December 2, 2025
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*** Shattering of Ro ***
Welcome to EverQuest: Shattering of Ro, the 32nd expansion for EverQuest!
Druzzil Ro is murdered! Adventurers stand accused. Rampant storms of broken magic sweep across Norrath.
Primordial tempers flare and battle lines are drawn as an enraged Solusek Ro invades the Plane of Growth. Rallos Zek and Innoruuk have already joined the invasion, but Tunare does not stand alone. Mithaniel Marr has come to her aid while Quellious seeks an altogether different alternative to war. Amidst this turmoil, the rest of the pantheon watches and waits, but there is an ominous silence from the Underfoot.
Planar conflict seems inevitable as the gods rally their allies and followers. Will you heed their call to either uncover the truth behind these catastrophic events or fan the flames of war?
– Learn new spells, combat abilities, and alternate abilities.
– Find new items and learn new tradeskill recipes.
– Explore six new zones.
– Participate in new raids and quests.
– Complete new achievements.
– Gain a pair of new shared bank slots.
– Join the fight as a Vah Shir Druid and embrace the spirituality of Nature.
– To start, enter Shattered Grove through the burning tree in Wakening Lands.

*** Items ***

– Fixed an issue where arrows could go into the Equipment Key Ring when changing persona.
– Fixed an issue where bandolier was not properly updating Weapon Stance buffs.
– In honor of the new Vah Shir Druid race and class combination, Vah Shir heritage crates are available on the marketplace for a limited time.
– The bandolier can now insert and remove items from the Equipment Key Ring. It will add items to the Equipment Key Ring if you have the Store Equipment Set Items setting enabled.

*** AA ***

– Melee – Fixed an issue with the Archetype AA, Finishing Blow, ranks 39-44 that let it trigger on targets 6 and 7 levels lower than the caster instead of 8.
– Beastlord – Updated the Class AA, Roar of Thunder, all ranks, to apply its Str/Dex/Agi debuff as a triggered spell with values at approximately 90% of those provided by the Necromancer spell Line Grip of Mori and the Shadow Knight spell line Dire Constriction. Additionally, the hate reduction component of this AA has been increased at higher ranks while the damage component has been decreased so that the hate reduction is consistently 5 times stronger.
– Berserker – Updated the Class AA, Everburn, all ranks, to use a different damage effect that will yield increased damage output.
– Berserker – Updated the Class AAs, Furious Rampage and Focused Furious Rampage to have a 15 minute reuse timer.
– Druid – Updated the Class AA, Season’s Wrath, to have a max incoming damage effect value of 16-20% at rank 8, but all ranks now include an additional flat incoming damage effect that will continue to scale with future ranks. These effects no longer increase the damage of procs.
– Ranger – Updated the Class AA, Elemental Arrow, to have a max incoming damage effect value of 12-20% at rank 13, but all ranks now include an additional flat incoming damage effect that will continue to scale with future ranks. These effects no longer increase the damage of procs.
– Rogue – Updated the Class AA, Twisted Shank, all ranks, to apply its incoming damage, poison counters, and healing reduction as a triggered spell with max values of 18-22%, 12, and -20% at rank 42 so that its DoT effect can now stack. Additionally, the incoming damage effect no longer increases the damage of procs.

*** Miscellaneous ***

– Added the ‘/swapdisc’ command to remove the currently active combat ability and activate a new ability.
– Improved transparency and translucency rendering.
– Added two new shared bank slots for players who purchase Shattering of Ro.
– Fixed a crash that could occur when giving keyring items to an NPC.
– Fixed a zone crash that happened when loading a persona equipment set.

*** UI ***

– Progression servers, regardless of expansion unlocks, will now use EQUI_BigBankWnd.xml. For servers that have not unlocked Prophecy of Ro, they will still be restricted to only 16 regular bank slots.
– Fixed an issue with Cash Loot being sold if it is in a locked slot.
– Moved font declarations for the new UI engine to CSS rather than game code.
– – This will allow players to choose their fonts by changing the defined fonts at the bottom of the main.css file in the uiresources/default folder (currently this is the only location the new UI will use for CSS/HTML).
– – Several fonts have already been defined as examples and included in the default font folder.
– – Please note that changing anything in the default folder will be overwritten when the client is patched, we strongly recommend making a backup of any changes you make.
– – As a reminder, you can reload changes made to these files while in-game by using /ui reloadhtml.
– Refined several of the shaders related to rendering fonts to increase clarity.
– When trying to create a guild, if your previously created guild still exists, more information will be given in the guild failure message.
– When trying to create a guild, if 24 hours since your last guild creation hasn’t passed, more information will be given in the guild failure message.

– Changed –

EQUI.xml
EQUI_Animations.xml
EQUI_BigBankWnd.xml

– Removed –

EQUI_BankWnd.xml

*** Previously Updated ***

– Removed Charred Rune-Etched Stone until Shattering of Ro opens.
– Added speculative fixes for rendering crashes on modern NVIDIA and AMD GPUs with the latest drivers.
– Disabled the removal of AFK players on Teek, Tormax, and Fangbreaker.

– The EverQuest Team

October 15, 2025
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*** Items ***

– Previously worn ornaments will no longer be removed from armor when loading a different equipment set.
– Items that convert between an augment and armor piece (e.g. The Tears of Alaris) will be automatically converted more reliably.
– Privateer’s Eyepatch will now work on female trolls.
– A new heritage crate, the Rodcet Nife Heritage Crate, is available in the Marketplace.
– The Consuming Magic effect on group-tier Necromancer robes from Terror of Luclin and raid-tier Necromancer robes from Laurion’s Song should now work on detrimental spells up to level 125.

*** Quests & Events ***

– Dance of the Demiurge (Raid) – At the end of the event, Malthshisku will devour the ‘fake’ actors last to allow time to complete the achievement.
– Erollisi Day – Can Anybody Find Me – The goblin instigators have had their awareness and reaction ranges reduced. They will also now despawn after two minutes of inactivity.
– Stone Cold Summer – Cure for the Blues – Removed the duplicate spawns of Greke, Jiaf, and Muok.

*** Spells ***

– Druid and Magician – Updated the Annihilate the Unnatural line of spells (beginning at level 73) to provide a greater advantage over normal spells when used against summoned and construct creatures. Increased the chances to fire Annihilate Resistances and Annihilate Destruction to 24% and 10-12% at all levels. Greatly increased the damage dealt and mana costs. Added a missing upgrade to Annihilate Destruction at level 88 and corrected the version of Annihilate Destruction that is triggered by Annihilate the Anomalous.
– Cleric and Paladin – Updated the Annihilate the Undead line of spells (beginning at level 86) to provide a greater advantage over normal spells when used against undead creatures. Increased the chances to fire Annihilate Resistances and Annihilate Destruction to 24% and 10-12% at all levels. Greatly increased the damage dealt and mana costs to be proportional to the Annihilate the Unnatural line.

*** NPCs ***

– Changed all instances of Druzzil Ro to a new model that better represents the original concept art for Druzzil Ro.

*** Overseer ***

– Corrected an issue that could allow starting a quest with an incapacitated iconic agent.

*** Miscellaneous ***

– Fixed how Finishing Blow Headshots are calculated.
– Updated the /keyring command to allow specifying which tab should be opened, such as ‘/keyring mount’.
– Added item quantity to the message when purchasing from merchants.
– Added a message for when you deposit or withdraw coin from the bank and shared bank.
– Added the name of the item the player foraged to the results message.
– Added a class abbreviation to the factions, spellbook, and missingspells output files.
– Corrected an issue that prevented using /cast with the tenth spell slot’s name.
– Personas who are dead when an event is completed should now correctly receive any pending rewards when they respawn.
– The chat message showing a task’s timer upon request or completion will now be more accurate for solo tasks.

*** UI ***

– Made improvements to how the new UI engine scales windows.
– Fixed some potential sources of rendering artifacts that could occur when using UI scaling.
– Keymaps will now load from and save to character/persona-specific INI files. These keymaps will take precedence over any in the eqclient.ini file.
– Added default key ‘K’ to open Key Rings window.
– Added new keybind options for the different tabs of the Key Rings window.
– Fixed the handling of DirectX device reset when the fullscreen game window is not the active foreground window.
– Fixed an issue that caused the Extended Target Window to be reset when camping with a custom UI enabled.
– The Ignore section of the Friends window will now accept entering a server before a player’s name. The list of ignored players will now include their server when it is different than your own.
– Converted the Send Money window to the new UI engine.
– Updated the new UI engine.

– Added –
SendMoneyWnd.html

– Changed –
FindLocationWnd.html
GiveWnd.html
TradeWnd.html
main.css

– The EverQuest Team

September 17, 2025
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*** Highlights ***

– Convertible items (both equipment and augments) saved to a persona equipment set will now handle their own conversions when loaded.
– – Please note that this works only for items that can be converted directly from the Item Display window; it will NOT work for items converted through the reward system.

*** Items ***

– Updated description of several pet illusion spells that incorrectly referred to the pet looking like a “Grandfather Clock”.
– Ornaments restricted to a specific item type such as one-handed weapons or shields no longer fit into the wrong item types.
– The Privateer’s Eyepatch will be available in the marketplace on Talk Like a Pirate Day.
– Convertible items (both equipment and augments) saved to a persona equipment set will now handle their own conversions when loaded.
– – Please note that this works only for items that can be converted directly from the Item Display window; it will NOT work for items converted through the reward system.

*** Quests & Events ***

– Stone Cold Summer – Stone to Rock, Gravel to Dust, changed a few cultists to respawn after 3 minutes to prevent the mission from being incompletable.
– Fixed a typo with the 2025 Live achievement for Achievement: Tempest Festival: from Stagnant to Saltation.
– Bristlebane Day – A Cure for Kiroic, Kotunm now requires that all three previous tasks are completed before offering the mission.
– Erollisi Day – Lures Hurt, Right-Clicking on the Cockatrice Claw will now only display the following error message if there is an error.
– – “The magic of this key has not been completed yet. Make sure that you haven’t missed any steps in its repair.”
– Fixed the Terror in the Dark raid. The terrors now spawn as expected.
– Nights of the Dead – Larref, Sharden, and Efferri can be found in Toxxulia Forest telling scary stories to those that want to listen.
– – Their stories offer the following quests: The Lost Handkerchief, Did You Hear That, and Wash it Keener.
– Extended the duration of the Talk Like a Pirate event.

*** Spells ***

– Beastlord – Improved the Fatiguing Bite line of pet proc buffs by doing the following: Increased initial damage, DoT damage, and resist modifier on the Bite proc. The Bite proc now reflects an increased amount of endurance to nearby allies. The Prism Skin reflection can now occur even if the Bite proc is resisted. Removed the proc limit for Bite procs. Increased mana costs to reflect the increased power of the buff. Updated the icons for the pet buff and the proc debuff.
– Beastlord – Improved the Spirit of Lightning line of pet proc buffs (starting with Spirit of Irionu) by doing the following: Increased damage and resist mods for the Strike proc. The Strike proc can now reflect Prism Skin whether it lands or not. Increased base duration of the buff to 75 minutes. Corrected the resist type of several Strike spells that did not follow the established rotation pattern (Lairn, Jeswin, Vaxztn, Kron, Shoru). Updated the icon for the pet buff. Increased mana cost to reflect the increased damage dealt by the spell line.

*** AA ***

– Autogrant will now run the first time a character logs in or swaps persona after a new expansion unlocks.

*** Progression Servers ***

– Adjusted where Zi-Thuuli of the Granite Claw and the chest it spawns fit in the random loot tables.

*** Miscellaneous ***

– The client will now release some pooled memory back to the system more frequently.
– A failed persona equipment set load will no longer prevent your character from completing most actions.
– Failing to start a song while not having a melody active will no longer give a message that your melody was interrupted.
– Fixed rendering artifacts on character models with transparent clothing.
– Chat windows will now properly persist font sizes over 7 between logins instead of resetting back to the default of size 3.
– Updated /outputfile inventory to include items from all keyrings.

*** UI ***

– Fixed the new version of the Inventory Window coin slots to properly highlight when sending coin.
– Updated the AA window to show the last time Auto-grant ran and added a button to have it run immediately.
– The “You twincast” messages will now go to the My Spells chat filter.
– Converted the Claim Window to the new UI.

– Added –
ClaimWindow.html

– Changed –
EQUI_AAWindow.xml
TargetOfTargetWindow.html

*** Previously Updated ***

– Fixed a client performance issue with Post Effects Enabled that was introduced in the previous update.
– Fixed a crash issue with the no combat area in Laurion Inn.

– The EverQuest Team

August 20, 2025
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*** Highlights ***

– Changed the Type 3 augmentations that focus specific spells to use the Type 21 solvent instead of requiring the perfected solvent to remove.

*** Items ***

– Skyshrine Crystal and Skyshrine Dragon Brazier are now flagged as Heirloom.
– Updated names on several The Outer Brood charms and necklaces (and their related tradeskill containers) so that the variant with the Defender’s prefix always has the highest AC.
– Changed the Type 3 augmentations that focus specific spells to use the Type 21 solvent instead of requiring the perfected solvent to remove.
– Increased the stack size of Overseer Tetradrachm to 100,000.

*** Tradeskills ***

– Fixed a text issue with the Observations of Forgebound – Poisons book. This does not change any recipes.

*** Quests & Events ***

– Stone Cold Summer: Lanm Zidas can be found in Kaesora furthering the investigating into the source of the disturbances. (For players level 100+.)
– Stone Cold Summer: Inis Zidas can be found in the Field of Bone investigating unusual piles of bones rising to the surface. (On servers that have launched The Buried Sea.)
– Added some quest-achieved Dragons of Norrath spells to Kicha and Sasily Verous in Lavastorm. You must have completed the appropriate content to see the spell. The spells should be available to all personas on the same character.
– Updated several skill achievements to use correct skill names and to include achievement data for all skills.
– The overcharged orbs in the Silence the Cannons raid will now reset their timer if they are forced to find a new target.

*** Spells ***

– Rogue – Increased the damage dealt and hate modified by the Bleed and Jugular Slash lines of abilities.
– Hand of Holy Wrath VIII and Arms of Holy Wrath VIII now trigger their rank VIII Recourse instead of Rank VII.
– Necromancer – Improved the scaling of the rune and healing values in the Cascading Deathshield line. Renamed the subspells to be more consistent with other uses of Azia, Beza, and Caza.

*** AA ***

– The hard cap for unspent AA points will now be enforced for all personas instead of just the one being logged into.
– Fixed an issue with the Paladin AA, Extended Preservation of Marr and the Shadow Knight AA, Extended Decrepit Skin that caused them to focus triggered effects.

*** Mercenaries ***

– Reward previews that describe how much mercenary AA experience you will get should be more accurate.
– Rebalanced stats of level 121-125 mercenaries. Spells are unchanged.

*** Progression Servers ***

– Fixed an issue where trophy level requirements were not being reduced on Vaniki.
– Fixed an issue where some raids from Terror of Luclin and on would not offer the 100 point reward when appropriate.
– Resource Hunter – Several zones with NPC levels below 40 are no longer eligible for AA XP bonuses while several zones with NPC levels 40 or higher are now eligible for AA XP bonuses.

*** Miscellaneous ***

– Using the ‘/hidemodels all’ command now applies to familiars.
– The /hidemodels command will now apply to NPCs that enter the zone after you.
– Corrected an issue with the Legacy character experience bonus increasing at the wrong times.
– Fixed several zone crashes related to items as well as other sources of zone crashes that have occurred recently.
– Opening the Key Rings window will no longer cause special familiars, such as a summoned banker, to be dismissed.
– The /cast command can now be used with the name of the spells you currently have memorized. Partial names are accepted.
– You can now change personas at the inn in Laurion Inn. This is a specially designated safe area that does not allow player combat. You will be notified of such areas with the message “You have entered/exited a safe area.”
– The Dark Reign, Norrath’s Keepers, and Hunters of Shard’s Landing factions will now be shared across personas.
– Transparency rendering within the scene has been improved.

*** UI ***

– Camping out to server select screen while using a full screen game window should no longer fail and display an alert dialog about not supporting DirectX 11.
– Added the ability to save chat window content when swapping personas. Chat tabs are saved by tab name and when swapping persona, new chat windows will be created if there is no matching chat tab.
– Added a checkbox to the Options window Chat tab to enable or disable saving chat window content when swapping persona.
– The Extended Target window now saves and loads settings consistently.

– Changed –

EQUI_OptionsWindow.xml

*** Previously Updated ***

– Reverted the previous change to the spell gems window that caused them to sort inconsistently.

– The EverQuest Team

May 21, 2025
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*** Highlights ***

– Added a View Characters button at server select that will display the names of characters you have on that server.

*** Items ***

– Fixed various typos in potion and poison descriptions.
– Characters on accounts with lifetime membership can once again open Bags of Platinum.
– Created new Time Locked Progression starter packs for 2025. These will be available when Fangbreaker opens.
– Ornamentations now fit into equipment and weapons that fit in the Illusion Key Ring.

*** Tradeskills ***

– Reduced or eliminated game client lag caused by accessing a Tradeskill Depot that contains a multitude of items.

*** Quests & Events ***

– Made the following changes to the Secret Sponsor (Mission):
— The exit statue will now be available during the entire mission.
— Civilians and criminals now offer experience rewards when killed.
— Spells will scale more appropriately.
— Players will no longer receive faction hits.
– Brood Architect Hazuri (Raid) – Fixed the spelling of unripened.
– Increased drop rates of augments that are available in 26th Anniversary mission chests.
– Fixed an issue preventing players from entering the zone for The Great Jade Idol Caper.
– Corrected several spelling errors in the Diary of the Jade – The Search quest.

*** Spells ***

– Wizard – Increased damage for Ethereal spells above level 102, starting with Ethereal Skyblaze/Rimeblast/Flash.
– Blocked buffs on characters and pets now behave themselves when switching persona.
– Resisting the effects of root and snare spells now removes the correct spell effect in the case where there are multiple movement effects active.

*** AA ***

– Fixed an issue with the Druid Focus AA, Improved Lunar Healing that prevented it from properly reducing the reuse of spells in the Lunarlight line.
– Fixed an issue with the Cleric Focus AA, Improved Divine Intervention that prevented it from properly reducing the reuse of spells in the Divine Intervention line. Additionally, the AA description has been updated to indicate that the amount of healing granted by the second heal attempt increases with higher ranks rather than the chance for the second heal to occur.

*** Overseer ***

– Added a speculative fix for the tutorial becoming stuck and not offering the correct max amount of active quests.

*** Progression Servers ***

– Servers with a level cap (such as Vaniki and Fangbreaker) will once again use the normal spell resist system.
– Removed a level difference penalty that was still applying to players on servers with a level cap in the normal spell resist system.

*** Miscellaneous ***

– Made several speculative fixes for DirectX texture stage crashes.
– You will no longer be given a pickzone timer if the zone you attempted to enter was full.
– Adjusted melee combat range to better match the target ring radius of the NPC. This change will be most noticeable for larger NPC such as Outer Brood dragons.
– Items can no longer be listed in the bazaar if they contain an augment.
– You can now invite players who are in other zones to your guild using the /guildinvite Name command.

*** UI ***

– Updated the Spell Display window to show the Spell Line that a spell belongs to.
– Updated player pet healing from reverse damage shields to go the Heals (Others) filter.
– Bandolier swapping no longer confuses the UI when loading a persona equipment set.
– Updated the default socials to be more relevant.
– Added container size as a Stat option when finding items or searching the bazaar.
– Added a View Characters button at server select that will display the names of characters you have on that server.
– Added the ability to hide familiars using /hidemodels or the option window.

– Changed –
EQUI_DragItems.xml
EQUI_OptionsWindow.xml
EQLSUI_ServerSelectWnd.xml

*** Previously Updated ***

– “The Secret Sponsor,” will only spawn one each of the Doke Collective members.
– Fixed an issue with the Paladin AA, Hastened Undivided Attention and the Shadow Knight AA, Hastened Undivided Acrimony that caused them to focus the wrong combat abilities.
– Primordial Axe of Rallos Zek Ornament now appears awesome!
– Extended most anniversary events to June 15th. Note that this does include the 26th and 25th anniversary. The upcoming progression server is excluded from anniversary events in 2025. They will be available on that server in 2026.
– Fixed an issue preventing players from participating in The Great Jade Idol Caper.
– Fixed a crash that could occur for Bards using /melody or /queuemelody commands.

– The EverQuest Team

April 16, 2025
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*** Highlights ***

– A new heritage crate, the Rallos Zek Heritage Crate, is available in the Marketplace.
– Added missions to the 26th anniversary content.

*** Items ***

– Added a slight chance for NPCs level 30 or greater in Echo Caverns to drop Spell: Remove Curse.
– “Adopted” metamorph items from crates are now Heirloom.
– Jade-Tinted Spectacles can now be converted into an augmentation version and back again.
– Added new icons for Inert Engrams and Energized Engrams that indicate the level of abilities they award.
– The Fellowship Registration Insignia will now reset its timer if it is in your Teleportation Key Ring and your teleport fails.
– Items that are not equip-able by the character, indicated by a yellow equipment slot, no longer modify the character’s stats.
– Dragon’s Hoard items should now go with you in a server transfer.
– Renamed Shard of Dark Matter to differentiate the items.

*** Tradeskills ***

– Recipes for Voidstone Infused Fish Scales will no longer return the source fish on failure.

*** Quests & Events ***

– The High Priest (Mission and Raid): Increased the interval between Penance and Purification in both the raid and mission slightly. There will be 3 less calls for these mechanics over the course of the raid event. Most importantly, entering the auras of the Ministers of Punishment or Cleansing with the appropriate debuff will grant a 10 second grace period from their negative effects. However, these auras will now check every 15 seconds and punish anyone in them without the debuff or that are in the grace period.
– The High Priest (Raid): Lowered the HP on the raid NPCs by 10% or less. Added a fix for the failure of the Undelivered achievement at the end of the raid. If there were messengers up when the boss was killed they could trigger an achievement failure. They will not anymore.
– Brood Architect Hazuri (Raid): Added a speculative fix to unripe experiments remaining in the event after a reset.
– Brood Architect Hazuri (Mission and Raid): Increased the delay between Hazuri spawning pools and using the ability linked to those pools. That delay was not present at all in the mission, so we have added it to the mission as well.
– Bristlebane Day: Cold Blooded Kiroric Huk in The Twilight Sea, and Kotunm, an ornate chest and Kiroric Huk (after completing the mission) in The Twilight Sea: Sea of Resurgence are now able to be found.

*** Spells ***

– Magician – Updated icons for the summoned items Quiver of Drenesh, Folded Quiver of Drenesh, Void Arrow, and Molten Dacite Orb.
– Cleric – Changed the Dissolve Corruption and Cleansing Acquittal lines of spells to allow targeting members of other groups.
– Druid – Changed the Fawnwalker’s Breeze line of spells to cure curse counters instead of corruption counters.
– Druid and Shaman – Changed the Chant of the Napaea line of spells to allow targeting members of other groups.
– Shaman – Changed the Blood of Nadox line of spells to allow targeting members of other groups.
– Corrected an issue that caused some ranks of the Aureate’s Bane line of spells to not fully remove some ranks of the Cure of Subjugation line of spells.
– Fixed a spell stacking blocker issue that affected spells including Virtue and Talisman of Kragg.
– Fixed a bug that prevented weapon stances from switching correctly.
– Corrected an issue that allowed NPCs to hit through certain defensive abilities such as Fortitude or Voiddance.
– Changing personas should more reliably respect blocked buffs.
– Altered the spell line names for many spell lines.

*** AA ***

– Most Focus AAs, including Synergy AAs, have been updated so that all ranks grant their benefits to every spell in their respective spell lines. AAs that exclusively focus the triggered effects of a spell line have not been updated.

*** NPCs ***

– The bar patrons in Timorous Falls no longer offer experience when killed.

*** Overseer ***

– Added a Mass Convert Agents button to the Agents tab of the Overseer Window. It will convert duplicate agents of one rarity, leaving a specified number of duplicates unconverted (with a minimum of 1 remaining). The same functionality is also available via /overseermassconvert.

*** Progression Servers ***

– Made minor tuning changes to the spell resist system used on Vaniki. Players should resist NPC spells more frequently, and players should land spells on lower level NPCs more frequently.
– Adjusted Mitigation of the Mighty so it appropriately reduces hand-to-hand damage instead of increasing it.

*** Miscellaneous ***

– You must now type the entire command when using /exit or /quit.
– Added a speculative fix for client rendering crashes and performance improvements.
– /queuemelody will no longer be interrupted if you have no target, run out of mana, out of range, or out of line of sight, unless no songs in the melody can be played.
– /queuemelody is now capable of playing the same song consecutively if it has no duration.
– Attempting to teleport to a campfire that was in a zone that is no longer up should now reset the cooldown on your Fellowship Registration Insignia.
– Altered the phrasing of the hidden items component of the 2025 Live Events achievement.
– Fixed a typo in a component of Bristlebane Day: A Cure for Kiroric Mission Challenges achievement.

*** UI ***

– Spell Failures chat messages have been split into Spell Failures (Yours) and Spell Failures (Others).
– When logging in, you will no longer see your entire ignore list in the chat window. You can still see the full list by doing /ignore.
– Fixed a bug where /lootnodrop usable wasn’t working properly.
– Resizing the game client window no longer reopens the inventory window if the real estate Plot Items window is open.
– Updated the confirmation message when transferring to a free trade server.

– Changed –

EQUI_OverseerWnd.xml
EQUI_RealEstatePurchaseWnd.xml

*** Previously Updated ***

– Corrected an issue where Lifetime accounts did not receive the AA autogrant.
– Corrected an issue where Marketplace purchases would sometimes not grant the item.
– Fixed spell stacking for cases that include Curse of Subjugation and Weapon Proficiencies.

– The EverQuest Team

March 18, 2025
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*** Quests & Events ***

– Fixed an Unknown DB String error relating to the 26th Anniversary event alert.

*** Miscellaneous ***

– Corrected an issue where Marketplace purchases would sometimes not grant the item.

– The EverQuest Team

With a quarter of 2025 already gone, it’s time for an update on where we are and what’s coming up!

The Darkpaw Swag Store has been getting updated with posters and other goodies, and we’re far from finished. As a matter of fact, we’ve just added the 26th Anniversary Key Art Poster. Keep your eyes peeled for more updates to the store throughout the year. If you have suggestions or ideas on what you’d like to see in the swag store next, please send them by Norrathian Express to Angeliana.

EverQuest Producer’s Letter April 2025 | EverQuest

March 12, 2025
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*** Highlights ***

– Fixed a bug that caused NPCs, including pets, to pause their melee attacks after casting a spell. This fixes the infamous “pet melee lag” issue.

*** Items ***

– Aureate Figurine and Empowered Aureate Figurine now share a recast timer.
– All Heritage crates are available for a limited time! (3/16 – 4/1)
– Consuming a Perfected Augmentation Distiller when swapping augments is now indicated in a different color.
– Many type 7/8 augments from Torment of Velious, Claws of Veeshan, Terror of Luclin, Night of Shadows, Laurion’s Song, and The Outer Brood have been moved off lore groups onto lore-equip groups.
– Updated prices of Wrist Armor Lining of Rebellion and Feet Armor Lining of Rebellion sold by Tamlin Wrathbone in Hodstock Hills.
– One of the two augments that were named Sharp-Edged Pearl Shard has had its name changed to Rough-Edged Pearl Shard.

*** Tradeskills ***

– Fixed a bug where buying Tradeskill Depot slots up to the maximum value would fail to actually increment the value.

*** Quests & Events ***

– Brood Architect (raid) – Breath of Hazuri is now a cone spell rather than an area of effect.
– Brood Architect (raid) – The Own the Hoard achievement can now be completed.
– Brood Architect (raid) – Fixed an issue that would cause the unripe to not be damaged when mesmerized if all of them were mesmerized.
– Silence the Cannons (raid) – Changed the decal for the cannons from the “rainbow” to the “frost” version.
– The Perfect Companion (quest) – Updated the Perfect Companion quest to complete appropriately if you have collected 15 of 16 hair samples.
– Added a meta achievement for completing all live events for the year. This achievement will be updated throughout the year as the events become available.
– Fixed collect steps on quests not updating when looting the item via Advanced Loot.
– Bristlebane Day – During the celebration head over to the Twilight Sea and check in with Kiroric Huk. He looks a little green.

*** Spells ***

– Paladin – Increased the amount of hate added by all ranks of the Valiant Deflection ability, as well as the additional hate added to the Valiant Healing component. Added Paladin levels to Valiant Healing II and higher. Lowered the casting time. Increased the mana cost so the line is now slightly less efficient than pure heals with similar cast times.
– Paladin – Increased the initial hate and duration hate added by the Righteous Audacity line of magic resistance debuffs. Extended the duration to a base of 5 minutes, made it harder to resist, and increased the mana cost.
– Shadowknight – Increased the initial hate and duration hate added by the Insidious Audacity line of magic resistance debuffs. Extended the duration to a base of 5 minutes, made it harder to resist, and increased the mana cost.
– Added spell descriptions for spells used by “named” NPCs in The Outer Brood.

*** AA ***

– Enchanter – Updated the Class AA, Calculated Insanity, with 1 new rank available at level 125, increasing the spell critical damage bonus to 24%.
– Enchanter – Updated the Class AA, Chromatic Haze, with 1 new rank available at level 125, increasing the spell damage bonus to 400%.
– Enchanter – Updated the Class AA, Illusions of Grandeur, with 1 new rank available at level 125, increasing the spell critical damage bonus to 186% and the spell critical damage over time bonus to 146%.
– Enchanter – Updated the Class AA, Mental Contortion, with 1 new rank available at level 125, increasing the damage per tick to 18000.
– Paladin – Updated the Class AA, Blessing of the Faithful, rank 1 – max rank, to have a trigger chance of 84% – 90% and to increase base melee damage by 35% – 280% and AC by 300 – 4500. Additionally, the triggered spell now also triggers Aegis of the Faithful, which grants nearby group members a rune that absorbs 60% of the damage from a melee hit that exceeds 3200 – 43000, up to 11200 – 154000 total damage for 30 – 42 seconds. Aegis of the Faithful also heals for 230 – 7850 health every 6 seconds.
– Shadow Knight – Updated the Class AA, Mortal Coil, rank 1 – max rank, to have a trigger chance of 80% – 86% and a duration of 30 – 42 seconds. The trigger chance now also has a cooldown of 36 – 48 seconds.
– AA ranks of Trophy Collector obtained on different personas before it became shareable should now be the correct rank on all personas.

*** NPCs ***

– Fixed a bug that caused NPCs, including pets, to pause their melee attacks after casting a spell. This fixes the infamous “pet melee lag” issue.
– The target ring for the dragons of the Outer Brood should now be more suitable for their size.
– The hit points restored to the NPC by Choking Grapple has been reduced.

*** Miscellaneous ***

– Fixed a bug where tribute wasn’t properly separately upgraded per persona.
– Tribute will now always be deactivated when swapping personas.
– Guild real estate neighborhoods can now evict non-guild plots that are owned by a player who’s not in the guild after 30 days. The auto eviction option is controlled by a checkbox (default: OFF) in the Guild Management Window’s Access tab. The auto eviction option checkbox is restricted to the guild leader.

*** UI ***

– Fixed an issue that obstructed the search for spell scrolls by level in the Bazaar.

– Changed –

EQUI_DragItems.xml
EQUI_GuildManagementWnd.xml
EQUI_RealEstateManageWnd.xml
EQUI_RealEstatePurchaseWnd.xml

*** Previously Updated ***

– Fixed an issue with luck data that could cause spells to do damage instead of heal.
– A few quest items that drop in The Broken Mirror expansion have had their No Free Trade flag removed.
– Corrected an issue that could cause a world crash.

– The EverQuest Team

February 12, 2025
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*** Items ***

– Fixed an issue that was preventing augments acquired from Tides of Time from socketing into items they otherwise should have.
– Fixed an unintentional error that stripped the spell from the item Spell: Teleport.
– Adjusted chest drops in The Outer Brood missions to include a wider variety of type 5 augments.
– The Outer Brood weapon damage augments should no longer have decreasing stats after converting to their Reactive or Harmonious versions.
– Argent Whirligig Flyer Control Device should now have a levitation effect.
– Acolyte’s Assaulting Fire, Casting Fire, and Defending Fire of the Harbinger augments have received spell damage increases.
– Updated most familiar-summoning items to also cast pet illusions.
– Arrows equipped in the ammo slot that are unusable by the character are no longer effective and the character is out of ammo.
– Merchants now include deity restrictions when you ask them to ‘show only items I can use’.
– Archetype – Sympathetic Amplification – Several spell-triggered magical effects from equipped weapons and augments were missed in the initial introduction of this AA. They’ve now been updated to both receive the benefits of this AA and no longer trigger from other proc effects or twincast.
– Adjusted the luck range of newly created group and raid tradeskill items from The Outer Brood.
– The Modified Aureate Spanner’s Perform “Maintenance” description now displays without error.

*** Tradeskills ***

– Improved the performance of the Tradeskill Depot.

*** Quests & Events ***

– Tides of Time: Players can no longer place a banner or campfire in the tower.
– Tides of Time: Miacallie Herlsas and the clockwork artificer now only spawn during the Anniversary event.
– Tides of Time: The repaired keys and clockwork artificer now only offer their tasks during the Anniversary event.
– Year of Darkpaw collections now run as part of the Anniversary event.
– Tides of Time: The tower key quests are now offered during the Anniversary event.
– Theater of Eternity quests The Bigger the Door and We Have to Go Back! have changed how their items are dropped and who can loot them. Now they will drop if anyone in the group (and in the zone) that gets the kill credit is on the task and has the item needed for the step (Attuned Crystal Vial or Empty Aureate Supply Pouch). Also, only a person with the required item can loot the items for the quest.
– Reduced the damage on the spells cast by most rare/named NPCs in The Outer Brood. Many were cut in half or more. A few had their durations reduced. Even fewer were altered so that their effects would work (mostly changed from instant to having a duration so effects like movement slow could have time to work). Over all, the spell damage output from these NPCs will be a lot lower.
– The Control Room mission reset is better now. The mystic will return on reset, along with the pillars.
– Purification and penance in the High Priest mission in The Outer Brood will no longer give experience for evolving items.
– Chasing What’s Not Real: Can now be run during the Anniversary event.
– Chasing Madness: Can now be run during the Anniversary event.
– Reflections of You: Can now be run during the Anniversary event.
– Inner Turmoil: Can now be run during the Anniversary event.

*** Spells ***

– You will now automatically dismount when changing personas.
– Improved the effectiveness of all Convergence spells from The Outer Brood.
– Magician: Corrected the Grant Ring of Perfected Levitation spell to summon an item with 6 charges of a 30 minute duration spell and renamed it to Improved Levitation. Sorry, nobody’s perfect.

*** AA ***

– Fixed a bug where AAs that should be shared between personas weren’t always sharing.
– Enchanter – Updated the Class AA, Eldritch Rune, with 3 new ranks available at levels 121-125, increasing max damage absorption to 490k at max rank.
– Enchanter – Updated the Class AA, Glyph Spray, with 3 new ranks available at levels 121-125, increasing max spell and DoT damage absorption to 175k and max DoT damage absorption per hit to 13.5k at max rank.
– Enchanter – Updated the Class AA, Reactive Rune, ranks 19-21 and added 3 new ranks available at levels 121-125, increasing max melee damage absorption to 108k with a 51k min hit and max spell damage absorption to 105k with a 49.5k min hit at max rank.
– Enchanter – Updated the Class AA, Rune of Banishment, ranks 5-8 and added 2 new ranks available at levels 122 and 125, increasing max melee damage absorption to 249k at max rank.
– Enchanter – Updated the Class AA, Veil of Mindshadow, ranks 29-32 and added 2 new ranks available at levels 122 and 125, increasing max melee damage absorption to 464k at max rank.

*** Overseer ***

– Changed the order of the Laurion’s Song Overseer collection reward items.
– Added Laurion’s Song tradeskill components to the Overseer rewards.

*** Progression Servers ***

– Evolving Server Ruleset Skill Bonus now works as intended.
– Vaniki now uses the originally intended new spell resist system.

*** Miscellaneous ***

– Changed the description of the Unpurged achievement in the Herald of the Outer Brood to match the reality needed to complete it. It now reads: Don’t remove any of the defenses from the scalewrought guardians.
– Removed outdated information from the Help document covering Evolving Items.
– Fixed an issue that reset guild access permissions to default values upon a world server restart.
– Mangler now accepts incoming server transfers from other Live servers.

*** UI ***

– Clicking on an Achievement component’s name while holding certain key combinations will now search in various windows similar to clicking on an item’s icon.
– – CTRL+ALT will search using the Find Item window.
– – SHIFT+CTRL will search using the Bazaar Search window.
– – SHIFT+ALT will search using the Barter Search window.
– Hotbuttons that link to an item that moved between a key ring and the inventory will find the item if it still exists.
– Updated cursor item links from Key Rings to be able to be auto equipped or used to start a trade.
– When a single targeted buff fails due to being blocked by a target player or player pet, a message will now display saying so.
– Fixed an issue that prevented chat tell windows’ operations after too many were opened.
– The Claim Window can now be sorted numerically by clicking on the Feature Count column.
– Hotbuttons should no longer disappear when moving items to or from a key ring.
– Fixed a bug where the scrollbar in windows using the new UI engine could be dragged outside its bounds.

– The EverQuest Team

The Queen of Love is once again calling upon her devotees to help spread amour across the lands! You can get started by heading to the Plane of Knowledge** and seeking out the Emissary of Erollisi and Grimble Grumblemaker, who is still trying his luck at being his own matchmaker.

Don’t forget to stop by Halas, those pen pals of love have started writing their letters of besottedness, while the hate-filled denizens of Neriak have started up their letter-writing campaign of grievances against the utterly infatuated.

A quick trip to Farnjer in Misty Thicket will have you helping his best pal Rolo from getting his heart broken due to getting into the Dust of Broken Hearts. Help to allay his fears and make sure Rolo keeps his heart intact!

Farnjer in Misty Thicket

And finally, head to the Overthere and check in with Darenne K`Reil about her new treats for the celebration. The unfinished treats have been stolen and could have some bad side effects. There are three fellows that have been eyeballing her wares and she is convinced that one of them took them. Find the ne’er-do-wells and return the treats to be finished, preferably before anyone falls ill.

And let’s not forget all the Erollisi Day items on the Marketplace as well as beautiful orchids here and there!

Erollisi Day begins today and will end on February 18, 2025, at 11:00 p.m. PST. Don’t miss out on all the fun!

** Your server must have unlocked at least Planes of Power to participate.