February 10th Patch Notes

February 10th Patch Notes

Here are today's patch notes:

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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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EverQuest: Gates of Discord Available Now!

Epic adventures now await you in EverQuest: Gates of Discord, the seventh expansion pack now available for EverQuest. Discover the lost continent of Taelosia and come face-to-face with invaders from the realm of chaos. Join armies of adventurers on their quest to unearth long-hidden artifacts of power from temple ruins, secret catacombs, dank sewers and vast marshlands. Should you fail, Norrath, its inhabitants, and its gods may fall under control of the forces of Discord! Gain Entry into the Gates of Discord!

Download now direct from the Station Store Purchase at your local retailer (retail boxed version includes special in-box and in-game item, while supplies last)

 

Exciting New Features!

100 new AA abilities

20 new zones with all-new NPCs

New Tribute System and Leadership Experience

Ravage your enemies with the Berserker

Purchase EverQuest: Gates of Discord now and receive great discount offers from Creative Labs and Kingston. Special restrictions apply. (visit www.everquest.com for more details)

 

Return of the Casino

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** Play King's Court in Shadowhaven!

** Shandeling's Roost in Shadowhaven again houses a game of chance. To play you will need to buy a King's Court Token. You then take this token and turn it in to any of the dealers. Based on what your hand turns out to be, you will be awarded a prize. The highest hands will return a gold ticket as the prize. This Ticket can be turned in to win prizes such as a Guise of the Deceiver, Fungus Covered Great Staff, or Holgresh Elder Beads. Good luck to all that play!

Tradeskill UI now live

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Opening a tradeskill container will now open a new user interface. In the window you will find an area that has all recipes that are currently available to you. This includes recipes that are at your skill level as well as some above it. Clicking on a recipe will display what items are necessary for its completion. Clicking the "combine" button will extract those required items from the player's inventory, and perform the recipe combine, placing the results on the player's cursor. The new system is nice and neat, with no dragging and dropping unless you want to try a combine that is way out of your league, which uses the old style of combination.

 

Item Changes

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- The name of Berserker armor has been changed to Bladesmans armor.

- The beastlord epic weapon will no longer "proc" for wielders below the 46th level.

- Many text changes in item descriptions.

 

General Bug Fixes

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- A Tormentors hoof is now flagged as a tradeskill item.

- Chaotic Stab, a rogue AA, will no longer cause full damage on frontal attacks.

- Altered some NPC factions in the Plane of Tactics arena to prevent a problem with charm.

 

Combat Abilities

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- Fixed some text on the Focus Will Discipline.

- Assassins Strike should now work correctly.

- Sneak Attack should now work correctly.

- Thief's Vengeance is now working correctly.

- Indirection should now work as intended.

 

Spells

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- Corrected a few spell descriptions.

- Corrected some spell sound effects.

- Arachnae Venom and Fellspine should now stack with the warriors provoke abilities.

Comments

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Tribute on the way to nerfage
# Feb 12 2004 at 3:37 PM Rating: Good
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In case folks are not aware yet, they took the tribute system down.

Some tradeskill items that could be made for under a platinum were being credited with 1200 tribute points (which would be enuff for 6 hours of FTV for that one item).

They have not announced whether points will be dropped/adjusted before they come back on line.

Also, the casinos are down again, no reason given.

(This is as of 2 AM EST)
65 Spells
# Feb 12 2004 at 3:34 PM Rating: Good
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64 posts
Have confirmed that the 65 spell runes drop off nameds in some of the deeper GoD zones. Don't need a major raid force but these mobs will be a big challenge for a single grouped equipped with less that elemental gear.

I don't know yet if the spells are randomly dropped or the same mob drops the same one all the time. Haven't killed the same name twice yet.

Spells are NO DROP.

Am not sure if you have to turn them in or just scribe them yet, no mage spells dropped for me.
Guild Management window
# Feb 12 2004 at 1:27 AM Rating: Decent
Anyone else having prob with guild management window being blank? My main shows i am not in guild but i am with all my alts and shows i am in guild when i log on my alts. tried to disband but get message that i am not in any guild. Leader tried to disband me and got the same message. Tried to invite me and got message that i am already a member of the guild ACK!! and of course, no assistance from GM's or tech support so far. Any info would be greatly appreciated. :mad:
Sad....
# Feb 11 2004 at 10:04 PM Rating: Default
this is sad for the people who dont play 24/7 and are old school...









35th year rogue
been playing for 3 years now
RE: Sad....
# Feb 11 2004 at 10:05 PM Rating: Default
sorry meant to put 4 years
PALI'S
# Feb 11 2004 at 6:36 PM Rating: Default
DOES THIS NEW EXP DO ANYTHING GOOD FOR PALI'S
Tradeskil UI
# Feb 11 2004 at 4:33 PM Rating: Decent
Not sure bout those Spell Ncheese, but have you guys seen that new Tradeskill UI. HOLY COW its beautiful. Bravo SoE Bravo
Spells???
# Feb 11 2004 at 2:14 PM Rating: Decent
Anyone able to provide any info on where to buy/quest/hunt for the new spells??? The whole thing is such a rumor! I have heard 5 different explanations on the spells... however, none have been accurate. Any info you have on this matter would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Patch last night
# Feb 11 2004 at 1:45 PM Rating: Decent
So, does anyone know what they changed last night? Given how AMAZINGLY powerful the new tribute system is for high-level, but not-yet-elemental players I assumed they would be nerfing it, but nothing yet.

Who would have thought I'd have near-permanent FT5, BA4, MP4, Regen5 and 150HP 10 hours after GoD came out... heh, beats the hell out of LDON and I haven't even set foot in a GoD zone yet ;-)
RE: Patch last night
# Feb 11 2004 at 2:02 PM Rating: Decent
The new Tribute system is amazing, but get points quick, im sure it will be nerfed soon, the zones suck, a bunch of 65s from my guild went exploring and well, they all ended up 64 by the end of the time, no GYs, uber hard mobs, looks like there is nothing for your common player who just likes to group, seems to me like you need a raid group for these zones, which means nothing to anyone under 60 and anyone not in an uber guild.
New Artist for EQ?
# Feb 11 2004 at 11:19 AM Rating: Decent
Has anyone else noticed the
change in the quality of the cover art?
It now looks like something from a high school art contest.

That's only a comarison with
what the art looked like before.
RE: New Artist for EQ?
# Feb 11 2004 at 12:12 PM Rating: Decent
Well, based on further research, I learned
that the original artist - Keith Parkinson,
has been focusing on EQII artwork,
and this might include work on in-game material,
(He supposedly only did cover art for the current EQ, no in-game work.)

So that explains the lesser quality of the
stuff coming out now.

Anyone have more information?
Anyone have Insider information?
Server still not up?
# Feb 10 2004 at 9:01 PM Rating: Decent
It's 9pm EST, i still can't connect, are the servers still down?
Server still not up?
# Feb 10 2004 at 9:01 PM Rating: Decent
It's 9pm EST, i still can't connect, are the servers still down?
Local file IO error
# Feb 10 2004 at 8:52 PM Rating: Default
I got about 20% into the patch today and it says Local file IO error. Anyone know what I can do to fix this?
weapon proc change?
# Feb 10 2004 at 7:48 PM Rating: Default
delightful orb of magic doesn't proc at 35 anymore, what is the new lvl?
copper hammer of striking use to proc at lvl 1, what is it now?
RE: weapon proc change?
# Feb 10 2004 at 10:01 PM Rating: Decent
Lev to proc is 55 now
RE: weapon proc change?
# Feb 10 2004 at 7:49 PM Rating: Default
worked yesterday, had to change with 2/10 patch, anyone know proc lvls now?
Took ya long enough
# Feb 10 2004 at 5:58 PM Rating: Default
HEY finnally some people have been in this thing i checked this at 8:00AM EST and no one had said anything yet..i really figured that you guys would say something about the new Expansoin...hmm...either gossip is slowing down or no one is up very early
NO LIFE
# Feb 10 2004 at 5:48 PM Rating: Default
Thanks SONY! You helped to ruin another life.
RE: NO LIFE
# Feb 13 2004 at 9:33 AM Rating: Default
oh boo hoo, cry about it, poeple play the game and you can just have to deal with it, as some people
price
# Feb 10 2004 at 5:04 PM Rating: Decent
Has anyone found the Gates of discord for sale cheaper in stores then on the download yet? If so can you post the places you found it and how much it costs.
Expansions / patches
# Feb 10 2004 at 2:48 PM Rating: Default
Just wondered when SoE will be bringing out yet another expansion because they seem to be getting more frequent ( Money grabbing beatches ), yet we still have to pay for the patch days and expansions ...I dont mind patches to much but i am sure more patches will follow the GoD expansion ...as i cant recall an expansion that they have not patched yet ...Would be so nice for them to get there act together for once.. But oh well, we all live in hope.
Oh well
# Feb 10 2004 at 2:34 PM Rating: Decent
Was hoping to possible get a little in before work, but like usual will have to wait til after midnite to play. Hopefully wont have any trouble when I go buy the game tomorrow ;).
what i expected
# Feb 10 2004 at 2:32 PM Rating: Decent
#REDACTED, Posted: Feb 10 2004 at 2:22 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Don't you just love how any post you make that don't say "I LOVE YOU SONY" gets a awful rating lol.
#REDACTED, Posted: Feb 10 2004 at 2:22 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Don't you just love how any post you make that don't say "I LOVE YOU SONY" gets a awful rating lol.
confused
# Feb 10 2004 at 2:05 PM Rating: Default
I just got on a few min ago and the server says they are up. However I cant get in the game. Does anyone know what is going on?
waiting...
# Feb 10 2004 at 1:04 PM Rating: Default
Ack.....still can't play at 1pm est.....this is my day off.....hope it comes back soon......
RE: waiting...
# Feb 10 2004 at 1:39 PM Rating: Decent
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195 posts
The message on EQLive says Noon PACIFIC. Well, actually it says the servers are coming down at 3am today and will be down for 9 hours.
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RE: waiting...
# Feb 10 2004 at 1:49 PM Rating: Decent
Oh well....looks like servers will be down till around 3pm here then....DOH!
RE: waiting...
# Feb 10 2004 at 2:52 PM Rating: Default
I can't even DL the patch for some reason. I get like 4 bubs in, then it just freezes, now it just goes 1 bub and freezes. Also got some crazy lag on my comp regular, even w.o EQ running.. it's weird =/ Oh well, just got my internet fixed about an hour ago that might be the reason i can't get in, who knows.
PLAY???
# Feb 10 2004 at 12:55 PM Rating: Default
when will we be able to play an clue or guesses?
patch
# Feb 10 2004 at 11:53 AM Rating: Default
VERANT SCOWLS AT YOU READY TO PATCH WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR DESKTOP TO SAY TODAY!!!!
RE: patch
# Feb 10 2004 at 12:01 PM Rating: Default
If Verant had anything to do with EQ anymore that would have been funny.
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