Everquest June Update Patch 2016

Changes and Fixes!

Several changes that had been topics on our Everquest General Forum in the past 6 months have been addressed in June's Patch!

 

The Omens of War changes are interesting as I don't think any current progression is there or about to be there, and the older TLP are well past it.

Also wondering about the hardware upgrade to Trakanon server... I play there on occasion and it is pretty low population. Vulak may be the only server with less people logging in?

 

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From the official boards, developer Kethir posted:

 

June 15, 2016
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*** Items ***

- Fixed an issue where merchants with 255 or more items would sometimes not allow for purchase of a specific item.
- Items that previously had Cleave VII - 26 (Scaling), Cleave VII - 27 (Scaling), Ferocity X (Scaling), and Ferocity XI (Scaling) now use the non-scaling versions of these worn effects, as the scaling did not work correctly. They may be changed to scaling effects in the future when this scaling functionality is worked out.
- The Lucid Shards used to make the Unadorned Scepter of Shadows for entry into Vex Thal are now 'no destroy'. The Priest of Discord, however, will still take these items as tribute.
- Made the Mirrored Mask that drops in Asylum of Anguish 'no destroy'. The Priest of Discord, however, will still take these items as tribute.
- The Mirrored Mask no longer has an augment slot.

*** Quests & Events ***

- 5th Anniversary (Player Designed Missions) - The end date on these anniversary events has been extended 2 weeks to June 8th.
- 5th Anniversary (Staff of Endless Adventure) - Corrected an issue that prevented Collector's Mistmoore Granite from dropping from gargoyles in Castle Mistmoore.
- 5th Anniversary (Cleansing the Grounds) - It is again possible to receive the hidden Cleansing Rod bonus item in this anniversary mission.
- Overlord Mata Muram (Raid) - Overlord Mata Muram now grants a title upon his defeat. He will also grant a server-first title on those servers where he has not yet been defeated.
- Corrected an issue with an achievement in the class tab.
- Added achievements for crafting Xanthe's Earring of Nature (or having an Earring of the Solstice) as well as completing the Signet of the Arcane (or the Signet of Might).
- Access to the Great Divide instance for the 10th Ring War has been removed due to its failure to actually work properly. This is to prevent people from getting lockouts for an instance that does not work. We have no estimate about when or if it will return.
- Plane of Fear: Revisited: Terror (Raid) - The totems that Terror periodically spawns now have a 5 second delay between the totem spawning and the Aura of Terror being cast on those around it.
- Terror (Raid) - Moved the DoT component of Aura of Terror to a separate spell: Aura of Terror Strike.
- Terror (Raid) - Reduced the frequency that Terror will trigger the spell Displacing Terror on its most hated target but corrected a bug that prevented the spell from causing Terror to find a new, most hated target. Attempted to adjust the zone-in location to match that of the original Plane of Fear, again, for real this time.


*** Spells ***

- Enchanter - Corrected an issue that prevented more than one enchanter from applying a DoT from the Mind Shatter line of spells on a single target.


*** NPCs ***

- Raid events will not spawn in Omens of War load balanced zones.
- Lord Kreizenn will resume casting his Wave of Flame AE. Lord Kreizenn's Wave of Flame AE now checks against fire instead of cold.
- Killing Yelinak in Skyshrine will result in a much higher faction hit.


*** Tradeskills ***

- Systematic spell research combines that were previously limited to specific class archetypes can now be created in any research container.
- The majority of non-quest related tradeskill combines that previously required a Planar crafting container can now be crafted using any container appropriate to that skill.
- The majority of tailoring combines that previously required the use of a Coldain Tanners Kit can now be crafted using any appropriate tailoring container.


*** Progression Servers ***

- The Deluxe Toolbox will now be available when Velious has unlocked. It can be purchased from Adinal Jailbar in Iceclad Ocean or Rylin Coil in Ak`Anon.
- Thylex of Veeshan, who indicates whether Vulak`Aerr can be spawned, will spawn twice as quickly, on average, compared to Live Servers.
- Lendel Deeppockets, the great assassin of Rivervale, has returned to the Fool's Gold to accept your newbie note and discuss entry level tradeskilling.
- The Great Divide instance should be available again on Phinigel.
- Peachy D'Vicci will now spawn correctly in Plane of Mischief on Progression Servers.
- The Plane of Mischief castle will no longer appear in Great Divide during the 10th Ring War, at least until LDoN has unlocked on the server.
- Harla Dar will now be treated as a Velious boss.
- Items added to Siren's Grotto, Velketor's Labyrinth, City of Mist, Dragon Necropolis, and the Hole in 2003 revamps will no longer drop until Lost Dungeons of Norrath has been unlocked on the server.
- Most of the cultural tradeskills items available in Velious can now be made on Progression Servers. Note: The troll made weapons were not available until Luclin and will continue to be locked until then.


*** Miscellaneous ***

- Many Omens of War zones will spin up new instanced versions when they are populated by enough adventurers.
- The login server will now reflect all of the expansions that are being given for free instead of just what the account is actually flagged for.


*** UI ***

- Tradeskill containers that require a specific race, class, or deity to perform tradeskill combines in will now display these requirements when inspecting those containers.
- Increased the number of deleted items available in the Recover window from 100 to 150.
- Increased the max barter buy limit from 200 to 300.
- Modified the 'Buy Lines' section of the 'Barter Buyer Window' so that adding, modifying, toggling, and removing items from a buy line no longer causes the window to automatically go to the top.
- Added a toggle for turning off Trophy tribute when logging out to the Options window.
- Changed the 'Flagged' status on the expedition window so that it initially displays a Pending status instead of blank and then changes to 'Yes' or 'No'.
- - Expedition zones that have no requirements to enter will now default to 'Yes' instead of blank.
- Fixed an issue in the Alternate Currency window where the 'Max Items in one stack' overlapped with 'Show currencies that you don't have'
- Fixed an issue with Personal Trophy Tribute where the most recently added tribute benefit did not show up until you zoned.


- Changed -
EQUI_Inventory.xml
EQUI_OptionsWindow.xml


- The EverQuest Team


The downtime for Trakanon will be 24 hours long due to hardware maintenance.

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The Vulak server is totally dead.
# Jun 15 2016 at 9:37 AM Rating: Excellent
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I logged on there a couple weeks ago and I could not find another player on anywhere. I accidentally did a /who all when I got on and I was the only player that showed up. I wasn't sure if someone who was /anon could be on and not show up so I ran to PoK, the GL, the Bazaar etc. and there was not one other player logged in to any of those zones. There were no buyers or seller, even offline, in the Bazaar. The server was an absolute ghost town.
The Vulak server is totally dead.
# Jun 15 2016 at 2:35 PM Rating: Excellent
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Lierdal wrote:
I logged on there a couple weeks ago and I could not find another player on anywhere. I accidentally did a /who all when I got on and I was the only player that showed up. I wasn't sure if someone who was /anon could be on and not show up so I ran to PoK, the GL, the Bazaar etc. and there was not one other player logged in to any of those zones. There were no buyers or seller, even offline, in the Bazaar. The server was an absolute ghost town.



I played my necro from 44-70 something there a few months ago. Most I ever caught on was 5ish others, and usually 3 of those were clearly a box group.

I haven't checked back in, but at the time the server had the weird dynamic of no hotzones (or at least no Franklin Teek), no loyalty vendor, but mercenaries live because in SoD expac. My necro was in classic era gear... and still is in some slots since you get lots of defiant whatever you aren't after I always find.

Oh... and because it is TLP the autogrant AA feature is locked after a certain level.
Mistake?
# Jun 14 2016 at 9:18 PM Rating: Good
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5th Anniversary (Player Designed Missions) - The end date on these anniversary events has been extended 2 weeks to June 8th.

Why did they even bother putting that into the patch notes in the first place unless they meant the 18th?
Answer to your quandry.
# Jun 14 2016 at 8:34 PM Rating: Excellent
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The OoW changes are for the new Quarm server next month. Also, the hardware for the Trakanon server is likely for the same. They'll probably host the VM for Quarm on the same hardware that runs Trakanon.
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