Spent the weekend trying to do older Anniversary Quests solo with my Wizard.  I successfully did one for the 15th Anniversary of the three or four listed.  Failed to complete one on time and did not try the other.

I then tried the 16th Anniversary Quests as a solo and died several times over and over on all of them.  I gave up.  LOL, Wizards are not good at soloing…

March 18, 2020
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*** Items ***

– A mysterious presence will only sell McKenzie’s Brew’s when Veil of Alaris is unlocked.
– You may now only gain one Collection Dispener items from the Overseer system. Also, there are some rewards that only offer a chance at gaining a collection item. The chance is in the name. The rewards that only give a chance offer an amount of Overseer Tetradrachm to make up for the fact that it’s only a chance to gain a collection item.
– Overseer Tetradrachms are no longer trade-able. They are still heirloom.
– Overseer rewards of Tradeskill items and Collectibles unlock one expansion behind. I.E. The Burning Lands collectibles are available when Torment of Velious unlocks, the Torment of Velious crafting supplies are unavailable until the next expansion unlocks.
– Increased the price on most items sold for Overseer Tetradrachm.
– You must be a gold member to choose the collection dispensers, ornament dispensers, or tradeskill items from the overseer rewards. Overseer rewards and other rewards are available to all membership levels.
– Added all races and classes to the Common Agent Catalyst.

*** Quests And Events ***

– Updated the calendar event text and alert text to more correctly describe this year’s anniversary events.
– Tower of Frozen Shadow raid events – Made the following changes:
– – Heart of Frozen Shadow – Fixed a bug that caused the ‘It’s a No Slow from Me, Dog’ achievement to always be granted. For real this time.
– – Heart of Frozen Shadow – Fixed a bug that caused many spells to fail to land on drolvarg NPCs and displayed a message that you had failed an achievement when spells did land on them.
– – Tserrina Syl`Tor – Fixed a bug that prevented one of Tserrina’s mechanics from working in her final phase. For real this time.
– – Tserrina Syl`Tor – Moved the key from Tserrina to the reward chest.
– Fixed issues with Discuit’s dialogues that allowed players to skip parts of his quest.

*** Miscellaneous ***
– Corrected an issue preventing some players from receiving the tutorial Overseer Agent if they had received any Agents prior to opening the Overseer window for the first time.
– Modified the success and fail chances of Overseer quests to succeed more often.
– Fixed a timing issue that could cause dates measured across Daylight Savings Time changes to be off by one.

*** UI ***
– Modified the default width of the Overseer window so that you can select agents on smaller screens.

– Changed –
EQUI_OverseerWnd.xml

– The EverQuest Team

Hail Norrathians, 

It’s hard for us to fathom that it’s been 21 years since this grand adventure began The myriad lands and challenges you’ve all completed have brought us an incredible sense of awe time and time again. We couldn’t be happier to share another year with all of you and can’t wait to see what the next year brings.

We’ve got some great things in store for the anniversary, some of you’re already experiencing, such as our new Overseer feature and the Veteran AA rewards. We still have a few things we’d like to discuss below as we enter our 21st year, including our annual 50% bonus experience event, which will be from March 16, 2020 12 AM PDT to April 1, 2020 at 1 AM PDT.

New TLP server news? 

Yeah, we got that. We are incredibly excited to announce the names and general rule set info for the TWO new TLP servers we will be launching in the coming months. Please put your hands, paws, and claws together for Aradune and Rizlona! Aradune is a new concept for our Truebox server rule set. It’s going to have similarities to Mangler’s rule set in terms of XP, era locking, and a lot more. Rizlona will also share the Mangler rule set and be our first boxing progression server in a long time. More specific rule sets and how they will function differently than the current TLPs will be shared in the coming weeks!

Heroic Level 85 Character Boost

Ready to try out a new class, want to make a home on a different live server? We’re giving all All Access Members a free Heroic Level 85 Character Boost to celebrate our birthday. Start a new life in a new home, or just try something new on your current one. You’ll be able to claim the bauble from March 16 through May 10!

Server Merges

To prepare you and your characters for the universal shift, we wanted to let you know what servers are on the list. We don’t want anyone getting the matter in their bodies all mixed up, that can get messy.

Lockjaw -> Ragefire

Trakanon -> Vox

Fippy -> Vox

Brekt -> FV

Player Designed Anniversary Quests!

We love the ideas we’ve gotten from players over the years.  The development team worked to implement two player-designed quests that were submitted at Fan Faires over the years. This year for the anniversary quests, prepare to dive into some relationship woes and a culinary conundrum! You can find the following quests and their quest givers below!

Quest: Fancy Feast

Quest Giver: Maitreya the Maitre D’

Starting Zone: Plane of Knowledge

Quest: I Guess this is Growing Up

Quest Giver:  Emissary of Erollisi Marr

Starting Zone: Plane of Knowledge

Thank You

A huge thanks to both players that submitted the quests and to all of you for passionately sharing your ideas and love for the game with us! You’ve been a huge part of our lives and adventures, and we hope we’ve been part of yours as well.

Cheers to turning 21, and here’s to seeing you in-game!

– The EverQuest Team

*** Highlights ***

– Become the Overseer! Gain the loyalty of iconic Agents and protect Norrath from the ever-present ripples of Discord. See below for more information.
– All Access members who log in to EverQuest during our 21st Anniversary Celebration (between March 16th and May 10th) will receive a claimable Heroic Character! This character can only be redeemed once per account.
– In celebration of EverQuest’s 21st anniversary we have made Veteran Reward abilities available to all players! See below for more details.

*** Items ***

– You can no longer combine items using tradeskills when any ingredient contains one or more augments.
– – Note: Worn visible armor items may have hidden power source augments in them. Unequip your power source before you retrieve the worn item in order to remove the hidden augments.
– Evolving items with the Claim Reward button cannot be claimed until all augments are removed from the item in addition to any other requirements that are present.
– Added AC to the guild tribute Aura of Preservation 14.
– The Claim the Item spells attached to various Iksar, Half Elf, and Dark Elf Heritage Crate items no longer have a spell description that suggests that you will receive a familiar.
– Corrected an issue that prevented high damage 2-handed weapons from dealing their intended damage.

*** Tradeskills ***

– The Faded Velium War Hammer recipe will now give the correct product.
– Crystallized Precious Velium Ore now has a chance to drop in the chest in the missions Seeking the Sorcerer and Icebound Avatar.
– – Six months after the release of Torment of Velious there will be an additional chance to gain Crystallized Precious Velium Ore from those two missions, as well as the Griklor the Restless and Restless Assault missions.

*** Quests And Events ***

– Tower of Frozen Shadow raid events – Made the following changes:
– – Increased the health and melee damage of all raid NPCs.
– – Heart of Frozen Shadow – Fixed a bug that caused the ‘It’s a No Slow from Me, Dog’ achievement to always be granted.
– – Till Death Do Us Part – Added a speculative fix to address reports that sometimes characters successfully spoke to the usher and were assigned a side yet they still received a dancer.
– – Tserrina Syl`Tor – Fixed a bug that prevented one of Tserrina’s mechanics from working in her final phase.
– – Tserrina Syl`Tor – Reduced lag in this event.
– – Tserrina Syl`Tor – Tserrina’s corpse will no longer move upon success of this raid event. This will hopefully prevent problems with looting the Key of Trauma.
– All Access members who log in to EverQuest during our 21st Anniversary Celebration (between March 16th and May 10th) will receive a claimable Heroic Character! This character can only be redeemed once per account.
– New 21st anniversary quests are available! Speak with the Mechanical Fortune Teller in the Plane of Knowledge and she will guide you.
– New anniversary items are available at the Special Celebratory Goods merchants in the Plane of Knowledge! These new goodies can be purchased with Commemorative Coins.

*** Spells ***

– Beastlord – Corrected the name of Griklor’s Feralgia.
– Enchanter – Fixed a bug preventing Omica’s Animation from taunting.
– Magician – Fixed a bug preventing Riotous Servant, Remote Riotous Servant, and Pyroxenite Bodyguard from taunting.
– Paladin – Concordant Blessing is now available at level 108 from Fairelwil Amsapi, Median Spellbound Lamps, and Median Spellbound Rings.
– Shadowknight – Fixed a bug preventing Minion of Drendar from taunting.
– Shaman – Fixed a bug preventing Grondo’s Faithful from taunting.
– Wizard – Fixed a bug where Daveron’s Pyroblade and earlier summoned swords were not immune to area damage effects.

*** AA ***

– Rogue – Adjusted all ranks of Etherium Strikes to remove stacking conflicts with the Blinding Speed line of disciplines.
– In celebration of EverQuest’s 21st anniversary we have made Veteran Reward abilities available to all players!
– – The restrictions that limited the number of characters that can activate these abilities have been removed.
– – The requirement that your account must be active for 1 to 15+ years has been removed.
– – On progression servers, these abilities will continue to unlock starting with Dragons of Norrath up through Veil of Alaris.

*** NPCs ***

– Sporali in Hills of Shade will no longer cast Chattering Bones XXII.
– Restless Ice Infection now has a longer duration, instead of re-casting itself every six seconds.

*** Overseer ***

– Become the Overseer! Gain the loyalty of iconic Agents and protect Norrath from the ever-present ripples of Discord. Send your Agents on harrowing Overseer Quests, into moments spanning the entirety of Norrath’s history, and restore balance where you can. Along the way, you’ll gain fabulous rewards and grow in power. You may even draw the attention of Norrath’s most famous heroes, and perhaps a few particularly nefarious villains. Do you have what it takes to gain the allegiance of Norrath’s elite?
– Access the Overseer interface via the EQ Menu > Quests > Overseer option, or by entering the command /overseer.
– A mysterious presence in the Plane of Knowledge is interested in the coin gained through Overseer Quests.

*** Progression Servers ***

– Fixed the requirements on the door from Drachnid Hive to Dreadspire. Once Secrets of Faydwer has been unlocked for a month, level 70+ characters can access the zone without needing a key.

*** Miscellaneous ***

– Added the /shownpcnames command which toggles npc names on and off like the Option Window checkbox.
– In the guild bank, if you try to set an item to be withdrawable by Single Member and that character doesn’t exist, the item will now be set to Public If Usable.
– – If the character gets deleted or transferred to another server, the permissions for that item will also get set to Public If Usable.
– Increased the experience bonus for having other players (not mercenaries) in your group.
– Increased the amount of AA experience you get in groups of 4 or more and raids of 13 or more.
– Fixed the spelling of the bartender’s name on the map in Timorous Deep.
– Fast Camping can now be done within guild halls.
– The surname command now allows the use of a second capital letter and a single accent character.
– Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to shroud while on a mount.
– Made the following changes to dynamic zone event replay timers:
– – When zoning into a dynamic zone you will now be given an event replay timer for each event that has been completed since the zone was launched.
– – You will not be given replay timers for any event that was already completed when the zone was launched.
– – If you already have an existing replay timer for an event completed since instance launch, your timer will not be modified.
– – You will receive a warning containing the list of replay timers you will incur upon zoning into the DZ when you are invited to join the DZ.
– – You will not be able to loot items off of raid bosses or chests associated with the completion of an event if your replay timer was not received from this instance of the DZ.
– Changed the way Resurrection Sickness works. It no longer reduces stats. It will now increase the cast time of detrimental spells by 10% and decrease your attack speed by 10%. Both of these values will stack with other spells rather than preventing haste or spell haste effects.
– Changed the way the PvP version of Resurrection Sickness works. The cast time increase and attack speed decrease have the same values, but these effects will stack with other spells rather than preventing haste or spell haste effects.
– Changed the way Revival Sickness works. It no longer caps mana and endurance at 4000. Instead it caps at 25% and slowly decreases the cap by 1% every 5 levels starting at 50. For example, the cap at level 85 is 18% and the cap at level 115 is 12%.
– Improved how the guild message of the day is stored.
– Improved how fellowship member names are stored.
– Accessing Dreadspire, Meldrath’s Mansion, and Crystallos should no longer refuse entry the first time until you wait or relog.
– Plane of Knowledge is now listed as a destination of type Priest of Discord from Dranik’s Scar in the Zone Connection Guide. This will not always be the destination that the Priest of Discord will send you to, but it should be more correct than the guide not showing a way back to Norrath.

*** UI ***

– Corrected an issue that prevented weapon ornaments that can be placed in all slashing, blunt, or piercing weapons from displaying their slot restriction information in the item inspect window.
– If you zone with the Rewards window open, the rewards now display properly, and no longer require you to close and open the window to see the rewards you have pending.
– Fixed the neighborhood window to always display the name of the guild in the guild plot section.
– The Quest Journal quest selections will now persist through opening and closing the window and zoning.
– Rewards that have a stackable item as one of the reward choices will have a number indicating how many of that item you will receive if the amount is greater than 1.
– Fixed an issue with the Rewards Window where selected rewards could become deselected.
– You can no longer modify the compensation for items or toggle items on and off while barter buyer mode is on. In order to make modifications you will need to exit barter buyer mode.

– Changed –
EQUI_OverseerWnd.xml

– The EverQuest Team

An introduction and looking ahead