*** Highlights ***
- Mercenary Roster Quest - A new tradeskill quest is available to obtain a mercenary slot for your roster by adding Hero's Barracks as a reward, if it has not been maxed at 4. See Mercenary Captain Cecille in the Plane of Knowledge. You must have mastered all basic tradeskills to take this quest.
- The achievement "Master of Alaris" now grants Hero's Barracks as a reward, which grants an additional mercenary slot, up to the maximum of 4.
- Players who participated in Beta can now Claim their reward!
*** Items ***
- Vyer's Stud is now usable by beastlords.
- Prescient Fleeting Quiver now has 39% haste.
- Rustic Coat of Carnage and Modest Warmonger Coat now have Sundering Discipline Quickening.
- Rustic Coat of the Assassin and Modest Carnifex Coat now have Eradicator Discipline Quickening.
- Empowered Trophies now have their intended graphics.
- The Token of Fanfare should now be far less intrusive.
*** Tradeskills ***
- Some tradeskilled ornamentations were showing the incorrect icons. These have been fixed.
- Soloist Ascension Sleeve Seal of the Warchief now correctly has String Resonance.
*** Quests & Events ***
- Mercenary Roster Quest - A new tradeskill quest is available to obtain a mercenary slot for your roster by adding Hero's Barracks as a reward if it has not been maxed. See Mercenary Captain Cecille in the Plane of Knowledge. You must have mastered all basic tradeskills to take this quest.
*** Spells ***
- Scent of Terris should now correctly modify corruption resists instead of counters.
*** NPC ***
- Krongar the Enrager may now appear after killing Rallosian defectors in the Valley of Lunanyn.
- Prowlers in Beasts' Domain will no longer remain in the same spot where they lose agro.
*** AA ***
- Origin is now auto-granted at level 5 to all players. The reuse time has been lowered to 18 minutes.
- Hastened Origin has been refunded, as it is no longer relevant.
*** Achievements ***
- The achievement "Master of Alaris" now grants Hero's Barracks as a reward, which grants an additional mercenary slot, up to the maximum of 4.
- The achievement "Make Haste" for the mission "Secrets of the Stones" now requires the fragment delivery within 15 minutes, as intended, rather than 8 minutes.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent the completion of the "Pillars of Success" achievement during the mission "The Growing Threat."
*** Progression Servers ***
- Sooty Fine Runic Papyrus is now dropping on progression servers.
- Unfired Shade Summoning Figurine and Shade Summoning Figurine, for the quest "Vampyre Troubles," can now be combined on progression servers.
*** Miscellaneous ***
- Changed the default window size for EQ on a fresh install to default to the current desktop resolution.
- Made a change to prevent out-of-memory crashes on 64-bit systems. On 64-bit operating systems, EverQuest will now use 4GB of address space instead of only 2GB.
- Changed the default display for chat filters to automatically hide SPAM marked messages.
*** UI ***
- Added the ability to tint any control a certain color from the UI XML. The new property is called BackgroundTextureTint.
- Converted the button tinting from the "Buy Slot" button in the Mercenary window to use the new tinting option.
- Changed -
EQUI_MercenaryManageWnd.xml
SIDL.xml
*** Previously Updated ***
- Corrected a flag that was hiding Veil of Alaris type 3 augment spells on live servers.
- Corrected a bug that was causing players to fall through the world in the air maze portion of the East Sepulcher of Order.
- Sarith City - Rebel Assault - Experience for most opponents in the mission has been reduced.
- Sarith City - Rebel Assault - Riago Barthes no longer summons extra sets of NPCs when spam-hailed.
- Resplendent Temple - Two Sides of the Stone - The raid should now reset properly during the second phase.
- Resplendent Temple - Two Sides of the Stone - Vision of Splendor should no longer heal itself during the second phase if all players manage to remove the spell "Filth" within the time limit.
- Resplendent Temple - Two Sides of the Stone - The split portions of the event (Shadow/Vision) should now reset the raid if they are idle for more than 5 seconds after being aggroed.
- Quests - Frostfell - The "a hungry predator" mobs will now return to their spawn points when idle.
- The EverQuest Team
