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Hail Norrath! My friends!

We’ve had a thrilling first-half of the year thanks to you! After the 20th Anniversary game shenanigans and the thrill of the Comic-Con Museum exhibit in San Diego, we got right back into working on the next expansion coming this December!

Speaking of which, here’s a sneak preview of one of the as-yet-to-be-named-and-announced locations in a very icy place that may feel vaguely familiar.

One big difference? After 20 years EverQuest finally has an ice shader! It might seem silly, but those kinds of changes to a decades-old code base are significant and I’m so proud of the team! We hope our fans enjoy the chill!





And here are some frosty giants!



Speaking of expansions, when we release in December, we will be going up to level 115! With that in mind, last year’s expansion, The Burning Lands, is 50% off starting August 21. Go to everquest.com/expansions and prepare for level 115!

Earlier this year, I mentioned putting together a fan event which we are exploring for next year. We have a survey here we’d love you to respond to here: LINK. We want to get an idea of how many players are interested and a couple of other questions. Please participate if you are interested in hanging with your EQ friends and family!

Also on tap this year is EverQuest II’s 15th anniversary on Nov. 9 which we will support in EverQuest with a new take on a progression server. Players will start as Level 85 Heroic Characters with experience gain at the same rate as live servers. Content up to the House of Thule expansion will be available at launch with expansions unlocking every 2 – 3 months. We’ll release more details as we get closer to that date!

For all those folks on the Mangler progression server, get prepared for the Scars of Velious expansion to unlock on August 28!

Also, the mystery Troll Heritage Crate is now available in the marketplace with armor sets, mount and more. I’d advise plugging your nose, eyes, and ears before opening one….

And finally, Labor Day is coming at the end of the month so look for an in-game bonus that weekend, ahem. Double down!

Until next time, Norrath, which won’t be long, I promise you!

Sincerely, as ever,

Holly “Windstalker” Longdale

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Here are the updates for the past month. Drewinette and Grizabelle have been busy updating all sorts of stuff.

Larth added a bunch of missing TBM achievements and added some wiki pages.

I myself have been busy with college, work and family. I have been keeping up with new comments through the month, which will be caught up by tomorrow from the last time I went through them. I've also been working on SPA info on spells. I've also set expansions on NPC's from the following expansions:

1. Ring of Scale
2. Empires of Kunark
3. The Borken Mirror
4. The Darkened Sea
5. Call of the Forsaken
6. Rain of Fear
7. Veil of Alaris
8. House of Thule
9. Underfoot
10. Seeds of Destruction
11. Secrets of Faydwer
12. The Buried Sea
13. The Serpent's Spine
14. Prophecy of Ro

I've added some by hand in Kunark zones but the early expansions contain NPC's from later expansions so some might need to be done by hand rather than by mass setting like I have been doing with these other expansions.

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Here are the updates for the past week+.

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Also starting today, Daybreak activated some cool stuff for us in game. Check it out!

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Summer Spectacular!

Summer is here, the days are long, and that means it's time to celebrate. Start your July off right with in-game bonuses, member gifts, and deals! Everything begins July 1, 2019:

Bonus Rewards!

• All XP, faction, and rare drop rewards will be increased by 76%.

Member Gifts!

• Log in to claim your two timely and celebratory familiars: the Metamorph Totem: Murikaglider and the Metamorph Totem: Cernerder'Eh Murkglider. Look for these in your reward window once you log in. Members only.

Heritage Crates Return!

• Make sure you check out the Marketplace, because the spectacular is a special opportunity to catch up on any of the Heritage Crates you might have missed. ALL Heritage Crates are back in the Marketplace throughout the event.

The Summer Spectacular begins at 12PM PT (noon) on July 1, 2019, and ends at 12PM PT (noon) on July 8, 2019.

Many updates over the last week or so.

All Fabled items have been marked for the expansion that they have been released in. That should clear up item searches for earlier expansions where these items were showing up in.

Edit: Spells for the June patch have been updated.

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June 19, 2019

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*** Items ***

- Fixed an issue that prevented focus effects on items that increase incoming healing from functioning as expected. Ex: Whispering Midnight Soothing, Blazing Euphoria Soothing.

- Stone of Tranquility will no longer drop from NPCs greater than level 114.

- Changed the attack animation for Blueogre's Blue Bastard Of Heroism Ornament to 1 hand to better fit the fact that it works in any weapon.

- Added Ondine Hero's Forge ornaments to Brilliant Jade.

- Increased the drop rate of Exultant Inhabited Muhbis and the following augments: Fate's Accumulator, Weeping Heaven, Secret Dawn, Whispering Midnight, and Blazing Euphoria.

- Increased the drop rate of several pieces of gear that drop from rare monsters in the Plane of Disease.

- The Burning Lands version of Nature's Fury now generates less hate.

*** Tradeskills ***

- Specified the class on emblems to match the class of the armor it makes, for easier classification.

- Adjusted old-style research drop tables.

- - Increased the chance to receive recipe components.

- - Decreased the chance to receive cash drops.

- - For example: Words of Possession is more likely to drop and Exquisite Platinum Embossed Rune is less likely to drop.

*** Quests And Events ***

- Unfettered Emerald Excellence - Made the following changes to this raid event:

- - Fixed a bug that incorrectly allowed slow, root, and snare effects to land on the mephits and armors.

- - Reduced the melee damage output from the mephits.

- - Waves of mephits will no longer spawn during the window of time when it's necessary to flee to the correctly colored wing to avoid being struck by Elemental Incompatibility.

- Mechagnomic Whirlrender (Group and Raid) - Made the following changes:

- - The ballistae can no longer be reduced to negative health by the aerial combatbots.

- - Fixed a bug that shortened how long the boss was in its attackable state by 5 seconds.

- - NPCs will no longer refer to the boss as the Mechagnomatic Whirlrender.

- - Ratchet Bronzehead is now on beta neutral faction.

- - Ratchet Bronzehead can no longer be attacked.

- - Added a speculative fix to prevent the boss from tethering when it flies back into the sky.

- Gnome Memorial Mountain: Danger Zone (Raid) - Entering the zone should now place you near the current raid.

- The Darkness Howls and Ironing Out the Legion no longer share a lockout, so doing one will not prevent you from doing the other.

- Spear of Fate - Added a new path to Erud's Crossing that Ooglyn will follow to get out into the ocean so that she doesn't meander around the island for several minutes, heading in the wrong direction, before her long swim.

- Gram Dunnar no longer prevents adventurers from getting the benefits of telling him stories if the storyteller already has 30 or more AA points.

*** Spells ***

- NPCs will now remember damage credit when blurred or charmed.

- When the owner of a charmed pet teleports, charm will break.

- Translocation spells can no longer be activated or accepted while in combat.

- Magician - Made the following changes to fire pets:

- - While Frenzied Burnout is active, the pet will cast their Elemental Bolt spell additional times instead of casting Frenzied Elemental Bolt spells. 

- - Pets summoned with higher foci will do more damage with their Elemental Bolt spells.

*** NPCs ***

- NPCs spawned by old-style quests are now loot locked.

- - An NPC that is loot locked is indicated by an asterisk preceding their name and an added '(loot locked)' to their consider message.

- - The NPC is loot locked to the player who did the turn in for thirty minutes.

- - During this window if the NPC is killed by anyone, the player who spawned it will be given kill credit and have access to the loot.

- - These NPCs will not reward experience. 

- - If the player who spawned the NPC is not in the zone but is in a group or raid, then the group or raid will receive kill credit and the original player will have access to the loot when zoning back in. 

- - If the player is not in the zone and is not part of a group or raid, then kill credit is handled normally (as if the NPC is not loot locked). Normal loot rules apply after the NPC is killed.

*** Progression Servers ***

- Corrected an issue where you could not open the Extended Target Window after reaching level 20.

*** Miscellaneous ***

- Added a potential fix for corpses not saving properly when moved.

- The Advanced Loot Window now displays the correct luck values when multiple copies of the same item with different luck values are listed.

- Removed the no longer in use command /survey.

- Relaxed some overly strict naming rules in regards to multiple consonants in a row.

- The preview model displayed when placing an NPC in a real estate should now more closely match the appearance of the NPC when placed.

- Moved a collectible spawn in the Temple of Droga so that it is accessible.

- Fixed grammar and spelling in Arms of Power and Arms of Power II tribute descriptions.

- Removed the word (Temporary) from the seasonal Appreciation Bonus achievements. 

- Made the following changes to Guild Banners and Fellowship Campfires in an effort to improve their usability and the desirability of the buffs they grant:

- - Consolidated all buffs and tiers into a single 'empowered' banner/campfire that grants the combined effects of all the previous options; with the ability to choose whether you want the empowered banner/campfire to also offer an illusion effect.

- - Increased the duration of the empowered banner/campfire from 1 hour to 6 hours to match the duration of the non-empowered version.

- - Increased the distance that the empowered banner/campfire will grant its buff from 100 to 1000 feet.

- - Simplified the various tiers and types of banner/campfire components down to 2 items: 'Guild Banner Materials' and 'Fellowship Campfire Materials'.

- - Items previously used as banner/campfire components have been flagged as deprecated and have been changed to allow you to sell them back to a merchant to recoup their initial value.

*** UI ***

- Fixed an issue that caused formatting data to be printed to log files when considering a rare creature.

- Fixed a bug with the advanced loot window that prevented 'Link All' from functioning.

- The Spell Damage filter should be working again.

- - Spell damage messages from NPCs casting on others now display resist type and the spell name, and the spell emote is displayed on a separate line, similar to player direct damage spells.

- - Scripted spell damage dealt to other players is now visible.

- The chat filter for Pet Spells now respects if you have Pet Spells set to hide in the options.

- Corrected an issue where kill shots were not being reported.

- The 'Highlight New Messages' chat tab option will now persist between logging in and out.

- Increased the displayed precision of self-only hit points, mana, endurance, and experience.

- Changed -

EQUI_AAWindow.xml

EQUI_Inventory.xml

EQUI_PlayerWindow.xml

- The EverQuest Team

Here are the updates since the 1st. 

New Comments have been updated regularly. If you see something that needs to be updated, please post on whatever it is and let us know. We mostly stay on top of the new comments and get things updated.

I've been updating for the last month or so some of the PoP newbie armor quests, items, quest items, and NPC's involved with them. I think these originally were tagged LoY when they first came out but since progression servers bundle LoY in with PoP I just set it as PoP.

I've also been busy still with upgrading all of the server side software with the latest versions which has required a bunch of research and testing due to a big leap in versions. This has required switching to different libraries, finding new mods to replace old mods, new configurations, a ton of changes in current configuration files, many swear words, way too much coffee but new knowledge of how these things work.

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Here a collection of updates since May 17th. Drewinette has been busy getting recipes updated and helping out with the new comments and many other things, thanks! 

KoryuRagestorm updated some TBL raid items and linked them to the raids they are related to.

Larth has been updating the TBL wiki pages.

I'll try to get these updates back on a regular schedule here soon. If you would like to see daily updates (if there are any), join our Discord channel!

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Hail, Norrathians!

This upcoming Memorial Day in the United States is a time for us to remember that many of our players – from all across the globe – have loved ones and friends who have served their countries and given the ultimate sacrifice. We are a fantasy game thoroughly not set in this real world, but we are also a community of real friendships that extend well beyond Norrath. We wanted to take a moment to remember, pay tribute, and offer an opportunity for all of us to come together this weekend.

This weekend, we will be commemorating Memorial Day with in-game bonuses. Take advantage of these bonuses on all servers:

• +50% Experience
• +50% Faction
• +50% Rares

We will also enable a 20% off sale for all Members in the marketplace. We wish you all a safe and happy weekend!



The bonus weekend will begin at 12PM PT on Friday, May 24, 2019, and will end at 12PM PT on Tuesday, May 28, 2019.

Site News:

Spells Updated and plenty of other updates.

Edit: 5-19-19 - Item Collector is updated.

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Here are updates for the past umm week and a half. 

A large majority of original world zones NPC's should now have an expansion tag. Many will probably need adjusting to their correct expansion as I know there are quest mobs and such that were placed in those zones from later expansions. Let us know if you spot any.

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