February 17, 2021
_____________________

*** Highlights ***

– Changed some of the modern Spell Casting Proc items so they won’t trigger from other proc effects or twincast. This is a step, but not the entire solution, to reduce raid lag. Recursive proc casting is causing a huge amount of spells to be cast in a short time.
– Many changes have been made to Epic 1.0 quests. See the Quests & Events sections for details.
– All wares sold by Morton Stonebreaker in Western Wastes have had a pricing decrease.

*** Items ***

– Marionette puppet familiars can now be placed in a real estate without looking like a brown bag.
– Augments purchased from Tanin Gleamstone in Western Wastes can now be sold back to him for 70% of the purchase price.
– Increased AC values for caster 2-handed blunt weapons from Claws of Veeshan.
– Claws of Veeshan augments now have the correct Lore and Lore Equip groups attached.
– Merchants that sell the ‘Tracker’s Water Extractor’ will now carry an unlimited stock of this item.
– Changed some of the modern Spell Casting Proc items so they won’t trigger from other proc effects or twincast. This is a step, but not the entire solution, to reduce raid lag. Recursive proc casting is causing a huge amount of spells to be cast in a short time.

*** Quests & Events ***

– Aaryonar Raid – Made a speculative fix to a reported issue that would cause Grolik to lock his hit points.
– Paladin and Rogue Epic: Reduced the respawn time for the Oracle of K’Arnon from about 7 hours to 2 hours.
– Paladin Epic: Lich of Miragul will now spawn 35 hours after being killed. There will now be a delay for between 5 and 14 hours before it will spawn for the first time.
– Druid and Ranger Epic: Venril Sathir’s remains will spawn every 20 hours instead of just over 26 hours. This will increase the window to access this NPC for quest hand-ins.
– Magician Epic: Undertow (and its placeholder) will spawn every 6 hours instead of just over 7 hours.
– Monk Epic changes:
– – Increased the chance for Targin the Rock from 5% to 15% and Raster of Guk from 2% to 10%.
– – Brother Zephyl, Brother Qwinn, Ran’un, Brother Velan Torresk, and Thena Lonnes have grown in strength. They are much more dangerous. Also, persons killing these folks will be greatly disliked by monk factions.
– Rogue Epic changes:
– – Eldreth will now return after leaving for 1 hour rather than 8. He can no longer be killed by miscreants.
– – Founy Jestands and Tani N’Mar will no longer have any parchment on their corpses if killed. They will, however, always have them in their pockets if someone happens to be clever enough to take them.
– – Renux Herkanor will no longer carry a Jagged Diamond Dagger.
– – General V’ghera will no longer carry a Cazic Quill.
– – Karg IceBear will be a bit easier to find and will be carrying the Gigantic Zweihander more often.
– Enchanter Epic changes:
– – Vessel Drozlin and Wraith of a Shissar will now respawn 9 hours after being killed and from 5 to 14 hours after a zone or server reset.
– – Verina Tomb will now respawn 13 hours after being killed and from 5 to 14 hours after a zone or server reset.
– – The One Key, Lost Scroll, and Charm and Sacrifice have had their respawn time reduced from 24 to 5 hours.
– Shadowknight Epic changes:
– – Caradon will now spawn 8 hours after being killed and from 5 to 14 hours after a zone or server reset.
– – Lhranc will now spawn 13 hours after being killed and from 5 to 15 hours after a zone or server reset.
– – NPCs involved in the quest for Innoruuk’s Curse can now see things that are invisible. They will only deal with people they like.
– Wizard Epic: Broken golem will now spawn 8 hours after being killed and from 4 to 12 hours after a zone or server reset.

*** Spells ***

– Beastlord – Auspice of Kildrukaun Rk. II and Rk. III can now be selected as rewards from the Lesser Bloodmarked Velium Gem and Lesser Dragontouched Rune, respectively.

*** NPCs ***

– All wares sold by Morton Stonebreaker in Western Wastes have had a pricing decrease.

*** Overseer ***

– Changed how Overseer quests load and save as a speculative fix to the bug where Overseer quests sometimes disappear. As part of this change, all Overseer Active Quests have been deleted. For the inconvenience, all players who have used Overseer before should have an Overseer Agent Pack available in /itemoverflow.

*** Miscellaneous ***

– Made the following changes to guild halls to prevent them from being removed when a player deletes their character or server transfers:
– – Placed guild halls no longer have an item owner, instead, they are owned by the guild.
– – Only the guild leader will be able to put a placed guild hall in their inventory.
– – Anyone with Move-Item access will be able to adjust a guild hall’s placement.
– Activated combat skills (ex: kick, bash) with reuse times affected by haste or slow effects can now only be slowed to a maximum of 2x their base reuse time.
– – This ensures that skills activated while you are heavily slowed will no longer be locked out for exceptionally long periods of time.
– Marketplace – Corrected an issue where additional Mount Key Ring Slots were not visible for purchase.
– Fixed a bug that caused group invites to someone that has a shortened version of your name to not function.

– The EverQuest Team