Oct 10, 2024 - EQ Patch 10/16 - October 2024 Producers Letter - Bonus: Rares, Faction, Lockouts, EXP - Fippy Fest Contest + Stream - EQ 25th Anniversary - EQ Roadmap 2024 - Year of Darkpaw - Laurion's Song Launches - EG7 Investor Presentation (MAU, Revenue, EQ3) - EQResource Discord Server - EQResource in-game channel




November 11, 2024 - Druid Wall Sign Contest!



Our Sponsor and friends over at Timber & Twine have been kind enough to gift us enough EverQuest inspired products to run contests every 2 weeks for the remainder of 2024!

They've asked us to spread the word that at they are discontinuing their LED Wooden Signs after just 5 more orders to free up space and time for upcoming new products! Don't miss your opportunity to get one of these LED Wooden Signs if you've been waiting!  For the remainder of 2024 you can use promo code EQRESOURCE at checkout for 10% off your entire order!


The next contest of this series is officially underway!  This contest will be for a Druid LED Wall Sign.  You can find all the details for this contest on the contest forum thread here.  Have fun!



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November 5, 2024 - Extra Life Bonuses

We want to thank everyone for their kind-hearted generosity and significant participation in this year's Extra Life fund-raising for Rady Children's Hospital – San Diego. Thanks to the generosity of our Darkpaw players, we have gotten close enough to the $125,000 goal that we have chosen to unlock the bonuses listed for that tier!

Here's what all players get to enjoy this week:

    200% bonus experience gains
    225% more likely rare spawns
    155% more loot
    100% increased coins
    100% increased alternate currency
    250% increased collections spawns
    100% bonus evolving item exp

These bonuses started this morning at 10:00 a.m. PST and will end on November 12, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. PST.

Did you miss out on Game Day? Well, it's not too late to donate as we are not done fundraising yet! You can still get Individual incentives when you donate, and we are still working closely with Extra Life to check how many codes are needed. We will continue to coordinate with them to get those keys sent to you as soon as possible. Our individual and fundraiser incentives for Extra Life, and our team page, will remain open to further donations until December 31, 2024, at 11:45 p.m. PST.

This has been a truly extraordinary year. You all have once again surpassed even the highest of expectations, and we thank all of you from the bottom of our hearts! Please continue to help spread the word, and we hope you enjoy all the bonuses.



Check this out and more in our EQ Calendar (Be sure to set it to your time zone [in settings on the Calendar] for your times!).



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October 10, 2024 - Prototype Bard Coasters Contest!



Our Sponsor and friends over at Timber & Twine have been kind enough to gift us enough EverQuest inspired products to run contests every 2 weeks for the remainder of 2024!

They've asked us to spread the word that at the end of 2024 they will be discontinuing their wooden sign line of products to focus on creating new EQ inspired items.  Starting in 2025 they will no longer offer the Wooden LED Sign products - don't miss your opportunity to get one of these if you've been waiting!  For the remainder of 2024 you can use promo code EQRESOURCE at checkout for 10% off your entire order!

The fourth contest of this series is officially underway!  This contest will be for a prototype set of Bard Class Coasters.  You can find all the details for this contest on the contest forum thread here.  Have fun!



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October 10, 2024 - EQ Patch 10/16

All EverQuest Live Servers will be brought offline on Wednesday, October 16, 2024 at 6:00 AM PT* for an update. Estimated downtime is expected to be 6 hours.



Check this out and more in our EQ Calendar (Be sure to set it to your time zone [in settings on the Calendar] for your times!).


Achievement Changes: https://achievements.eqresource.com/achievementshistory.php?mdy=10162024
DBStr Changes: https://spells.eqresource.com/dbstrhistory.php?mdy=10162024
EQStr Changes: https://spells.eqresource.com/eqstrhistory.php?mdy=10162024
Faction Changes:
Spell Changes: https://spells.eqresource.com/history.php?mdy=10162024


Update Notes:
October 16, 2024
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*** Highlights ***
- A new heritage crate, the Drakkin Heritage Crate, is available in the marketplace.
- The PVP flag can now be disabled on non-PVP servers. See below for more details.
- Increased the experience characters gain for killing NPCs between levels 109 and 125. See below for more details.


*** Items ***
- Added a cast time and recast time to Midnight Mallet and Ivandyr's Hoop.
- Fixed an issue where equipment sets would not load augments correctly if augments were loaded before a piece of armor. This bug will occur one more time after the next server restart.
- The Argent Clockwork Boar Saddle is no longer Free Storage. This mount can now also be sold back to Miacallie Herlsas in Tides of Time.
- Added backstab damage to Bestowed Dagger.
- The heroic intelligence stat on the Terracotta Torc has been adjusted to bring it in line with original intentions.
- Fixed an issue that allowed more than one augment of the same lore-equipped group to be equipped.
- Aspect of the Brood is now flagged as Heirloom.
- Metamorph: Menacing Samhain and Metamorph: Putrid Rotdog are now flagged as Heirloom. Additionally, the appearance of the Putrid Rotdog should work much more reliably.


*** Quests & Events ***
- Priest of Discord will now allow players to enable and disable PVP on non-PVP (Zek) servers through dialogue and quest turn-in. Players who wish to enable PVP will need to turn in a Tome of Discord, while players who wish to disable PVP will need to turn in a Note of Order.
- The Earring of Rallos Zek quest line will now give all appropriate recipes, regardless of class, at each step.
- Oasis of the Jungle: Barrels will no longer defend themselves.
- Oasis of the Jungle: Altered the boss activation so that the task should always be completable even if steps are completed out of order.
- Broken Key of Swamps: Eggs killed by pets should now count towards progress.
- Oasis of Forests: This task should now execute properly if two skeleton pairs are the random choice for pre-boss NPCs.
- Oasis of Forests: Altered the damage and duration of Howl of the Undying.


*** Spells ***
- The Veil of Alaris teleports can be purchased from Grelulden if that character has completed the task The First Pilgrimage.


*** AA ***
- Required levels for enchanting Honed Reflective Emberquartz and Honed Reflective Luclinite have been adjusted.


*** Progression Servers ***
- Corrected an issue where level locked progression servers were not using the adjusted minimum level of a shared task when checking if a persona swap should be allowed.
- Corrected an issue where trophies did not have their level requirement reduced by 10 on level locked progression servers.
- Corrected a bad check that was causing AA scrolls to be consumed when not granting the AA on level locked progression servers.
- Vaniki: Added challenge achievements for Night of Shadows, Laurion's Song, and The Outer Brood.


*** Miscellaneous ***
- The level-based experience modifier will no longer apply to experience earned from rewards and some types of quests.
- Increased the experience characters gain for killing NPCs between levels 109 and 125, inclusive. This change is based on the player's level, not the NPC's or the expansion. This change does not affect experience gained through other types of experience such as quests or rewards.
- You can no longer swap personas while holding items on your cursor. Additionally, items that overflow to your cursor are not destroyed during a persona swap.
- The /assist main/group/raid commands should now prioritize those roles over characters with names beginning with those words.
- Made speculative changes and improvements to pathing to try to prevent NPCs from pathing slightly under the world.
- Added several new loading screen tips.
- Updated the various chat messages when using /beta to be more accurate and to use the System Messages chat filter.
- Players may now persona swap in the Tides of Time base zone.


*** UI ***
- Added a Max Active Quests label to the Quests tab of the Overseer window.
- Switching between a fullscreen EQ window and other app windows, using the ALT+TAB shortcut, should work as expected on the primary display monitor.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the Mercenary Merchant window from refreshing its contents when the desktop window mode changes.
- The Combat Abilities window will now correctly update hot buttons that share the same reuse timer.
- The Video Modes window now updates its list of resolutions correctly.

- Changed -
EQUI_OverseerWnd.xml


- The EverQuest Team



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October 2, 2024 - October Producers Letter

The time has come to reflect on what has happened in the last few months as the last tendrils of summer change to the cooler, final months of the year. My first order of business is to remind everyone that fundraising is underway for Extra Life! We are already over $56K towards our $150K goal this year, and I have no doubt we will surpass that goal with ease. We have some wonderful group, individual, and fundraiser incentives. Be sure to check out the Extra Life Guide for how to join Team Darkpaw if you have not done so yet. Thank you to those of you who have already donated or started fundraising; you should have received your keys if you met any of the incentive amounts by August 31. If you haven't seen your keys, please reach out to Extra Life Support. 

Next, let's recap what has happened since my July Producer's Letter. Some annual events returned, such as Scorched Sky bonuses, Death, Death, Death, and Living Legacy Raids. We also saw door 7 of the Anniversary Tower unlock, our monthly Year of Darkpaw giveaways and special marketplace items, as well as had another soundtrack with some of your favorite music added to streaming services. And I cannot forget that July also saw Thornblade merged into Mischief.

August was chock full of happenings too, with the Year of Darkpaw giveaway and marketplace item, as well as the unlocking of door number 8 in the Anniversary Tower and another soundtrack release. Gigantic packs were introduced with some never-before-seen pack sizes of much-needed potions. The annual Stone Cold Summer quests and Labor Day Experience events were run, and The Burning Lands expansion items were put into the Marketplace for a limited time.

September continued our monthly Year of Darkpaw updates, Anniversary Tower door unlocks, and soundtracks on streaming services. Marcia Attamilgad briefly brought back her Talk Like a Pirate Day goodies, Fall Fun events have begun, and Laurion's Song is discounted 25% until our new expansion comes out! Speaking of the Year of Darkpaw, you can still get the Fippy Fest digital packs until December 31st at midnight PST! Rounding out September are the shiny new forums. Be sure to head there and see what they're all about. 

Completed
July:

    The Year of Darkpaw
        Monthly collection, giveaway, limited edition items
        Anniversary Tower
            July quest, Heroic Adventure, and merchant items added
        Added June giveaway item for purchase
        Soundtrack Volume 7
    Server merge - Thornblade to Mischief
    Scorched Sky bonuses
    Death, Death, Death event returned
    Living Legacy Raids event returned
    Extra Life incentives announcement

August: 

    The Year of Darkpaw
        Monthly collection, giveaway, limited edition items
        Anniversary Tower
            August quest, Heroic Adventure, and merchant items added
        Added July giveaway item for purchase
        Soundtrack Volume 8
    Stone Cold Summer event returned
    Gigantic Packs were introduced
    The Burning Lands items marketplace sale
    Labor Day event

September: 

    The Year of Darkpaw
        Monthly collection, giveaway, limited edition items
        Anniversary Tower
            September quest, Heroic Adventure, and merchant items added
        Added August giveaway item for purchase
        Soundtrack Volume 9
    New EverQuest Forums were introduced
    Fall Fun events began
    Laurion's Song 25% discount sale
    Talk Like a Pirate Day event returns

The following is what is coming up between now and December. 

Upcoming
October: 

    The Year of Darkpaw
        Monthly collection, giveaway, limited edition items
        Anniversary Tower
            October quest, Heroic Adventure, and merchant items added
        Adding September giveaway item for purchase
    EverQuest's 31st expansion beta + Pre-Order opens
    Nights of the Dead event returns

November: 

    The Year of Darkpaw
        Monthly collection, giveaway, limited edition items
        Anniversary Tower
            November quest, Heroic Adventure, and merchant items added
        Adding October giveaway item for purchase
    Champion's Festival event returns
        HAPPY 20th ANNIVERSARY EVERQUEST II!
    Extra Life Game Day
    Raid, Raid, Raid! event returns
    Feast of Giving event returns

December: 

    The Year of Darkpaw
        Monthly collection, giveaway, limited edition items
        Anniversary Tower
            December quest, Heroic Adventure, and merchant items added
        Adding November giveaway item for purchase
    EverQuest's 31st expansion launch
    Frostfell event returns
    New Year's event returns

Continuing throughout the rest of the year:

    Server performance improvements
    Ongoing conversion of Suite windows to the New UI Engine
    Anti-cheat improvements

Now, what you've all read this far to find, the sneak peek into our upcoming expansion! As you already know from Fippy Fest back in June, the name of this expansion is The Outer Brood. Let me set the scene on what's to come, read on adventurers! 

In the sky over the hills of the long-ignored Hodstock looms a massive behemoth. A creature so large that it appears to have an entire city on its back. Terrifying monsters fly down from that city. Beasts that have never been seen in Norrath before! Where have they come from, and what could they possibly want?

Norrath has faced assault before, but this time the foe is different. Some farseers have spotted what can only be dragons in the sky around the great leviathan as it floats at the top of the sky. These beings are so large that few elder Norrathian dragons would stand above its knees! All around the massive leviathan flows a force that defies the understanding of any magic users of Norrath, with power exceeding anything they have seen before. Norrathians of all types, mortal and Dragon alike, have banded together to face this unknown power and attempt to drive them back to wherever they came from. Can you lead the charge against such danger, one that seems to have caused even the fiercest elders of the dragon clans to hesitate?

Reunion time is here,
Jenn Chan
Head of Studio 



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September 24, 2024 - Contest: Paladin Desktop Light



Our Sponsor and friends over at Timber & Twine have been kind enough to gift us enough EverQuest inspired products to run contests every 2 weeks for the remainder of 2024!

They've asked us to spread the word that at the end of 2024 they will be discontinuing their wooden sign line of products to focus on creating new EQ inspired items.  Starting in 2025 they will no longer offer the Wooden LED Sign products - don't miss your opportunity to get one of these if you've been waiting!  For the remainder of 2024 you can use promo code EQRESOURCE at checkout for 10% off your entire order!

The third contest of this series is officially underway!  This contest will be for a Paladin Acrylic Desktop Light.  You can find all the details for this contest on the contest forum thread here.  Have fun!



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September 16, 2024 - EQ Patch 9/18

All EverQuest Live Servers will be brought offline on Wednesday, September 18, 2024 at 6:00 AM* PT for an update. Estimated downtime is expected to be 6 hours.



Check this out and more in our EQ Calendar (Be sure to set it to your time zone [in settings on the Calendar] for your times!).


Achievement Changes: https://achievements.eqresource.com/achievementshistory.php?mdy=09182024
DBStr Changes: https://spells.eqresource.com/dbstrhistory.php?mdy=09182024
EQStr Changes: https://spells.eqresource.com/eqstrhistory.php?mdy=09182024
Faction Changes: https://factions.eqresource.com/factionhistory.php?mdy=09182024
Spell Changes: https://spells.eqresource.com/history.php?mdy=09182024


Update Notes:
September 10, 2024
_____________________
*** Highlights ***
- Increased the maximum number of all Year of Darkpaw collection spawns to 20 (up from 10).
- Added a swag store category in the marketplace to give an easy link to the swag store marketplace.


*** Items ***
- Added the quest flag to the following Shadows of Luclin items: Taskmaster's Pouch, Zazuzh's Idol, Zherozsh's Ring, and Ssraeshzian Insignia.
- Quest flag added to Call of the Forsaken raid armor templates (Bracer/Gloves/Boots/Helm/Armguards/Leggings/Tunic of Suppressed Ether and Flowing Ether).
- Added a speculative fix for augments occasionally not saving to equipment sets.
- Fixed an issue where an equipment set swap would fail due to an inaccurate lore equipped group conflict.


*** Quests & Events ***
- Increased the maximum number of all Year of Darkpaw collection spawns to 20 (up from 10).
- An NPC will now return all items given in the trade window upon quest completion failure.
- The following achievement has been restored as the underlying quest has been fixed:
- - The Hero's Journey - Cabilis Quests - Blood Ink
- - The Hero's Journey - Cabilis Quests - Illweed Parchment
- - The Hero's Journey - Oggok Quests - Craknek Hero
- Final Fugue (Raid) - Yarith will now cast all of her spells as she should. Previously she was pretty much doing nothing. Also, Firethorn's signature defense will no longer trigger on spells that cost less than 10 mana, so it should no longer trigger on procs.
- Slightly increased the amount of platinum players receive for some event rewards for characters greater than level 100.


*** Spells ***
- Corrected an issue where asymmetrical cone spells would hit targets between the wrong angles (mirrored over the y axis).


*** Progression Servers ***
- Trinket of the Center can no longer be activated before Heart of Fear: The Epicenter unlocks.


*** Miscellaneous ***
- Added a swag store category in the marketplace to give an easy link to the swag store marketplace.
- Added more details to the message you get when a character transfer fails.
- Optimized zone performance.
- Updated /autoskill to allow an additional parameter to force a skill to be on or off instead of toggle it.


*** UI ***
- Updated the minimum level in the Task Window to display correctly for Level Locked Progression servers.
- The quantity column of the Alternate Currency tab in the Inventory window can now be resized.
- Fixed a bug where in-game windows could reopen when the desktop window loses focus.
- Fixed a bug where the /copylayout window would open when the client is launched in maximized windowed mode.
- Fixed a bug, with New UI Engine display option disabled, where certain in-game windows, including chat windows, would not save their positions for each desktop window mode: restored, maximized, and fullscreen.
- Fixed a bug that caused container and other UI windows to close when switching focus away from the game client while in fullscreen mode.

- Changed -
EQUI_Inventory.xml
InventoryWindowAltCurr.html   


- The EverQuest Team



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September 10, 2024 - Contest: Cleric Acrylic Desktop Light



Our Sponsor and friends over at Timber & Twine have been kind enough to gift us enough EverQuest inspired products to run contests every 2 weeks for the remainder of 2024!

They've asked us to spread the word that at the end of 2024 they will be discontinuing their wooden sign line of products to focus on creating new EQ inspired items.  Starting in 2025 they will no longer offer the Wooden LED Sign products - don't miss your opportunity to get one of these if you've been waiting!  For the remainder of 2024 you can use promo code EQRESOURCE at checkout for 10% off your entire order!

The second contest of this series is officially underway!  This contest will be for a Cleric Acrylic Desktop Light.  You can find all the details for this contest on the contest forum thread here.  Have fun!



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September 10, 2024 - Fall Bonuses Begin: Rares, Faction, Lockouts, EXP

It's time once again to get cozy and grab your snacks! You're not going to want to miss a minute of these bonuses! Much like years past, we're heating up bonus chances to rare spawns, faction gains and losses, lockout timers, and some bonus experience. Here's a breakdown of what you can expect from this year's event:
 
All times for when specific bonuses start is 12:00 a.m. (midnight) PDT, and they all end at 11:00 p.m. PDT.

    100% bonus chance for rare creatures to spawn and to faction gains and losses – September 10 to September 23, 2024
    50% reduction in lockout timers – September 24 to October 7, 2024
    50% bonus experience– October 8 to October 21, 2024

Fall Fun is all about fun, so get out there and have . . . well, fun!



Check this out and more in our EQ Calendar (Be sure to set it to your time zone [in settings on the Calendar] for your times!).



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August 30, 2024 - Labor Day EXP Bonus

The only labor you should do today is leveling your characters in EverQuest! So, have a seat in your favorite chair and join us in-game! From now until September 3, 2024, at 11:00 p.m. PDT, get extra experience gains with 100% extra XP in game.

Thank you for being part of the EverQuest family and for all you do throughout the year.



Check this out and more in our EQ Calendar (Be sure to set it to your time zone [in settings on the Calendar] for your times!).



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