Test Update 03/26/14

*** Highlights ***

- The Plane of War is now available for testing! This is a high-difficulty zone intended for groups of high level players working together. Be careful not to explore too far, as the God of War does not look kindly upon those who have not yet earned access to where they are.


*** Items ***

- All mounts will now run at the speed of the fastest mount you have used. You may need to re-use your fastest mount in order to teach the others how quickly to run.
- Clairvoyance will now message you when it activates.


*** Heroic Characters ***

- New Heroic Characters, whether created or upgraded will now be directed to begin their adventures in Feerrott, the Dream with Investigator Drolmer.
- Newly-created Heroic Characters on Zek will receive a protective spell that prevents nearly all offensive actions as well. Beware, as this protection will fall away if you venture away from the camp where you start, and will not be reapplied. This protection is not available to upgraded Heroic Characters.
- Characters above level 85 who upgrade to Heroic Characters now get skills added if they were below the caps for level 85 characters.
- Characters who upgrade to Heroic Characters while in the Tutorial zone will now be moved to Feerrott, the Dream automatically.
- Characters below level 85 who upgrade to Heroic Characters will have all corpses wiped of experience before being upgraded. Be sure to get resurrected before doing so!


*** Spells ***

- All player-castable auras that lasted 30 minutes have been extended to last 75 minutes.
- Bard - Ryken's and Ruaabri's Reckless Renewal should now correctly enhance critical healing chance up to their specified levels.
- Beastlord - Smoothed out height differences between ranks of warders for all races. Extremely large warders will be smaller and very small warders will be larger. Height differences between focused and unfocused warders will be less dramatic, but higher level pets should always be larger than smaller level pets.
- Druids - New Zephyrs have been created for each location that previously had both a Ring and a Circle spell. These new scrolls are available in the same locations as the originals.
- Enchanter - Increased the damage absorption caps on all self and targetable runes from level 71 to 100 in order to more closely match NPC damage scaling in that range.
- Enchanter - Increased the duration of Draconic, Polychromatic, Opalescent, Multichromatic, Pearlescent, and Polychromatic Runes to match the durations of later spells in their lines.
- Heroic characters will no longer be automatically granted spells relating to anchors. They will still be available for free when the items are obtained.
- Removed several spells that were mistakenly given to heroic characters but were never released normally. If you have them, they will be level 255 and can safely be removed from your spellbook.


*** NPC ***

- Alchemist Redsa now properly sells Waterwort in the Plane of Knowledge.
- Ice golems in Frostcrypt once again look icy.


*** AA ***

- Enchanter - Reduced the effectiveness of Mental Contortion. Reuse time reduced to 45 minute base (15 minutes with max Hastened Mental Contortion).


*** Miscellaneous ***

- Rogues can now successfully reduce their aggro by using hide while auto-attack is enabled.
- The client will now exit fullscreen if there is a crash detected so that the prompt will appear above the window (previously it would make it look like the client had frozen).


*** UI ***

- The petition window now opens in a an external browser.
- Increased the number of short duration buff slots from 20 to 30.
- Added a popup window for fast camping in non-combat zones and for general camping.
- Tasks zone names now display in the task window.
- In the case where an item does not have defined worn slots, valid races, and valid classes, we no longer display Class: None Race: None.
- In the case where an item is usable by all races and classes, we no longer display Class: ALL Race: ALL.
- Item-resticted bags now are labeled as to what they can contain.
- The "Find Path" button will now correctly attempt to draw a path between you and your targeted group or raid member.

- Changed -

CascadeMenu.txt
EQUI_ShortDurationBuffWindow.xml
EQUI_TaskWnd.xml


*** Previously Updated ***

- Increased the storage caps for Alternate Advancement points at most levels. The amount of AA points you can store now increases more linearly as you gain levels.
- Investigator Drolmer in the dream version of Feerrott can now more reliably determine whether you are playing as a Heroic Character when you try to accept his quest.
- Heroic character augments are no longer Prestige.
- New items that drop randomly in Call of the Forsaken zones no longer have race restrictions, but no longer drop in Heroic Adventures in order to preserve their intended rarity.
- Stealing My Life Back - Karl Kranigan is a bit more sturdy now. It will no longer be possible to accidentally kill him while working on the 11th Anniversary task.


- The EverQuest Team

Dat plane of war?

*Eagerly awaits Plane of War*

Details soon?

I would imagine this will be the Plane of War update, given the developers post below:

YOU TEASE!

Fake Patch notes: 03/26/2014
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- Plane of War testing begins! Click on the previously inactive stone in Plane of Tranquility to experience this long awaited zone.
- Flagging for Plane of War: similar to the old flags for Vex Thal during the luclin era. This quest is currently only a pre-requisite for Rainbowdash of test. Each mob that holds one of 39 required shards is on a 72 +/- 18 hour spawn timer. 30 of the 39 encounters can only have the final blow inflicted by a level 1 Troll Druid with a mana stone in inventory while wielding a Scimitar of the Mistwalker dropped from Lady Vox.
- Announcement of Troll Druids! Coming soon - 2019.

Flagging for plane of war.... collect 16 shards of war and combine in the Wheel of Rallos. Shards of War can only be obtained from a 1 time only quest available upon reaching level 85 and are heirloom.

On sale this week, heroic characters and character slots!

Fake Patch notes, version 2: 03/26/2014
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- Plane of War implements Fog of War conditions. You will not know what the real patch notes are or what is in it. The only way to find out what changed is to go play the game.

Patch Notes:
We are excited to introduce a new system to Everquest - Fog of War!
Distances over 300 become obscured with a fog of war. This is mirrored in your extended target window not showing agro for mobs within the fog. Now long pulls can become even more excited, as its a surprise what shows up at camp!

News AAs:
Pet classes - Tired of the boring old pets? In Plane of War, we decided to shake things up.
Instead of summoning the same boring pets, instead you will summon a player of the appropriate class with an illusion to match old fluffy.
Changes as follows:
Mage Earth pet - Warrior
Mage Water pet - Rogue
Mage Air pet - Monk
Mage Fire pet - Wizard
Necromancer - Berzerker
Beastlord pet 1 - Ranger
Beastlord pet 2 - Beastlord (let the pet inception begin!)
Enchanter - druid
Shaman - druid

Druid changes:
In order to make druids more friendly as a summoned class, their defenses will be increased by 8%. In order to not make the new enchanter and shaman pets overpowered, druid group heals will be removed. As compensation, they will be receiving a new innate damage shield AA.

Wonderful......not

And I was so looking forward to the Plane of War.

Don't have time to allow Frog and WE to start in their home cities but they can mess around with pet garbage.

as a necro this dose not work for me as my wife is a zerker so i have zerker pet already.

Just /pet get lost and summon a new one?
/duck

no update? no patch notes?

Nothing yet. Test is still up.

The test server is now down.

Update notes posted above.

Server back up!

The Plane of War files never got pushed with the patcher, and the (presumed and previously stated) zone in point (the PoWar stone in PoT) does nothing when lcicked

The marketplace on the test server is ultra borked at the moment, items are listed as their descriptions rather than item title and everything is priced at insanely high station cash costs.