Darkpaw is giving everyone a chance to play for free on a progression server this weekend.
Check out the article here.
Today the May 2024 Update hits the servers. If you are curious what is being patched in, check out the test patch notes here.
Highlights
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The EverQuest Team
- Level 50 Heroic characters are now available on servers that have unlocked Planes of Power.
- A new heritage crate, the Guktan Heritage Crate, is available in the marketplace.
- The achievement for 25th Anniversary Raid Challenges now has a reward allowing for the choice of one of the augments found in the raid chest. See below for details.
- The game client can once again launch in full screen mode and switching between desktop windows should be smoother!
- Vestments of the Forsaken may not be claimed until Call of the Forsaken unlocks.
- The Alternate Advancement abilities Taelosian Guard and Ancestral Memories III found on the Lost Legacies evolving necklaces should now function correctly.
- If you claim a bag of items and have no room, the items inside the bag will now correctly be added to your overflow items.
- Bash attacks once again proc effects from the equipped shield or shield augments for all classes.
- Laurion's Song weapons that had Stunning Snap now have Stunning Snap II.
- Updated the zone descriptions of the Night of Shadow options of the Collection Item dispenser.
- Red Flaming Fist Ornament should now work correctly for all one hand and hand to hand weapons
- The achievement for 25th Anniversary Raid Challenges now has a reward allowing for the choice of one of the augments found in the raid chest. These augments will continue to drop from the raid chest.
- Made a speculative fix for Sleeper's Tomb fabled NPC spawns.
- Added a chance for Lord Bergurgle's Crown to drop from other aqua goblins in Lake Rathe.
- Fixed the issue with Va Xi Aten Ha Ra resetting herself. This was caused by her flinging herself too high and leaving her tether area. Increased the height of her tether and added a message that tells you when she resets via leaving her area.
- Everfrost Peaks, Year of Darkpaw - Broken Key of Frost - The key can no longer be repaired before the correct step.
- - Increased the total melee damage cap and minimum melee damage threshold for all ranks of the following spells:
- Enchanter/Magician/Necromancer/Wizard - Shield of Order, Shield of Destiny, Shield of Inevitability, and Shield of Inescapability
- Enchanter - Tenebrous Auspice, Crepuscular Auspice, Eclipsed Auspice, and Gloaming Auspice
- Warrior - Warrior's Bastion, Warrior's Rampart, Warrior's Aegis, and Warrior's Resolve
- Bard - Lowered the proc chance for the Song of Suffering line by a little and increased the proc damage by a lot.
- Bard - Increased the spell damage added by the Performer's Explosive Aria line of songs.
- Bard - Lowered the melee proc chance for the Arcane Anthem line of songs by a little and increased damage for melee and spell procs by a lot.
- Bard - Significantly increased the damage added by the Aria and Fatesong lines of songs.
- Bard - Adjusted all ranks of the chants of Disease, Frost, Poison and Flame. Songs no longer vary in power with the level of the singer. Songs from level 76 to level 110 are much more powerful. Songs from level 111 to 125 are slightly less powerful. All songs from 81 and up now have the same maximum instrument modifier.
- Fixed some typos in the descriptions of the recently changed area of effect spells..
- Increased the total melee damage cap and minimum melee damage threshold for all ranks of the following AAs:
- Paladin - Champion's Oath
- Shadow Knight - Reaver's Bargain
- Bard - Updated the Focus AA, Improved Chants, to provide a smoother growth rate for the damage bonus it provides. New ranks have been added, but the current max bonus of 550% has not increased. Instead, we've halved the bonus AND the cost assigned to ranks 46-55, spreading the remainder across 10 new ranks that you will be able to purchase immediately with the refund provided by ranks 46-55. Additionally, ranks 1-23 are now available in earlier expansions that correspond to their minimum level requirements, starting with Underfoot.
- Necromancer - Updated the Class AA, Life Burn, ranks 19-22, to support stacking on the same target when cast by multiple Necromancers. Also, reduced the base damage/healing per tick at ranks 21 and 22 to 200k/10k and 275k/12.5k. The level scalar on the damage component remains unchanged.
- Paladin - Fixed an issue with the new activated Class AA, Champion's Oath, that let its triggered spells, Oathbound Tithe and Oathbreaker's Penance, be added to the Blocked Buffs list.
- Paladin/Shadow Knight - Updated the Class AA, Weapon Mastery of the Knight, ranks 23-47, to have a slightly reduced minimum 2H weapon damage bonus per rank.
- Shadow Knight - Updated the Class AA, Mortal Coil, ranks 18-26, to provide a smaller armor class bonus and a flat 2-minute duration. The cost of these ranks has also decreased, which will result in an automatic points refund for all players who purchased them.
- Shadow Knight - Updated the Class AA, Soul Abrasion, ranks 19-28, to provide a smaller base lifetap damage bonus to the Shroud, Horror, and Touch of the Cursed spells/abilities while providing a larger bonus to the Spite spell line.
- NPCs are less likely to use the terrain to hide from combat. Widened the melee combat arc slightly to allow for your wilder swings.
- Removed three enemies that could approach the Plane of Knowledge book in Shadeweaver's Tangle.
- Corrected an issue that prevented zoning into a zone with too many people in it.
- Added more details to the message received when you are unable to loot an item.
- Added the option to add a player to your friend or ignore list by clicking their name in a chat window.
- Corrected an issue with some items not being placed into the correct slot when loading a saved Persona equipment set.
- The output from /netstats now all goes to the same chat filter.
- Corrected an issue that caused certain illusions to place you under the world when zoning.
- Corrected an issue that caused a global Marketplace discount to override an item's higher discount.
- Fixed a DirectX 11 crash on Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.0 machines.
- The following server transfer settings have been updated:
- Rizlona can now transfer to Mangler and Aradune.
- Vaniki can now transfer to Mangler.
- Yelinak can now transfer to Mangler, Rizlona, Aradune, Mischief, and Thornblade.
- Oakwynd can now transfer to Mangler, Rizlona, Aradune, Mischief, Thornblade, and Yelinak.
- Agnarr can now transfer to Mischief and Thornblade.
- Increased the NPC buff limit to 320 buffs and debuffs.
- Fixed kaleidoscopic rendering artifacts.
- Made a speculative fix for a UI crash related to the new Name Reservation window.
- Overseer experience now displays correctly after changing personas.
- Clicking the Disable Reminder button in the Name Reservation Window no longer causes that button to disappear.
- The game client can once again launch in full screen mode and switching between desktop windows should be smoother.
- EQUI_CharacterCreate.xml
- EQUI_Inventory.xml
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- Corrected an issue where certain race/class combinations could be created before the appropriate expansion had launched.
- Barren Coast, Tempest Festival – Lessons of Madness – The area of the 3rd & 4th steps of cleansing the pearl has been increased.
- Barren Coast, Tempest Festival – Lessons of Madness – The final fight has been changed to killing one scrykin and how the pearl is changed from corrupted to cleansed. It should no longer remove everyone in the group's pearl.
- Corrected an issue where Claws of Veeshan raids were not awarding alternate currency
The EverQuest Team
Here are the site updates for the month of April.
Click on Read More to see all of them.
Darkpaw Games has posted the two new rulesets for their upcoming TLP servers, Tormax, and Teek.
Along with this information is how you can reserve an ingame character name on either server.
Check out the articles below.
https://www.everquest.com/news/eq-tlp-rulesets-2024
https://www.everquest.com/news/eq-name-reservation-2024
With today's game update, more Year of the Darkpaw content will be available.
You can find information on the Year of the Darkpaw content here.
25th Anniversary information can be found here.
Highlights
The EverQuest Team
- Weapon base damage and backstab values have been increased to bring them back in line with original intentions. This affects weapons from Night of Shadows back to The Burning Lands.
- Extra Planar Potential Shards will now drop in Laurion Inn zones, as well as mission zones going back to Torment of Velious.
- The Legacies Lost and Selenelion evolving items no longer have class restrictions.
- Weapon base damage and backstab values have been increased to bring them back in line with original intentions. This affects weapons from Night of Shadows back to The Burning Lands.
- Guardian's Argent Mask, Sterling Mask of Brilliance, Silver Mask of Adroitness, Argent Ring of Vigor, Sterling Ring of Brilliance, and Silver Ring of Adroitness now have augment slots.
- Reduced the experience granted by the 22nd-anniversary heroic adventure Unity.
- Fixed an issue that would cause the Inner Turmoil raid to reset if a construct of agony is charmed.
- 25th Anniversary achievements that referenced "Katta Castrum" as the zone for Ghrald McManus should now correctly reference "Katta Castellum."
- Barren Coast, Tempest Festival – Lessons of Madness – The area of the 3rd & 4th steps of cleansing the pearl has been increased.
- Barren Coast, Tempest Festival – Lessons of Madness – The final fight has been changed to killing one scrykin and how the pearl is changed from corrupted to cleansed. It should no longer remove everyone in the group's pearl.
- Greater Faydark, Year of Darkpaw - Broken Key of Forests - The quest now has expansion requirements for the higher level enslaved miners.
- The Mechanical Fortune Teller will now mention 25th anniversary events.
- Final Fugue raid: the Plucked achievement will now be granted properly and will notify anyone that failed to qualify as well as those that succeeded or failed.
- Stone Hive, Brew Day - Vintage Toy Ships - The spelling of Willful Sloop has been updated.
- Paladin and Shadowknight - Corrected the degeneration values for the Steely Stance line of spells.
- Druid and Wizard - Teleportation spells for Shadow Valley no longer refer to Laurion Inn in their description.
- We are limiting most detrimental Area of Effect spells that did not have a limit to 30 targets.
- Merged the DoN Progression AA lines, Gift of the Dark Reign and Gift of the Keepers, into a new faction-agnostic line called Gift of the Nest. The new line is functionally identical to both of the previous lines and is still earned in exactly the same way. However, the new line is no longer lost when switching faction. Additionally, the new line is now shared between Personas. The Advancement achievements associated with these AAs have also been updated so that level 60 characters with the proper faction and progression criteria can see them.
- Paladin - Added a new activated Class AA, Champion's Oath. See the in-game AA description for details.
- Shadowknight - Updated Reaver's Bargain ranks 1 and 2 to now absorb 5% of all incoming damage with mana at a rate of 100 to 40 mana, but reduced the amount of melee damage absorbed on those ranks. Added 4 new ranks at levels 110 / 115 / 120 / 125. The buff now ticks down in no-combat zones.
- Magician - Fixed an issue with the class AA, Host of the Elements, which prevented the rank 40 pet from attacking.
- Added a speculative fix for NPCs pathing under the world and becoming unhittable.
- Fixed an issue where mercenaries would not load with the additional health from Improved Health AAs when zoning or unsuspending.
- Set some 15th and 16th anniversary NPCs in Plane of Knowledge and the 15th anniversary event to activate in Rain of Fear.
- Fixed kaleidoscopic rendering artifacts and related crashes.
- Improved client log file processing performance.
- Fixed the write frequency of LogInterval=0 setting so that it's truly immediate, instead of at 1 second intervals. Please check your eqclient.ini setting for LogInterval=0 as this setting could adversely impact performance. As a reminder, the default setting is LogInterval=1 (or via the game command /loginterval 1).
- Guild banners and fellowship campfires will now check the height when determining if enough members are within range for them to be planted.
- Instanced zones will again attempt to suspend mercenaries if there are too many players in the zone.
- Corrected an issue that caused some quests from the most recent expansions to reward less experience than intended.
- ClientCore variables in eqclient.ini now set affinity to a physical core (two virtual CPU) for improved performance. Legacy values that conflict with other EQ client instances are reset to -1.
- Updated /copylayout functionality to include new UI window positions, Alternate Currency list column widths, and Persona Auto Load/Save Equipment Set checkbox values.
- NameReservationWnd.html
- EQUI_NameReservationWnd.xml
- EQUI.xml
- main.css
- TargetOfTargetWindow.html
- Chasing What's Not Real: Made a speculative fix for an issue where the task would not update when examining the empty meeting room.
- Optimized NPC respawn processing and reduced its contribution to per-frame spikes by at least 50%.
- Pressing the ESC key during the tutorial cut scene no longer hangs the client.
- Fixed several client crashes.
- Fixed screenshot alpha for BMP and PNG formats.
- Fixed spell descriptions on Silver Protecting and Silver Warding Magic of Jubilation augments to indicate they offer resists to magic spells rather than cold.
- Players on Oakwynd will no longer be disconnected for being AFK for an extended period.
- The alternate currency server bonus should now affect adventure points.
The EverQuest Team
Darkpaw Games has posted a new Producer Letter. Some of the news on this letter contains the rulesets on the new TLP's that are ready to release May 22nd, 2024.
Check out the post here.
Click Read More to see all of the updates for the month of March 2024.
Darkpaw Games has added some cool new swag items for Everquest if you haven't heard. Check out the new items on their swag store.
Those of you content creators on social media sites, Daybreak has launched their content creator program!
You can see information regarding this new program here.
Check out our Anniversary Page to see what all is active right now.
Check out Darkpaw's information on the 25th Anniversary.
With the anniversary events, we'll get the following if you log in from now until April 20th, 2024 at 11PM PDT.
- 50% experience bonus
- Royal Silver Crown Ornament (one per character)
- Darkpaw Torch Ornament (one per character) - All Access Members only
- Level 100 Heroic Character (one per account) - All Access Members only
- Goblet of Adventure II (one per account) - All Access Members only
Also check out the Daybreak Marketplace, all of the past Heritage Crates will be on sale until April 1st, 2024.
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