Qindaar continues to progress in level but has not returned yet to his main Quest Achievement he has been working on. But in the meantime here are game updates:

December 16, 2015
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*** Items ***

– TBM items now have guild tribute values.
– Fixed items that had unintentional negative resist stats.
– TBM bows, shields, and weapons now have the correct ornamentation slot 20.
– Added focus effects to Deathseeker’s Loremaster Greaves and Vambraces.
– Swapped the focus effects on several raid arms and legs items. Arms should have Cleave and Legs should have Ferocity.
– TBM raid gear now has 75 purity.
– Fixed the descriptions on Form of Endurance focus effects.
– Fixed the description on Prismatic Ward focus effects.
– Deathseeker’s Soulrender Breastplate now has the Deflection Discipline Bonus focus effect.
– Fixed the description on Knowledge of the Past XXII focus effect.
– Fixed errors on several focus effects that were either backwards and/or more powerful than raid gear.
– Fixed the descriptions on focus effects: Geomantra, Expanding Mind, Form of Defense, and Soothing Breath.
– Sell back values for TBM raid items have been reduced.
– Wither and Decay Hero’s Forge Ornaments will no longer display as the wrong armor type.
– TBM Deathseeker’s helms now have Faerune.
– TBM non-bow ranged items no longer have a type 21 ornament slot.
*** Quests & Events ***

– Grannus no longer tells you that his spell resistance has dropped when it has not.
*** Achievements ***

– The achievements for wearing Vim and Vigor chain and leather sets now show the correct text in the achievement element descriptions.
– The challenge achievements for Wither and Decay now refer to them by their correct names, and not “Death and Decay.”
– Credit will now be given properly for the “Three for One” and “Seven at One Blow” achievements.
– The first and third achievement components in Vanquisher of Anashti Sul, Damsel of Decay are no longer reversed.
*** NPCs ***

– The vendors in Sul Vius: Demiplane of Decay are now combatable while at home and non-combatable while at work.
– Pathing in Sul Vius: Demiplane of Decay and Sul Vius: Demiplane of Life should be improved.
*** Progression Servers ***

– Corrected an issue where the level 1 necromancer pet Cavorting Bones would immediately generate low hp aggro with any attacker at full health.
– The EverQuest Team

Qindaar is now working his way through Tainted West Karana.  Here the levels are comparable to the MoB’s hitpoints so it is not as deadly when you go up against a MoB that is equal to your level or three below.  Qindaar has managed to get twenty percentage points into level one hundred so there is no need to worry about loosing the level should he die.  Tainted West Karana is also the entrance to the Hero Adventures for that extra little kick of XP but you really need to be grouped, three or more is comfortable or two with Merc’s can stand a chance.

Getting familiar with the lay of the land and accomplishing a few tasks, but really need to go back and pick up where Qindaar left off on his Hero of EverQuest Quest.

Qindaar made 100 today just in time for all the FrostFell fun in EQ.  Now he can venture back to the Hero’s Quest and wrap a few more of those to finish the Quest Line.

December 9, 2015
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*** Highlights ***

– Look to the marketplace this December! From the makers of Cat in the Bag comes Dog in a Crate. Each crate contains a random adoptable dog familiar. Trade them to your friends or collect them all yourself. Nothing evokes the true spirit of Frostfell like the gift of puppies!
– Two new sets of Frostfell-themed Hero’s Forge armor are now available! You can find one in the Marketplace, while the other can be acquired by completing certain Frostfell quests.
– New and returning festive Frostfell items are available in the marketplace, starting on December 9th, at 11am Pacific!
*** Items ***

– Added “standard” right-click buffs to all non-scaling items from TBM.
– Corrected tribute values for all TBM items.
– Increased the number of guaranteed item drops in all TBM raid chests.
– Added The Incomplete Face of Life and Decay container to merchant: Lyppsenfon Qeyton. Combining the appropriate items from Anashti Sul will result in something wonderful!
– Corrected augmentations with recommended level 110 to recommended level 105.
– Corrected the augment slots for all TBM bows, shields and caster 2-hand weapons.
– All type 5, 7, and 9 augs should now fit properly where they belong.
– Added stats to the Emblem of Antipathy, Mottled Gorgon Feather, Revolting Thought Spur, Mark of Unfeeling Flesh, Phased Distillate of Intolerance, and the Pupil of Stolen Light.
– Players without the Darkened Sea expansion and The Broken Mirror expansion should now again be able to receive stat buffs on their mounts/illusions, if the item has an associated stat buff.
– Fixed flagging on TBM items that were not able to be traded on Firiona Vie.
– Two new sets of Frostfell-themed Hero’s Forge armor are now available! You can find one in the Marketplace, while the other can be acquired by completing certain Frostfell quests.
– Haste has been added to some TBM type 9 augmentations.
– New and returning festive Frostfell items are available in the marketplace, starting on December 9th, at 11am Pacific!
*** Quests & Events ***

– Kerath in Sul Vius: Demiplane of Life can once again be attacked.
– Lyndalin Delwadamain, Kamiowe Ordup, and their allies now have something to say about their purpose.
– Grubbonion’s Locked Tower – The Healing Ward can be used to kill Korinth the Crusher even after you’ve completed the step to kill him. However, you must still be on the task and at least on the step to kill him in order to use the item.
– Grubbonion’s Locked Tower – The optional step is truly optional this time. We swear. Healing Ward and Decay Spike items should both work properly whether the optional step is completed or not.  Added a small reward for completing this step.
– The creatures inhabiting the Crypt of Sul during the Into the Temple adventure are no longer friendly.
– Reduced the cooldown on the Shard of Healing used in the quest The Lost Lexicon Explorers Expedition.
– After Depths of Darkhollow has unlocked on a server, the Qinimi court event can be requested with 1 player.
– Fixed an issue that prevented some rewards, like keys, from being given for Plane of Health raids.
– Added a corpse and PC location reset for Plane of Health and Sul Vius: Demiplane of Life raids.
– Bhaly Adan now has the proper chance to show up in the Bane of Decay adventure.
– In the Sul Vius: Demiplane of Decay raid as well as the group mission version, Anashti Sul, Damsel of Decay is less likely to get into a position where she is out of line of sight after teleporting between floors.
– Killing rares in the Plane of Fear: Revisited will no longer give credit for killing Maestro and Innoruuk in Plane of Hate: Revisited.
– Corrected a bug that prevented achievement credit being applied for killing bosses in The Broken Mirror raid zone Plane of Fear.
– Fixed a zone crash because NPCs don’t have chat filters and can’t filter their chat. This was causing The Triunity in the Sepulcher Event 5 to crash the zone.
*** Spells ***

– Modulation and cannibalization spells can no longer be cast if the damage dealt by the spell is greater than your maximum health. This functionality previously only applied to the items Summoned: Modulating Rod and Rod of Mystical Transvergence.
*** Mercenaries ***

– Removed Woeful mercenaries from the tab-target list.
*** Achievements ***

– Hunter of the Plane of Hate and Hunter of the Plane of Fear achievements now have half as many “the”.
– Corrected text error in the descriptions for the Defenders of the Faith and Bane of Decay Toughness and Time Trial achievement descriptions.
– Removed all achievements related to Bard’s Casting Proficiency as they were all redundant with reaching level 10.
*** NPC ***

– In the Plane of Fear: Revisited, the lockouts for nightmares and thought bleeders are no longer reversed. Previously, having a lockout for thought bleeders would prevent nightmares from spawning, and vice versa.
– Several boss NPCs in Argin-Hiz and Arx Mentis now summon: Arc Facultas Ingens, Efreeti Lord Aresh, High Keeper Arieal, High Keeper Jahar, Mayor Livio, Praetor Captain Tita Aragus, Principal Quastori Numicia, Arc Auctus Ingens, Calix Quirinus, Lanys T`Vyl, Principal Indagator Gordianus, a keeper of the flame, and a libre vitala.
– Lord of Ire has returned from his vacation and can be found in the Plane of Hate: Revisited.
– Adjusted how NPCs choose a melee target in relation to player pets:
– – It is now possible for a pet to be the target of an NPC’s melee attacks if it has the highest aggro with other players in range.
– – This behavior can be adjusted on a per NPC basis and will currently be disabled for all current and previous raid difficulty NPCs.
– – It is additionally possible for some NPCs to ignore the hatred generated by pets and instead attribute a portion of that hatred toward the owner. This behavior will be in play on raid targets on progression servers.
– Adjusted how NPCs choose a melee target when they are rooted:  NPCs will now choose to hit the target that they hate the most that is within melee range. Previously NPCs would simply hit the nearest hated target.
*** AA ***

– Monk – Corrected an issue that caused all three ranks of Thunderfoot to trigger 6% of the time rather than 6, 9, and 12% of the time.
– Updated the description on all ranks of Companion’s Wrath to clarify the functionality of the ability.
– Shaman – Corrected a bug with rank 11 of Group Pact of the Wolf that prevented it from extending the duration of the ability as expected.
– Shaman – Corrected the target type of Wind of Pathosis so that it will properly function when triggered by Wind of Malosinete.
– Druid – Added a spell landed message to all ranks of Spirit of the Black Wolf.
*** Progression Servers ***

– Made further adjustments to the power curve of pets prior to the release of the Shadows of Luclin expansion.
– Restricted the creation of Gnome Paladins and Shadowknights and Halfling Paladins and Rangers to Luclin so that their availability matches the availability of their guildmasters and supporting vendors. Any existing characters with this combination will be unaffected.
– Crusaders of Greenmist – The Goblin Penmaster and Enslaved Iksar now spawn in the Frontier Mountains on Progression Servers.
*** Collections ***

– The Shard of Cabilisian Diamond should now show up in the Crypt of Sul.
*** Miscellaneous ***

– Corrected an issue where the message that reports what zone the guildhall teleportation device is set to was not displaying when zoning into neighborhood guildhalls.
– Applying the heroic character upgrade to an existing character will no longer reset your casting specialization skills.
– Look to the marketplace this December! From the makers of Cat in the Bag comes Dog in a Crate. Each crate contains a random adoptable dog familiar. Trade them to your friends or collect them all yourself. Nothing evokes the true spirit of Frostfell like the gift of puppies!
*** UI ***

– Adjusted the default gamma behavior of the game in windowed mode.  By default, opening the game will no longer adjust the brightness of your desktop as it should no longer be necessary to increase the gamma slider in order to achieve reasonable in-game visibility. The option to revert to legacy functionality has been included in the advanced display options window with the button ‘Enable Windowed Gamma’.
– Removing a stat mount or illusion from the key ring stat slot will now properly remove it.
– Changed –
EQUI_AdvancedDisplayOptionsWnd.xml
EQUI_OptionsWindow.xml
– The EverQuest Team

December 2, 2015
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*** Items ***

– Changed TBM Weapons that formerly had DoT procs so they now have analogous direct damage procs.
– All items that drop from scaling content in TBM zones should now have type 9 aug slots so they can be used by higher level players.
– Fixed an issue that caused Raw Timorous, Crypt-Hunter’s, and Deathseeker’s items to sometimes offer incorrect items. – Fixed an issue that caused Raw Timorous, Crypt-Hunter’s, and Deathseeker’s Wristguards to grant the wrong number of items to some classes.
*** Quests & Events ***

– Beware, several raid NPCs that were not summoning and should have been, now will be.
– Grubbonion’s Locked Tower – Added a small reward for completing the optional step in this quest.
– Corrected a problem that prevented all of the intended items from dropping in TBM chests.

*** Previously Updated ***

– Grubbonion’s Locked Tower – Grubbonion will once again correctly assign this task to players who prove their worth.
– Remember the Good Times – Anna Broth will once again correctly assign this task to players who prove their willingness to help.
– Feather in the Wind – Kerath in Sul Vius: Demiplane of Life can once again be attacked when necessary.

– The EverQuest Team

November 25, 2015
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*** Highlights ***

– We tested True Box for the upcoming Phinigel server on Test.
*** Items ***

– Changed TBM Weapons that formerly had DoT procs so they now have analogous direct damage procs.
– Added stats to the Emblem of Antipathy, Mottled Gorgon Feather, Revolting Thought Spur, Mark of Unfeeling Flesh, Phased Distillate of Intolerance, and the Pupil of Stolen Light.
– Fixed flagging on TBM items that were not able to be traded on Firiona Vie.
*** Quests & Events ***

– Kerath in Sul Vius: Demiplane of Life can once again be attacked.
– Beware, several raid NPCs that were not summoning and should have been, now will be.
*** AA ***

– Updated the description on all ranks of Companion’s Wrath to clarify the functionality of the ability.
– Shaman – Corrected a bug with rank 11 of Group Pact of the Wolf that prevented it from extending the duration of the ability as expected.
– Shaman – Corrected the target type of Wind of Pathosis so that it will properly function when triggered by Wind of Malosinete.
– Druid – Added a spell landed message to all ranks of Spirit of the Black Wolf.
*** Miscellaneous ***

– Corrected an issue where the message that reports what zone the guildhall teleportation device is set to was not displaying when zoning into neighborhood guildhalls.
– Applying the heroic character upgrade to an existing character will no longer reset your casting specialization skills.
– Removed all achievements related to Bard’s Casting Proficiency as they were all redundant with reaching level 10.
– Adjusted the default gamma behavior of the game in windowed mode.  By default, opening the game will no longer adjust the brightness of your desktop as it should no longer be necessary to increase the gamma slider in order to achieve reasonable in-game visibility. The option to revert to legacy functionality has been included in the advanced display options window with the button ‘Enable Windowed Gamma’.
*** UI ***

– Changed some options to reflect the new gamma behavior.
– Changed –
EQUI_AdvancedDisplayOptionsWnd.xml
EQUI_OptionsWindow.xml
*** Previously Updated ***

– Grubbonion’s Locked Tower – Grubbonion will once again correctly assign this task to players who prove their worth.
– Remember the Good Times – Anna Broth will once again correctly assign this task to players who prove their willingness to help.
– Feather in the Wind – Kerath in Sul Vius: Demiplane of Life can once again be attacked when necessary.

– The EverQuest Team

Qindaar is just six XP percentages from level one hundred, he should easily accomplish this tomorrow.  He is still finding it difficult to pick up on the Hero’s Quest he was working on.  It seems that the game is skewed that as you near one hundred the lower level MoB’s give less XP but hit harder, so what is eight levels under you hit like equals.  This is making it very difficult to solo.  Since my guild is a raid guild and I live on the West Coast I rarely get a chance to participate.

Tomorrow will be a great day when I hit 100!!!

Qindaar went back to working on the Hero’s Quest once again after achieving enough XP in level 99 to battle in Sarith, City of Tides. These MoB’s are seven levels below Qindaar but hit like equals, obviously this is not a zone to solo in as a Wizard until you have sufficient XP. Another thing that makes this zone difficult for a soloing Wizard is the fact that the MoB’s all summon, so there is no root and nuke because they pull you right into the battle.

It is nice to get into a new zone to work after spending so much time in Shard’s Landing and running dailies.  Dailies are still a good source of XP even at level 99 but it is slowing down.  I imagine once Qindaar hits 100 dailies will no longer be worth running.

Back to battling in Sarith and hopefully level 100 in a weeks time!

November 20, 2015
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*** Items ***

– Added proc effects to all weapons that drop in The Broken Mirror.
– Corrected the appearance of plate wrist and hand pieces for Crypt-Hunter’s and Deathseeker’s armor sets.
– Corrected the appearances of several new weapons and armor pieces that were displaying the wrong art assets.
– Fixed the appearance and functionality of the Cynosure of Health. It can now be placed in all real estate types and will transport you to the Plane of Health as intended.
– The Pridewing Lion Mount now applies Mount Blessing Qela instead of Mount Blessing Beza.
– Corrected an issue that caused Radiant Pridewing Bridles to display as direhounds when previewed.
– Bard instruments dropped in Hate: Revisited count as their correct item types and have their correct resonance foci attached.
– Added override names for spell foci on The Broken Mirror items.
– Removed Berserkers from many one handed weapons that would just be too dainty for them.
*** Quests & Events ***

– All quest givers throughout The Broken Mirror can now be found using the Find window (Ctrl + F).
– All Heroic Adventures in The Broken Mirror now have 6 hour lockouts.
– The Lost Lexicon Explorers Expedition – Updated the task text to make it more more clear that you can loot Decaying Zombie flesh from all zombies, not just Guktans.
– The Lost Lexicon Explorers Expedition – The Un-Undead-O-Matic now works on all types of neglected citizen zombies.
– The Lost Lexicon Explorers Expedition – Twilius Quill is less greedy and will always return one Decaying Zombie Flesh if you need it for the next step in the task.
– Familiar Haunts: Bokon Boles’ summoned zombies now attack his most hated enemy.
– Remember the Good Times – Updated the task text to make it a little more clear how to find Silent Devotees for that step.
– Defenders of the Faith – Corrected a problem that could cause Xhut Adan and Kavilis Adan to spawn more than once.
– In Defense of Health – Fixed the issue that caused invaders to react to their allies from the other side of a mountain.
– Grubbonion’s Locked Tower – Grubbonion is now more selective of who he works with, and will only offer his task to those who prove their worth first.
– Grubbonion’s Locked Tower – It’s now possible to use the Healing Ward item even if you do not complete the optional step in the task.
– Anashti Sul: Lady of Life (Raid) – Holistic Health should no longer target pets or the main tank (unless there is ONLY the main tank) when fighting.
– Anashti Sul: Damsel of Decay (Raid) – Fixed an issue that prevented the Bokon and ooze interaction from working properly.
– Anashti Sul: Damsel of Decay (Raid and Group) – Anashti Sul will now remain stationary throughout the fight.
– Anashti Sul: Damsel of Decay (Raid and Group) – Anashti Sul will directly damage the player on the top of her hatelist if they are outside melee range.
– Anashti Sul: Damsel of Decay (Raid and Group) – Spells and abilities will not land on Anashti Sul if the caster is too far away from her.
– Anashti Sul: Damsel of Decay (Raid and Group) – Anashti Sul will summon the player on the top of her hatelist when she teleports between floors
– Removed some “global” group items that were showing up in raid reward chests.
– Raid chests should now correctly drop Rank III spells rather than Rank II.
*** Spells ***

– Ranger – Corrected the name of Copsestalker’s Enrichment in the reward window you get when using Glowing Essences.
*** NPC ***

– Corrected the spelling in the name “a nascent supplicant.”
– Cazic-Thule in Hate: Revisited should no longer pop and up down, visually, during his inactive phase.
– Inhabitants of The Plane of Hate: Revisited should correctly spawn in the quadrant that matches their lockout and should no longer wander outside their quadrant.
*** Achievements ***

– Corrected an error that prevented the Call of the Forsaken Conquest achievement “Greater Conquest Answerer” from being visible.
– Corrected an error that caused the Kunark Exploration achievement “The Temple of Droga Traveler” to not be visible.
*** Miscellaneous ***

– The skull monument (which allows you to exit the instance) will now appear in all instances of Crypt of Sul.
– Corrected an issue that prevented the zone connections in The Broken Mirror from showing up in the find window.
*** UI ***

– Fixed a possible crash when opening the new claim offer window using a custom UI.
– The EverQuest Team

The Broken Mirror expansion is now live on EverQuest.  Be sure to update your UI if you use a custom one.

Here are the change notes:

November 18, 2015
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A goddess wakes and gazes into a looking glass. The reflection of her true nature fractures and breaks.

Even as the looking glass shatters and the world around her dissolves, Anashti Sul only looks deeper still into the fragments as they drift away. When her fractured mind glimpses her surroundings, she discovers that she is adrift in an unknown time and place where gods and goddesses maintain direct influence over Norrath. A hunger for power wells within her, having passed many an age with no power at all and an upstart sitting in her place. With a whole new realm before her, she resolves to rule again!

*** Highlights ***

– EverQuest’s 22nd expansion, “The Broken Mirror” is out now!
– Added the illusion key ring.
– Moved the mount key ring to the new key rings window. You can get to the mount key ring by clicking the Key Rings button in the bottom left corner of the inventory window or in the EQ Button.
– Claiming your monthly 500 DBC membership reward while in game (logged in to a character) will present you a limited time offer to purchase an item for a discount or an exclusive item not available in the Marketplace.

*** Items ***

– The ornament packs from the Legend of the Storm Break should now contain their original items.

*** Spells ***

– Spells that only hit PC or NPC targets but are not ‘targeted spells’ can now be cast if your current target does not match the restriction on the spell.
– – For example, the enchanter AA Scintillating Beam can now be cast if you have yourself targeted.
– Spells that target your pet will no longer change your target to your pet, similar to how items that cast spells on your pet do not change your target to your pet.
– Buffs that increase the damage dealt by critical melee hits now function on summoned pets.

*** NPC ***

– Heroic Adventure level-scaling NPCs have been re-tuned to better scale against player power.

*** AA ***

– Corrected an issue that prevented some beneficial spells from being cast if you had yourself targeted.
– – Corrected an error that prevented Spell Casting Subtlety, Bold Attacks, Sneering Grin, Combat Subtlety, and subtle Blows from being auto-granted at the appropriate expansion unlocks.
– Renamed Aegis of Kildrukaun to Companion’s Aegis. Added a substantial mana cost to the ability, and it is now available to Beastlords, Enchanters, Shaman and Shadowknights. Similarly adjusted Quickened Aegis of Kildrukaun.
– Druid & Shaman – Refunded the shaman version of Communion of the Cheetah, and you are now able to buy the Druid / Shaman version of the ability at a lower level. Increased the ability’s range from 50 feet to 100 feet.
– – Ranks 1-5 of the shaman ability Extended Communion of the Cheetah are now ranks 2-6 of Communion of the Cheetah and are now available to both classes. Removed Hidden Communion of the Cheetah, and lowered the required level to purchase for the Shaman ability Group Silent Presence from 86 to 85 and reduced its casting time from 0.5 seconds to instant.
– Priests and intelligence casters – Reduced ranks 5 and 6 of Silent Casting from 100% and 120% aggro reduction on all spells to 85% and 90%.
– Necromancer & Shadowknight – Quickened, Hastened, Extended and Reaching Encroaching Darkness are now ranks 2-13 of Encroaching Darkness.
– Shaman & Magician – Improved the resist modifier on ranks 2-4 of Wind of Malosinete so that each rank is less likely to be resisted. Additionally, ranks 2-4 now increase the number of targets that the spell will hit by 1 per rank.
– Enchanter, Magician & Wizard – Substantially increased the aggro reduction for ranks 1-7 of Arcane Whisper and moderately increased their hate over time reduction values. These abilities now additionally lower your hatred with the target by 1% of your total hatred every 6 seconds.
– – Reduced the duration of all ranks to 24 seconds and changed the spell to allow multiple casters to stack the effect on a single target. Reduced the base reuse time of the ability from 30 minutes to 20 minutes.
– Enchanter, Magician & Wizard – Reduced the shadowstep ranged for ranks 1-2 of Dimensional Shield from 100 feet to 25 feet, and it will now reduce the hatred that the attacker that strikes you has for you by 20 and 25%, in addition to reducing the hatred that all of your enemies have for you by a flat amount.
– Corrected the description for ranks 1-12 of Extended Swarm and modified the ability so that both Rangers and Bards can now purchase this line.
– Moved all ranks of Quick Damage from the Class to the Archetype tab of the AA window.
– Lowered the required level to purchase ranks 1-6 of Companion’s Fury.
– Added a focus level cap to the following spells and abilities: Funeral Pyre, Flames of Power & Weakness, Elemental Flames, Reinforced Malaise, Chromatic Haze & Gift of Chromatic Haze, Visage of Decay, and Arcane Fury.
– Bard – Extended Bladewhirl is now rank 2 of Extended Dance of Blades.
– Bard – Removed the levitation component on the buff cast by rank 2 of Shauri’s Sonorous Clouding. A secondary levitation buff is now triggered when the base song is cast.
– Beastlord – All ranks of Hobble of Spirits now have a permanent duration and no reuse timer.
– Beastlord – All ranks of Taste of Blood now have a permanent duration and no reuse timer.
– Beastlord – Increased the attack bonus granted by all ranks of Third Spire of the Savage Lord.
– Beastlord – Corrected the appearance of pets summoned by Attack of the Warders when used by Wood Elf Beastlords.
– Beastlord – Taste of Blood can now trigger Blood Frenzy on your warder if either you or it are credited with the killing blow on a non-trivial NPC.
– Berserker – Increased duration, maximum damage per hit and total damage absorption for all ranks of Uncanny Resilience.
– Berserker – Juggernaut’s Resolve will now reduce the damage dealt by flurry in addition to the other melee skills it currently reduces.
– Berserker – Adjusted War Cry of the Braxi to conflict with fewer similar abilities, additionally, the effect will now fade after 30 successful hits rather than 30 attempted hits.
– Berserker – Can now purchase ranks 1-3 of Hastened Vehement Rage.
– Berserker – Corrected ranks 1-3 of Blinding Fury to trigger Blinded instead of having the blind effect be a part of the ‘Blinded by Fury’ buff.
– – Made the following changes to the ‘Blinded’ portion of this ability: the duration of Blinded has been lowered from 18 seconds to 6 seconds, Blinded can no longer be focused for duration, Blinded can no longer be removed.
– Berserker – All ranks of Distraction Attack now reduce your target’s hatred toward you by 1% of their total hatred for you, in addition to the flat hate reduction value per proc.
– Berserker – Binding Axe can now deal damage to targets that are immune to the runspeed debuff portion of the ability.
– Druid – Extended Peaceful Spirit of the Wood and Peaceful Convergence of Spirits to have an equal number of ranks as their non-peaceful counterparts. Each rank of the Peaceful abilities now cost 1 point but require you to have purchased the corresponding rank of the non-peaceful ability to be available.
– Druid – Corrected a bug with rank 2 of Extended Spirit of the Wood that prevented it from focusing Peaceful Spirit of the Wood.
– Druid – Reduced the casting time of Blessing of Tunare and Season’s Wrath from 2.5 to 1 second.
– Druid – Reduced the casting time of ranks 1-2 of Protection of the Direwood from 1 second to instant.
– Enchanter – Mental Contortion no longer reflects Mind Twist Recourse I when cast.
– Enchanter – Color Shock now functions as a toggled passive ability.
– Enchanter – Changed the functionality of Ethereal Manipulation. This ability now augments your single target Tashina spells to trigger the additional debuff.
– Enchanter – Modified all ranks of Calculated Insanity to function more similarly to Frenzied Devastation, which allows mana preservation effects to function while under the effects of Calculated Insanity. The number of charges for all ranks of the ability has been increased by 50% but the increased mana cost has been retuned to be significantly more costly for ranks 5-15.
– Enchanter – Combined Hastened Mass Group Buff with Beguiler’s Hastened Mass Group Buff into a single 9 rank line named ‘Hastened Mass Group Buff’. Any ranks in the AA line previously named ‘Hastened Mass Group Buff’ have been refunded.
– Magician – Improved the total health of the pets summoned by all ranks of Servant of Ro.
– Magician – Corrected an issue that prevented ranks 3-4 of Companion of Necessity from functioning.
– Magician – Improved the pets summoned by ranks 4-18 of Host of the Elements.
– Magician – Can now purchase ranks 1-5 of Quickened Malosinete.
– Magician – Reduced the aggro reduction percentage on ranks 2-13 of Heart of Vapor to 60% at the highest.
– Magician – Corrected an issue that prevented Elemental Form spells from landing if the illusion component was buff-blocked.
– Monk – Ranks 1-2 of Extended Impenetrable Discipline now extend the duration of Earthforce Discipline in addition to Impenetrable Discipline.
– Monk – Corrected an issue with Thunderfoot that caused this ability to trigger its effect less often than was intended.
– Necromancer – Cascade of Decay now functions as a toggled passive ability. Additionally, lowered the minimum duration restriction on the ability from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
– Paladin – Ranks 1-3 of Hastened Armor of the Inquisitor now also lower the re-use time of Thunder of Karana.
– Ranger – Improved the pets summoned by all ranks of Pack Hunt.
– Ranger – Ferocious Kick has been changed from an activated ability to a passive ability that will trigger when you use your standard kick skill. Adjusted the damage and chance to trigger Fury of the Forest to align with the faster reuse time of the standard kick skill.
– – Ranks 1-3 of Hastened Ferocious Kick are now ranks 4-6 of Ferocious Kick. All ranks of Ferocious Kick now improve your accuracy with your kick skill to 100%.
– Ranger – Can now purchase a new toggled passive ability, Ferocious Kick Subtlety, after purchasing rank 1 of Ferocious Kick. This ability reduces the amount of hatred generated by your Ferocious Kick ability.
– Rogue – Seized Opportunity now increases the chance that your double (and by extension triple) backstab rolls can succeed from any angle.
– Rogue – Ranks 1-3 of Extended Trickery are now ranks 7-9 of Sleight of Hand.
– Rogue – Corrected an issue with Mrylokar’s Rigor and Massive Strike that caused these abilities to trigger their effects less often than was intended.
– Shadowknight – Improved the pets summoned by all ranks of Chattering Bones.
– Shadowknight – Soul Touch is now rank 3 of Thought Leech. Ranks 3 and 4 of Thought Leech now returns both mana and endurance when striking your target.
– Shadowknight – Hastened Summon Remains ranks 1-3 are now ranks 2-4 of Summon Remains.
– Shadowknight – Changed the functionality of Reinforced Malaise; it now increases the base damage and mana cost of damage over time spells cast during its duration.
– Shadowknight – Four ranks of Lingering Death are now available for purchase.
– Shadowknight – Renamed Ragged Bite of Agony to ‘Focused Bites’ and changed its functionality; it is now a passive ability that will trigger when you cast a bite spell or use your Vicious Bite of Chaos ability.
– Shadowknight – Combined the 3 effects of Gift of the Quick Spear into a single buff, and it no longer requires a non-spear direct damage spell in order to trigger the twincast component of the ability.
– Shadowknight – Improved the scaling on ranks 10-17 of Innate Darkblade.
– Shaman – Improved the pets summoned by all ranks of Spirit Call.
– Shaman – Corrected an issue that prevented Spirit of Urgency from functioning.
– Shaman – Ranks 1-3 of Extended Languid Bite are now ranks 4, 6 and 8 of Languid Bite.
– Shaman – Changed the functionality of Wind of Pathosis. This ability now augments your Wind of Malosinete ability to trigger an additional disease debuff.
– Shaman – Changed the functionality of Pathosis. This ability now augments your single target Malo spells to trigger an additional disease debuff.
– Shaman – Ranks 1-3 of Extended Pestilence are now passive abilities that do not need to be activated.
– Shaman – Corrected the accuracy component of Third Spire to enhance all weapon types. Previously, it was only improving accuracy with 1-handed blunt weapons.
– Warrior – Adjusted the resist rate of ranks 1-3 of Call of Challenge so that the ability will have a dramatically improved chance to land on your target.
– Warrior – Adjusted the endurance regeneration component on rank 3 of Imperator’s Command to no longer conflict with the Beastlord ability Paragon of Spirit.
– Wizard – Improved the pets summoned by all ranks of Call of Xuzl.
– Wizard – Adjusted the stacking of Lower Element so that it will no longer conflict with the Druid Moonbeam spell line.
– Wizard – Changed Arcane Destruction to function more similarly to Frenzied Devastation. Increased the number of counters for all ranks, and the ability can now coexist with mana preservation effects.
– Wizard – Concussive Intuition ranks 1-2 now reduce your target’s hatred for you by 1% per rank when cast and can no longer be resisted when cast.
– – The recourse buffs offered by this ability now reduce hatred of the next three spells of a particular resist type by 85%. Changed the recourse chance’s weighting so that it now provides a 40% chance for fire or magic spells to be focused and a 20% chance for ice spells to be focused.

*** Mercenaries ***

– Fixed an issue that caused mercenaries to continually heal you if your HP was limited to less than 100% of normal. They should still heal you when you are damaged below that amount.

*** Miscellaneous ***

– Monk – Increased the skill caps for Kick and Flying Kick by 5 points for all levels. Additionally, increased the monk skills Dragon Punch, Eagle Strike, Round Kick and Tiger Claw caps to match the skill cap values of Kick and Flying Kick and Kick.
– Claiming your monthly 500 DBC membership reward while in game (logged in to a character) will present you a limited time offer to purchase an item for a discount or an exclusive item not available in the Marketplace.
– Mounts and Illusions that do not have a stat buff can no longer be placed in the stat buff slot and will give an error message.
– Corrected an issue when attempting to gate to your bind point if you were in an instance that matched the geometry of your bind point.
– Corrected an issue in the Arx Mentis raid that could cause players to get stuck in the floor when they try to enter an area of the zone that they are not flagged for.

*** UI ***

– Added the illusion key ring.
– Moved the mount key ring to the new key rings window. You can get to the mount key ring by clicking the Key Rings button in the bottom left corner of the inventory window or in the EQ Button.
– Purchasing a character slot, mercenary slot, appearance slot or heroic character slot will now take you to the new purchase window without requiring that you open the entire marketplace.
– Added a new atlas map for The Broken Mirror.  The new area is called ‘Anashti’s Influence’.
– Changed EQUI_DragItems.xml to add the new drag item icons.

– Changed –
EQUI.xml
EQUI_Animations.xml
EQUI_DragItems.xml
EQUI_Inventory.xml
EQUI_KeyRingWnd.xml
EQUI_PurchaseGroupWnd.xml

*** Previously Updated ***

– Addressed an issue where certain switches stopped working.  For example, the cell door in the tutorial would not properly open.
– Corrected a zone stability issue related to fling when a target is immune to fling.
– Fixed a bug that was causing some people to crash when zoning.

– The EverQuest Team

Qindaar went to work again today to increase his level to get back on track to working on his Hero’s Quest.  He managed to reach seventy six percent progress towards level ninety nine. It will be a pleasant day to break one hundred for sure but need to stay focused on this next level.  The goal is to reach ninety-nine by the end of the week which should not be an issue if I manage to eek out about half an hour to forty five minutes per day.

Qindaar tried to get back into the Quest he was working on until he needed to level more.  Unfortunately he still has not achieved a high enough rank to continue.  So far he has gotten to sixty eight percent into level ninety eight hopefully by the weekend level ninety nine will be achieved.