EverQuest Time Line

EVERQUEST TIME LINE

2026 - 2035

Changes, Modifications and other updates to EverQuest, over time.

When did that happen, you may ask... now you can know, and stay on task! -- Bonzz

EverQuest, over time, has had minor, major and even dramatic changes; modifications; updates; items / NPC's re-named; things added; things removed; nerfs; exploit fixes; tradeskill changes; spell, song & discipline changes; class modifications; new servers and server merges; and so forth.

These 'things' may just be interesting to know, fun to know or maybe even important to know.

The tidbits below are from Patch Notes; Update Notices; News Releases; EQ Forums; the Wayback Machine; Expansion Releases; and so forth.

The data is not necessarily verbatim... I sometimes shortened things, paraphrased, inserted comments of my own, corrected spellings, corrected grammar and / or combined multiple sources into one (since they were from the same date / same topic).

Things I did not find to be of any real interest are not included, and, for the most part, only includes changes to Live Servers (TLP's will eventually 'catch up' and become Live Servers, anyway).

This page is, by no means, 100% inclusive... it does not contain every line item from every patch / news posting... not to mention that since EQ / Devs do not always 'reveal' everything.

>>>>> The best way to find anything you may be looking for, on this page, is to use CNTRL F (on your keyboard) to search this page by a keyword (using the box that pops up in your browser). You can also scan / browse visually. To aid with visual scanning, I have highlighted some key words and phrases in red text. I have also highlighted the dates of modifications, hot fixes and patches . <<<<<

!!!ALERT !!! BE AWARE!!!: Many of the things listed below, may have been changed again later, and then again after that! In some cases, some may have been removed from the game all together! Do not take any single change to be 100% as it is now, for this very reason. Keep looking for future (more recent) changes that may have modified it yet again... or, perhaps, removed it!

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JANUARY 21, 2026:
- Added a new teleport item that is locked behind progression. Ask Tsikut about travel.
- Added achievements that follow the Planes of Power progression.
- Midnight Mallet can no longer be used if you are not one of the classes on the item. Also, the recast has been increased to 2.5 minutes. Protector's Gem of Unraveling Order should now have a more appropriate heroic stamina value. Acrylia Slate of Shar Vahl is no longer lore, and Initiate's Cloak of Shar Vahl is now lore equipped. Short Bow of Unraveling Order now has an AC value.
- Items that are turned in for quests above the character's current level will now be returned instead of being stolen by the NPC (the quest will still not be advanced).
- Fixed an issue where bandolier would not load correctly if you had two of the same item in the bandolier, such as two of the same weapons or two throwing items. Clicking an empty bandolier no longer removes your weapons if you have Auto Swap enabled.
- New armor ornaments are available for purchase from Grogg Harpyr or Cortnia Stonebreaker in Scarred Grove.
- Real estate eviction should no longer cause items to become lost or missing.
- Corrected an issue that prevented you from swapping two items containing augments in the same lore equipped group.
- Removed the trivial loot code from Scraps of Wither and Decay.
- Aurora Carver and Zed Growlinggut in Scarred Grove will now buy back fewer items.
- Added druids to the Vah Shir cultural leather armor.
- The Celebratory Champagne Flute Ornament should now work correctly on one-handed, two-handed, and hand-to-hand weapons.
- Candlemaker's Wax Seals will now drop from named NPCs in The Vortex, Ruined Relic, Labyrinth of Spite, and Arcstone, Shattered Isles.
- The recipe for Acrobat's Diminished Belt of Unraveling Order now uses the correct container type.
- Increased drop rate of Riven Arcana Imbued Timber. Increased drop rate and quantity of Riven Arcana Imbued Silk.
- Updated default hotkey label for "Enchant Honed Riven Arcana (x1)" and "Enchant Honed Riven Arcana (x10)" abilities.
- Increased size limit on reading from the INI to properly save and load recipes from your favorites list.
- Improved performance of the Tradeskill Depot.
- Echo of Hate (Mission): Removed a spiteful drachnid / a venomous drachnid that wandered near the Northern even area. Note, you can still gain additional aggro if you move too close to the room edges. Or, you can clear the natives first! NPCs will no longer respawn for the life of the instance. The Echo of Hate mission will no longer congratulate you for defeating Shar'Drahn. NPCs will now properly attack pets. Decreased the health of Dark Flagellant. Mercenaries will no longer be suspended upon entering. Corrected an issue that caused some NPCs to give too long of an out of combat timer.
- In Ruined Relic, a static magic storm has been added near the Janitor that may need cleaning up while helping him in the task Shattered Tears: The Third Fragment.
- It will now be possible to levitate in the Shar'Drahn mission. Falling off the edge in the Shar'Drahn mission will no longer strand you at the bottom of the zone.
- Added scheduled update events to the calendar for 2026.
- Labyrinth of Spite - Letting Go and Grounding - Resolved a typo in the task steps.
- In the Invaders Raid, the bombs will no longer explode instantly when dropped. Also, they will no longer chase people around the space.
- In the Echo of Hate Raid the Dark Mania spell will be removed on success or reset of the event.
- The task The Hate Machine in Labyrinth of Spite now has less repetitive task text. It also plays nicer if you complete some elements out of order.
- Made a speculative fix to a bug where you would incorrectly be blocked from looting from a raid due to the zone believing the lockout was from a different instance.
- Set NPCs in progression instances to no-equip so they will not equip their loot.
- Ring of Scale raids should no longer fail to reward flags to dead or zoned-out players on success.
- Fixed an issue with the Rings of Fire mission in Argin-Hiz that could cause the Archivists to be unkillable.
- The Last of the Storm Boars quest has been slightly improved. Sometimes you can loot the Terse Note and not get the first element to complete. Now, if that happens, simply step back into the hut where the "wandering corpse" appeared, and you should get the update.
- The "spy" for the Supplies for Spies task in the Steam Factory will now spawn properly.
- The "Aspects" defending T'Shara in Accursed Nest, if left alone long enough, will reset their attack power.
- Altered the timing of Brew Day events.
- Increased the drop rate of Ethereal Fragments in Arcstone, Shattered Isles so they drop one for each character in a group.
- Ruined Relic - Shattered Tears: The Second Fragment - You can now spawn Magmath in pickzones.
- Increased the drop rate of the Hymn of Stability: Verse from rare NPCs in Ruined Relic. Rare placeholder NPCs in Ruined Relic now also have a chance to drop the page if any members in the group have the Songs of Stability quest.
- Waxwork Abolishion: Adjusted raid and mission timings for Candlemaker's Workshop Waxwork Abolishion to reduce encounter inactivity. NPCs will now properly attack pets.
- Reduced the damage of "Burning Slime" cast by Caiser the Lava Dweller to be in line with the rest of the Shattering of Ro expansion.
- Added 20 pages to the spell book.
- Description for Secretion of the Mamba now correctly indicates that it summons a single dose of Consigned Bite of the Shissar XXIII.
- Queuemelody will no longer be interrupted if you try to use an offensive song on a target who cannot be attacked.
- Fixed the spell description string for Temporal Disturbance, cast by certain Shattering of Ro magic storms.
- Beastlord - Corrected an issue where some warders between levels 56 and 64 would lose the ability to taunt when focused.
- Enchanter - Added scroll drops for Illusion: Guardian of Ro to Candlemaker's Workshop and Illusion: Tier`Haeth to the Labyrinth of Spite. These scrolls will not appear in mission or raid instances of these zones.
- Magician - Added additional NPC races to the Monster Summoning pools in Shattering of Ro zones. Corrected the name of the level 126 Burnout XVII.
- Paladin - Corrected the healing values for Aurora of Sunlight XI.
- All Classes - Updated the Special AA, Wild Magic: Unleash, all ranks, such that "Energizing" storms restore less mana (1/2/3% down from 1/2/4%) and drain more HP (2/4/6% up from 1/2/4%) per tick, while "Revitalizing" storms drain less mana (0.2/0.4/0.6% down from 1/2/4%) and restore more HP (2/4/6% up from 1/2/4%) per tick.
- Monk - Updated the Focus AA, Focus: Dragon's Balance, ranks 19-20, to correctly focus Eagle's Symmetry Strike.
- Shadow Knight - Updated the Class AA, Chattering Bones, ranks 29-31, to correctly reference the Venom Claw spells they cast.
  NPCs
- In Ruined Relic, the rare NPC 'living marble' now has the correct body type for an elemental construct.
- Labyrinth of Spite fish had a rude awakening when some alligators came in and disrupted their sewer habitat. All fish have been exchanged with alligators, which can, and will, chase you on land.
- In Ruined Relic, dirt dervishes spawned during Partisan Quest 3 (The Third Fragment) will now despawn if left alone for a period of time.
- The weaker forgebound in the Hero's Forge will be a little less sensitive to fighting near them. This should make the structures a little easier to fight in.
- Increased the experience granted by the aggressive Manasheen Defenders in Arcstone, Shattered Isles.
- In Ruined Relic, the wandering scrykin near the zone-in from Arcstone, Shattered Isles will no longer spawn.
- Level 130 mercenaries are enjoying AA experience gains again. At level 130, the mercenary AA cap is 65 points.
- Moved a collection item that was under the world in The Vortex.
- Overseer: Fixed an issue with The Outer Brood Worker rewards.
- Progression Servers: Re-adjusted Mitigation of the Mighty so it mitigates hand-to-hand damage less.
- Vaniki: Added a Challenge reward for Shattering of Ro.
- Made the following factions persona shared: Dranik Loyalists, Wraithguard, Wraithguard Leadership, Scholars of Solusek, and Infiltrators and Traitors of Ashengate.
- Warriors will once again go into a berserk frenzy when low health.
- Updated the '/outputfile recipes' command to accept the 'all' parameter which will output a file for each tradeskill. This option will always use the default name for each file.
- Updated the '/who' command to accept 'raid' as a parameter. When used, you'll be shown the current players in your raid including their level, class, name, and which raid group they are in.
- Added a chat message when picking up an item from the ground.
- The Player window will now flash blue when '/autofire' is used. Removed the target requirement when disabling '/autofire'.
- OpenMP library is no longer used by the game client. The game client no longer sets CPU affinity and ClientCore variables in the eqclient.ini file are now obsolete.
- Player characters are less likely to go into orbit while following another player.
- Added an option to bypass confirmation prompts when inserting, removing, or swapping augments in items. The new option can be set using '/augmentprompt' or through a new dropdown in the General tab of the Options window.
- Changed calculation of fall damage modifier to use a ratio based on strength.
- Added a safe area in many expansions starting at House of Thule. Added a safe area to the following zones that will allow players to change personas: House of Thule: Beasts' Domain; Shard's Landing; Ethernere Tainted West Karana; Katta Castrum; Katta Castrum: Deluge; Sul Vius: Demiplane of Life; Sul Vius: Demiplane of Decay; Lceanium; The Overthere; The Eastern Wastes; The Western Wastes; Maiden's Eye; Ruins of Shadow Haven; Hodstock Hills; Scarred Grove.
- Fixed price display items that can be purchased with Daybreak Cash in regular Merchant Windows to correctly display a player's membership discount.
- Fixed the faction link on consider messages to not include the rare NPC text as part of the link.
- Locking bag item slots, assigning the slot to a hot button, and then swapping persona no longer crashes the game client. Fixed locked slot spam when bartering or doing tradeskill combines. Fixed several issues with the Find Item Window and locked slots.
- Updated loading UI skins to now properly load the new UI. This will allow changes to things like fonts and windows to happen in folders other than the default, preventing any changes from being overwritten during updates.
- Fixed crashes on Windows 10 (22H2) when fullscreen display mode requests are refused by the system. Improved the game client's fullscreen window handling to reduce flashing and D3D device reset failures on Windows 10+, especially Windows 11 25H2 update. Fixed a D3D device reset failure when logging out to the server select screen. Launching multiple game clients in fullscreen exclusive mode can display a dialog to retry in windowed mode when the D3D device cooperative level fails. You can switch window mode afterwards by pressing ALT + ENTER keys, or through the Options > Display tab in game.
- The Find Item and Key Rings windows will now update correctly when moving items in and out of a Key Ring. The columns of the Find Item window are now all resizable and the blank column has been removed. Corrected an issue with grabbing items while resizing columns in the Find Item window. The Stat, Qty, and Location columns of the Find Item window will now sort correctly. Correctly resized the view for the new UI elements when resolution changes.
- Converted the Bank Window to use the new UI. Updated the naming conventions of some UI pieces for the Bank Window in the old UI.
- When moving characters between groups in the Raid Window they will now remain properly highlighted.
- Mask of the Vortex should now gain 2% experience from Shattering of Ro mission chests.
- Frostfell - Giftis Waylayus - The task steps now correctly reference that the Leather Cord can be found in dens near the Everfrost Peaks entrance. A Frostfell fanatic and a Frostfell enthusiast in the Commonlands tunnel and the Gifty Giver will now sell holiday items from the Marketplace.
- Added additional dialogs to Firiona in Arcstone, Shattered Isles. Removed Life Guide from the unconscious Firiona Vie in Scarred Grove.
- Reduced the experience granted for killing Manasheen Groves.
- Removed an NPC in Arcstone, Shattered Isles that might attack players zoning in and using evacuate or succor.
- Removed the extra teleport locations around each island in Arcstone, Shattered Isles.
- The recipe for Longbow of Unraveling Order now uses Diminished Longbow. The recipe for Short Bow of Unraveling Order now uses Diminished Short Bow. The Shattered Mask of the Vortex recipe will now return 3x Charged Tempestuous Storm Essence upon failure.
- Fixed an issue where equipment sets would not search your inventory when loading items. When loading an equipment set, currently equipped items will be searched first, followed by the Equipment Key Ring, followed by inventory bags. Fixed an issue with convertible augments and the Equipment Key Ring sometimes causing items to disappear.
JANAURY 23, 2026:
- Tradable: The Shattering of Ro Expansion Ticket will now grant the correct features when used.
- Spite-Woven armor ornaments are now No-Trade.
- Colossus (Raid and Mission) - Moved the magic storms back into the event. Note: The stony storm will wander in a larger loop than before, but still within the event area.
- Shar'Drahn (Raid and Mission) - Wisp NPCs can now be attacked by pets.
- Removed some anniversary NPCs that should not have been available at this time.
  Spells
- Null Vortex is now a short buff, so it will not linger if you zone.
- Zones with a Resource Hunter experience bonus will once again give the correct amount of bonus experience.
- Fixed an issue that caused the Raid window to not properly handle moving raid members between groups.
- Fixed a crash when using the new UI engine and toggling or changing fullscreen display mode.
FEBRUARY 11, 2026:
- Removed the Heirloom flag from Tsikut's Crystallized Magic.
- Clicking on a target with a key ring item attached should now properly interact with the target.
- Letting Go and Grounding - All instances of Heloise Alston are no longer marked as Rare. Additionally, should the attackable version be left alone for a while, she will despawn and reset.
- Answering the Call - Moved the safe area in Ethernere Tainted West Karana, so Deathmaster Sarenth will be combatable.
- Shar'Drahn (Mission) - The rockfall auras will appear again.
- Achievements - Updated the "Champion of Shattering of Ro" and "Vanquisher of Shattering of Ro" General achievements to show all of the Challenges needed as sub-steps for their respective missions or raids.
- Added a note to The Plane of Time achievement component about the Quintessence of Elements, which needs to be in your inventory to complete the achievement.
- Veil of Alaris progression - Fixed an issue where the Record of Tales and the following books do not progress correctly if the server has bonus evolving item experience.
  Spells
- Null Vortex in the Ruined Relic events should no longer give an out-of-combat timer. Null Vortex is now a short buff, so it will not linger if you zone.
- Added a spell auto-grant. Upon leveling, characters with the spell auto-grant enabled will automatically learn new spells and combat abilities up to their current level, up to four expansions away from the current expansion (on progression servers), or four expansions away from the account's currently owned expansion (on live servers). Some spells are intentionally not auto-granted. The spell auto-grant requires All Access membership, and can be enabled in the Options Window. On progression servers, the spell auto-grant becomes available in Planes of Power, and classic spells will be granted. On live servers, if you own Shattering of Ro, spells up to Terror of Luclin will be auto-granted. If you own The Outer Brood, spells up to Claws of Veeshan will be auto-granted. Added the /autogrant command. This command can be used to manually run the AA or spell auto-grant.
- Fixed a misspelling in the cast on you text of Burning Mana.
- Druid and Wizard - Created new teleport spells to Ruined Relic. These are available from Tulanarynn in the Scarred Grove if you have completed the Partisan of Ruined Relic achievement.
- Enchanter - The scrolls for Illusion: Guardian of Ro and Illusion: Tier`Haeth can now stack to 20.
- Necromancer - Moved the Strength debuff in the Grip of Mori DoT line from slot 2 to slot 5 to avoid stacking conflicts.
- Shadow Knight - Made several changes to the Dire Constriction DoT line to avoid stacking conflicts. Moved the Disease counters from slot 1 to slot 2. Moved the Strength debuff from slot 2 to slot 6, and moved the AC debuff from slot 3 to slot 1. Unyielding Stance Rk. II and Rk. III are now available from Candlemaker's Greater Wax Seal and Greater Mirrorshard of Relic along with Drape of Spite. If you have upgraded Drape of Spite already, you will have a new special option to upgrade Unyielding Stance on its own.
- Magician and Wizard - Updated the Class AAs, Heart of Skyfire/Improved Familiar, all pre-Shattering of Ro ranks, to use a different damage effect that will yield increased damage output and improve buff compatibility.
- Fixed particle affects to attach to the correct location (for example, skeleton's glowing eyes) when the window is at a 16:9 aspect or higher.
- Expendable items can now be placed into the Activated Item Key Ring. Each stack of a stackable item counts as one item towards the item limit.
- Tribute and Trophy Tribute activation state now persists between persona swaps.
- You can now remove augments from armor by clicking Grab Item in the Find Item Window.
- Tradable: The Shattering of Ro Expansion Ticket will now grant the correct features when used.
- Spite-Woven armor ornaments are now No-Trade.
- Colossus (Raid and Mission) - Moved the magic storms back into the event. Note: The stony storm will wander in a larger loop than before, but still within the event area.
- Shar'Drahn (Raid and Mission) - Wisp NPCs can now be attacked by pets.
- Removed some anniversary NPCs that should not have been available at this time.
- Zones with a Resource Hunter experience bonus will once again give the correct amount of bonus experience.
- Fixed an issue that caused the Raid window to not properly handle moving raid members between groups.
- Fixed a crash when using the new UI engine and toggling or changing fullscreen display mode.
MARCH 11, 2026:
- Added level 115 Heroic Characters that will be available in the Marketplace starting March 16, 2026.
- The game client now supports borderless fullscreen windowed mode. The game client now supports borderless fullscreen windowed mode. A Borderless Fullscreen checkbox has been added to the Options Window Display tab.
- The drop item confirmation dialog should now disappear when any type of auto inventory occurs.
- Updated pre-Shattering of Ro worn focus spells with a different damage effect that will yield increased direct damage output and improve buff compatibility, bringing them in-line with the previously updated Shattering of Ro spells.
- Adjusted loot tables for Enraged Shattering of Ro raid chests.
- Scalp of the Ghoul Lord can now be used by all classes.
- Fixed an issue with crafting using items from the Personal Tradeskill Depot.
- Altered the pet tanking behavior to "default" in a large number of mission NPCs in Torment of Velious, Claws of Veeshan, Terror of Luclin, Night of Shadows, and Laurion's Song.
- Ruined Relic (Raids) - Added a Null Vortex to both raids and removed the zone-based levitation suppression.
- Year of Darkpaw - Oasis of Fear: Fixed an issue where progress could break when Kill and Investigate steps trigger simultaneously.
- Bard - Moved Selo's Accelerating Canto into the Movement memorization category. Reduced the mana cost of all Shattering of Ro songs. Corrected the timer of Yaran's Disdain from 6 to 3.
- Beastlord - Corrected the timer of Ankexfen Lance from 7 to 11. Adjusted mana costs of Shar`Drahn's Chill and Spiter Blood to better reflect their actual power increase. Reduced the cost of Shar`Drahn's Chill significantly. Increased the cost of Spiter Blood slightly.
- Druid - Corrected an error with Duskthorn and Frondbarb that caused the "Wild" versions of those spells to remove the spell entirely instead of replacing the lower-damage version.
- Necromancer - Added a No Twincast flag to the spells Livianus' Grip of Decay and Mourgis' Grip of Decay to match the behavior of later spells in that line.
- Shadow Knight - Lowered the mana cost of Dire Constriction XI.
- Paladin and Shadow Knight - Moved the availability of Deflection Discipline from Seeds of Destruction to Depths of Darkhollow. Corrected data that allowed it to be available earlier via autoscribe.
- Fixed a bug where spell AAs wouldn't work after running the spell auto-grant.
- Added a help message if /autogrant spells is used and the setting is not enabled.
- All Classes - Unwritten Glyph items can now properly grant level 130 ranks of Mythic Glyphs.
- All Classes - The Special AAs Curse of Blood, Affliction of Blood, Torment of Blood, Temptation of Blood, and Invitation of Blood are now persona shared.
- Wizard - All ranks of The Focus AAs Focus: Chaos Scintillation and Focus: Rimeblast Cascade now correctly focus the Fire and Cold spells, respectively, in the Wildmagic Strike spell line.
- Progression Servers: Enabled free transfers off Rizlona and updated it to be free to play.
- Added a fix for client crashes related to NVIDIA graphics drivers.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the Preview Item Window from rendering transparent items.
- Fixed 2.0 pixel shaders that were overly bright and shiny on actors and items that have bright white colors.
- Made the following changes to resurrection: Resurrection failure should respond with more detail if the dead player declines, if the offer times out, if the player is zoning, or if the player has already been offered a resurrection. Resurrection AA abilities should properly reset in more failure cases, such as a player exiting the zone or declining. Added the deceased player's name to several resurrection chat messages. Targeting a dead player with multiple corpses who has not yet respawned should now properly target the corpse over which they are hovering. Resurrections that restore experience now show the percentage gained.
- Updated NPC death messages to be slightly different from player death messages.
- The Bazaar Search Window's Find Items button will now more accurately show when a search can be performed again regardless of how the previous search was initiated.
- Hotbutton item links will now be more visually consistent.
- Converted the Group Window to use the new UI engine.
- With New UI Engine display option enabled, in-game windows that are supported by the New UI Engine will now save their positions distinctly for each desktop window mode: restored, maximized, and fullscreen.
APRIL 15, 2026:
- The Rizlona server has been merged into Aradune.
- Guild Hall Decorative Dummies have been overhauled. New dummies for the previous 11 expansions have been made and can be purchased from Brent Harnak in Sunrise Hills. Item names have been updated to make more sense when viewed on the merchant. When placed in a guildhall, their alternate names now match the era/expansion from which they are tuned. HP has been massively increased with right-click options to increase it further. The Modify Level menu has more options for increasing or decreasing the dummy's current level by larger amounts.
- Eternal Bloom armor ornaments should now apply the correct icons when socketed into various compatible armor pieces.
- Added focus effects to most Heroic Level 115 armor pieces.
- Fixed an issue where swapping weapons using the bandolier wouldn't properly update the weapon visuals.
- Defender's, Mystic's, and Duelist's Charms of Unraveling Order are now Lore Equip rather than Lore.
- The new Innoruuk Heritage Crate launches today!
- Increased the cap on Hero's Forge and Equipment Key Rings by 500.
- The Silence of Druzzil Ro (Quest) - The colored Resonant Crystals in Arcstone, Shattered Isles should now cycle and spawn.
- Threads of the Broken Memories (Quest) - Adjusted the explore area in Arcstone Ruins for the "explore an airshard" element. It should now detect the player's approach to the shard and trigger properly. In addition, the windshard and windwarden should now be correctly the airshard and airwarden to match the text reference in the quest.
- Added a choice of a type 19 augment as a reward for completing the 27th Anniversary Raid Challenges achievement.
- Diary of the Jade - The Tests (Mission) - The 26th Anniversary mission now has a 1-hour request timer.
- Ruined Relic (Raids) - Gwark should no longer despawn between events.
- Shar'Drahn (Mission) - Fixed the task and completion text to mention Shar'Drahn instead of Echo of Hate.
- Shar'Drahn (Raid and Mission) - Added a delay on the tether to the adds. You will have ~ 30 seconds to get the add NPCs inside the tether range before they will start checking their tether.
- 27th Anniversary Quest - Linguistic Libretto - A new Resonant Ink is now required for notetaking while studying the Copy of Ancient Lyrics with Jharin Kevva.
- Tides of Time: Glaze of the Ice Dragon (Raid) - Lady Vox has had her hitpoints reduced by 25% and the ice giant warriors have had their hitpoints reduced by 60%.
- Mean Streets (Mission) - Changes the pet tanking behavior of the NPCs in the mission.
- Fixed a typo in Assistant Scribe Kaelir's quest dialog in Arcstone, Shattered Isles.
- Druid - The Nurturing Growth line of mana return abilities will now count down in non-combat zones.
- Necromancer - Fixed bad descriptions for the recourse spells in the Call for Blood line of spells.
- Shaman - Lowered the required level of Talisman of Unity X to 126. Reduced the melee strength of level 77-112 pets back to their intended values. They were incorrectly raised when the number of swarm pets from the Pack of Aina line was reduced, which caused them to be stronger than pets from higher levels. Made many changes to the Pack of Aina line of spells. The spells now summon two wolves equivalent to the current pet for 10 seconds, instead of one wolf equivalent to the previous pet. Higher level wolves now consistently do more melee damage than lower level ones. Removed the continuous mana cost from Pack of Aina. Removed the mana cost from the Call the Pack procs (because it was never charged) and replaced it with a flat 0.5% cost per proc. Extended the level range of damaging spells that can trigger a proc to 5 levels above the then-current cap. Set a minimum spell level for all ranks at 9 levels below the then-current cap.
- Mercenaries: Reduced maximum hit points of tank mercenaries between levels 1 and 60. Increased maximum hit points of tank mercenaries between levels 81 and 130. Increased attack and damage values of melee DPS mercenaries between levels 81 and 130. Slightly increased damage values of melee DPS mercenaries between levels 1 and 15. Mercenaries are now much more likely to use the highest level version of a spell or ability line available at their level. Reduced the spell damage bonus of level 125-130 caster DPS mercenaries to compensate for their more consistent damage output. Removed several spells from healer mercenaries' spellbooks that were being used sub-optimally.
- Corrected a script that prevented the Challenge: Defense of the City achievement from acknowledging level 95 on Vaniki.
- Optimized how item conversion requirements are checked as a zoning speed improvement.
- Fixed a crash involving texture rendering in the game client.
- The 2026 Live Event meta achievement now has the correct reward attached.
- Fixed several memory corruption issues in EQ's graphics library that caused random client crashes.
- Fixed some typos in achievements relating to Eternal Bloom and Spite-Woven armor ornament sets.
- Fixed an issue that caused the world server to reset the out of combat timer upon zoning or camping.
- Disabled the new UI engine by default. Windows using the new UI Engine should no longer move to the right or down when resizing from the left or top, respectively.
- Fixed an issue where Alt Tab switching would not apply the Overlap Windows Taskbar option.
MAY 4, 2026:
- Fixed an event scheduling bug that prevented the Tempest Festival NPCs from appearing.
MAY 20, 2026:
- Raid difficulty NPCs will now give a two and a half minute (instead of five) out-of-combat timer.
- Bramblefang and Short Spear of Resonant Fracture should both now have their particle effects.
- Fixed an issue where Free Storage key ring items would count towards used slots.
- Fixed an issue where you could equip multiple augments in the same Lore Equipped Group.
- Created new Time Locked Progression starter packs for Frostreaver, available when the server opens.
- Consuming Magic found on group-tier Necromancer robes from Shattering of Ro and raid-tier Necromancer robes from The Outer Brood should now work correctly for spells up to level 130.
- Tallongast (Raid) - Adjusted the center point and radius of the tether area. Single-target heals should now affect good eggs.
- Spitetangle (Raid) - Fixed an issue with the "Cracked" achievement. As part of the fix, the prisons will now despawn when their health drops to approximately 15%.
- Spitetangle (Base, Mission, and Raid) - Changed the Spite zone geometry and the pathing in the large open room of the sewers to reduce the instances of NPCs going under the floor.
- Echo of Hate (Raid) - The Wax oozes should cover more of the raid area. Its aura is also a larger radius.
- Spiteful Machinations (Quest) - In the Labyrinth of Spite, Drew Xiomar will now talk to all players regardless of level but will only grant the task Spiteful Machinations if level 115 or higher.
- You can no longer swap to a higher level persona while assigned to an Lost Dungeons of Norrath adventure.
- Hybrid and Melee Classes - Adjusted existing Progressive abilities to fix the three ways they had been falling behind both content and other abilities. Rank 1 of a new ability is now equal to Rank 6 of the previous ability and all other ranks are upgrades. We are targeting June for a similar upgrade for Caster and Priest classes.
- Beastlord - In addition to the larger upgrades to the Dichotomic Fury line, added a new boost to Pet Critical Melee Damage that improves along with the amount of HP, Mana, and Endurance that the line returns.
- Magician - Corrected the description for Dyzil's Deafening Decoy to properly reflect that it consumes Malachite, not Peridot.
- Updated the achievements that all Reciprocal Progressive abilities from The Outer Brood use for advancement. Ranks 2 and 3 can now be obtained by accomplishments from Laurion's Song and not Night of Shadows, The ranks obtained from achievements in The Outer Brood are unchanged.
- Raid difficulty NPCs will now give a two and a half minute (instead of five) out-of-combat timer.
- Considering an Encounter Locked NPC will now show who it is locked to.
- Typos were fixed in the components and collection items for the Claws of Veeshan achievement: Altered Velium.
- Fixed DX11 memory corruption that caused random client crashes.
- Using the /hotbutton command with a very long argument will no longer crash the client.
- Fixed a zone crash that could occur in raid instances. Added a speculative fix for a zone crash involving inventory item processing.
- Fixed an issue where mounts could die if hit by an area effect spell soon after being summoned.
- Fixed awkward camera bounce when on certain mounts while in first person view.
- Partial item stacks can now be combined in the Activated Items keyring by picking one up and placing it onto another. Depositing stackable items into the Activated Items keyring will now attempt to fill any partial stacks in the keyring even if the keyring is full.
- Implemented a method for players to lower their level on Vaniki and Frostreaver so they do not have to create corpse piles to lower their level to meet challenges. Seek out a Priest of Discord.
- The borderless fullscreen checkbox in the Options Display window now behaves itself.
- Mitigated a crash when re-entering the world after camping out to server select screen, while in fullscreen exclusive mode.
- Fixed an event scheduling bug that prevented the Tempest Festival NPCs from appearing.
MAY 20, 2026 HOTFIX:
- Fixed an issue that was preventing charms from Tides of Time from working as intended.
- Fixed an issue that would not offer all available level decreases when speaking with the Priest of Discord. (Certain Progression servers).
MAY 21, 2026 HOTFIX:
- Echo of Hate (raid) - Reduced the radius of the Wax oozes. The original radius was 30; a change in May made it 50. This change reduces the radius to 40.
- Avoidance abilities like Shield Flash and Deflection should be functioning properly again.
- Reverted previous changes to the camera when mounted.
JUNE 17, 2026:
- The Laurion's Song expansion is now free-to-play on Test and Live servers.
- The shields Elderbark Bulwark, Barkhide Barrier, and Verdant Cupule should now have a type 8 augment slot rather than a type 7.
- When placed in housing, the Frostreaver Sabre-Tooth Cat Mount should now respect movement options.
- Stats on Beatrice's Carved Family Heirloom have been adjusted.
- Trials of Smoke (Mission) - Fixed players being teleported repeatedly when first zoning in if their group is full.
- Fixed an issue that was preventing charms from Tides of Time from working as intended.
- Year of Darkpaw - Oasis of Fear (Heroic Adventure) - Fixed an issue where progress could break when Kill and Investigate steps trigger simultaneously. Oasis of the Jungle (Heroic Adventure) - Players who die to the first barrel and miss the update, can now hail the frenzied gorilla, and reset the errand.
- Berserker - Updated the Dichotomic Rage line of abilities to spread the damage over more individual strikes in order to avoid cases where the damage cap could be exceeded. Also increased the hate override values that were not updated previously.
- While mounted, casting a spell that requires you to be standing will fail and no longer put the item or spell on cooldown.
- Wizard - Adjusted existing Progressive abilities to fix the three ways they had been falling behind both content and other abilities. Rank 1 of a new ability is now equal to Rank 6 of the previous ability and all other ranks are upgrades. Changed the hate modifier values to scale with damage dealt.
- Necromancer - Increased the damage dealt by the Dichotomic Paroxysm line of Progressive spells. Set the tap percentage to a consistent 75% and set the caps on that tap percentage to increase every rank. Like other Progressive spells, rank 1 of a new level is now equal to rank 6 of the old level.
- Priest classes - Adjusted existing Progressive abilities to fix the three ways they had been falling behind both content and other abilities. Rank 1 of a new ability is now equal to Rank 6 of the previous ability and all other ranks are upgrades.
- Increased spell focus damage of caster DPS mercenaries and removed the restriction that prevented it from applying to area of effect spells. Melee DPS mercenaries now have access to higher level versions of Thief's Eyes (Thief's Vision & Thief's Sight) at levels 96 and 117.
- Using '/usetarget' command while holding an item will now prioritize trading with merchants and guild masters instead of interacting with them.
- The cap on how much Vitality can be stored will now be properly enforced after being resurrected.
- Enabled free transfers off of Mangler to other Live servers.
- Made a speculative fix for non-US keyboard layouts inputting an extra character when zoning.
- Updated the Advanced Loot window in preparation of Personal Loot changes.
- Avoidance abilities like Shield Flash and Deflection should be functioning properly again.
- Reverted previous changes to the camera when mounted.
- Echo of Hate (Raid) - Reduced the radius of the Wax oozes. The original radius was 30; a change in May made it 50. This change reduces the radius to 40.
- Fixed the issue on Vaniki that caused the challenges to not evaluate levels properly. Fixed an issue that would not offer all available level decreases when speaking with the Priest of Discord. Worn equipment will no longer be placed in bags if the item is associated with an expansion that has not yet launched on the server. (TLP)
- Frostreaver: Corrected some instances where merchants were available but were not selling all of the relevant tomes for Berserkers. Added the Beastlord Tome of Bestial Fury Discipline to Bakrav Uramis' inventory.
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