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July 24, 2002
------------------------------
*** New Interface Available ***
The new EverQuest user interface is now available for use on Live
servers. Many of you will find that it runs faster than the old
interface. It is extremely customizable, and offers all sorts of
features including resizable windows, fading windows, a pet control
window, and flexibility through the XML files. We decided to offer it
for optional use as a sort of Beta II for folks on the Live servers
that haven't had the chance to try it out on the Test server.
To activate the new interface:
* Log into the game.
* Type /newui into the chat bar and hit enter.
* Log out and exit to your desktop and then log back in.
or
* Before you log in:
* Open the EQclient.ini file in your EverQuest folder with a text
editor (notepad works fine)
* Find the [Defaults] section of the file
* Add a line that reads: NewUI=TRUE
* Log in
We want to thank all the folks that have helped us test the interface
and have offered a wide variety of useful ideas.
Enjoy the interface!
*** Bazaar Now Available ***
Those of you that own Shadows of Luclin now have access to the /bazaar
and /trader functions. These functions only work in the Bazaar. You can
find the Bazaar on Luclin, adjacent to the Nexus and Shadowhaven.
/bazaar opens up the Bazaar Search Window, which allows you to easily
locate specific items for sale by Traders in the Bazaar. /trader opens
up the Bazaar Vendor window, which allows you to make items available
for sale to others in the Bazaar.
You can only use the Bazaar if you have the new interface turned on.
See the message above for details.
Again we'd like to thank the folks that helped us test this feature.
And we'd like to apologize for the delay in delivery of the Bazaar.
We think that you'll find the finished product to be a good one.
** ViewPort **
One of the new commands available only with the new interface is
/viewport. You can use this command to change the size of the gameplay
area.
/viewport [distance from left, distance from top, width, height]
All of the distances and numbers for the viewport command are in the
same measure as your screen resolution numbers.
For Example: Let's say you are running in 800 x 600 video mode and you
want to create view the game only in the top half of your screen (not
that you would). You would type:
/viewport 0 0 800 300
The top left of your screen is 0 and 0. 800 is the width of your
screen, and the 300 is one half of the height of the screen.
/viewport reset - will reset the viewport to the default setting.
** New Vah Shir Models **
We have developed new models for the Vah Shir for use with the old
world. You may now choose to turn off the Luclin version of the Vah
Shir models and use these new models if you wish. These new Vah Shir
models require less memory and you may want to use them in place of the
Luclin models to improve system performance.
** Spells **
- Fixed a bug with the bard songs Warsong and Battlecry of the Vah Shir
that caused them to slow you down when used without other haste
components. - Fixed a bug with bolt spells that caused double hits due
to elevation. Sorry Mages.
- Removed the "Ahhh... I feel much better now!" message from certain
spells when the caster is over level 35.
-Removed the reduction in damage to Damage over Time spells when used
on NPCs that are moving.
- Mind Wrack will now consider the z-axis when calculating the maximum
distance group members can receive the beneficial affects of the spell.
- Song of Sustenance should prevent unnecessary hungry and thirsty
messages.
- Bind Affinity can no longer be cast on any ungrouped player in
arenas.
- The caster of Voice Graft will once again see what is being said.
- Spells that transfer hit points over time from the caster to a target
will no longer take effect on the target (the hit point gainer) if the
caster (the hit point giver) isn't also affected by the spell.
- Added a spell effect message to Magician epic.
- Beastlords now get Endure Disease at level 24 and Resist Disease at
51
** Pets **
- Pet Resistance Changes: Pets will now use their master's level and
resistances when saving against spells cast by NPCs (against PCs pets
will use their own resistances and level as they always have) - unless
the pet has special resistances, in which case it will use that
resistance.
- Altered pet summoning spells so that they always summon the most
powerful pet possible, instead of pets within a 5 level range.
- /pet report health now uses the same user defined color as spell
text.
- /pet report health will now display a list of the effects on the pet.
- Mage fire pets should now cast their damage shields more often.
- Wizard, Druid and Cleric pets and familiars can now be buffed by
characters other than their owner.
** PvP **
- Fixed a bug on Tallon and Vallon Zek that made player characters in
non-human illusions immune to ranged attacks.
- It is no longer possible for PC's to fear other PC's at all on any
server. The same was also done for charm.
- Pets can no longer be affected by charm spells. This should fix the
issue that caused charm spells to make pets disappear.
- NPCs who are pets of players and call for help from other NPCs will
have their cries fall on deaf ears.
** Alternate Advancement **
- Dire Charm will now send a message to inform the caster that the
charm has broken by Feign Death.
- Spell Casting Subtlety should work properly for all levels of the
ability.
** Zone Specific **
- Corrected a problem with a treasure table in Marus Seru.
- The drakes in SkyShrine should no longer be dropping cloth caps. They
should now be producing Drake Eggs. The drakes are very happy about
this.
- The mountain lions in Steamfont now have jawbones. They are happier
about this than the Drakes are about their eggs.
- Hoshkar should no longer appear as a bag, qualifying him as the
happiest of them all.
** Horses **
- Fixed a bug that was allowing characters to change into illegal forms
while on horseback, causing some unusual displacement problems.
Characters will no longer be able to turn into those illegal forms
(elementals, for example) while on a horse.
** Quests **
- Corrected an issue with the Proudfoot Greaves recipe.
- The Vex Thal key quest has been changed slightly. Celestial Rifts
will no longer be used to create the key - a new item replaces them
called a Planar Rift. Planar Rifts are acquired by defeating the same
creature as before, however all future Rifts are going to be No-Drop.
A Celestial Rift can be placed in a forge by itself and 'combined' to
create a Planar Rift. Please be aware that the new Planar Rifts are No-
Drop, and should only be converted in a forge by the intended owner.
Old-style Celestial Rifts may be converted into the new Planar Rifts
for a period of one month from this patch. If you have any rifts
currently, be sure to convert them to the new style within 30 days.
This change is not intended to make it more difficult or time consuming
to acquire your Vex Thal key. Many players had brought forth concerns
regarding the ability to hoard Celestial Rifts, which had the potential
of causing some long-term issues. This fix addresses those concerns,
and does not add any difficulty for players currently working on this
quest.
** Items **
- Shissar-bane bows should be working.
- Irontoes Tipped Beer Stein should now look like a stein rather than a
bag when equipped.
- The Intricate Shield can now be used by Dwarves, High Elves, Iksar,
Vah Shir, Barbarians and Half Elves.
- Imbued Steelsilk Helms now have plate graphics.
- Large Fine Plate Boots can now be worn by Bards.
- Crustacean Shell Helm now has a graphic.
- Pickbringer's Chainmail Boots are now wearable by Gnomes.
- Forged Firebrand Halberd now has a halberd graphic rather than an axe
graphic. Also, because it is a two-handed slashing weapon, it can no
longer be used by Bards.
** Dialogues **
There were a few NPCs that were not responding properly to their quest
text. This has been fixed for the following NPCs: Wizard Schrock,
Seamey Whirewhisker, Oglard, Morgalanth Tal`Raeloen, Verona Rankin,
Gunex, Waltor Felligan, Nallar Q`Tentu, Lord Nethryn and Cilin
Spellsinger.
** Miscellaneous **
- NPCs no longer have a chance to break root when being healed or
buffed.
- /split no longer has a chance to cause a loss of coins if done while
a group member is gating.
** Grouping **
We have revamped the grouping system. This is a major rewrite of the
system that should have little effect on gameplay, with the exception
of removing the bugs with the old system. Players should no longer have
issues with their group due to the link-death of any member (including
the leader), zoning and other such issues. There is also a new command
available.
/makeleader - The leader of the group can now reassign who the leader
of the group is by use of this command.
*** News from Faydwer ***
It is rumored that the major cities of Faydwer have announced a call to
arms for all young adventurers. News of mysterious bloodthirsty goblins
to the west setting up encampments has prompted all residents of
Kaladim, Kelethin and Felwithe to all begin preparing themselves for
what they think may be a momentous battle. Intelligence originating
from the Scouts of Kaladim and Kelethin has informed their respective
leaders of a possible alliance between a mysterious aqua goblin tribe
and the Orcs of Clan Crushbone. Due to the possibility of an attack by
either or both of these powerful tribes, guildmasters of all cities
have begun the training of young soldiers brave enough to heed the call
to defend their homeland against all unknown creatures and new
inhabitants.
*** Call to Arms ***
Tarlain moved along through the tunnel at a brisk pace, a wistful smile
painting his weathered features. His arm reached out from under his
travel stained greatcloak so that his hand could traced the side wall
of granite while his mind recalled the many times he had passed through
this tunnel in his youth. It had been many years since and the memories
of his training in the woodland ways within the environs of Surefall
glade filled him with a peaceful nostalgia.
This nostalgia all but vanished as Tarlain rounded the final curve and
broke into the tree filtered sunlight of Surefall Glade and beheld a
most unexpected sight - a line of Qeynos foot soldiers marching past
the Ranger hall and on toward the far end of the Glade. What could
bring the forces of Qeynos here? Knowing this could not bode well,
Tarlain strode quickly to the Ranger hall, his eyes on the receding
backs of the footmen.
Reaching the main hall entrance, Tarlain's sight latched on to a
proclamation inked in the flowing hand of a Qeynos scribe and bearing
the seal of Antonius IV. It outlined the rising threat of Blackburrow
Gnolls invading and despoiling the previously sequestered Jaggedpine
Forest. Because of this danger Antonius has lifted his father's ruling
to protect those forests and now calls for able-bodied men and militia
to join in quelling the expansion of the vile Gnolls. Gritting his
teeth at the thought of Gnolls invading the pristine woodlands, Tarlain
turned and with a hand on his longsword, set off to catch up with the
guardsmen and throw in his lot against the dogs of Blackburrow.
(Note: Jaggedpine Forest is only available by using the optional files
download option in the advanced section of the EverQuest patcher. Be
aware that the download required for this new zone is relatively
large.)
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July 27, 2002 3:00 am
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Items fixed over the last few days or with this patch:
- Pets summons are now working correctly. We've fixed the error with
their maximum hit scores, along with giving some increases in offensive
skills to allow them to hit more accurately.
- Improved Singing Mastery to match the values given by Instrument
Mastery
- Corrected an issue with bard charm songs
- Various other fixes. :)
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August 14, 2002
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- New Luclin Port Spells for Druids & Wizards.
- Luclin Port Spells now usable from anywhere.
- New AA abilities added to Intelligence Casters and Priests.
- New Graphical Compass added to new UI.
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September 4, 2002 3:00 am
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Please note: there are a lot of changes going into the game with
today's patch. Some of these changes (such as the changes to
resistances and spell stacking) will change aspects of the game that
may make gameplay different. Keep this in mind when you log in. With
system-wide changes like these it is entirely possible that there are
still bugs. Please report these bugs using /bug, and know that we will
work to fix them as fast as we can. But also note that some intended
changes might appear as bugs (perhaps a spell no longer stacks with
another spell). Feel free to report these as bugs if you are unsure.
But please keep in mind the changes listed here as well.
** Petitions **
- /viewpetition displays the petition you have in the queue, if any.
- /deletepetition deletes the petition you have in the queue, if any
(unless that petition is currently being viewed by CS staff).
** Keyrings **
We will be resetting all keyrings with this patch. This will mean that
all existing keys in the keyrings will be removed. You will need to
place keys back onto the keyrings. Keys are added to the keyring by
using the key. The keyring is a part of the character, not a space in
inventory. To find out what keys you have just type /key and the game
will give you a list. If you have recently deleted a key, please
contact your GM for a replacement.
** Experience Changes **
- We have smoothed out level progression from 50-60. This should
mitigate the "penalty effect" that occurs in levels 51, 54 and 59. Note
that it will cost the same experience to level from 50 to 60 as it did
before. Also, death experience loss will appear different in some
levels. This is an unfortunate side effect that must remain to prevent
some experience exploits.
- We have rebalanced the rewards for killing NPCs for characters over
level 50. NPCs that are considerably weaker than you will give you less
experience. NPCs give more experience the higher level they are, and
for the best results you should fight the most challenging monsters you
can reasonably manage.
** Spells **
- Fixed the "You have been healed for X damage" message. It once again
reports the actual amount of damage healed.
- Added a message telling the caster when NPC can't be charmed.
- Fixed a bug with duration boosting Alternate Advancement abilities
and foci that was only allowing the first 12 buff slots to be modified
as opposed to all 15.
- Fixed a bug that was allowing focused and Alternate Advancement
ability enhanced damage spells to do more damage than they should
(meaning that both the Alternate Advancement and the Focus improve the
base damage. The focus damage was never supposed to compound with the
added AA damage.)
- Enchanter spells that have a hit point component and a stun component
can now be partially resisted.
-The Enchanter "visage" series has had their recast time reduced to
make them more useful.
-Shadowknight and Necromancer Drain type spells can now be clicked off
by the recipient of the beneficial portion of the spell. For example;
Shadowknights and their group members can now click off the effects of
spells such as Torrent of Hate. While the target of spells such as
Shadowbond can click it off if they so choose.
-Torrent of Hate should no longer overwrite Call of the Predator
- Repaired some problems with Beastlord stat buffs - specifically that
the higher level ones weren't always better than the lower level ones.
- Furious Strength made available to Beastlords at Level 54
- Dexterity made available to Beastlords at Level 57
- Stamina made available to Beastlords at Level 57
- Divine aura is now available to Paladins at level 51, instead of
level 55.
- Harmshield made available to Shadowknights at level 51
- Augment Death made available to Shadow Knights at Level 60
- Death Peace made available to Necromancers at level 60
- Flaming Sword of Xuzl has casting time reduced from 6 to 2.5 seconds,
recast increased from 2.5 to 60 seconds and mana cost lowered from 600
to 250.
- Unswerving Hammer of Faith has casting time reduced from 6 to 2.5
seconds, recast increased from 2.5 to 60 seconds and mana cost lowered
from 600 to 250.
-Added a new line of spells for Shadowknights, Voice of Darkness.
Merchants in Echo Caverns have been able to appropriate many of these
new spells, but Voice of Terris has so far eluded them.
-Added two new Mesmerize type spells for Bards, one at level 40, and
one at level 58. Rumor has it that Serilia Whistlewind has recovered
the melody written by Sionachie, but has been unable to locate the
transcript for the Dreams of Ayonae.
-Whispers in the taverns of Katta Castellum speak of recently
discovered Ancient melodies. Brave adventurers search far and wide for
the song of the ancient combine empire, and the Lullaby of Shadows.
- Higher level PCs will be more resistant to lower level NPCs' spells.
- Increased the number of spells that can be in effect on a given NPC
to 30.
** Spell Stacking Changes **
We've made two changes to the way spells stack.
Damage Over Time (DoT) spells are spells that linger on the target
doing damage. Until today two different characters could not have the
same DoT spell on the same target. As long as one copy of the spell was
active any new version of the spell would not take hold. After today
the same DoT spell cast by different casters can affect the same target
at the same time. Also, if you cast a DoT spell on a target and you
already have that spell active on it, the spell will refresh. (Note: It
will not be possible to stack Lifeburn).
This does not allow for inferior spells to stack along with superior
spells. (Example: Two Necromancers can both land Boil Blood on the same
target. However, Heat Blood, being an inferior spell, will still not
stack.)
Several DoT spells that have debuff components such as Tuyen's Chant of
Frost and Breath of Ro will not stack due to the balance issues of
having several hundred points of Resistance debuffs on a single NPC.
We've also rewritten the way that spells stack with other spells with
the same benefits (for example, to spells that give bonus hit points).
Generally speaking spells may now 'bounce' off each other (neither
overwriting the other) and stacking issues should now be easier to
resolve. In specific:
- Warder's Protection should have considerably fewer stacking and
overwrite issues. Thanks to the folks at the Ranger's Glade for all of
their help in 'tracking' this down.
- Druid Damage Shields should now all stack in the correct order.
- Druid HP buffs are no longer overwriting stronger cleric HP buffs.
- Harness of Spirit and Visions of Grandeur should interact a bit more
sanely.
- Existing effects should no longer be stripped off when the incoming
spell isn't going to take hold.
- Boon of Garou and other illusions now interact the right way.
- Spells that have both group and single target versions (and no
special coding to tell them otherwise) now mutually overwrite each
other.
** Resistance Changes **
We've made some fairly drastic changes to the way the spell resistance
system works. Previously, there was only the smallest benefit to having
resists over a certain value. We've reworked resistance in its
entirety, completely replacing the old system with one that is more
logical.
The idea behind the changes is pretty simple: Resists should matter in
a way that makes sense.
Important things to note about the new resistance system:
- Resists matter more for PCs. There are now tangible differences
between having 50, 150, and 250 in a given resistance, for example.
Resistance buffs, bard songs, and resist gear have actual value, all
the way up the line.
- Conversely, resistances also matter more for NPCs. Some NPCs became
more vulnerable to things they have always been vulnerable to, other
NPCs became more resistant to things that they were inclined to be
somewhat resistant to.
- Resistance debuffs should also have more value, all the way up the
line. For the first time, resistance debuffs now have the ability to
bring NPCs that were lure-style only down into the range of being hit
by normal spells.
- The hard level limit involving players casting on NPCs has been
removed. This used to be referred to in EQ folklore as the "Six Level
Limit" (It was actually 1.25 times the caster's level, but more people
likely thought about it the other way.) This means that in the vast
majority of cases, there is at least a small chance that a person will
be able to connect a spell with an NPC, even if they are out of that
NPC's traditional level range.
- Overall, against NPCs that have medium-to-high resistances of a given
type, expect to see more full hits, fewer partials, but more full
resists in the new system. Taken over time, the damage done by PC
casters to semi-high resistance NPCs should be approximately the same,
but will definitely improve when the proper debuffs are applied (we
wanted to make sure that this did not turn into a universal nerf of
casters).
We look forward to seeing how these changes play out in front of a
larger audience.
** Line of Sight Changes **
- For spells that require Line of Sight (LoS), the LoS check is now at
the beginning of the spellcast, not the end.
- Spells that require but do not have of LoS will now fail immediately.
- Harmful spells require LoS.
- Most Beneficial spells still do not require LoS.
- Bind Sight type spells do not require LoS.
- Any beneficial spell containing a Cancel Magic component requires
LoS.
** Priest Changes **
- Clerics gain the Bash skill beginning at level 25. They will have a
maximum skill of 125 at level 50, 165 at level 60.
- Clerics gain Hammer of Judgement - a level 56 summoned hammer with a
powerful and frequent proc effect
- Clerics gain Yaulp V - a level 56 self-only melee and mana regen buff
that adds haste, dexterity, mana regeneration and stamina regeneration.
- Clerics gain Ethereal Elixir - a level 60 group version of Celestial
Elixir, the heal-over-time spell.
- Clerics gain Ethereal Light - a level 58 upgrade of Divine Light, the
single target heal spell.
- Clerics gain Ethereal Remedy - a level 59 upgrade of Remedy, the
single target heal spell.
** Sound and Music **
- We've started work on the sound and music engine. If you used to have
sound/music bugs, the first upgrade today might help a bit. This is the
first step down a long road. If your particular sound/music issue isn't
fixed, please be patient. There's no need to re-report existing
sound/music bugs.
** Items **
- Items now display level-restricted statistics besides armor class and
damage as a red number with the unrestricted value in parentheses.
- Duration focus items now give focus message when a group spell lands
on caster.
- Blessed Coldain Prayer Shawl has been given a minor upgrade.
- Small Cloth Sandals are no longer wearable by large races.
- Fixed the Plane of Mischief boxes.
** Pets **
- Changed Specter pets so they're able to equip items and armor.
- Pet-only buffs now automatically attempt to target your pet if you
cast them with the wrong target or no target at all.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent the creation of Familiars and Warders
if the caster had created more than 99 in the same zone during the
current game session.
- The limit on the amount of haste that can be applied to a pet has
been changed (aka. The Pet Haste Cap). The amount of haste that can be
placed on a pet now scales with the level of its owner. The scaling
occurs in a way that is consistent with how much haste a given caster
can place on his own pet (using a Level 56 Magician as an example: The
idea is that both Burnout IV and Muzzle of Mardu should be useful).
** User Interface **
- Deleting Spells from Spellbook: Storebought spells can be deleted
from your spellbook. To delete a spell just right-click it to highlight
it and tap the DELETE key. Please note: This does not convert the spell
back into a scroll. You will have to buy a new scroll if you wish to
re-scribe the spell. No reimbursements will be made for deleted spells.
- Item Links: When you inspect an item with Alt-Left-Click, the item
inspect window stays up. To paste a "link" to the item you're looking
at into your chat bar, click on the item's graphic. That will "speak" a
link that others can click on to see the stats of the item, as if they
were inspecting it themselves.
- Updated the /note window. The old /note command still works as it
always has. But you can now use /note without additional text to
produce a text window for entering note text. The /note command window
should not break existing skins.
- Fixed a bug with the tracking window that was showing the sorting set
for something other than normal for non-rangers (this was just a visual
bug).
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused a crash when zoning with the corpse
window open.
- Added UI Label type #74 = Player Title
- "Reply to" will properly prepend a ;tell in front of names that are
from other servers.
- Extended the "reply to" queue to 50 names.
- Fixed some aesthetics with labels. Percentages will never show above
100 now (even during a heal). Corpse HP will always show 0.
- There will now be sound when banking coins.
** Bazaar **
- Added Focus Effect search parameter to the Bazaar.
- Items that are no-drop on other servers but tradable on Firiona Vie
should now show up in Bazaar searches on that server.
** Alternate Advancement **
- Frenzied Burnout no longer makes the pet suicide after the buff's
duration ends.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the Dire Charm ability not to reset if
an enchanter used it when he already had a pet.
- Fixed a bug that was causing Dire Charm to not give the "this mob
cannot be Dire Charmed" message or reset the timer in Cazic-Thule.
- Added the Quest Completion sound to AA point dings.
** Quests **
- There is a fellow named Moltak in Sol Temple. Killing him gives a
negative faction adjustment with the True Spirit faction. BUT, if you
have a very, very bad faction with True Spirit, killing him will also
reset your faction to a more tolerable level. So don't mess with this
fellow unless folks on the True Spirit faction are willing to kill you
on sight.
- Made some modifications to the faction effects of the Wizard Epic
quest.
- A powerful warder has been seen in the Skyfire Mountains. Those who
seek retribution against Ragefire would be wise to speak to her, she
may be able to provide information about his whereabouts.
** Miscellaneous **
- Merchants now display up to 80 items in their inventory. There should
also be less delay when opening up merchant windows.
- The Help window will now be displayed on startup. This will happen
only if it has never been seen before (since this change).
- Sirens should have female voices.
- Bloodgill Goblins should now sound like goblins.
- Several spell caster guild masters are now teaching magic skills. In
Shadowhaven: Palomidiar Allakhaji, Loewnsaz_Waldalon and Lamukas
Kaesoanls. In Echo Caverns: Kelador, Celerik, Wirgus and Yurian.
- Erudites of Prexus now start at the proper location.
- Bards singing songs should no longer prevent group members from
/split'ting coins. Only teleportation spells being cast in group will
prevent /split'ting. This change was required to keep coin from
disappearing if a /split occurred while a person was in the process of
leaving a zone.
- Leather Padding can now be made from Rockhopper Hides.
- The EverQuest Team
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September 26, 2002 3:00 am
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** Planes of Power Pre-Order Bonus **
If you pre-order the PoP expansion you will be able to purchase the
Planes of Power original soundtrack CD for just an additional $4.95.
*** Important Notice about Alternate Advancement ***
- When a character has 30 or more AA points, they will receive a red
message stating:
Warning: You are currently over the earned Advancement point limit of
30. Please spend some of your stored AA points. You will not be able to
earn further AA points until you have fewer than 30. On October 21,
2002, all points over 30 in your AA pool will be deleted.
It seems appropriate that Advancement points earned prior to the
release of Planes of Power be used for abilities from earlier
expansions. In addition, many of the Luclin abilities are pre-
requisites for Planes of Power abilities. When the servers come up on
October 21st, all unused Alternate Advancement point pools over 30 will
be wiped.
** New Spell Effects **
We are implementing a few new spell effects using our new particle
effects engine with this patch as a way of easing into the new system.
The new effects are faster and give you more control over how they
look. We have changed the Display Options menu to accommodate these new
options.
On the Display tab of the options window you will now find four options
regarding particle effects. The first three, listed under Spell
Particles are Near Clip Plane, Density and Opacity. These are the
options for controlling the new particle effects. They will not change
the old particle effects. The old particles are controlled using the
Other Particles option.
Note on Near Clip Plane: This option chooses how close to you particles
cease to be visible. So Near allows particles to be seen right up to
the character. Farthest will clip out particles near the character and
only show those at the 'farthest' distance.
Note on Opacity: This feature works at all settings for cards that
support TnL. For other cards setting Opacity to 0% will turn off the
effects and any other setting will show them fully.
We'll leave it up to you to discover which spells have the new
particles...
** Alternate Advancement **
- Beastlords now have access to the Mend Companion ability.
- Beastlords now have access to three unique class alternate
advancements.
- Permanent Illusion used with Wolf Form should no longer result in a
wolf tinted by the Enchanter's robe.
- Updated Finishing Blow -
"This ability gives you a chance to finish off an NPC that is below 10
percent health and fleeing with a single blow. The first level works on
NPC's below 50, the second on NPC's below 52, and the third on NPC's
below 54. (Non-Warriors must first train one level of Combat Fury to
use this ability.) "
- Improved Combat Fury for non-warriors to give more value to the
points spent after level 1.
** Spells **
- New Druid and Shaman heal spells are available.
- The "Your XXX Spell Has Worn Off" messages for DoT spells will now go
to the right character.
- Illusions that are of a character type that can't wear armor, such as
werewolf, will no longer cause the character to be naked when the
illusion drops.
- Fixed the Illusion wolf form swimming animation.
- Shaman and Beastlord Shrink spell has had its location restriction
removed.
- The outcasts of Echo Caverns have deciphered new magics that allow
Dark Knights to channel the essence of terror into their enemies minds.
While their initial findings have proven very powerful, rumors exist of
even greater magics that might channel the nightmares of Terris Thule
herself into the minds of mortals. Where that power might be found is
not yet known.
** Items **
- Items that grant bonuses to bandage skill should be working now.
- Guise of the Hunter no longer makes the user appear to be naked.
- Validus Custodus Battle Axe no longer looks like a bard mandolin when
equipped by a pet.
** PvP Servers and Gameplay **
- The recent resist changes have been adjusted for PvP. They will not
be exactly as they were prior to the resist change, but they should be
reasonable now. Please let us know if you feel they need further
adjustment.
- Player characters will no longer lose experience in the Arena areas
on the Sullon Zek server.
- A player character can no longer tell his pet to attack another
player's horse when not on a PvP area or in a duel.
- Kael, Skyshrine, and Thurgadin on Sullon Zek no longer have the
newbie protection code active.
- Players should once again be able to use level-restricted clickable
buffs on the Sullon Zek server.
** Pets **
- Improved Beastlord pets to scale more reasonably with the level of
the Beastlord after level 40. This also puts them into line with the
last round of pet balancing, which did not improve beastlord pets at
the time.
** Horses **
- Locate corpse songs/spells should now work on horseback.
- Detect traps should also now work on horseback.
- Fixed a bug that was preventing manipulation of inventory items if a
character died with coins on the cursor.
- Invisibility on horseback should now make your horse invisible to
NPCs as it does the rider.
- Zoning with Levitate/Levitation and horse no longer causes the
levitation to fail.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the horse 'buff' to disappear when
zoning in some zones.
- Player characters on horseback can now be hit by various missiles,
such as arrows, thrown weapons or the various bolt spells from PCs and
NPCs.
- Call of the Hero should no longer put people under the world when the
caster is on horseback.
- Dragging a corpse while on a horse will no longer cause the corpse
fall under the world.
- You can now right click on spells to arrange your spell book when on
a horse.
** Zone Specific **
- We believe that we fixed the major source of lockups caused for
players in certain zones such as the Great Divide and Shadowhaven.
- Hierophant Oxyn in East Cabilis will be showing up again.
*** The Following User Interface Files have been changed with this patch ***
Updated:
equi.xml
equi_aawindow.xml
equi_optionswindow.xml
New:
equi_gemsgamewnd.xml
** User Interface **
- The New User Interface will default to ON. Officially, it is now just
The User Interface and the other interface is now the Old User
Interface. :)
- The Fade to Transparency option should now affect all bags.
- PC/NPC name on/off settings will now be saved when leaving the game.
- CTRL key being pressed while looking up or down no longer creates a
cycle of constant panning up or down of the camera.
- Wrapping in the middle of the first word in an Item Tag no longer
causes all text from then on being included in the tag.
- Fixed bug with Item Tags for items that contain comma's in their
name.
- Pet sit button will now change to stand button if the pet is already
sitting.
- Added Item Tags to list of buttons in the Chat Options page, you can
now change the color of the tags.
- Item Tags now appear as part of the standard "You have looted an X"
messages.
- Hair should no longer disappear in Character Creation of Female Ogre
with Luclin models on.
- The Tracking window selection color is no longer the same as a yellow
con mob.
** Miscellaneous **
- Fixed a bug with /hidecorpse making corpses invisible, but still be
targetable.
- /Gems is now available in both User Interfaces.
** An Ancient Arises **
Deep within the recesses of a cave yet unknown to the world at large, a
dark, menacing figure parts with the slumber that has kept him silent
for ages. The eyes of a magnificently ominous beast pierce through the
darkness, his memories flowing freely once more. In the depths of this
beast's mind sparks the knowledge that his prophetic savior has been
released from the ancient magiks of time, let loose upon an
unsuspecting world where the kin shall once again reign supreme.
"My master's shackles have been trounced, and so it is written that in
this world that has been so deftly overrun by pitiful mortals, he shall
bring power back to those of the scale." The deep rumbling voice of the
beast lingers throughout the cavernous hideaway, the barely
distinguishable figure of a mighty lizard moves through the stone and
dirt and dust as if to leave the gloomy surroundings and find his place
once again upon Norrath proper.
"For far too long have I been a prisoner to the overwhelming might that
kept me in a state of secluded sleep; for far too long have I been
victim to the ancestral elemental forces keeping my master at bay. Now
I awaken and bring life back to the disciples; now shall the lifeblood
of the Four once again spread the word of prophecy!" The footsteps of
this great beast are slow but sure, moving through the depths of the
gaping mountain retreat towards the surface. Along the walls, pebbles
and stones that have remained dormant for years crumble and crack,
falling to the ground as the immense beast walks past.
A maze of dead ends and broken paths twists and turns in the expanse
beyond the figure's resting place. The skeletons of those who had tried
- and failed - to make their way to him in the years he spent in forced
slumber remain, tumbled landmarks of heroes long lost. Slowly he moves,
his reptilian eyes darting back and forth looking for any meager meals
that may still be available. As he proceeds, he steps atop a mighty
echelon, overlooking the bodies that could not defy the magical
properties of the cave; fools of mortal thought, incapable of fathoming
the power that lay beyond them. "Time has been good to you, my faithful
warren... let us both pray that I no longer need you. The time for the
revival is at hand."
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September 27, 2002 1:00 am
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This patch fixes a number of issues that first arose in yesterday's
patch. We apologise for the additional Scheduled Downtime Page.
- Zones should be considerably more stable.
- Item links no longer cause display lockups.
- NPCs once again choose their targets properly.
- Gravity Flux-type spells again function properly.
- The Guildmasters of Sanctus Seru are no longer quite as mean as they
were previously.
- Ring of Flamewarding is again wearable by Wizards.
Thank you for your patience, and have a good weekend!
- The EverQuest Team
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October 16, 2002 4:30 am
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** Odd New Objects in the Land **
Folks across Norrath and on Luclin have reported seeing odd new objects
in various locations. They appear to be some sort of magical portal,
though local spell casters have yet to discover how they arrived or
exactly what their purpose is. They have determined, however, that
these objects are slowly building in power. Attempting to use these
portals at this time can have unexpected results. Experts recommend
that adventurers avoid these objects until they know more. For more
information on these odd devices, visit www.planesofpower.com
** Important Notice Regarding Alternate Advancement Reimbursement **
Due to the changes made to Manaburn, Rods of Mystical Transvergence and
a previous change to Innate Regeneration, we are reimbursing several
Alternate Advancement (AA) abilities.
Once you log in today, if you have any of these abilities, please check
your AA window immediately! If you have more than 30 unspent points, IT
IS VERY IMPORTANT that you make certain that your character has 30 or
fewer AA points before The Planes of Power launches on October 21st!
The return of these AA points may put your total number of unspent
points over the 30 point maximum. Your pool will be reduced to 30 the
first time you log in after the launch of Planes of Power on October
21st.
We will be refunding all Alternate Advancement points in the following
abilities:
Innate Regeneration
Manaburn
Mental Clarity
Quick Summoning
Refunded Alternate Advancement points may be spent in any way you
choose. None of these abilities is being removed, and of them only
Manaburn is changing.
NOTE: Cannibalization, Gather Mana, and Mind and Body Rejuvenation will
not function if you do not have the necessary prerequisite, Mental
Clarity 3.
** Alternate Advancement **
- Mana Burn will only land any given target only once every minute. If
a cast of Mana Burn is unable to land, the timer will not be used.
- Spell Casting Mastery once again works in the same manner that it did
before the previous patch
- Spell Casting Fury and Soul Abrasion will now stack
- Illusion Tree and Minor Illusion will no longer be affected by
Permanent Illusion
- Fixed Purify Soul. It should now cure poison, disease, damage over
time spells as initially intended
- Reduced the reuse timer on Divine Resurrection from 72 hours to 36
hours
- Reduced the reuse timer on Mend Companion from 144 minutes to 36
minutes
- Reduced the reuse timer of Warcry from 72 minutes to 36 minutes.
Increased its duration from 5 seconds per rank of the ability to 10
seconds per rank of the ability
** Defensive Changes **
- Decreased Monks' ability to mitigate damage (please see the
Developer's Update on www.everquestlive.com for more details)
- Improved the ability of Paladins, Shadowknights, Warriors and Bards
to mitigate damage in some situations
- Upgraded Warrior dodge cap to 190
- Upgraded Paladin, Shadowknight and Bard dodge cap to 170
- Upgraded Ranger and Beastlord dodge to 170 and defense to 240
** Spells **
- Complete Healing will now heal a maximum of 7,500 hit points
- The Rod of Mystical Transvergence spell has been altered. The spell
has been renamed to "Mass Mystical Transvergence". When cast, this
spell summons a Rod of Mystical Transvergence for everyone within 300
feet. This rod is no drop and contains 3 charges of Mystical
Transvergence. Each charge restores 360 mana at the cost of 450 health.
A player may only use a charge from the rod once every 5 minutes.
- Additionally, there is a new "Rod of Mystical Transvergence" spell
for sale in the Bazaar. This is a single target spell that summons a
rod with 3 charges of Mystical Transvergence. This rod has the same
abilities and restrictions listed above. This spell is a targeted
summon that costs 400 points of mana to cast.
- Changed the way Focus stacks with other strength and dexterity buffs
- Circle of Seasons will overwrite Resist Cold
- Dance of the Blade should now stack with McVaxius's Rousing Rondo
- Harness of Spirit and Rage should now stack properly
- Fufil's Curtailing Chant should now stack with Occlusion of Sound
- Protection of the Glades should now overwrite Blessed Armor of the
Risen
- Blessed Armor of the Risen should now stack with Lunar Whispers
- Fixed a bug that was causing some applications of spells and ranged
attacks from great distance to go unnoticed by NPCs
- Contact Innates (such as Boon of the Garou) should now be working for
bards
- Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause helmets and sometimes hair to
disappear after an illusion was cast
- Bard songs should now blink on recipients other than the bard
** Encounters **
Due to the number of Luclin encounters requiring original Rods of
Transvergence to be defeated by a reasonably sized force, a number of
those encounters have been be re-tuned to shorten their duration.