May 17, 2023
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*** Highlights ***

– Our new UI Engine is now available and supports scaling and docking for converted windows. See the UI section below for more details.

*** Items ***

– Text has been added to evolving cloaks of the Selenelion to indicate which achievements are required to attain the next tier.
– Fixed a typo in the lore text of Ferocious Pernach of the Khati Sha.
– Achievements: Hero’s Forge – Restless Ice Cloth. Fixed an error in the description of the chest/robe component.
– Fixed several typos in messages seen when activating the Lingering Essence of Cazic-Thule.

*** Tradeskills ***

– Faded Restless Velium Short Spear and Faded Bloodied Luclinite Short Spear are now blacksmithing combines to better align with the source items used.
– Recommended levels on Martial Treatises have been adjusted to closer match the required levels on the combat ability tomes they are used to create.
– Recipes for Tome of Calanin’s Synergy Rk. II, Tome of Bleed Rk. II, Tome of Shield Topple Rk. II, Tome of Blood Hatchet Rk. II, Tome of Procure Sap Rk. II, and Tome of Bazu Bluster Rk. II have had the required treatises adjusted to better match the level of the combat ability tomes created.

*** Quests & Events ***

– The Spirit Fades (Mission) – Opening the chest will now update the task, even if you have not completed the first step.
– Many inhabitants of the Plane of Valor have relearned how to speak.
– Harbinger’s Spire Event: Made a speculative fix for cases when this event breaks.

*** Spells ***

– Fixed a typo in the description for Ringing Crystal Temple.
– Fixed a typo in the cast on other text of Summon Sonic Wolf.

*** AA ***

– Form of Endurance XXXI, found on some Night of Shadows masks, should now work as intended.

*** Mercenaries ***

– Corrected an issue that would prevent level 120 mercenaries from showing illusory weapons.

*** Progression Servers ***

– Tiny Phosphene Cluster, Small Phosphene Cluster, Phosphene Cluster, and Large Phosphene Cluster now have the quest tag.
– Made the following items quest items for randomized loot: Corrupted Drop of Focused Sunlight, Impure Drop of Focused Sunlight, Purified Drop of Focused Sunlight, and Pristine Drop of Focused Sunlight.
– Shrouds will no longer grant the “Reach Level XX” achievements.

*** Miscellaneous ***

– Corrected an issue where Aradune players could not server transfer to Zek for free.
– Fixed a bug that could prevent players from returning to the tutorial right after escaping.
– Fixed a typo in the Veil of Alaris achievement West Sepulcher Traveler.
– The /cast command’s usage text is now more accurate.

*** UI ***

– The following windows have been converted to the new UI engine: Inventory, Quantity, Selector, and Story.
— Custom Suite XML implementations of these windows will continue to work as expected but will now generate a warning in UIErrors.txt suggesting that you remove this file in favor of either a custom, or the new default UI implementation.
— Converted windows can be scaled using the slider in the Display tab of the Options window or by using the /ui scale command.
— Converted windows can be docked to other converted windows by moving them close together. Their edges will snap together to allow for ease of positioning.
– A tool to support the conversion from Suite XML to the new UI format has been included for optional installation in the LayoutConverter directory of the EverQuest client.

– Changed –
EQUI_OptionsWindow.xml

– The EverQuest Team

Since March I have been running all the hunters Quests.

I started in Butcherblock and managed to complete all of them.  The hardest being the Field Of Bones.  This one took weeks for the Scorpion to spawn.  One day I logged in and there she was, easy pickings.  Sometimes you are lucky and you don’t need to spend hours waiting.

I then moved on to all the Faydwer Hunters Quests.  I have accomplish two of them so far, but of course there is always the one that is a pain.  I am in Kedge Keep and needing to get the last MoB Shellar Ebbhunter.  She is a very rare spawn.  I have now spent three weeks trying to get her to spawn.

Qindaar and Derevaun all got new Armor and really raised their stats.  Working on getting them more Alternate Advancement Points on the weekends.  This past weekend we spend time in Maiden’s Eye camoing a named that drops a cloak.  No Luck so far.

April 19, 2023
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*** Items ***

– Runnyeye Adventurer’s Head teleport item has had its casting requirement of Depths of Darkhollow removed.
– Heritage crates have been altered so that they will not offer items that are not usable on your server at the time of opening.
– Ornate Restless Great Axe weapon ornament will now fit into 1-hand and hand-to-hand weapons.
– Restless Griffon and Restless Wolf Saddles are now claimable when Shadows of Luclin is active.
– The Mask of Sparks illusion item should now be using the intended Arc Worker appearance.
– Evolving Selenelion cloaks have had their luck stat increased.
– Drop rates for Luclinite Laced Nigriventer, Mamba, Gormar, Taipan, and Choresine venoms have been increased in Night of Shadow zones.
– Fixed some cases of misspelling of the word ‘transvergence’ in some item and spell names.
– Changed the name of Dentrik’s Dementia to Drentik’s Dementia to match Drentik the Mad in Valdeholm who drops it.
– The Hammer of Magic line of weapon procs can now be focused by the Sympathetic Alleviation Alternate Advancement ability.
– Updated NPC resistance checks against elemental weapon damage to apply full damage if the NPC is not immune to the resist type.

*** Quests & Events ***

– Misgnomer – While on the quest, Captain Nalot in Iceclad and Welno Tanlonikan in Ak’Anon now have a greater threshold for talking to people they may otherwise dislike.
– Changed the way raid Loot Lockouts work. It should much more reliably apply only to raid basepop going forward.
– The Vintage Toy Ships (Stone Hive) achievement under the Events >> Collections category now grants both AA and XP instead of one or the other.
– The Champion of Night of Shadows achievement no longer requires the following Quest achievements:
– – The Cunning of a Tiger: Cunning Copycat
– – The Strength of a Wolf: Leader of the Pack
– – The Bravery of a Bear: Bearer of Bravery
– Pit Fight (Raid) – The Stay Close achievement works now. Sorry.
– Under Siege (Raid) – We no longer refer to it as Under Seige when sending the success message.
– Myconid Mutany (Raid) – The vibrating crystalkin will now fight back.
– Reetuk the Inexorable – Killing NPCs before reaching the corresponding quest step will now count those kills toward quest completion.

*** Spells ***

– The Setting Sun and Rising Sun spells from the Shadows Move event will no longer zone with the bearer.
– Beastlord – Added all ranks of Ferocity and Shared Ferocity to a spell stacking group to prevent lower ranks from overwriting higher ranks.

*** AA ***

– Paladin – Fixed an issue that could cause Force of Disruption to have no reuse timer.
– Fixed some typos in descriptions for the fighter archetype ability Concentration.
– The Twinproc AA Ability will no longer affect player abilities that trigger other player abilities. Its effectiveness on procs should be unchanged.
– Updated the description for Twinproc to more accurately reflect the types of procs it can twincast.
– Ranks 3-6 of the Shadowknight Focus AA, Hastened Lifetaps can now be auto-granted.

*** NPCs ***

– Decreased the number of placeholders for Rare NPCs in Shadeweaver’s Tangle, as well as lowered the health of the placeholders.

*** Overseer ***

– Fixed a typo in the name of the Overseer quest One Kobold’s Garbage.

*** Miscellaneous ***

– The heritage crate art collector achievements will only show on progression servers if the expansion required for any of the components is opened. This restriction lasts through Legends of Ykesha. Any components that require later expansions are optional.
– Campfire and Guild Banner pick zones will now be prioritized over group members’ when teleporting to either.
– Updated the /yell command to include your target’s name.
– Added a new chat message with the zone name and ID for the group or raid leader when a member requests a new instance.

*** UI ***

– Spells activated from items now include the ‘cast as level’ when displaying the spell description.

*** Previously Updated ***

– Disabled the disconnect mechanism for pressing the same keys too many times on multiple clients on Coirnav.

– The EverQuest Team

March 21, 2023
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*** UI ***

– The following windows have been converted to the Gameface UI engine: Inventory, Quantity, Selector, and Story.
– – Custom Suite XML implementations of these windows will continue to work as expected but will now generate a warning in UIErrors.txt suggesting that you remove this file in favor of either a custom, or the default, Gameface implementation.
– A tool to support the conversion from Suite XML to the new Gameface UI format has been included for optional installation in the LayoutConverter directory of your client.

– Changed –
EQUI_OptionsWindow.xml

– The EverQuest Team

I have happily been going along posting stuff since March 15, 2023 and not even realizing that none of it was actually posing.  Didn’t even realize that the site was broken, and the database was detached and MIA.

I will catch you all up on what has been happening once I review where I left off.