Roshen posted a few, very brief notes about today's Hotfix:

From the EQ Forums:

*** Hotfix ***

- Plane of Hate: Revisited and Plane of Fear: Revisited - Fixed a problem that prevented characters who had a lockout from a zone's events from re-entering the zone where those lockouts were received.
- High Bokon Boromas (Raid) - High Bokon Boromas will no longer lock his health immediately on engage.
- Anashti Sul, Enslaver of Souls (Raid and Group) - Removed the corpse cleanup functionality from these events in order to prevent situations where Anashti Sul's corpse can not be looted.

Killer of the Reckless

Retlon Brenclog actually has 2 known quests, one of which was only just fully submitted here by Sythik.

How many other old quests are unreported? (or at least not properly cross-flagged to NPC and items?)

Also, we could really use some better pictures of Retlon,

maybe someone could pull him out of the ditch and get a nice shot?

Updated Items: Bloodforged Leather Hands Ornament ;  Likato Fistwraps ;  Evensong ;  Amulet of the Encore ;  Marrow's Song ;  Tallow-smeared Locket ;  Six Note Blade ;  Raw Deathseeker's Wristguard ;  Raw Deathseeker's Gloves ;  Median Essence of Decay ;  Lesser Essence of Decay ;  Curtaincaller ;  Bloodstar Pendant ;  Ancient Elddar Branch ; Peacekeeper Token ;  Sealed Letter ;  Gnoll Hide Tome ;  Crushbone Information ;  King Card ;  Beggar ;  Queen ;  King

Bestiary Updates: Narex T`Vem ;  Brother Chintle ;  Brother Estle ;  a drake ;  Oobnopterbevny Biddilets ;  a grimp ;  Vizat the Defiled ;  Maestro of Rancor [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  The Maestro's Trove ;  a wyvern scent tracker ;  Battlemaster Arginotu; Tergon Brenclog ;  Kelynn ;  Retlon Brenclog ;  Leraena Shelyrak ;  Second Fragment of Igok ;  Zenita D`Rin ;  Chan Whinstone ;  Tindo Frugrin ;  Arena Master Ferin

Updated Quests: Tergon's Spellbook ;  Telescope Lenses ;  Aviak Chicks ;  Rogue Redemption ;  Trumpy Irontoe

Roshen announced earlier this evening that all EverQuest Live Servers will be brought offline on Friday, January 22, 2016 at 7:00AM Pacific for an update. Servers will be unavailable for approximately two hours.

Update notes appear below:

*** Highlights ***

- Addressed a zone stability issue.


*** Previously Updated ***

- Corrected the rewards given for TBS Champion achievements.

Hola!

Grab your coffee and sit back in your chair for a bit of a read.  Here are the rather extensive patch notes from today's update:

*** Highlights ***

- Made many fixes to The Broken Mirror (TBM) items and Phinigel raid instances. See the Items and Progression Servers sections below.
- Corrected a bug that prevented the items that advance progressive spell ranks from being awarded when you complete TBM progression achievements. If you have already completed these achievements, you will be awarded these items the next time you log on. Using any item will grant you the maximum rank you have earned.
- Corpses in Shadowrest are being removed and items will be parceled to players with some restrictions. See the Miscellaneous section below for details. 

All EverQuest Live Servers will be brought offline on Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 5:30AM Pacific for an update. Servers will be unavailable for approximately four hours.

Keep an eye on the EverQuest forums and social media for status updates and for news if additional downtime is needed

Patch Notes will be posted here when they become available.

“By Grabthar’s hammer, by the suns of Worvan, you shall be avenged,”

Updated Items: Scuffed Journeyman's Rucksack ;  Avarice ;  High Quality Wolf Skin ; Scuffed Traveler's Rucksack

Updated Quests: The Test of the Green and Blue ;  Norrath's Keepers Tier 5a: The Curse of Ju`rek ;  Ashengate West Event: Attendants of Sothgar ; Ashengate East Event: Stitch's Ambush ;  Lxavnom Labors

Bestiary Updates: a white wolf ;  a white wolf ;  Lord Bergurgle ;  Primal Mage Mollens ;  Sahen McMannus ;  a pestilence elder ;  Grublus ;  a grumling ;  a dream devourer ;  a shelled defender ;  an ornate guard ;  a serpent ;  a scallywag pillager ;  a vengeful marauder ;  a sea sorceress ;  a scorned pillager ;  a vengeful diabolist ;  a dream shade figment ;  Alyss chest ;  a candied bunny ;  Thaelin Mhorna ;  an orange imp ;  a gnarled hedgewalker ;  a hedgewalker ;  a forest guardian ;  a hoofed protector ;  a shellscale hunter ;  a shellscale occultist ;  Pendle Dashinger ; an ogre shaman ;  an ogre priestess ;  an ogre guard (Karana) ;  an ogre shamaness ;  a dream shade figment ;  Vilefeaster

Yesterday, DBG announced that they are opening up the Account-to-Account transfer service to their progression servers, Ragefire, Lockjaw and Phinigel!

From the EQ Website: "Account-to-Account transfers are a way that players can manage their characters. This service allows people to move characters from a single to multiple accounts so those characters can play together at the same time, or move characters spread across multiple accounts into one account to help save on membership dollars each month.

BEFORE you transfer a character from one account to another, remember that you need to contact our Customer Support team! For more information about this, see the knowledge base article here."

More news about upcoming server downtime is below...

We Could Be Heroes

Just For One Day

Will Lucan D'Lere ever get to prove his faith in his god? (Cross game lore suggests he is still a Paladin, despite doing "evil" things. Maybe it's time for a Seige of Freeport and Lucan to stand tall... Erollisi Marr would certainly take notice of someone that loved his people, his city above all else  --maybe she'd even tolerate some harmtouching and skelly petting to go along with some hand laying-on, after all love is blind.)

Updates continue...

New Items: Mockery of Remorse

Updated Items: Woven Skull Cap ;  Whitened Treant Fists ;  Electrified Scythe of the Whipping Wind ;  Sylvan Cloth Robe Ornament ;  Runed Belt of Boromas ;  Damsel of Decay Chain Feet Ornament ;  Damsel of Decay Plate Legs Ornament ;  Raw Deathseeker's Helmet ;  Raw Deathseeker's Boots ;  Neglection Flayer ;  Emblem of the Crystalwing ;  Lesser Essence of Decay ;  Greater Essence of Decay ;  Darkbrood Mask

New Quests: King Me! ;  Raid Expedition: Wither and Decay ;  Raid Expedition: Anashti Sul, Damsel of Decay ;  Raid Expedition: Anashti Sul, Enslaver of Souls

Updated Quests: The Traitor ;  Talym Shoontar's Head ;  Going Postal (West Karana to Qeynos) ;  Damp Paws (Second Trial) ;  Postmaster's Challenge ;  Bane of Decay ;  Lxavnom Labors

Bestiary Updates: Sir Lucan D`Lere ;  Chou Whinstone ;  Wylin Dodmil ;  Lord of Loathing [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  Vessel Drozlin ;  Keeper of Souls ;  Animist Simol ;  Torin Krentar ;  a shrine bruiser ;  Taruun Galorg ;  Sir Lucan D`Lere (undead) ;  Jimmic Adle ;  Khala Dun Erelk ;  a dream devourer ;  a decrepit confectioner ;  a dutiful defender ;  an ornate guard ;  a serpent ;  a forest guardian ;  a rabbit ;  a hoofed protector ;  a distracting daydream ;  a vivid daydream ;  a forest watcher ;  The Monstrous Minnow ;  High Priest M'kari [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  Kerath Punox ;  Grandmaster R'tal [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  Master of Spite [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  Mistress of Scorn [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  High Bokon Boromas ;  Anashti Sul, Damsel of Decay ;  a blighted chest ;  a bokon believer ;  a viscous pile of rot ;  a gangrenous grabber ;  The Maestro's Trove

A dormant feature for almost 5 years, Roshen announced today that EQ devs are about to "clean house" on the Shadowrest zone.

Why is this happening now, as in what is the point of it?

Conspiracy theorists suggest this is the first sign of the coming apocalypse  ...err... server mergers, could this be true?

Maybe Shadowrest is being recycled into a new end-game raid zone? Hardcore heritage? New monster mission based on putting flowers on graves?

Anyways, here's some potentially true and helpful info taken from Roshen's actual post on the official boards:

"We’re going to start clearing out old Shadowrest corpses on February 10th, 2016. Please travel to Shadowrest and loot your items from your corpses before then.

We’re talking about VERY old corpses from back when corpses still had items left on them (over FIVE years ago), we recommend you take a moment to clean up your Shadowrest corpses if you think that there’s any chance that there are items still out there waiting to be looted.

When this happens, we’ll be parcel mailing to your characters any items that are still on a corpse, before we get rid of those corpses forever. This has the possibility of filling up your parcel boxes. If your parcel box fills up,you’ll lose items that are over the cap.

Instructions on How to Clean Your Shadowrest Corpses:

If you get a message saying "You currently have a corpse present in Shadowrest" when you log in, you probably want to pay Shadowrest a visit!

Once in Shadowrest, hail Keeper of Lost Things. Say [bodies] to the Keeper to get the number of corpses that the Keeper has stored and to get the instructions on how to retrieve your corpses. Once you have summoned your corpses, right click on the corpses and loot all of your items. You may need to use the command /corpsedrag if your corpses are stacked in a location that you cannot target.

Note: You still may have items on corpses in Shadowrest even if you don't get this message when you log in.


We appreciate everyone that makes the effort to go through their old corpses before February!"

And will give O-board poster Fanra (yep, that Fanra!) props for posting something more helpful:

"This post has everything except for how to get to Shadowrest. For those wondering, in Plane of Knowledge speak to Devin Traical. The location of Devin Traical is approx. -13.29
483.51,-90.64 in PoK. I'm not sure if she appears in the Find window.

Tell her "Travel" to go to Shadowrest."

Forget about incomplete itemization, funny aug slots, named not spawning and so on. The O-boards are missing the point... The greatest issue with The Broken Mirror remains:

He Needs His Moustache!

*Don't forget to look up his fellow Easter egg NPC Higgins

New Items: Scroll: Copsestalker's Enrichment Rk. II

Updated Items: Spell: Markar's Relocation ;  Spell: Tishan`s Relocation ;  Phased Distillate of Intolerance ;  Natural Spices ;  Raw Hide ;  Hill Giant Toes

Updated Quests: Curscale Shield ;  Marauder Armor

Bestiary Updates: Avatar of Abhorrence [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  Selien Nartoise ;  a mountain giant hillock ;  Raffel Minnmorn ;  unkempt messenger ;  unkempt preserver ;  a skeleton ;  Kaglari ;  Sir Elmonious Falmont ;  a chest (Sir Elmonious Falmont) ;  Overlord Mata Muram ;  Fellmoor Powell ;  Relinin Skyrunner ;  an elder flame protector ;  Seller of Salvaged Souls ;  Sornita Eltern ;  Agent of Change

Good news! There's a "new item" which suggests the item collector is functioning again. (Let's hope so...)