There is a patch scheduled this week on Thursday the 9th. The patch is estimated at 10 hours!!! This apparently isn't just a maintenance patch. Hmmm...Maybe it's something tied in with the Web Quests?? Guess we will just have to wait and see. Here is the official announcement from EQLive found in Support/Scheduled Downtime...

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Scheduled patch - Thursday, January 9th, at 3AM PST, (11AM GMT) On Thursday, January 9th, at 3AM PST, (11AM GMT), all EverQuest servers will be brought down for a scheduled patch. The estimated downtime is 10 hours. The EverQuest Operations Team