coming Up in 2017

In the meanwhile, while we continue to monitor the performance of our servers, if you have any issues with servers please report them in the thread here.