March 16, 2023 - EQ Anniversary + Bonuses
Twenty-four years. Let that sink in. That's an incredible number of quests completed, achievements earned, baddies destroyed, zones traveled, items and commodities crafted, and everything else under the Norrathian sun. Even Lendiniara the Keeper, featured in this year's Anniversary key-art, smiles indulgently at your progress and success.
And we continue to do this because of you!
Every single one of you inspires us to keep developing new content, items, and just good old fashioned gaming fun. We cannot thank you enough for being part of the EverQuest family! We've even updated our Anniversary page with the fun details just for you. It's with all this in mind that we offer some amazing gifts.
All players will receive the following:
50% bonus to experience gains! (Bonus ends on April 1, 2023, at 1:00 a.m. PDT.)
Dashing Feathered Cap for all your characters. (Available until April 20, 2023, at 11:00 p.m. PDT.)*
All-Access Members will also receive the following:
Celebratory Opal Stein Ornament, a weapon ornament for all your characters. (Available until April 20, 2023, at 11:00 p.m. PDT.)*
Goblet of Adventure III (one per account; available until April 20, 2023, at 11:00 p.m. PDT)**
A new title for all your characters, "the Commemorator". (Available until April 20, 2023, at 11:00 p.m. PDT.)*
What's new for this year:
Mission: Reetuk the Inexorable
Historian Graya is interested in the history of the Spine ogres and is looking for adventurers to help. Based on information she read in the Lineage of the Nokk Ogres, and with your help, Graya will guide you through exploring Blightfire Moors and encountering Reetuk the Inexorable.
Quests:
Footloose and Fancy Free - Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. But do you know from what all heroes can benefit? Music! Seek Erol Xybella in the Plane of Tranquility to get started.
Stones of the Unknown - The disheveled erudite, Talesiyn the Driven, seeks to learn more about the standing stones in the Feerrott region. Could the rumors of a long-dead race be true?
Misgnomer - They call him the Pirate Captain Nalot, but he's hoping you can help him prove his true identity. You can find him in Steamfont Mountains.
Returning events:
All the quests, the mission, and the raid that were added last year.
Looking for adventures that are over level 100? Some of the earlier top hits included Sailor Twift with her Riveting Tales. Don't have time to help spread Unity among the Gnolls? Head to the Plane of Knowledge and speak with Maitreya the Maitre D`. He needs some help making a Fancy Feast.
Not quite up to the level 100+ quests? Don't worry, there are a bunch of lower-level quests. If you are not ready to head out for summer, stop by Geia Korrel and head back to school with School Supplies. Or if helping a lovesick Iksar is more to your liking, speak with an Emissary of Erollisi in the Plane of Knowledge.
No party is complete without eating some delicious Platinum Anniversary Cake in scenic locations. While you're out in the world adventuring, take the time to explore over nineteen years of anniversary content.
Lastly, we are also unvaulting the Past Heritage Crates. You can find the Tier`Dal (Dark Elf), Ayr`Dal (Half Elf), Iksar, Northman (Barbarian), Gnome, Trollish, Human, Dwarf, Halfling, Fier`Dal (Wood Elf), Ogre, and Erudite heritage crates on the marketplace from now until April 1, 2023, 1:00 a.m. PDT.
There's no better way to celebrate two-dozen years of existence than with you. And we'd have it no other way. Cheers, Norrathians, and here's to all the memories—past, present, and future!
*You must log onto each character during this time period to receive the item and title. The items will appear on your cursor, and the title will be available in the title window.
**You must log onto each account during this time period to receive the claim. You may access the potion in the claim window.
See Guides Here
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!).
March 15, 2023 - Brew Day
Get those biceps ready because you’ve got some lifting to do!
What a time to hoist a frosty pint in celebration of Brell Serilis during Brew Day in EverQuest as all new adventures have been added to this storied, annual event! Grab your friends and guildmates, and head out into Norrath to down a few ales and accomplish these new feats. Here’s what’s new for this year:
Best Ships are Friendships
Orr the Brave in Crescent Reach is celebrating all things brewing. He has a few quests that will have you gathering materials, hunting some pesky treants, creating brewing supplies, and finally, sharing delicious brew with friends. You’ll be handsomely rewarded for your efforts and for spreading Brew Day cheer.
Questline is only accessible if your server has unlocked Seeds of Destruction.
Achievements
Just jump into the questline and you’ll receive all the achievements as you complete the quests!
Collection
A mischievous Bixie Prankster has absconded with some vintage toy boats and stashed them all throughout Stone Hive. It’s up to you to find the boats and get ‘em back!
Cheers, friends! *Clink!* We hope Brew Day brings you much joy and many fun adventures. Brew Day started today, March 15, 2023, and ends on March 28, 2023 at 11:00 p.m. PDT so be sure to keep your eyes peeled for boats!
See Guides Here
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!).
March 10, 2023 - EQ Patch 3/15
All EverQuest Live Servers will be brought offline on Wednesday, March 15, 2023 at 6:00 AM PT* for an update. Downtime is expected to last approximately 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=03152023
DBStr Changes: https://spells.eqresource.com/dbstrhistory.php?mdy=03152023
EQStr Changes:
Faction Changes:
Spell Changes: https://spells.eqresource.com/history.php?mdy=03152023
Update Notes:
March 15, 2023
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*** Highlights ***
- Starting March 16, seek out the Mechanical Fortune Teller in the Plane of Knowledge for new quests and a mission for the 24th anniversary.
- The Banestrike ability has been overhauled, see the AA section for more information.
*** Items ***
- Bows available in Night of Shadows should now grant the appropriate Alternate Advancement ability when right-clicked.
- Corrected heroic intelligence stat on Ossified Eye of the Eelworm.
- Phantasmal and Spectral Luclinite Poleaxes have had their base damage and delay adjusted.
- Corrected an issue where some Night of Shadows chest armors had wrong click recourse effects.
- Metamorph Wand - Brownie, found in the Marketplace, has now been replaced with a version that will always match the previews seen on the item and Marketplace when cast.
*** Tradeskills ***
- Correct an error in the paper used for Song: Warsong of the Vah Shir.
*** Quests & Events ***
- Under Siege (raid) - the chest will no longer be affected by the loot lockout.
- Exiting When One Door Opens will now place you near Animist Khalan.
- Narius' Plan: Made a speculative fix to the bug where sometimes the zone inhabitants run to one point near the entry.
- Dance of the Demiurge: The Altered Gods achievement will not longer automatically be completed.
- When One Door Closes (mission) - corrected an "it's" and made it an "its".
- When One Door Closes (raid) - the monstrosity will now fully use the power of its cockatrice form.
- When One Door Closes (raid) - the chest will no longer be affected by the loot lockout.
- The Challenger of Night of Shadows achievement now auto-grants its weapon augment reward when completed.
- Animist Soren will now send anyone that is in the Deepshade expedition into the instance.
- The Night of Shadows Raid achievement, Myconid Mutiny: All That Glitters, now uses the word supervisor instead of MINI.
- Several Night of Shadows Mission and Raid achievements now correctly reference Shar Vahl, Divided, Ruins of Shadow Haven, and Deepshade: The Artist.
- Fixed an issue with Vasella Fireblood spamming Screeching Flames more often than intended.
- Deepshade and Firefall Pass raids now have base population.
- The Slayer Skill achievement for dispatching Dark Elves has been renamed "Love Will Teir Them Apart".
*** Spells ***
- Corrected an issue that prevented large models, such as high level Troll Beastlord pets, from being shrunk.
- Wizard - Made several changes to the Wildmagic Strike line of spells.
- - Corrected the descriptions of all ranks so they are explicit about what component spells they can cast and the chances of casting those spells.
- - Renamed all ranks of the component spells to Pure Wildmagic, Chaotic Wildfire, and Wildice Cascade.
- - Added damage to all ranks of Pure Wildmagic, Chaotic Wildfire, and Wildice Cascade.
- - Marked early ranks of Pure Wildmagic No-Twincast to match the level 100+ spells. Base spells can still be twincast.
- - Increased the effectiveness of all Irae Faycite Shards that focus Pure Wildmagic.
- - Corrected a bug that prevented the Irae Faycite Shard that focused Wildmagic Burst from working correctly.
*** AA ***
- The Banestrike ability has been overhauled in order to provide a more consistent and appreciable power increase as well as reduce zone latency caused by its previous functionality.
- - Rather than periodically dealing direct damage to your target, based on its race, Banestrike now provides you a 2, 4, 7, and 10% increase to the base power of your beneficial and detrimental spells, songs, and combat abilities, as well as base melee damage.
- Removed the following AA ranks due to the removal of static level cap requirements, which resulted in those ranks having no functional improvements over previous ranks
- - Archetype: Gift of Mana: Ranks 4 - 13
- - Archetype: Focus of Arcanum: Ranks 5 - 8
- - Class: Enchanter: Gracious Gift of Mana: Ranks 2 - 4
- - Class: Necromancer: Fear Storm: Ranks 7 - 17
- - Class: Wizard: Improved Familiar: Ranks 4 - 5, 7 - 8, 11 - 12, 15 - 17, and 19 - 21
- Increased the max resist modifier on rank 3 of the Archetype AA, Focus of Arcanum to 45
- Updated the target level check on ranks 2 - 6 of the Necromancer Class AA, Fear Storm so that it can now hit targets 1 level less than the casters current level or lower
- Increased the max crit damage on rank 10 (previously rank 22) of the Wizard Class AA, Improved Familiar to 35%
- The following Night of Shadows: Mission achievements now correctly grant new AA ranks of Hero's Vitality, Hero's Fortitude, and Hero's Resolution. Additionally, players who previously completed these achievements have been retroactively granted their rewards.
- - Hero of Shar Vahl: Mean Streets
- - Savior of Shar Vahl: Mean Streets
- - Hero of Shadow Haven: When One Door Closes
- - Savior of Shadow Haven: When One Door Closes
- - Hero of Darklight Caverns: The Spirit Fades
- - Savior of Darklight Caverns: The Spirit Fades
- - Hero of Shar Vahl: Under Siege
- - Savior of Shar Vahl: Under Siege
*** NPCs ***
- The fish in Paludal Depths will no longer be KOS to players.
*** Overseer ***
- Iconic agents will now be removed as options when they've already been selected for a different job in the current quest.
*** Progression Servers ***
- Restless Wolf Saddle is now available to claim on servers that have unlocked Shadows of Luclin.
- Randomized Loot servers: Changed the randomized loot table used by Zi-Thuuli of the Granite Claw.
- Restricted the Level Cap server reward: In-Game Item: Bag of Currency to Vaniki and Live servers.
- The Level Capped server achievements that offer currency are now account-wide achievements. These are specifically Challenge: Defeat Cragbeast Queen, Challenge: Defeat Pallorax the Soul Slayer, Challenge: Defeat Innoruuk, the Prince of Hate, Challenge: Defeat Vishimtar the Fallen, and Challenge: Defeat Tantor.
*** Miscellaneous ***
- Added a Plane of Knowledge book to Shadeweaver's Tangle.
- Removed tribute costs while in fast camp zones.
- Added usage information to the /consent and /deny commands and updated them to accept the 'fellowship' keyword.
- Added the /autoconsent command to update your character's AutoConsent INI values.
- Added a prompt to the Plane of Knowledge stone for The Great Divide which allows the adventurer to choose between going to the original zone or the one specifically for Torment of Velious.
- - Also added a return book to the ToV version of The Great Divide.
- Added a prompt to the Plane of Knowledge stone for The Overthere which allows the adventurer to choose between going to the original zone or the one specifically for Ring of Scale.
- - Also added a return book to The RoS version of The Overthere
- The preview formatting of percent-based experience rewards, such as those given for Collections, has been updated to be clearer.
*** UI ***
- Removed the previously deprecated social sharing command from the cascade menu.
- A clickable link to view the contents of UIErrors.txt will now be displayed in your main chat window if any errors are detected when loading a UI skin.
- - Spurious UI warnings will no longer be reported when a custom skin does not overwrite a default file.
- Corrected an issue that caused duplicate quests to appear in the Quest Overlay window.
- Changed -
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*** Previously Updated ***
- Corrected an issue where some of the Eclipsed Light Hero's Forge ornamentations were invisible.
- Tallon Zek will use his tactical knowledge to summon his most hated Norrathian into the room where he fights. If you stay in the room, he leaves you be. He will only do this to his most hated player.
- The EverQuest Team
March 7, 2023 - EverQuest LED Sign Contest!
The Contest -
We are giving away 2 hand crafted EverQuest wall signs! These signs are approximately 12 inches tall by 24 inches wide, and has several light color modes to choose from (but red or orange are the only two correct choices!). These two signs feature the EverQuest Wizard Epic 2.0, and the EverQuest Berserker Epic 2.0
These prizes are being supplied by Timber & Twine: Handcrafted Designs. Be sure to check out the 16 EverQuest inspired wall signs they currently offer, or contact them if you are interested in a custom sign with your character name and guild tag! Use promo code EQSIGN10 for 10% off your order!
Note: These prizes have very minor blemishes or defects that made them not suitable for being sold.
These contests are both simple "post to win" contests. We'd like to hear a story about your most memorable time playing on or with a Wizard / Berserker, but a story is not required to enter.
Enter the Berserker sign contest here.
Enter the Wizard sign contest here.
The Rules -
- Due to us having to pay for physical shipping of rewards, this contest is only open to folks in the U.S. Sorry!
- Your entry should be a reply to the contest thread.
- Write as much or as little as you like.
- Only one entry per person.
- At the end of the contest all entries will be numbered and a winner will be chosen at random.
- The contest ends on April 10th at 11:59pm Pacific, and a winner will be announced by April 13th.
The Rewards -
(1) Hand Crafted Backlit Berserker Sign
(1) Hand Crafted Backlit Wizard Sign
Sponsored By -
This contest is sponsored by Timber & Twine: Handcrafted Designs. Please go check out the epic EverQuest inspired class signs they offer! You can also have a custom sign created with your character and guild name!
February 8, 2023 - EQ Patch 2/15
All EverQuest servers, and all website pages and services, will be taken offline for scheduled extended maintenance and game updates on Wednesday, February 15, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. PST*. The estimated downtime is expected to be approximately 5 hours for the website and services, and 10 hours for servers.
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=02152023
DBStr Changes: https://spells.eqresource.com/dbstrhistory.php?mdy=02152023
EQStr Changes: https://spells.eqresource.com/eqstrhistory.php?mdy=02152023
Faction Changes:
Spell Changes: https://spells.eqresource.com/history.php?mdy=02152023
Update Notes:
February 15, 2023
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*** Highlights ***
- Added a prompt to the Shar Vahl stone in the Plane of Knowledge to ask if the adventurer would like to go to the original Shar Vahl or Shar Vahl, Divided.
- Made several improvements to the Extended Target Window. See the Miscellaneous section for details.
*** Items ***
- Changed the Contract of the Ancient Shissar to Contract of the Painted Sporali. The associated mercenary changed as well.
- Shar Vahl, Divided coffee shop drinks are no longer marked as quest items.
- Evolving cloaks of the Selenelion now have the appropriate backstab stats.
- Night of Shadows items that grant Alternate Advancement abilities will now correctly grant the appropriate ability.
- Added a 10-level offset on Level Locked Progression servers for spells cast from items.
- Removed various references to the word "Dollar" as there are no dollars in Norrath.
- Fixed an issue with Mollen's Divining Rod using a fire spell instead of an ice spell.
- Keep an eye on the Shar Vahl, Divided Town Crier to have added Shar Vahl Tribune newsletters in the coming months.
*** Tradeskills ***
- Added a recipe for the spell: Song: Warsong of the Vah Shir.
*** Quests & Events ***
- Under Siege (Mission & Raid): Added a message when someone is summoned by the Akheva for trying to avoid the fight. Also, they will be less tolerant of enemies trying to flee down the tunnel.
- Mean Streets (Raid): Increased time available to defeat Jakasharev's illusions. Fixed an issue that could lock Jakasharev's hit points if all illusions were defeated in the final stages.
- Changed the minimum level on all Night of Shadow quests to 100.
- Increased the amount of Tower Keys dropped by Korafax and Tower of Discord raids in Seeds of Destruction by an additional 50%.
- Leaving an instance in a group will now prioritize keeping the group together over going over the zone population cap if the zone is a /pickzone.
- Beltron the Shade King (Raid): Beltron will no longer try to cast Touch of Shadows and Icy Clutch at the same time.
- Carrion My Wayward Sprout (Quest): Corrected an issue that prevented the Undead Essence Extractor from working as expected.
- When attempting to initiate a raid when at least one member already has a lockout from that raid, the raid leader can choose to enter anyways upon confirming to accept the lockout(s) being applied.
- Fixed several Agent of Change instances in Planes of Power where minibosses were giving erroneous replay timers. An example is Gryme the Crypt Guardian in the Plane of Disease.
- Removed the 'Taromani's Blessing' achievement as it was no longer obtainable.
- Myconid Mutiny (Raid): Augments will not longer appear on the corpses of the workers.
*** Spells ***
- Corrected an issue where item procs that scale by level were using the player's level instead of the item spell's level. In general this caused older items to do more damage than intended, and newer items to do less damage than intended.
- Protection of Primal Spirit's description should now be more accurate.
*** AA ***
- Magician - Fixed an issue that prevented Elemental Conversion from reporting its damage.
- Removed the max spell level limiter from the following Archetype AAs:
- - Abundant Healing
- Removed the max spell level limiter from the following Class AAs:
- - Bard - Fierce Eye
- - Bard - Quick Time
- - Cleric - Sanctified Blessing
- - Druid - Group Spirit of the Great Wolf
- - Druid - Spirit of the Great Wolf
- - Enchanter - Chromatic Haze
- - Enchanter - Gift of Hazy Thoughts
- - Enchanter - Phantasmic Reflex
- - Enchanter - Tashan's Lingering Cry
- - Magician - Elemental Form
- - Magician - Heart of Skyfire
- - Magician - Thaumaturge's Focus
- - Necromaner - Funeral Pyre
- - Necromancer - Hand of Death
- - Paladin - Thunder of Karana
- - Shadow Knight - Visage of Decay
- - Shaman - Dampen Resistance (Also increased the min resist modifiers on ranks 12-20)
- - Wizard - Arcane Fury
- - Wizard - Improved Familiar
- - Wizard - Spire of Arcanum
- - Wizard - Trifurcating Magic
- Removed the max spell level limiter from the following Focus AAs:
- - Enchanter - Hastened Mesmerization
- - Magician - Flames of Power (Also reduced the Flames of Weakness max damage reduction to -15% and increased the min damage reduction to -5%)
*** NPCs ***
- Fixed some inconsistencies with shades being able to see undead properly.
- Aten Ha Ra (Vex Thal) - Corrected a very old bug that caused Aten Ha Ra to use generic Akhevan sounds rather than her intended sound effects.
*** Collections ***
- Altered text in the lore on the Citadel Orchids collection items to Citadel Orchids instead of Cauldron Flowers.
*** Overseer ***
- Corrected the misspelling of Dragon Necropolis for the Overseer Collection Item Dispenser.
- Fixed the Overseer Collection Item Dispenser to not allow CoV collections to be claimed unless CoV is unlocked.
*** Progression Servers ***
- Added Zi-Thuuli of the Granite Claw back to randomized loot on random loot servers.
- Altered the release schedule for Coirnav in anticipation of the server merge in July.
- Chests in raid encounters that drop components for the Serpent Seeker's Charm of Lore will now contain these items.
- Mechanics that require players to cast spells of a certain level will now have a 10 level adjustment on Level Locked Progression servers.
*** Miscellaneous ***
- Added future planned patch dates to the in-game calendar. These dates may change.
- Added an option to /shownames to display only first and guild names.
- Added options to /xtarget to load and save a target set. Use /xtarget to see usage details.
- Increased the max amount of saved targets sets in the Extended Target Window from 10 to 30.
- Added a prompt to the Shar Vahl stone in the Plane of Knowledge to ask if the adventurer would like to go to the original Shar Vahl or Shar Vahl, Divided.
- Added the percentage gained to raid experience messages.
- Fixed an issue with an erroneous popup at level 61 telling the player about /autoskill when /autoskill had its level requirement removed.
*** UI ***
- Removed the Social Sharing button from the cascade menu.
- Corrected an issue where your UI would be locked out if you confirmed the sale of a bag's contents after closing the Merchant Window.
- The Upgrade Character button on the Inventory Window is now disabled while a heroic upgrade is in progress.
- Updated the Overseer Window so that the Agent area on the Quests tab is always visible.
- Added a message to the Tradeskill Depot Window when your items are being loaded.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when an invalid number of quests in ActiveList in your character's ini file are present.
- Withdrawing a single item from your Tradeskill Depot, Dragon's Hoard, or Item Overflow will now place that item on your cursor rather than directly in your inventory.
- Attempting to delete a Heroic Character that was created on a Heroic-flagged server such as Miragul will now give a warning that the Heroic Character feature will not be refunded.
- Removed the deprecated social sharing tab from the Options Window.
- When turning in a stack of items for a quest, you will now see fewer chat messages about it.
- Updated the Task Overlay Window's default lock status, transparency, and close button visibility.
- Changed -
EQUI.xml
EQUI_DragItems.xml
EQUI_OptionsWindow.xml
EQUI_OverseerWnd.xml
EQUI_ShareWnd.xml
EQUI_TaskOverlayWnd.xml
EQUI_TradeskillDepotWnd.xml
*** Previously Updated ***
- Mean Streets (Mission) - The Glimmering Illusion spell can now be removed as intended from Jakarashev's illusions.
- The EverQuest Team
January 12, 2023 - EQ Patch 1/18
All EverQuest Live Servers will be brought offline on Wednesday, January 18, 2023 at 6:00 AM PT* for an update. Downtime is expected to last approximately 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=01182023
DBStr Changes: https://spells.eqresource.com/dbstrhistory.php?mdy=01182023
EQStr Changes: https://spells.eqresource.com/eqstrhistory.php?mdy=01182023
Faction Changes:
Spell Changes: https://spells.eqresource.com/history.php?mdy=01182023
Update Notes:
January 18, 2023
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*** Highlights ***
- Added an Auto-Fill button to the Overseer offered quest tab that will attempt to assign the best possible agent to each quest slot.
*** Items ***
- Added the quest flag to many TSS items that are used for back flagging and The Serpent Seeker's Charm of Lore.
- Small Bottle of Soy Sauce, Jewelers Glass, and Etching Tools are no longer flagged no-trade.
- Luclin Cream of Mushroom Soup and Cheese-Stuffed Flank Steak Rolls can now be added to the Tradeskill Depot.
- Royal Antonican Katar Ornament can now be applied to weapons equipped in the off-hand.
- The Shar Vahl, Divided partisan quest item Seal of Shar Vahl now has a description for the right-click effect.
- Teleport items available from Heritage Crates now have recast times of 30 minutes.
- Description on the Tradable Level 85 Heroic Character Boost has been corrected to reflect that they can be created at character select when Call of the Forsaken is active.
- Bonespider Staff Ornament and Caster's Companion Ornament can now be applied to secondary slot weapons.
*** Quests & Events ***
- Animist Khalan will only offer the When One Door Closes mission if the requestor has completed the Power Corrupts task.
- Mean Streets mission - The "No You Don't" achievement will no longer be completed automatically when the event succeeds.
- Holiday and expansion quest and collection achievement rewards that previously granted AA or XP have been updated to grant both AA and XP.
- Experience rewards have been removed from Darklight Caverns mercenary quests, and coin rewards have been adjusted.
- Wakkadon Muru in Firefall Pass will speak to you if you are not on his quest.
- The final step of the quest "Yokaw, Ameek" can now only be completed by speaking with Za`Aknila Kingi.
- Typos in Darklight Caverns' partisan quests text have been corrected.
- Shar Vahl, Divided - A Peace Offering - Consolidating the grimling reports in the satchel can now grant quest credit in any zone.
- Only the correct NPCs in Firefall Pass will accept quest items.
- Only the correct NPCs in Basilica of Adumbration will accept quest items.
*** Spells ***
- Reduced the level of the following spells (all ranks) by 10 levels. Cure Corruption, Resist Corruption, Shared Purity, Expunge Corruption, Chant of the Napaea, Wishka's Favor, Absolve, Minohten's Purifying Panpipes, and Staccato Rhythms.
- The spell "Protection of the Primal Spirits" now has its Absorb DoT damage effect in spell slot 7 instead of spell slot 3.
*** AA ***
- Shadow Knight - Added a new rank to Dark Lord's Unity (Azia and Beza) that casts Impenitent Demeanor.
- Necromancer - Added a new rank to Mortifier's Unity that casts Flesh to Toxin.
*** NPCs ***
- Maera Kerrath and Rahamin Kerrath can no longer be attacked in Shar Vahl, Divided.
- Mobs set for low health and damage in Night of Shadows have had their damage set to an appropriate value. An example is a fire ant in Firefall Pass.
- Fixed a typo in Tarson Lonewolf's dialogue for the task Fungal Corruption.
- Shar Vahl, Divided is now a little more active with additional NPC conversations.
- - Shar Vahl, Divided now has two updated newsletters available at the Town Crier, Laanas Sejiir. He is located near the bank in the South Gate district.
- - Multiple typos resolved in Shar Vahl, Divided dialogues.
*** Overseer ***
- A mysterious presence in Plane of Knowledge now offers many more rewards in return for coin gained through Overseer Quests.
- Added an Auto-Fill button to the offered quest tab that will attempt to assign the best possible agent to each quest slot.
*** Progression Servers ***
- Vaniki: Added the level 1 grace to the script that assigns player flags for the level locked server achievements.
*** Miscellaneous ***
- Added additional achievements for purchasing AAs to the General >> Advancement achievement category.
*** UI ***
- Fixed a bug that prevented newly deposited guild bank items from being selected as expected.
- Fixed a visual bug with the seller's item quantity when selling to a PC buyer in the bazaar.
- Experience messages no longer display 0.000% if you received less than 0.001% experience, or if you had all of your experience allocated to AA.
- Increased the maximum amount of container windows that can be opened at once from 40 to 43.
- Enabled the ability to withdraw items from your Personal Tradeskill Depot via the Find Item window when interacting with a banker.
- Adjustments to Tradeskill Depot Window column widths should now persist after logging out.
- Changed -
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- The EverQuest Team
January 11, 2023 - EQ Roadmap 2023
Yup, the roadmap is back! Given all the positive reactions from the "experiment" we started last year we've decided to bring this back again for this year. Although before we dive into our plans for 2023, let's look at some of the things we accomplished in 2022...
In 2022, we delivered on every point in the roadmap (eventually). Our extended family that is EverQuest got to see the Community Resource Council come to fruition, 64-bit upgrades to servers and clients, our 23rd Anniversary celebration, many updated holiday in-game events, new progression servers, new classic achievements, the much-anticipated Heroic Characters update, an unbelievable and very humbling Extra Life response, and last but certainly not the least, the launch of Night of Shadows. We got a lot accomplished and now we're gearing up for another milestone-making year!
2022 Roadmap Update:
Completed:
October:
Night of Shadows' Beta + Pre-order
New Content for Nights of the Dead
November:
Extra Life - Help us raise funds for the Children's Miracle Network.
New Content for Feast of Giving
December:
Night of Shadows' Launch
New Content for the New Year's Event
We're excited to share with you our 2023 plans. A reminder that these are high-level goals and target delivery dates and do not list everything we will be doing. We will continue working on other updates to the game, fixing issues, and making "quality of life" improvements (such as UI tweaks, etc.). Without further ado, here are our big plans for EverQuest 2023!
2023 Roadmap:
January:
Night of Shadows Tier 1 Raids Unlock
Insatiable An Appetite
Pit Fight
Mean Streets
February:
New Content for Erollisi Day
Night of Shadows Tier 2 Raids Unlock
When One Door Closes
Myconid Mutany
Dance of the Demiurge
March:
Night of Shadows Tier 3 Raids Unlock
The Spirit Fades
The Shadows Move
Under Siege
New Content for Brew Day
EverQuest's 24th Anniversary Celebration - New quests and a mission.
April:
New UI Engine Initial Launch - Full engine launch with some of the windows ported to the new engine.
May:
New Content for Tempest Festival
New Progression Server (Ruleset "To Be Announced")
June:
New Pride Month Familiars
July:
Server Merge - Merging Coirnav to Vox.
August:
New Content for Stone Cold Summer
October:
2023's Expansion Beta + Pre-order
DirectX 11 API port
November:
Extra Life Game Day - Help us raise funds for the Children's Miracle Network.
New Content for Feast of Giving
December:
New Content for Frostfell
2023's Expansion Launch - EverQuest's 30th Expansion!
Throughout the Year:
Porting More Windows to the New UI Engine
Zone Performance Improvements
Release Date TBD in 2023:
Guild Tradeskill Depot
And there you have it-a group shot of our high-level goals for this year; dates and events are subject to change. So, with loads to look forward to, let's gear up, mount up, and get ready!
May your anniversary grant you the best of rings,
Jenn Chan
Head of Studio
December 26, 2022 - New Years Event + Bonuses
New for 2023
Fauma Reista has been spending the holiday reminiscing about her travels over the last year. Currently, she can be found visiting the Froglok Outpost in the Rathe Mountains. She is happy to share details of her travels with all that want to reminisce with her. While visiting some of her favorite places, keep your eyes out for colorful lights to light the way.
As you know, the event starts today and will end on January 21, 2023 at 11:00 p.m. PST.
In-Game Bonuses
To make this year's event even sweeter, enjoy 50% bonus rare respawn chances and 20% off discounts in the Marketplace! These bonuses start at midnight tomorrow, December 27, and will end on January 3, 2023 at 11:00 p.m. PST.
See Guides
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!).
December 7, 2022 - EQ Patch 12/8
All EverQuest Live Servers will be brought offline on Thursday, December 8, 2022 at 10:00 AM PT* for an important update. Downtime is expected to last approximately 3 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:
DBStr Changes:
EQStr Changes:
Faction Changes:
Spell Changes:
Update Notes:
December 8, 2022
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*** Items ***
- Tradable: Tradeskill Component Depot Slot (x20) no longer stack.
- The Overseer reward for Extra Life can now only be claimed after Seeds of Destruction is open.
- The Majestic Mallard Mount reward for Extra Life can now only be claimed after Shadows of Luclin is open.
- Royal Antonican weapon ornament rewards can no longer be claimed while socketed into a weapon.
*** Quests & Events ***
- Shar Vahl, Divided - A Peace Offering - The grimling reports can now combined within Shainai's Satchel.
- The Darklight Caverns mercenary quests will now drop no more than 6 quest items per creature.
- Added experience to all Night of Shadows quests and added coins to the tasks that were missing coins.
- The Spirit Fades (Raid) - This is now properly locked until Night of Shadows phase three raids open (3/4/2023).
*** NPCs ***
- Shar Vahl, Divided - Combatable NPC difficulty has been tuned to match the loot distribution.
- Shar Vahl, Divided Pit - Combatable NPCs will now run faster, on par with NPCs in other zones.
- Shar Vahl, Divided Pit - Scorpions will now cast the correct sting spells.
- Mercenary Liaison Aemlai Psawaslleh in Plane of Knowledge will no longer appear before Secrets of Faydwer is open.
- NPCs in Night of Shadows base zones will now drop coin.
*** Collections ***
- Moved an unreachable collectable in Ruins of Shadowhaven.
*** Overseer ***
- The Terror of Luclin Overseer rewards are now properly restricted to Nights of Shadows.
*** Miscellaneous ***
- Fixed a bug that could potentially cause personal Tradeskill Depot items to be lost.
- The EverQuest Team
December 6, 2022 - Night of Shadows Launch
The Night of Shadows Launches!
Getting There
To get there you can go through the Cave in Terror of Luclin's Umbral Plains, this will lead you to the starting zone Firefall Pass. The Guild Hall portal takes you to Shar Vahl, Divided where you can buy your Spells and Teleports. The Teleports take you to Shadeweaver's Tangle. The Premium item port is to Ruins of Shadow Haven.
Maps
There is a Map Pack up, including the new Cave in Umbral Plains to get to Night of Shadows Zones
Tradeskill Depot
The big Feature of the expansion is the Tradeskill Depot.
-Inside of it you can place stackable tradeable tradeskill items, these can be stacked up to 99,999 per item.
-You have to be at a Bank to add or remove items from this
-You can use items from this at Tradeskill Containers for combines
-Like Overseer all characters on a Server can make use of the items in this
-This mostly only works with Known Recipes and not Experiment Recipes, those still need to be done manually
-There is a Guild Version, but Night of Shadows won't launch with this
-The Guild Version is supposed to be a purchase for to unlock when it launches in the future.
-The Personal Version is 250-490 slots depending on which Expansion Tier you have purchased. It is supposed to cost 499 DBC to add 20 slots to it, to a Max of 5000 Slots.
Content
The Zones Deepshade and Darklight Caverns are locked behind When One Door Closes. This mission is needed to open the Door to get into Deepshade to continue on. Someone on the Server must have also done the Deepshade Partisans and talk to the Spirit next to the Darklight Caverns Zone Line to clear the Rocks to Click the Door to Zone In.
-Otherwise the rest of the Expansion is standard stuff that the previous few have done
-There was an 8th zone created for Night of Shadows, Hollowshade Moor, however it was not able to be completed in time, maybe a future release?
Items
-There is a new Evolving Back piece item this year, Lucent Cloak of the Selenelion, that drops from the Ruins of Shadow Haven Mission, When One Door Closes.
-To go with the new Evolver, there are 4 new Stat Type 19 Augs as well that are tradeskill made from a piece that drops randomly off Raid Trash.
-The Ore system for Tradeskill Armor has changed this Expansion as well, now instead of a General Ore that can do everything, it is slot based items Apparitional pieces for Raid and Otherworldly pieces for Group
-The Darklight Caverns Mercenary Quests offer Faction to earn that can be pre-farmed for turn ins, these give some nice items if you are willing to run any combination of them 45 total times.
--21 Times = Great Tiger Spirit Familiar, a Pet Metamorph, you can flip between the 3 NPC models on the item itself
--31 Times = Spirit Drinker's Coating, an upgrade to the CotF Blood Drinker's Coating
--45 Times = Valia's Unyielding Bravery, an 8 Counter 100% Melee/DD/DoT absorb
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