Hail, Norrath! 
 

This year we celebrate 20 years of EverQuest. Unbelievable.

We are truly humbled that this incredible game – as much yours as ours – has achieved this rare and unprecedented milestone that began all the way back in March 1999.

EQ’s launch feels a world away now, lest we forget dial-up modems, Y2K panic, CRT monitors, 640x480, open-book medding, corpse runs, lost corpses, ninja looting, guild drama, dawn of DKP, and so many other moments. But the most important outcome of EQ has been all the friendships and lives touched by this game over these 20 years.

We’ve heard so many amazing stories of EQ bringing people together in love, marriage, and even into the joys of parenthood. We’ve also experienced the power of our game community during the hard times, softening the pain of illness and tragic deaths by participating with EQ families. We all have an EverQuest story to tell.

For me, before I became a game designer on EQ in 2003, I had already met nearly 20 or 30 guildmates and in-game pals. I helped guildies get jobs, find new homes, and one even helped me get a job on EQ - Lyndro as he was known then. I still talk to that crazy, brilliant mage.

 

In this anniversary year, let’s live the legacy of EQ and turn it up to 20, and focus on what has made this game great - you, the community.

Our anniversary events in game in March include a brand new land, raids, and rares with a story about preserving our past, and it’s free. 

We are aiming at two new progression servers with two approaches - one hardcore and one ultra-casual. Rules will be coming soon as we sort them out over the coming weeks with both new servers launching around the anniversary on March 16.

We also want to celebrate with you IRL! We're working on pulling together an EQ fan event so we can hang out with you, our honored guests. Timing for that event is likely to be summer, but I'm hoping to announce more details on timing/location in March for those who want to plan ahead with your own family, guildies, and friends and join us!

 

And of course, we want to hear from each and every one of YOU! We're looking for player stories to help us commemorate this crazy occasion. Please send us a 20-second or less video of how EQ changed YOUR life. Upload your video to YouTube (public or unlisted) and send us the link here through Player Direct for a chance to be featured during our anniversary celebrations! You can also submit a 15-second clips featuring your main character on your most played server to become a part of our EQ 20th Yearbook album that will come to life on Facebook later this year.

 

On a personal note, I owe so much to this game, the EQ community at large, and this team. THANK YOU to all devs and players, past and present, for bringing EQ to life and making it home for so long.

There will be more announcements, so be sure to stay tuned. This year, we are LIVING THE LEGACY OF EVERQUEST!

 
Yours, always sincerely,

Holly "Windstalker" Longdale

Executive Producer

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All EverQuest Live Servers will be brought offline on Wednesday, January 16th, 2019 at 6:30AM Pacific (2:30 PM UTC) for maintenance. Servers are scheduled to be unavailable for approximately 5.5 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=01162019
DBStr Changes:
EQStr Changes:
Spell Changes:


Update Notes:
January 16, 2019
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*** Highlights ***
- Most NPCs in The Burning Lands group content will inflict less melee damage.
- Lowered the damage dealt by the NPC spells Lava Ball, Breathe Fire, and Soul Burn.
- Corrected errors with a number of achievements in The Burning Lands content. See the Quests and Events section below for details.
- Fixed an issue with the Flowing Blue Ribbon collectible not spawning in Esianti.


*** Items ***
- Removed the tribute values from Scaled and Scaleborn Bracer Facets.
- Added Duende Hero's Forge ornaments to The Burning Lands zones.
- Altered the HP, Mana, and Endurance values of Secret Dawn Gem of Vigor and Secret Dawn Gem of Brilliance.
- Corrected the proc and casting proc on Ascending Sun Bodkin to the one-handed version.
- Corrected the AC on Ascending Sun Battle Rod.
- Corrected the appearance of Ascending Sun Claws when equipped in the off-hand.
- Fixed an issue where Secret Dawn Compound Bow, Secret Dawn Longbow, Ascending Sun Compound Bow, and Ascending Sun Longbow were not granting the passive AA ability Prismatic Ward.
- Added the appropriate Disease/Corruption Damage focus to Secret Dawn Longbow and Ascending Sun Longbow.
- Crystallized Luck can now be purchased from the NPCs that sell nobles.
- The Torn Efreeti Boots and Tattered White Satin Gloves line will change worn looks to plate and chain as they turn more class specific. They both start with the leather/cloth look.
- Fixed the icon and appearance of Fiery Quill of Rumination.
- The Burning Lands items now have appropriate tribute values.
- Fixed an issue where several ranks of the item effect 'Strike of the Archer' were not dealing archery damage.
- Dark Water's Lifeblood, Flask of Evening Fog, and Essential Relentless Flames no longer look like bags.
- Altered the hate inspired by some Breastplate click spells from recent expansions. This specifically affects Unleashed Fury, Demon Crusher, and Nature's Fury.
- Corrected typos in the name of Lemon Breaded Primordial Filets and Purified Plasma Shot.
- Nature's Destruction and Path of Destruction will no longer trigger on Damage over Time spells.
- Fixed an issue with the Flowing Blue Ribbon collectible not spawning in Esianti.
- Increased the drop rate of Dark Elf and Bixie Hero's Forge Ornaments. Bixie Ornaments can now drop from the bixies in Bixie Warfront.
- Removed the tradeskill flag from Primordial Pod of Water.
- Suits of Hero's Forge armor now have item information that describes what types of armor they'll fit into.


*** Tradeskills ***
- Changed The Burning Lands Purified Coal to Primordial Coal to differentiate it from the existing Purified Coal.
- Updated the recipe for Secret Dawn Mace Muhbis to properly use Oval Cut Elder Mist Diamond and Trillion Cut Elder Mist Diamond.


*** Quests And Events ***
- Increased the drop rate of Fate's Accumulator and Blazing Euphoria augments in The Burning Lands raids.
- Reduced the chance to get Mortal Corporeal Type 5 augments from NPCs and chests.
- Contract of War - The Guarded achievement now requires facing seven or more mephits.
- Crypt Robbers - Corrected several NPCs that were errantly on the Damsel of Decay faction.
- Crypt Robbers - Fixed a bug that could prevent the event from completing successfully when making an accusation.
- Fight Fire (Mission) - Fixed the requirements to obtain achievements in this mission.
- Fight Fire (Raid) - Fixed a bug that was preventing the event from resetting in some situations.
- Prince Ralaifin (Mission) - The giant lapillus lava spiderling NPCs no longer leave a corpse.
- Prince Ralaifin (Mission) - Increased the power of enemies in this mission.
- Prince Ralaifin (Raid and Mission) - Prince Ralaifin's Enfeeblement and Prince Ralaifin's Softening now explode from the target instead of the boss when they activate. Increased the power of the raid versions of these spells.
- Prince Ralaifin (Raid) - The message about the Ralaifins filling with holy light will no longer display numbers in the text.
- Sneaky Sarnak - Corrected an issue that could prevent Lcea from being present at the proper time.
- Strange Magic - The Life and Death and Gathering Forces achievements should now work properly.
- Relic Raider - The higher / lower emotes will no longer target player pets.
- Relic Raider - The Perfect Timing achievement now grants properly.
- Remodeling - It's now possible to receive the Unslug Hero achievement.
- Remodeling - Fixed an issue that could cause the slugs and the throne guardians to tether oddly.
- Remodeling - Blazing Sorrow's Darkness will hold up her end of the conversation with Fennin Ro now.
- Trial of the Wending Ways - This trial will no longer give the Appointments Required achievement if the trial is done out of order.
- Tyrant of Fire - It's now possible to receive the Swift Murder achievement.
- Tyrant of Fire - The corpses of the vanquished defenders of the Plane of Fire can no longer be targeted.
- The fling pad from the water room in the Plane of Smoke's arena should land you in a safer location.


*** Spells ***
- Fixed the cast message on Summon Stratos Carpet.
- Fixed an issue that could cause progressive spells to fail to grant you their necessary component spells.
- - Ex: Scribing Dissident Companion could fail to grant Dissident Companion 1-5.
- Whispering Midnight Warding Fire, Whispering Midnight Warding Magic, Blazing Euphoria Warding Fire, and Blazing Euphoria Warding Magic now indicate which damage type they absorb in their spell description.


*** AA ***
- Bard - Fixed a bug where ranks 9-10 of Domination Mastery were not extending the duration of single target mesmerization songs.
- Poison Mastery AAs now state that they effect Make Poison instead of Tinkering.


*** NPCs ***
- Most NPCs in The Burning Lands group content will inflict less melee damage.
- Lowered the damage dealt by the NPC spells Lava Ball, Breathe Fire, and Soul Burn.
- Sagacious Great Jade no longer sells Runic Sortilege Sheets or Fine Runic Sortilege Sheets.


*** Miscellaneous ***
- Fixed the typo in Then Eastern Plains of Karana.
- Fixed an issue where some items in the Marketplace Window could not be inspected.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the 'Add Funds' button in the marketplace purchase window to fail to work under certain conditions.
- The game will now launch all external web pages in your default browser.
- The default name of text files created when using the /outputfile command will now include a server name. Ex: Soandso_Test-Inventory.txt.
- Added a hidecorpse alwaysnpc command, which hides current and future NPC corpses, but leaves player corpses intact.
- - Corrected an issue where hidecorpse always would leave a phantom version of your corpse after being resurrected.
- Entering a load balanced zone will now send you to the least populated instance of the zone (unless you are joining your group).
- Added scheduled monthly updates to the calendar for the first half of 2019.


*** UI ***
- Charms will now display the correct luck for items when inspected.
- Fixed an issue where you could not open your last two bags if you had 40 slot bags in every slot and had each of them open.
- The Faction Window now allows you to sort entries by Reaction or Standing in addition to Faction Name.
- Spell and combat ability resist messages will now include the name of the target (if you are the caster) or the name of the caster (if you are the target). The name of the spell will now function as a link to the spell description.
- - Ex: 'You resist the Skunk Spray spell!' is now 'You resist a large skunk's Skunk Spray!'
- - Ex: 'Your target resisted the Fireball spell.' is now 'A large skunk resisted your Fireball!'
- Corrected an issue where pet damage wouldn't report at a large distance if you turned on other's hits.
- Specifying an optional filename for /outputfile now automatically appends '.txt' to the end of the filename if it is not already specified.
- Made the following adjustments to the Alternate Currency tab of the Inventory Window:
- - Moved the 'maximum items in a stack' label and the 'Show currencies that you don't have' checkbox down so that they no longer overlap the currency list.
- - Changed the Reclaim button to automatically reclaim the currency type on your cursor rather than requiring you to first select an entry in the currency list to reclaim to.
- - Added a Reclaim All button that reclaims all currency items in your inventory.
- - Adjusting the column widths of the currency list will now save per character.
- The speed of your target's name flash is no longer dependent on FPS settings. Added a slider in the Advanced Options window to adjust the flash speed.


- Changed -
EQUI_AdvancedDisplayOptionsWnd.xml
EQUI_Inventory.xml



- The EverQuest Team

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New year, new you, right? Might as well get some new gear to match!

We're wrapping up 2018 and kicking off 2019 with a blowout sale! From Friday, December 28, 2018 at 12:00 PM PT up until Wednesday, January 2, 2019 at 11:59 PM PT, All Access members will receive 40% off of all items in the Marketplace!

Not an All Access member yet? With bonuses, discounts, access to new content, and more, there's never been a better time to join!



We hope you have a great start to the new 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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In celebration of the Holiday Season we've brought back our discounted Premium Memberships for a limited time!  From now through the end of the year you can purchase 9 months of all the perks Premium Membership has to offer, including ad free browsing and much more for the low price of $8.49!  This is a great opportunity to try out a Premium Membership and to help support the site.

For more information on Premium Memberships, see this thread: https://eqresource.com/board/index.php?topic=65

To purchase this discounted membership, click the "Premium Membership" tab on the strip of links at the top of the Forums page, just under your avatar.

Please note that if you already have a Premium Membership, purchasing the discounted one will not automatically add 9 months to your existing membership.  If you would like to use this opportunity to add 9 months simply complete the purchase of the discounted membership and either post here or private message me and I will manually update your subscription time.  If you have any questions please feel free to ask here or private message myself or Riou!

As always, thanks for your continued support and loyalty, it means a lot to us!  Happy Holidays!

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All EverQuest Live Servers will be brought offline on Tuesday, December 18, 2018 at 9:00 AM PT* for an update! Downtime is expected to last approximately 5 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: https://spells.eqresource.com/dbstrhistory.php?mdy=12182018
EQStr Changes:
Spell Changes: https://spells.eqresource.com/history.php?mdy=12182018


Update Notes:
December 18, 2018
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*** Items ***
- Added the appropriate bard focuses to the Torn Efreeti Boots evolving line of items
- The Threadbare Weighted Tarbard evolving item line now has luck.


*** Quests & Events ***
- Tyrant of Fire - Fixed requirements to get the Deathless achievement.
- Tyrant of Fire - Fixed an issue that could cause the event to fail in a way that prevented Fennin Ro from summoning the players and responding to his dialogue. Note that a player character in the event zone must have the Golden Ruby and Garnet Ring.
- Fight Fire (mission) - Added a loot lockout to the mission. This means that while you have a lockout you will not be able to loot items from the bosses.


*** NPCs ***
- Reduced the damage on some spells cast by the general inhabitants of The Burning Lands, also made it so some of those spells can be cured.
- Reduced the default spell resistances on The Burning Lands NON-Raid NPCs.
- Enter Mearatas - Dread Last Guardian and Hidden Dust have grown stronger. Beware!
- Brilliant Jade and Clouded Jade can no longer be attacked and shall therefore always be able to sell their wares.



- The EverQuest Team

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We've been working on some EverQuest related software titles that we think some of you may find useful.  Our first title is "EverQuest Server Status".  This is a small, but useful application:

Quick Description: This software allows you to monitor the status of the EverQuest servers over time, and allows you to set up custom alerts to let you know when a server, or multiple servers, change from one status to another. This is a great application to run in the background on patch day, to be alerted when the servers unlock for players to log in.

You can find more information for this software, including the download url, documentation, and screenshots in our brand new software section:  https://software.eqresource.com

We also have other titles in development!  If you are a Premium Member, please check out our current beta project (it's also available in the software section!).

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All EverQuest Live Servers will be brought offline on Thursday, December 13, 2018 at 9:00 AM PT* for an update to patch out some recent issues. Downtime is expected to last approximately 4 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=12132018
DBStr Changes: https://spells.eqresource.com/dbstrhistory.php?mdy=12132018
EQStr Changes:
Spell Changes:


Update Notes:
December 13, 2018
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*** NPCs ***
- The four speakers that spawn in the center of the Speaker's Amphitheater will no longer crowd each other and will obey the rules and only take their places once the previous speaker has left.


*** Mercenaries ***
- Fixed Jann and Drolvarg Mercenary strings that displayed bad information.


*** Miscellaneous ***
- Many zones in The Burning Lands, Seeds of Destruction, Underfoot, and House of Thule now have load balancing enabled.


*** UI ***
- The Item Fuse Window will no longer pop up a marketplace window if you choose "No" after pressing the Fuse button when you have no Crystallized Luck.


*** Previously Updated ***
- The claim for Goblet of Adventure II and Shared Goblet of Adventure II from the Collectors and Premium Edition of The Burning Lands now give the correct and functioning potions.
- Contract of War - mission - fixed a bug that was causing the bosses to disappear and break the event.
- Virtuous Dusk in Stratos: Zephyr's Flight can now correctly remedy problems with a [reminder] about your dissident spells.


- The EverQuest Team

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Launch day is finally here, we hope everyone has fun in The Burning Lands!

We've opened up our TBL content to all users!  Whether you want to jump straight into TBL Progression, look at the group gear or raid gear, drool over the great new augmentations you can farm, learn about the new Luck stat, or check out the cool new zones, we've got you covered!

If you find our guides helpful and wish to support our efforts, as well as get ad-free browsing and many other perks, please consider an affordable Premium Membership!

Now that you're armed with The Burning Lands information, go get started!

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All EverQuest servers will be brought offline on Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at 5:00 AM PT (13:00 UTC) for an update as we prepare to enter The Burning Lands.

Estimated downtime is expected to last approximately 7 hours, with servers unlocking for play around noon. Please be aware that this downtime may be extended in the event of delays.



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=12112018
DBStr Changes: https://spells.eqresource.com/dbstrhistory.php?mdy=12112018
EQStr Changes: https://spells.eqresource.com/eqstrhistory.php?mdy=12112018
Spell Changes: https://spells.eqresource.com/history.php?mdy=12112018


Update Notes:
December 11th, 2018
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*** Highlights ***
- EverQuest's 25th expansion, The Burning Lands, is now live!
- Added the Faction Window to allow the quick viewing of your current faction standings. See the UI section below for details.
- Items will now display their lore text to players at level 50 and higher.


*** The Burning Lands ***
- The longstanding peace between the jann is over, and war has broken out between the djinn from the Plane of Air and the efreeti from the Plane of Fire! What has sparked this dispute and who will emerge victorious? Will you survive the Trials of Smoke and help end this conflict?
- Many items found in The Burning Lands will have a new stat called Luck. See the item section below for details.
- Players with The Burning Lands will have two new shared bank slots available.


*** Items ***
- Items will now display their lore text to players at level 50 and higher.
- Added a new stat, Luck, to many items found in The Burning Lands.
- - Luck can be found on new items and the amount of luck you have will influence the outcome of many skills, abilities, and spells. You can see the luck on items by inspecting them. Items with a percentage symbol next to their luck total can have their luck increased via item fusion (hover over the percentage for more information).
- - Many items with luck can utilize the Item Fusion Window to improve that item's luck stat. At the cost of one Crystallized Luck, this window allows you to fuse two items together (the base item and the component) to increase the luck on the base item. Fusing two items will result in the luck on the base item being increased and the component item will be destroyed. After fusing two items together, the base item will receive the higher luck of the two, plus one. For example, fusing a base item with 2 luck and a component at 4 luck will result in the base item having 5 luck.
- - Crystallized Luck can be purchased from Noble Exchange Merchants for platinum, from Loyalty Vendors, or from the Marketplace.
- Corrected an issue where players could equip multiple lore equipped items using bandolier.
- Upgraded the effect of Threads of Potential and Boon of the Soother.


*** Tradeskills ***
- Doing tradeskill combines that don't require a skill will no longer proc unrelated skills or abilities.
- Changed the name of two alchemy recipes to match the name of their products (Ward of Retribution, Wasp Swarm).


*** Spells ***
- Cleaned up messaging when an aura spell fails to hit a pet or mercenary due to being in a different environment type (such as water or lava) than the caster.
- Aura spells that kill their targets in one tick now properly report the death.
- Melody now skips to the next song if a recast timer hasn't elapsed, instead of interrupting the melody.
- Modern generic proc spells on items will no longer cause odd skill increases.
- Bard - Moved the Dirge of the Darkvine line of songs from Statistic Buffs -> Armor Class to Statistic Buffs -> Shielding since it adds shielding and not armor class. Extended the base duration to one minute as the line was originally intended to function.


*** NPCs ***
- Fixed the bug that was causing Heratius Grolden in Tenebrous Mountains to spawn when killing the placeholder trigger NPCs instead of the rare trigger NPCs.


*** Progression Servers ***
- The Agent of Change will not appear in Cazic-Thule until Planes of Power has unlocked on the server.


*** Miscellaneous ***
- Corrected an issue where an issue with one of your characters could stop you from logging into your account altogether.


*** UI ***
- Added a Faction Window that allows you to check your reaction and standing with every group in EverQuest.
- - This new window can be accessed by clicking the EQ Button and selecting Character -> Faction Standings or by typing /faction.
- - Hovering over a faction name or reaction entry will display your current reaction value with a group as well as the number of points needed to reach the next reaction rank.
- - Hovering over the standing progress bar will display your current standing (how much you have done to help or hurt this group) as well as the minimum and maximum possible standing with the group.
- Items located in your Item Overflow will now be listed in the Find Item Window.
- Added Rampage, Wild Rampage, and Flurry tags messages to the full round of melee attacks. Removed the single line messages that indicated something flurried or rampaged.
- Consolidated many chat messages that were duplicates of melee and non melee hits, including: Flurry, Finishing/Crippling Blow, Assassinate, Deadly Strike, Slay Undead, Headshot, and critical spells. These messages no longer have a separate line of text, instead they end with an indication of the special attack type in parenthesis.
- Added an indicator for twincasted and critical damage over time spells.
- Corrected an issue where players could not make a hotkey for Remove Traps.
- Using the AA ability 'Buy All' button with purchase confirmations enabled will now display the number of ranks and total cost of the purchase.  This applies to both player and mercenary AA purchases.
- Corrected an issue where a new group wouldn't display the role of a master looter for the leader in the group window.

- Changed -
EQUI.xml
EQUI_Animations.xml
EQUI_BigBankWnd.xml
EQUI_DragItems.xml
EQUI_Inventory.xml
EQUI_ItemDisplay.xml

- Added -
EQUI_FactionWnd.xml
EQUI_ItemFuseWnd.xml


- The EverQuest Team

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Adventurers, this year's final round of Fall Fun is here!

From Thursday, November 29, 2018, until Monday, December 10, 2018, ALL players will receive 1.5 times as much experience in their adventures across Norrath!

Get ready to grind, Norrathians - you've got to be prepared for the challenges that lie ahead!



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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