January 31, 2012 - EQResource Contest
Today is the final day to enter the EQResource contest! It only takes one entry for a chance to win, so be sure to get your submissions in before midnight tonight (CST).
Contest update: The contest drawing will be held in front of the Main Bank in Plane of Knowledge (on The Rathe server). It will be held on Friday, February 3rd at 7:00 PM CST.
Anyone and everyone is invited to join us. We will have a chat channel as well, for those who wish to have a presence but don't wish to log into the Rathe server. This channel will be
Rathe.EQResource
January 30, 2012 - EQ1 Going free to play (soon)
EQ1 is going free to play in March 2012, you can view the official thread or look at the pricing options
January 25, 2012 - Downtime
We apologize for the downtime this morning. The shared database server we use crashed, and our host was unable to resolve the issue until 9:45 AM CST.
Update 1: We have expanded upon the dev tracker a bit more, the initial one will still go to Developer tracker, but there is also options for Community Relations posts and All SoE Posters (for EQ1, so basically all dev posts, community relations posts, customer service posts, etc, in one)
January 24, 2012 - Contest Update
Only 1 week remains to get your submissions in for our contest! Up for grabs is a 30 day game card, and 1k Station Cash! Head over to our forums and read up on the
EQResource Contest.
Important: If you have submitted information but do not see your name listed in the ticket standings post, please contact us with your character name and server!
January 17, 2012 - Contest Update
Our contest is moving right along! We have already received several entries. Today, we compiled a few lists of information we are missing. This should help you guys get a headstart on earning tickets.
Be sure to look through the lists, and if you happen to know any of the information we are missing, submit the info to us and we will grant your tickets! With the contest being a raffle, you have a chance of winning even with just 1 entry!
January 13, 2012 - EQResource Contest!
Alright guys, we promised you a contest, and here it is! The aim of this contest is to reward you guys for helping us fill in missing info on EQResource, as an effort to make the site better
and more informative for everyone! We will be giving away the following:
- (1) Game card code which can be used for 30 days of game time -or- 2000 Station Cash
- (1) Game code for 1000 Station Cash
You can find full details for this contest in our forums, in the thread "EQResource Contest"!
January 11, 2012 - Mercenary Recruitment Walkthrough
We posted our walkthrough for the Mercenary Recruitment tradeskill quest. Completion of this quest grants you the reward of one additional mercenary slot. This quest walkthrough can be found in the Special section
January 10, 2012 - EverQuest Patch
All EverQuest Live Servers will be coming down on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 3:00 am US Pacific* for a Game Update. The servers are estimated to be unavailable for approximately 5 hours.
Keep an eye on the EQ Players website and the forums for status updates and for news if additional downtime is needed.
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*** 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
January 6, 2012 - Updates
Group Gear and Raid Gear pages in VoA section now have cookie tracking so it should be tracking what you filtered for each time you come back to the page (if not please contact us :)). We have also updated the Dev Tracker to fit our Layout and finally, Type 3 Aug page should be up in the next day or so, as well as Mission Chest Loot stuff.
Update round 2: We have updated our Veil of Alaris guide to now include VoA Type 3 Augs! This page is now available in the Veil of Alaris section.
Also, I have updated the House of Thule Visibles section to reflect the new template prices (thanks to Rathe.Moklianne for pointing this out!). While working on the Visibles page, I also updated the generic "Click" links to instead show the class abbreviations, to match our VoA armor pages. I also updated the Alaran Language page to include the Alaran requirement for the Type 3 Augs.
January 4, 2012 - Back from holiday break
I hope everyone enjoyed the Holidays!
Today I spent a bunch of time on the site, updating things that have been neglected over the past couple weeks, due to the holidays and whatnot. All raid item links and event info is updated through Tier 3. I updated a bunch of group gear links again, I updated some PH and drop info, and I updated some named spawn locations and maps. I would like to thank everyone who has submitted information to us. I apologize that I did not get to respond to each one personally. I would like to send a special thank you out to the following people who have submitted information to us: Krukker, Gore, Baldbum, Drew, Amio, Oakenn, Genadine, Tettzou, and anyone else I may have forgotten (sorry!).
I would also like to mention that we are currently working out the details for the very first EQResource contest! There will be a 30 day EQ game card up for grabs, and possibly other nice prizes. Check back often, we hope to have this contest up and running this week!