Test Update 6/8/16 - Patch Notes and Discussions

June 8, 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.


*** 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.


*** 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 -
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- The EverQuest Team

Thank you Kethir, nice quick patch, hope it all went smoothly.

- 5th Anniversary (Player Designed Missions) - The end date on these anniversary events has been extended 2 weeks to June 8th.

Was this supposed to be June 22nd?

I believe these should be 15th or 16th anniversary missions, not 5th.

So when are the Right and Left eye of Sul going to be put on the vendor?

On a related note, when are the Left Eye of Sul and Image of Innoruuk going to get heroic stats comparable to the melee counterparts?

The Heroic/mod2 revamp only exasperates the problem of the caster augs having 23 and 35 functional heroic stats, compared to 52 and 75 on the melee augs.

Dbg has been doing a pattern of every other month for live vs tlp fixes. June is all tlp patches, so July should be live changes.

Is this patch the anticipated "June patch" mentioned here:

If indeed, it's still not working as intended on test, come on guys /beg.

This isn't even remotely correct.

No player spell changes at all. Druids, shaman, and necros get to wait at least an extra month before seeing any of our dot updates.

Hopefully the project wasn't abandoned part way through.

Not only that but Test didn't get any of the extensions on anniversary tasks. A lot of it has been down for awhile and we got hosed because of all the down time a few weeks ago due to server instability.

Yeah, I was so excited last month when they said they might do some shaman dots. : (

seriously. leaving necros hanging for months after their nerfs, to see if they still have a class, is pretty brutal

Yeah... Let's get this fixed? You told us you realized your mistake too late in May to fix it so it'd def be in for June. Then in June there is almost nothing for Live. Is this maybe just a special early patch and the "real" June update is coming? Because if this is the full June "update" then... are you serious?

I get that things need to be prepped for the new special server but come on... you had fixes for a lot of these Live issues but were just in design lock in May. How did that not make it in this update though?

Stuff like this is exactly what you do NOT want to do over the summer lull.

I have a feeling they've tried to revamp Necro DOTs internally since they even started revamping DOTs but can't get it right so they've just done the other classes and keep Necros floating around in the Void with Zeb until they figure it out.

I think the heading for the entire patch notes should have just been **Progression Servers** though (with minor exceptions - very minor).

Seriously - major sympathy on that. It sucks. Be prepared for the 'test server h8rs' to come in though and tell you how you should play on a "real" server though. /sigh... Seems this happens EVERY year with anniversary content.

Druids still get dots? I suppose the patch after you want an upgrade to the bear pet too?

Whats the point of allowing the GD instance on Phinigel again if you can't do the ring war? lol

The point of that message is that the Great Divide instance has been restored because the Ring War works. Not worded well, I guess? We can rework that a bit for the Live patch notes.

Thanks, I was wondering cause they kinda contradict themselves there

Ah, yeah, because those two notes are contradictory. The one about the Ring War being removed was a hotfix note and will be in "previously updated" or not included at all. Sorry for the confusion. The test notes are a very rough draft.

Prathun since your reading this you really should look at upgrading the Druid bear pet when you do the DOTS Because bears.