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Bestiary Updates: a manticore

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Updated Items: Simple Defiant Shortsword

Bestiary Updates: a majestic grizzly

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Updated Items: Elaborate Defiant Breastplate

Updated Quests: Druid Epic 2.0: Staff of Everliving Brambles ; Thorn Mail Next Task

Bestiary Updates: a blighted scarecrow ; a flock member ;  Disciple Rislarn

UPDATE July 11 8:45am ET: Games are accessible but very laggy. Smed finally apologized on Twitter last night: "..sorry to say more DDOS. I apologize for the issues we are having. I have to own pissing them off and I'm sorry. Just sorry they are taking it out on you, our players."

UPDATE July 10 5:45pm ET: Nothing official has been said in a few hours, but we're seeing occasional (and rare) reports of players being able to get into their game of choice. However, those managing to get into the games are experiencing heavy lag. Hope everyone has good plans for spending their Friday evening elsewhere!

UPDATE July 10 2:15pm ET: Not much has changed. From Daybreak on Twitter: "We are continuing to resolve issues from a Distributed Denial of Service event. We will provide updates as available."

UPDATE July 10 11:30am ET: Looks like Daybreak spoke too soon and the outages are happening again. "We are experiencing issues again which may result in lag, disconnects, or inability to access games, forums, or websites. The team is aware." Since official forums may be inaccessible, keep up-to-date with Daybreak's Twitter or Facebook pages.

Yesterday evening, Daybreak Games experienced DDoS attacks that caused players to be unable to login to any of the games, and those who managed to stay in-game to experience a lot of lag. Around 9:30am ET today the EverQuest II twitter account stated that all games appear to be back up and running.

If you are looking for further details on what occurred yesterday:

• Smed mentioned Daybreak being DDoS'd here (and here on July 10)
• EQ2Wire did a nice summary of everything that snowballed up into the attacks here and here (longer explanation)
• Smed went to reddit to vent

For information on the DDoS attacks, see here.

Here are today's updates:

Updated Items: Topaz Silver Necklace ;  Boots of Manifested Ether

New Recipes: Topaz Silver Necklace

Bestiary Updates: Captain Nalia

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Updated Quests: Beastlord Epic 1.5: Savage Lord's Totem

Bestiary Updates: Rharzar

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Updated Quests: Left Goblin Ears ;  Tesch Val Scrolls ;  Shard's #1b: Exploring Shard's Landing

Bestiary Updates: Edvard Tommels

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Updated Items: Blackburrow Gnoll Skin ;  Bronze Helm

Updated Quests: Arms of the Dead ;  Good Seeds ;  Paint Supplies

Updated Recipes: Extraplanar Trade Satchel

Bestiary Updates: a goblin preacher ;  Refugee Splitpaw ;  an ebon mask spy ;  Refugee Splitpaw

I experienced a steep learning curve with linking mobs and items, so there is an abundance of "oops" updates for steins and mosquitos (which are now fixed). Here are the two actual pages that got updated for those: a mosquito ; Stein

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Updated Items: Stein of Tears ;  Stained Beerstein ;  Unfired Planar Stein ;  Tink N' Babble Stein ;  Stein of Spiced Rum ;  Unfired Star Ruby Encrusted Stein ;  Unfired Peridot Encrusted Stein ;  Unfired Pearl Encrusted Stein ;  Unfired Opal Encrusted Stein ;  Timeworn Beerstein ;  Stein of Bitter Cold ;  Stein of Moggok ;  Stein ;  Stein of Seru's Finest Brew ;  Tudor's Stein ;  Stein of Falling Tears ;  Stein ;  Stein ;  Stein ;  Stein of Flowing Ichor ;  Stein of Moggok ;  Stein of Ulissa ;  Star Ruby Encrusted Stein ;  The Icy Mug Souvenir Stein ;  Ramstein Ornament ;  Brasse's Stein Cup ;  Brasse's Stein Handle ;  Befallen Beerstein ;  Elaborate Stein ;  Ceramic Stein ;  Grak's Crude Stein ;  Brasse's Stein Lid ;  Clurg's Prized Stein ;  Brasse's Stein ;  Colossal Stein ;  Lost Battered Stein ;  Drunkard's Stein ;  Planar Peridot Encrusted Stein ;  Cast Iron Stein ;  Battered Stein ;  Opal Encrusted Stein ;  Peridot Encrusted Stein ;  Pearl Encrusted Stein ;  Dirjadak`s Chipped Stein ;  Fool's Gold Stein ;  Froststone Stein ;  Planar Pearl Encrusted Stein ;  Azure Stein ;  Crude Stein ;  Cracked Stein ;  Planar Steins ;  Planar Star Ruby Encrusted Stein ;  Planar Opal Encrusted Stein ;  Ancient Stein of Moggok ;  Solist's Robe of Abrogation ;  Scuffed Journeyman's Pocketed Rucksack ;  Bloodforged Cloth Robe Ornament ;  Piece of Vrenlar Fruit ;  Centurio Spaulders

Updated Quests: The Gnoll Slayer ;  Drowned in Mud

Updated Recipes: Trilion Mount Palladium Earring

Bestiary Updates: Guard Crystalwind ;  a magician ;  Frostbite ;  a mosquito ;  krup ghoul knight ;  Milyex Vioren ;  a lightning warrior stormer ;  a mosquito ;  a mosquito ;  a mosquito ;  An Imp Familiar ;  a mosquito ;  a mosquito ;  Principal Indagatrix Lucia ;  a mosquito

Zone Updates: Plane of Sky

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Updated Items: Froglok Poison Gland

Updated Quests: TDS Rank II Level 101 Spells: Minor Briny Essence

Bestiary Updates: a froglok tuk knight

Everyone have a safe and fun 4th of July weekend!