EverQuest Patch Notes - August 16, 2017

[Fry]

August 16, 2017
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*** Highlights ***

- Look to the marketplace August 16th for the Ayr`Dal Heritage Crate. See details below.
- Pick zones with grouping have been improved. See details below.


*** Items ***

- The Scimitar of the Mistwalker pet now attacks its target before disappearing.
- Enraged Goblin Beads no longer have an augment slot.
- Updated the icons on many mount items.
- No-rent items will now be removed from key ring slots after logging out for 30+ minutes in the same fashion that no-rent items are removed from standard inventory slots.
- Returned the original bard song to Darkened Breath of Harmony.
- Many item based proc effects for recent expansions now have a different spell particle.
- Wand of Everlasting Water will only summon 20 water.
- Increased the stack size of fishing bait items to 1000.
- Added the heirloom flag to most 12+ slot, lore, no-drop containers.
- Fixed a number of miscellaneous book/note items that were not displaying the correct text.
- Fixed a number of lore group items that were missing the name of their lore group.
- Removed the placeable flag from a number of shroud/monster mission items.
- Removed the ability to place Ghostly Bridle, Samhain Costume, and Burning Dead Robes in key rings as temporary items were not intended to fit into the key ring.
- Fixed a number of cases where the level required to activate the effect on an item did not match the level required to wear the item.
- Changed bard items that grant Amplification effects (Bloodfiend`s Throat Gem, Phosphorescent Rapier of Light, Shadowsong Cloak, and Voice of the Serpent) to unlock a passive AA ability which grants the same effects. The buff triggered by these items is now a shadow buff similar to other items that unlock passive AA abilities.
- Changed Bloodmetal Inlaid Gnollish Totem to unlock a passive AA ability which grants AC rather than applying a buff that grants AC. The illusion benefit is now a shadow buff similar to other items that unlock passive AA abilities.
- Changed how Gunthak Grit is applied when using Gunthak Swabby's Eyepatch to function like standard illusion benefit buffs.
- Fixed the typo in Rarundel's Memory Stone.
- The following items will now fit into the Illusion Key Ring: Bloodmetal Inlaid Gnollish Totem, Guise of the Ancient Gods, Gunthak Swabby's Eyepatch, Shroud of the Council, and Visage of the Daft Trickster.
- Look to the marketplace August 16th for the Ayr`Dal Heritage Crate. Each crate contains a random item. Trade these Ayr`Dal Heritage items to your friends or collect them all yourself!
- Adjusted the buff stacking of mount and illusion benefits that increase maximum HP:
- - Mount and illusion buffs that previously used slot 11 to increase maximum HP have been moved to slot 13 to allow AA abilities such as Pact of the Wurine or Pact of the Wolf to coexist with these buffs.
- - Mount and illusion benefits that previously triggered a second 'Fortitude' component have had the HP component consolidated into the primary buff.


*** Tradeskills ***

- The scroll for Focus Mass Runed Spellcaster's Essence can now be researched using Runic Charta Arcanum.
- Increased the chance to forage tradeskill components rather than food in Gates of Discord zones.


*** Quests And Events ***

- Queen Velazul Di`zok (Raid) - The Queen will no longer summon the same captain that she has just killed.
- Queen Velazul Di`zok (Raid) - Modified the Queen event so that the warcasters no longer cast Enveloping Smoke all at the same time. They are also a LOT more vulnerable to area of effect spells.
- Uqua (Raid) - The door puzzle messages now use the Event Messages filter. The keys on the bench now look like keys instead of bags.
- Harmony of the Soul (Quest) - Killing Muramites in Barindu near where the Kyv Runner died will now indicate when they could have dropped the Encrypted Note but did not. The message indicating the Muramite had the note will now always display.
- Lady Vox (Raid) - Lady Vox should no longer proc a huge damage nuke when she has the Scimitar of the Mistwalker equipped.
- Alternate Access: Qvic (Quest) - The Vial of Foul Toxins is now a right-clickable item that must be used near the water source in Yxtta. This change should help address problems with lag in Yxtta.
- Beastlord - An Epic Request - Corrected a bug that prevented your warder from being recognized during the event.
- Mistmoore Catacombs: Scion Lair of Fury - Fixed a bug where the lockout timer was not given on success.
- Hunter of Dulak's Harbor - Added several missing rare targets.
- Hunter of The Crypt of Nadox - Added a missing rare target.
- Hunter of The Crypt of Decay - Assassin Kakoo will now correctly update this achievement.
- Hunter of The Dawnshroud Peaks - An Age Old Rockhopper will now more consistently update this achievement.
- Conqueror of The Rujarkian Hills - Hidden Vale of Deceit and War March of Imal Ojun will now correctly update this achievement.
- Conqueror of Takish-Hiz - The Palace Grounds will now correctly update this achievement.
- Fixed a bug where the following achievements had overlapping requirements: Conqueror of The Prison of the Forsaken, Conqueror of The Reef of Coirnav, Hunter of Torment, the Plane of Pain, Hunter of The Plane of Storms, Hunter of Drunder, the Fortress of Zek, and Hunter of Eryslai, the Kingdom of Wind.
- Many of the raid bosses in The Broken Mirror will now leave corpses on raid success.
- Fixed a bug where one or more of the possible bosses for these Lost Dungeons of Norrath adventures were broken:
- - Deepest Guk: Drowning Crypt - Jinta Savant Grisk, Madakan, and Oime Ugun
- - Miragul's Menagerie: Frosted Halls - The Dream Defiler
- - Mistmoore's Catacombs: Ritualistic Summoning Grounds - Dierdri the Raven
- - Takish-Hiz: Balancing Chamber - Chancellor Etometh, Lord Pasreet, and Shadow Assassin Juni
- - Takish-Hiz: Sunken Library - Master Architect Naida


*** Spells ***

- Gift of Xev will only summon 20 pods of water.
- Corrected an issue where a number of long duration buffs would display a heal over time message every 6 seconds.
- Fixed a number of combat abilities that were not listed in the right-click menu when creating a hotkey in the combat abilities window.
- Fixed a bug that prevented undead summoned minions from being treated as undead creatures.
- Wizard - Corrected the icon on Chaos Scintillation.


*** NPCs ***

- Reduced the respawn time of The Sleep Walker in Plane of Valor.
- Corrected an issue where a number of NPCs were missing the rare creature designation. Ex: Tarris Ellarn, Shardwing, Elishia Blackguard, and Zed Sticklebush.
- Corrected an issue where a number of raid NPCs were missing the correct difficulty designations. Ex: Faydedar, Phinigel Autropos, and Venril Sathir.
- Corrected the consider message for a number of creatures that were not correctly reporting that 'This creature looks relatively weak.'
- Many NPCs treated as bosses are now immune to memory blur and highsun effects and will exhibit boss pet tanking behavior. This change mostly affected bosses in Cazic-Thule 2.0 and Gates of Discord zones.
- Many NPCs in classic zones like Qeynos and Neriak are now wearing their robes and other chest items instead of merely carrying them.
- Lord Elgnub's spawn time has been reduced to what it was in classic.


*** Progression Servers ***

- The tutorial will now unlock when Gates of Discord unlocks.
- Fippy, Vulak, Ragefire, and Lockjaw will now open at approximately 2pm Pacific time the Monday after a completed vote if the vote is successful.
- The Veeshan's Peak revamp will open with Omens of War.


*** Miscellaneous ***

- Chests, boxes, and other containers in Lost Dungeons of Norrath adventures now have a chance to drop Adventure Points.
- When a chat channel is full, new channels will now properly spin up and add new players as needed.
- Pick zones with grouping have been improved.
- - When entering a zone, if you do not have a pick zone timer, you will be placed in the zone where all of your group members are and get a timer.
- - If your group members are not all in the same instance of the zone, you will be placed in the default zone and you will not get a timer.
- The command /outputfile missingspells should no longer list spells that cannot be scribed. Ex: Recourse spells triggered by spells that can be scribed.
- The commands /outputfile 'spellbook' and 'missingspells' have been updated:
- - These commands will now list combat abilities in addition to spells
- - Entries are now sorted by level and then alphabetically by spell name
- - Missingspells will now list the lowest rank you do not have. Ex: If you do not have any rank it will only list rank 1, if you have rank 2 it will only list rank 3.


*** UI ***

- Fixed an issue that caused events that are not available on your current server to be displayed in the calendar window.
- The member list in the expedition window can now be sorted by clicking on the column headings. Column width can also now be adjusted.


*** Previously Updated ***

- Lady Vox (Raid) - Lady Vox will no longer wield her drops.
- Berserker Epic: Kerasian Axe of Ire (Quest) - The Handful of Prism Grains is now restricted to Gates of Discord instead of Omens of War.
- The Rathe Council (Raid) - Added logic to prevent the Rathe Council members from respawning instantly when slain.
- Load balanced versions of Kod'Taz, Broken Trial Grounds will have normal population.


- The EverQuest Team

 

[smith8454]

oct 18 patch notes

*** Items ***

- Added kick skill damage to Darkened Cobalt Breastplate, Darkened Tolan's Darkwood Breastplate, and Darkened Wild Lord's Tunic. Added Tiger Claw skill damage to Darkened Wild Lord's Tunic.
- Item Effect abilities have been moved from the General to the Special tab.


*** Tradeskills ***

- Restored the Brew Barrel, Jewelry Table, Kiln, Oven and Pottery Wheel to the neighborhood.
- Corrected an issue that restricted the spell research table in the Plane of Knowledge to casters only.
- Ability: Enchant Planar Alloy and Ability: Mass Enchant Planar Alloy will now activate at level 85 and 86 respectively.


*** Quests And Events ***

- Doorstep Of War (Raid & Mission) - Fixed a bug that could cause the You Be The Hero achievement to fail if enemies are killed by some spell effects.
- In Defense of Health - Fixed a text error that could mislead people into trying to kill things out of order in the Vile Brutes version.
- Edmuund's Plight - Icecore will now spawn in Frostcrypt.


*** Spells ***

- Paladin - Modified the recourse from the Challenge for Honor line so that it will absorb incoming melee damage even if there is a Vie effect on you.
- Shaman - Extended the range for the healing portion of all ranks of the Healing Counterbias line to 300.
- Made the following improvements to the amount of aggro generated by spells:
- - Fixed an issue that prevented abilities like Spell Casting Subtlety and Bold Attacks from improving the aggro of your first spell against a target.
- - Fixed an issue that prevented abilities like Bold Attacks from improving the aggro generated by hate-over-time spells (Ex: Impose for Honor).
- - Fixed an issue that prevented abilities like Spell Casting Subtlety from reducing the aggro generated by damage-over-time spells.


*** AA ***
- Stored AA points greater than 3 times your level will now be removed after logging out. This is in addition to the earned-limit (2 times your level.)
- - You will now be prompted to purchase any available AA abilities prior to camping if you are over the stored-limit.
- - Refunded abilities that result in your stored AA points being greater than the stored-limit will allow free-to-play members to purchase abilities until your stored AA total is below the stored-limit.
- All - Fixed a bug that prevented abilities that grant resistance to specific effects, such as Mental Fortitude, from working. Reduced the effective percentage of these lines now that the abilities function.
- Multiple - Consolidated Shielding Resistance, Sinister Strikes, and Slippery Attacks to be ranks of Ambidexterity.
- Multiple - Consolidated Quicker Damage to be additional ranks of Quick Damage.
- Multiple - Consolidated Body and Mind Rejuvenation to be rank 4 of Mental Clarity and an equivalent rank 7 of Innate Regeneration. The ability lines were refunded with this change.
- Multiple - Consolidated Natural Healing to be ranks 4-6 of Innate Regeneration. The ability lines were refunded with this change.
- Multiple - The ability line 'Tactical Mastery' has been renamed 'Strikethrough.'
- Multiple - Consolidated Companion's Agility, Blessing, Durability, Sturdiness, and Fortify Companion into a single ability, Companion's Fortification. The ability retains the passive benefits of all the consolidated lines. Activating the ability triggers Fortify Companion and Companion's Blessing which now serves as a preemptive buff that will trigger its healing and mitigation effects if your pet drops below 40% health.
- Multiple - Consolidated Companion's Aggression, Alacrity, Fury, and Wrath into a single ability, Companion's Fury.
- Multiple - Renamed Companion's Divine Aura to Companion's Intervening Divine Aura and changed its functionality. The ability now places a buff on your pet that will trigger invulnerability should its health drop below 20%.
- Multiple - Consolidated Pet Affinity to be a rank of Suspended Minion and renamed the line Companion's Suspension.
- Multiple - Consolidated Pet Discipline and Companion's Relocation into a single line, Companion's Discipline.
- Bard, Rogue - Consolidated Advanced Trap Negotiation to be ranks of Thief's Intuition.
- Berserker, Warrior - Consolidated Ferocity, Flurry, and Punishing Blade to be ranks of Burst of Power.
- Cleric, Shaman - Refunded Extended Elixirs and reduced the level required to purchase ranks 1-3 of Prolonged Salve.
- Druid, Wizard - Refunded Hastened Recall and added 6 additional ranks to Secondary Recall and Tertiary Recall that offer hastening.
- Necromancer, Shadowknight - Consolidated Feigned Minion to be ranks of Companion's Discipline.
- Necromancer, Shadowknight - Consolidated Deathly Pact and Intrinsic Efficiency to a single line, Embalmer's Efficiency.
- Paladin, Shadowknight - Consolidated Flurry, Knight's Advantage, and Speed of the Knight to be ranks of Burst of Power.
- Paladin, Shadowknight, Warrior - Fixed an issue that caused the buffs triggered by Weapon Stances to not take effect immediately upon changing weapons.
- Bard - Staunch Recovery will now restore mana for bards.
- Bard - Consolidated Allegretto of Battle, Flurry, Harmonious Attack, and Vivace of Conflict to be ranks of Burst of Power. The ability lines were refunded with this change.
- Bard - Consolidated Total Domination to be ranks of Domination Mastery.
- Beastlord - Consolidated Bestial Frenzy and Primal Fury to be ranks of Burst of Power.
- Beastlord - Consolidated Bestial Bloodrage to be ranks of Companion's Fury.
- Cleric - The ability line 'Righteous Zeal' has been renamed 'Burst of Power.'
- Druid - Consolidated Mastery of Nature to be ranks of Dire Charm.
- Enchanter - Consolidated Animation Empathy and Companion's Relocation to be ranks of Companion's Discipline.
- Enchanter - Consolidated Forceful Banishment to be ranks of Beguiler's Banishment and Beguiler's Directed Banishment.
- Magician - Refunded Hastened Heart of the Elements and added 7 additional ranks to Heart of Flames, Ice, Stone, and Vapor that offer hastening.
- Magician - Consolidated Frenzied Burnout to be ranks of Companion's Fury. Reduced the number of counters on Virulent Talon and increased the amount of damage done by Virulent Talon Strike.
- Magician - Consolidated Quick Summoning, Improved Reclaim Energy, and Intrinsic Efficiency to be ranks of Conjurer's Efficiency.
- Monk - Consolidated Ferocity, Punishing Blade, and Rapid Strikes to be ranks of Burst of Power. The ability lines were refunded with this change.
- Monk - Consolidated Tactical Mastery to be ranks of 'Strikethrough.'
- Monk - Consolidated Critical Mend and Hastened Mend into a single line, Improved Mend.
- Necromancer - Consolidated Frenzy of the Dead to be ranks of Companion's Fury.
- Ranger - Consolidated Ferocity, Lightning Strikes, and Punishing Blade to be ranks of Burst of Power. The ability lines were refunded with this change.
- Ranger - The ability line 'Keen Blade' has been renamed 'Strikethrough.'
- Rogue - Consolidated Flurry to be ranks of Burst of Power.
- Shaman - Fixed a bug that prevented Focus: Regenerating Counterbias from functioning.
- Shaman - The ability line 'Double Attack' has been renamed 'Burst of Power.'
- Shaman - Consolidated Pathosis and Extended Pathosis to be ranks of Malosinete.
- Shaman - Consolidated Wind of Pathosis to be ranks of Wind of Malosinete.
- Warrior - Fixed a bug that prevented Hastened Flash of Anger from functioning.
- Wizard - Consolidated Sustained Devastation and Hastened Devastation to be ranks of Frenzied Devastation.
- Wizard - Consolidated Fury of Druzzil, E`ci, Kerafyrm, Ro, and Hastened Fury of the Gods into a single line, Fury of the Gods.
- - All ranks of this ability will now focus all direct-damage spells, abilities, and effects.
- - The damage focus now scales from 75 at rank 1 to 3600 at rank 53.
- - All ranks now increase base-damage rather than ranks 1-7 increasing total-damage and 8+ increasing base-damage.
- - Reduced the hastening ranks from 3 to 2 minutes per rank and reduced the duration to 4 minutes.


*** Miscellaneous ***

- Fixed a problem that caused real estate anchors to fail.
- Added the /run command to make your character run if it isn't. This command is not toggleable (i.e. /run will never make you walk).


*** UI ***

- Fixed a number of possible crashes related to the Find Item Window and custom UIs.
- The Message "An unknown error occurred while trying to join the server" has been updated with the new message "The server is busy processing requests, please try again in a few minutes.".
- Fixed a possible crash related to the Pick as Group and custom UIs.
- Updated the spell information window so that it shows more consistent information when you inspect buffs or debuffs.
- - Added the ability for spell descriptions to display "links" to other spells.
- - Clicking on a spell icon from the spell description will generate a new link in your chat window. Press enter to share the spell in a clickable link.
- - You can also right-click on any of your buffs and choose the option "Link spell to chat" to generate a spell link.
- Corrected an issue where the advanced loot window sometimes wouldn't list group members in the Give to: and Set all to: fields.
- Corrected an issue where loot filters in the loot filters window could have duplicate item entries.


*** Previously Updated ***

- Corrected an issue that allowed flagged players to exist in Anguish but not enter it.
- Access to Anguish (Quest) - It is no longer necessary to get a hidden 7th flag in order to loot items within Anguish.
- Access to Anguish (Quest) - Fixed a problem with 85/15 access not working for Anguish.



- The EverQuest Team


* change all your hotkeys after this patch, because most of the pet class have been consolidated