December 5, 2024 - EQ Patch 12/5
There was a patch on December 5th at 1:20 pm Pacific, downtime is expected to be up to 3 Hours Max.
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=12052024
EQStr Changes:
Faction Changes:
Spell Changes: https://spells.eqresource.com/history.php?mdy=12052024
Update Notes:
December 5, 2024
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*** Items ***
- Stackable items can no longer be placed in the Activated Item Key Ring.
- Cinnamon Sticks and Scalewrought's Voidstone Delphinium can now be foraged in The Outer Brood zones.
- Teleport Item Key Ring Slot (5) and Activated Item Key Ring Slot (5) are now No Trade, FV No Drop, and Heirloom.
- Visiting the dragon ring in Aureate Covert will now unlock it as a valid destination for the Aureate Dragon Ring and allow the the Aureate Figurine to be converted into the Empowered Aureate Figurine.
- Activated the description for the Poison-Tipped Spear.
- Missions in The Outer Brood will now grant evolving experience to the evolving Harbinger rings.
*** Quests & Events ***
- Removed the errant reward set from The Outer Brood quests and missions.
- Reduced the damage of the majority of the spells in the Outer Brood missions.
- In the High Priest mission the chest will no longer be removed once spawned.
- Brood Architect mission:
- - Fixed an issue in the mission that would make it pretty much impossible to avoid being charmed (Strength of the Overseer was an AoE and should not have been).
- - Removed the blind component from Oculus Blind.
- - The pools will now stop moving if a replicant is alive, or Atathus is in the fight.
- - Strength of the Skyguardian will now only pick two targets (was also an AoE before).
*** AA ***
- Reduced the level requirement of all ranks of The Outer Brood AA, Aureate's Bane to level 1. All achievements that grant these AAs have been re-granted to players that previously completed them.
*** NPCs ***
- After a brief discussion, Folt Primcaller and Zebastian Quell have decided to exchange places.
*** Miscellaneous ***
- Corrected an issue that prevented the 'Find Corpse' option in the Advanced Loot window from generating a path.
- Fixed the model used for Argent Clockwork Worg.
- The EverQuest Team
December 3, 2024 - The Outer Brood Launches
The Outer Brood Launches!
Getting There
To get there you can go through either Nektulos or East Freeport. These will zones you into seperate parts of Hodstock Hills.
The Guild Hall portal takes you to Hodstock Hills where you can buy your Spells and Teleports, the additional Teleport Spells are bought in The Theater of Eternity.
The Teleports take you to Hodstock Hills or The Theater of Eternity.
The Premium item port is to your choice of Aureate Covert or Hodstock Hills.
In order to use the Aureate Covert port or convert to it you must first Attune in the zone, you will see a yellow emote about attuning at the following spot, upstairs:
Maps
There is a Map Pack up so you can grab those.
Features
The Outer Brood has 3 Features.
1) Aureate's Bane - By clearing any zones Mercenary Quests you can get rank 1 of this, otherwise it gains ranks from doing the zones Hunter Achievements.
--A lot of the mobs in the expansion use a Curse of Subjugation, this Bane ability will clear it and give you a 15 Minute Buff that also prevents the debuff for that time.
--Mercenaries can be hit by this debuff as well, but you will want at least 1 Rank to counter
2) Alternate Clicky Key Ring - Generic Clicky Effects now have a key ring they can be put into, saving more inventory space
3) Dark Elf Rangers - Create Dark Elf Rangers on any server with the expansion purchase
Content
The Quick Route into The Harbinger's Cradle in The Theater of Eternity is locked until you do the 2nd Partisan Task, The Bigger the Door, the Larger the Crack. You can still get here, but must take the long way until then.
Items
-There is a new Evolving Ring item this year, Harbinger's Ring of Grudge, that drops from all 4 Missions, The Control Room, The High Priest, The Leviathan's Heart and Brood Architect Hazuri. This Ring can also be bought from the Group Vendor once you have Hodstock Mercenary, Partisan and the 4 Collections done for the zone.
-To go with the new Evolver, there are new Type 18 and 19 Augs that share a lore group with the ToL/NoS ones. The Group ones come from Rares and Missions while the Raid ones are from Raid Trash. Then you must use Tradeskills to create the augs.
-The general gear system is the same as LS
Extra Things
There are 2 extra things you may do in the Expansion with Achievements in the Special category:
1) Article of Destiny - Awards a Suffix Title of "The"
2) Beloved Bro-dent - Awards a Clockwork Rat Metamorph
As always, we would like to Thank our Premium Members who help keep the Site alive, Thank You!
November 27, 2024 - The Outer Brood Patch 12/3
All EverQuest Live Servers will be brought offline on Tuesday, December 3, 2024 at 6:00 AM PT* for an update. Downtime is expected to be 6 hours. Because this is the expansion unlock, we will not be unlocking earlier than 12:00 p.m. (noon) PST.
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=12032024
DBStr Changes: https://spells.eqresource.com/dbstrhistory.php?mdy=12032024
EQStr Changes: https://spells.eqresource.com/eqstrhistory.php?mdy=12032024
Faction Changes:
Spell Changes: https://spells.eqresource.com/history.php?mdy=12032024
Update Notes:
December 3, 2024
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*** The Outer Brood ***
Welcome to EverQuest: The Outer Brood, the 31st expansion for EverQuest!
High in the sky over the hills of the long-ignored Hodstock Hills looms a massive behemoth. A creature so large that it appears to have an entire castle fortress on its back. Terrifying monsters fly down from that fortress. Huge reptiles with massive, deadly claws, fangs, and too many limbs. These beasts wield magic never seen on Norrath nor by any Norrathian. These creatures, dubbed the Outer Brood by the elders of the Circle of the Crystalwing, speak a form of Elder Dragon that even the oldest of dragons barely understand. Can you lead the charge against such danger, one that has caused even the fiercest elders of the dragon clans to hesitate?
- Learn new spells, combat abilities, and alternate abilities.
- Find new items and learn new tradeskill recipes.
- Explore six new zones.
- Participate in new raids and quests.
- Complete new achievements.
- Gain a new Activated Item Key Ring.
- - Activated Items are items that can be activated but are not consumables, mounts, teleportation items, illusions, familiars, nor scrolls.
- Join the fight as a Dark Elf Ranger and become one of the Premier Hunters for the Tier`Dal Race.
- To start, enter Hodstock Hills through the East Freeport docks area, or through the river tunnel in Nektulos Forest.
*** Items ***
- In honor of the new Dark Elf Ranger race and class combination, Dark Elf heritage crates are available on the marketplace for a limited time.
- Added an Activated option to the Type section when searching for items via the Bazaar and Find Item windows.
- Added a new key ring tab for activated items.
- Expired real estate plots will now send a second eviction notice 3 days before eviction, via in-game mail and chat message, to both owner and co-owners.
*** Miscellaneous ***
- Updated /cast to work with the current max amount of spell slots.
- Added Dark Elf Ranger as a race/class combination. Spread hate and honor Innoruuk in your hunts.
- Added an option to find a corpse from the Advanced Loot window when right clicking on the corpse's name in the list.
- Corrected an issue with area of effect archery abilities not including the effects from Increase Range Damage for all affected targets.
- Corrected an issue with raid and group marked NPCs displaying the incorrect version of their name.
- Corrected an issue with the list of raid and group marked NPCs displaying multiple times after zoning.
- Corrected multiple issues with the current group or raid marked NPCs being lost after zoning or death.
*** UI ***
- Items in the Key Rings window will now show their remaining recast time on their tooltip.
- Increased the default width of the Name column in the Key Rings window.
- Converted the Respawn window to the new UI engine.
- Corrected an issue with quantities in the Alternate Currency list not having consistent alignment.
- Fixed an issue where the EQ fullscreen window failed to react to a change in display monitor settings. This could happen if the game's fullscreen window was a different resolution or refresh rate than the desktop window.
- Corrected an issue with the Expedition Information window's list of timers repeatedly scrolling to the top of the list.
- Added -
RespawnWnd.html
- Changed -
EQUI_KeyRingWnd.xml
EQUI_RespawnWnd.xml
index.html
style.css
- The EverQuest Team
November 27, 2024 - Feast of Giving Bonuses + Black Friday Discounts
Grab a turkey sandwich and a piece of pumpkin pie, and log into the game! Bonuses for the Feast of Giving have begun and there is no time to waste.
From today until December 1, 2024 at 11:00 p.m. PST, characters in Norrath can enjoy the following bonuses:
50% bonus to character experience
50% increase to rare spawn chance
50% bonus to faction changes
Black Friday is just around the corner too, and this year we are doing something a bit different!
Starting today, you can get a Doorbuster Discount of 75% off the following items, All-Access Members will get a discount of 15% on most Marketplace items as well, on the following packs:
Bottle of Health Pack - Open this package to create a level appropriate Bottle of Health. This potion will increase your maximum hit points for 4 hours.
Bottle of Spirits Pack - Grants the imbiber mana and health regeneration for up to 4 hours.
Bottle of the Ursine Pack - Open this package to create a level appropriate bottle of the ursine. This potion will increase your stamina and at higher levels increase your maximum stamina for 4 hours.
Bottle of the Cetacean Pack - Open this package to create a level appropriate bottle of the cetacean. This potion will increase your intelligence and at higher level increase your maximum intelligence for 4 hours.
Bottle of the Avian Pack - Open this package to create a level appropriate bottle of the avian. This potion will increase your wisdom and at higher level increase your maximum wisdom for 4 hours.
What a sweet time to be an All-Access Member!
This sale began today and will end on December 1, 2024 at 11:00 p.m. PST, so grab what you need while you can!
Happy Feast of Giving to everyone, now hurry and get in game to take advantage of the fun times!
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!).
November 26 - 3d Printed Coaster 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 have a brand new product line available for purchase - 3d Printed Coasters! 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 set of 3d Printed Coasters. You can find all the details for this contest on the contest forum thread here. Have fun!
November 19, 2024 - The Outer Brood Launches 12/3 + Live Stream 11/21
The launch of The Outer Brood is just around the corner! It's almost time to see who, or what, is coming to answer the call as this expansion launches to Live a mere two weeks from today! You still have time to pre-order and get the exclusive Azure Scalewrought Weapon Ornament!
The next expansion for EverQuest, The Outer Brood, is set to launch on December 3, 2024, at 12:00 p.m. PST. To pre-order your copy today, click here. All Access members enjoy loads of benefits such as 10% off when purchasing an expansion, so if you'd like to take advantage of this and the benefits, click here.
But that's not all! We will be having a livestream event with a few members of the game team on our YouTube channel. Join us on November 21, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. PST to listen in as they discuss the creation of The Outer Brood!
November 19, 2024 - EQ Patch 11/20
All EverQuest Live Servers will be brought offline on Wednesday, November 20, 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=11202024
DBStr Changes: https://spells.eqresource.com/dbstrhistory.php?mdy=11202024
EQStr Changes: https://spells.eqresource.com/eqstrhistory.php?mdy=11202024
Faction Changes:
Spell Changes: https://spells.eqresource.com/history.php?mdy=11202024
Update Notes:
November 20, 2024
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*** Highlights ***
- Made performance improvements that should improve zoning times and end-of-raid lag.
*** Items ***
- Violet Hero's Forge Cloth Robe Ornament now counts toward the Violet Hero's Forge Cloth achievement.
- When switching equipment sets, unused augments will now go to your item overflow after one is placed on your cursor.
- Reduced world server lag caused by real estate item loading.
*** Quests & Events ***
- Oasis of Fear: Corrected an issue where some NPCs could be attacked out of order.
- Oasis of Fire: Corrected an issue with the bosses idle not resetting.
- Oasis of Swamp: Lowered the NPC awareness range to allow players a safer location to zone in.
- Oasis of the Jungle: Added a way for the player to reset the barrels with the boss.
- Fixed an issue that caused the November Year of Darkpaw Illusions to malfunction.
*** Spells ***
- Call of the Zero and Fabled Call of the Zero spells will no longer summon the player into the dragon's body.
- NPC combatants no longer warp back to their target after being flung by spells such as Lure of the Siren's Song, Hate's Attraction, and Moving Mountains.
*** NPCs ***
- NPC should prefer walking, rather than warping, to their destination.
*** Progression Servers ***
- Updated Mangler to be a standard live server.
*** Miscellaneous ***
- Equipment sets should once again save empty augment slots.
- Updated several messages that include a replay or request timer to show the amount of seconds remaining.
- Improved zone server performance to reduce lag spikes caused by rewards given at the end of raids and in general.
*** UI ***
- Fixed a bug where your target was invalid after respawning until reselecting it.
- Added a chat message when trying to tribute an item that has at least one augment in it.
- Converted the Trade window to the new UI engine.
- Converted the Give window to the new UI engine.
- Fixed an issue where the Real Estate Items window failed to update correctly after placing an item.
- Added -
GiveWnd.html
TradeWnd.html
- Changed -
EQUI_GiveWnd.xml
EQUI_TradeWnd.xml
index.html
InventoryWindowPersonas.html
main.css
NameReservationWnd.html
style.css
*** Previously Updated ***
- Oasis of Sand: Corrected an issue where some NPCs could not be attacked.
- Oasis of the Jungle: Corrected an issue where approaching the frenzied gorilla would not progress the task.
- Added Blood of Ssraeshza to the loot lock exception list in the progression instance.
- The EverQuest Team
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!
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!).
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!