Test Update 09/10/2019 - Patch Notes and Discussions

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  1. EQ Dev Developer

    September 10, 2019
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    *** Items ***

    - Removed the stacking on 5 Dose Potion of the Bone Field and 10 Dose Potion of the Bone Field items. Changed Toy Eye Ball to one charge. Stacking items with charges do not function correctly when stacked.
    - Fixed a typo in the lore of "Overgrowth Shears."
    - Restored mana preservation to The Burning Lands evolving shoulders that include classes with mana.
    - Consolidated mount buffs. In nearly all cases, the buff is equal to or an improvement over the previous buff. The exception is the old Izah buff. None of the new buffs have as much AC as that buff offered.


    *** Quests And Events ***

    - Guntrik's quests - Sven and Philicia Drinn are no longer merchants, and can be killed.
    - Strange Magic - Pets and mercenaries will no longer flee right after the first golem is defeated.
    - Destroy Marnek's Wand - if somehow a character with this quest that has handed in the wand has lost their Suncrest Isle instance, the fisherman will give them another one.


    *** Spells ***

    - Buffs that absorb hits (up to a maximum damage value) will no longer fully negate resistable spells. These buffs will continue to properly block the intended amount of damage from spell and melee attacks.
    - Corrected an issue that allowed certain types of pets (Cleric hammers, Wizard swords, Magician runes) to be hit by detrimental spells. They are now immune to all spells as intended.
    - Magician - Fixed an error that caused pets that used Fire Elemental Bolt I-VII to deal less damage when focused. Increased the power all ranks of of Fire Elemental Bolt VI and VII.
    - Magician - Corrected an error that made fire pets on Progression servers deal more damage than expected in Kunark, Velious, and Luclin eras.


    *** AA ***

    - All - Refunded Identify as this ability is redundant now that item descriptions are displayed when inspecting items at level 50+.
    - All - Fixed a typo in the description of Veteran's Enhancement that errantly stated the ability increased your worn mana regeneration cap rather than your worn health regeneration cap.
    - Multiple - Renamed the non-pet class ability 'Pet Discipline' to 'Companion's Discipline' to be in line with the naming used for pet classes.
    - Bard - Refunded all ranks of Steady Hands and increased the base pick lock skill cap for bards for levels 80+ by 40 points. The skill bonus was reduced from 60 points to correct a few level span where bards had a higher skill cap than rogues. The skill cap increase is being granted at level 80 rather than level 70 due to the ability initially releasing with Secrets of Faydwer.
    - Bard - Capped the maximum number of opponents that can be hit by Vainglorious Shout to 6 and increased the endurance cost for all ranks of this ability by 50%.
    - Bard - Granted the ability to use Double Riposte as bards were the only class with the skill that did not have access to this ability.
    - Bard - Refunded all ranks of Tune of Pursuance and increased the base tracking skill cap for bards for levels 65 and 96-100+.
    - Berserker - Refunded all ranks of Student of War and increased the base frenzy skill cap for berserkers for levels 101+.
    - Berserker - Refunded all ranks of Weapon Proficiency and increased the base weapon skill caps for berserkers for levels 85-105+.
    - Berserker - Renamed Cry of Battle to Mass Group Buff.
    - Cleric - Removed the undead-only restriction from Repel the Wicked.
    - Cleric - Fixed a typo in the description for all ranks of Channeling the Divine that stated the ability granted a 50% twincast chance rather than a 100% chance.
    - Cleric - Shield of Reverence has been changed to a passive ability.
    - Druid - Refunded all ranks of Advanced Tracking and increased the base tracking skill cap for druids for levels 65+.
    - Enchanter - Renamed the enchant metal abilities to include the quantity as a suffix rather than prefix. Ex: 'Mass Enchant Feymetal' is now titled 'Enchant Feymetal (x10)'. Refunded 'Enchant Palladium (x3)' and 'Enchant Palladium (x20)' as they were inconsistent with the rest of the abilities.
    - Magician - Call Hither has been renamed Summoner's Step and is now a teleport-forward ability similar to Netherstep or Whisperwind. Reduced the level and expansion required to obtain ranks 4 and 5 of this ability.
    - Magician - Updated Turn Summoned to deal direct damage rather than damage over time and updated Infusion of Elemental Light to always deal instant critical damage that will no longer block other instances of Infusion of Elemental Light from landing.
    - Magician - Updated the buff icon for Thaumaturge's Focus.
    - Monk - Consolidated Hastened Crane Stance and Focus: Crane Stance into a single line, Improved Crane Stance, and added an additional rank that was intended to go live with The Burning Lands.
    - Necromancer - Call to Corpse has been renamed Summon Corpse. This ability now has 9 ranks and will cast the highest rank of your equivalent level summon corpse spell with a 10 second reuse time.
    - Necromancer - Refunded Self Sacrifice as its initial purpose of dealing damage to the caster in order to benefit from other abilities is no longer required.
    - Necromancer - Summon Remains now consumes 4 Tiny Jade Inlaid Coffins when cast.
    - Paladin - Hand of Tunare no longer triggers Tunare's Fatigue after fading but will now instead increase the mana cost of twincast healing spells by 100%.
    - Paladin - Moved Holy Warhorse from the Class tab to the Special tab in the AA window.
    - Paladin - Shield of Brilliance has been changed to a passive ability.
    - Paladin - Refunded all ranks of Glorious Reflection as this ability provided no benefit given the existence of Healing Adept.
    - Paladin - Consolidated Restoration of Life to be rank 2 of Gift of Resurrection. Rank 2+ will now restore 96% experience. Reduced the hastening offered by rank 5 by 1 second and increased the mana cost of ranks 2+ by 100 points.
    - Ranger - Refunded all ranks of Tracking Mastery and increased the base tracking skill cap for rangers for levels 66-70+.
    - Rogue - Refunded all ranks of Weapon Proficiency and increased the base weapon skill caps for rogues for levels 96 and 101-105+.
    - Rogue - Fixed an error with ranks 5 and 6 of 'Focus: Hack' that prevented the ability from focusing the combat ability 'Slice'.
    - Shadowknight - Moved Unholy Warhorse from the Class tab to the Special tab in the AA window.
    - Shadowknight - Summon Remains now consumes 4 Tiny Jade Inlaid Coffins when cast.
    - Shaman - Improved Pure Spirit has been changed from a passive focus ability to an activated ability that casts the best rank of Pure Spirit that you have scribed.
    - Shaman - Turgur's Virulent Swarm will no longer land on PCs (including yourself).
    - Shaman - Feral Bite, the damage triggered by Rabid Bear, has has its DoT damage consolidated into its direct damage component.
    - Wizard - Ward of Destruction now summons a stationary aura rather than a ward. As an aura Ward of Destruction will no longer be susceptible to damage and any opponents hit by Silent Fire will now credit the wizard as the attacker. Changed all ranks of Silent Fire from a 12 second damage over time spell to a direct damage spell that will not break root.
    - Wizard - Updated Arcane Fusion to always deal critical damage and fixed an issue that allowed the ability to trigger on beneficial spells.
    - Wizard - Corrected an issue that prevented Mirror Mirror from functioning as expected.
    - Wizard - Refunded Translocational Anchor and updated all ranks of Cryomancy to include gate suppression as part of Cryomantic Stasis.


    *** NPCs ***

    - Moved a spiderling in the Broodlands that was spawning inside of a tree.
    - In Stoneroot Falls, a witheran named Slubber with unique items now has a chance to spawn.
    - In the Ruins of Illsalin, Overseer Xygern now drops unique items instead of the same items that Battlemage Ristyr drops.


    *** Progression Servers ***

    - Access to Gnome Memorial Mountain requires that the Burning Lands is unlocked on your server.
    - Corrected an error that made fire pets on Progression servers deal more damage than expected in Kunark, Velious, and Luclin eras.
    (The changes limiting Veteran Reward AA abilities by expansion has been postponed until Dragons of Norrath releases on Coirnav.)
    - Veteran Reward AA abilities have been updated for progression servers to more closely reflect the timeline of their introduction.
    - - The ability to claim Veteran Rewards on a character has been moved from Gates of Discord to Dragons of Norrath.
    - - Abilities for years 1-7 (Lesson of the Devoted, Infusion of the Faithful, Chaotic Jester, Expedient Recovery, Steadfast Servant, Staunch Recovery, and Intensity of the Resolute) will now be usable starting with the release of Dragons of Norrath.
    - - The 8th year ability, Throne of Heroes, will be usable with the release of Prophecy of Ro.
    - - The 9th year ability, Armor of Experience, will be usable with the release of The Buried Sea.
    - - The 10th year ability, Summon Resupply Agent, will be usable with the release of Secrets of Faydwer.
    - - The 11th year ability, Summon Clockwork Banker, will be usable with the release of Seeds of Destruction.
    - - The 12th year ability, Summon Permutation Peddler, will be usable with the release of Underfoot.
    - - The 13th year ability, Summon Tribute Master, will be usable with the release of House of Thule.
    - - The 14th year ability, Blessing of the Devoted, will be usable with the release of Veil of Alaris.


    *** Miscellaneous ***

    - The /safelock command now requires typing the full command in order to function to prevent accidental locking of the game. This should help in real life when kerrans are frisking your keyboard and manage to lock the game with a secret safelock password.
    - The hit/miss check in melee combat now occurs before riposte and other defensive checks.
    - Made multiple adjustments to Tribute and Guild tribute.
    - - Merged the various "II" lines into their parent line as additional ranks. This results in ranks above 10 for some tribute lines.
    - - Reduced the cost of ranks 5 to 13 of the tribute lines: Power of Will, Visions of Suffering, Twinge of Pain, Expeditious Aid, Persistent Boon, Power of Sight, Power of Recovery, Power of Conservation, Power of Alacrity, Visions of Command, Commanding Presence, and Power of Suffering.
    - - Increased the effectiveness of rank 12 of Bulwark of Honor, Strength of Body, Strength of Mind, Strength of Will
    - - Increased the effectiveness of rank 13 of Arm of Power, Body of Divinity, Symphony of the Rabbit, Juggler's Grace, Sage's Requital, Sage's Comprehension, and Countenance of Ardor.
    - - Reduced the cost of ranks 6 to 13 of the guild tribute lines: Aura of Preservation, Power of Will, Visions of Suffering, Twinge of Pain, Expeditious Aid, Persistent Boon, Power of Sight, Power of Recovery, Power of Conservation, Power of Alacrity, Visions of Command, Commanding Presence, and Power of Suffering.
    - - Guild Tribute: Added String Resonance to Symphony of Replenishment tier 8.
    - Removed the Hero's Forge - Tinker's Clockwork and Hero's Forge - Memorial Clockwork achievements. The items are not currently available.
    - Housing Explorer (Achievement) - Visiting Evantil's Abode, Hermit's Hideaway, and Bixie Hive houses are now optional for completing this achievement.
    - Guild Locals Explorer (Achievement) - Visiting Grand, Modest, and Palatial Guild Halls are now optional for completing this achievement.


    *** UI ***

    - Made improvements to taunt messages:
    - - Taunt messages are sent to all players in the area, and include the name of the NPC being taunted.
    - - Added a new chat filter for taunt messages.
    - - Failing to capture your target's attention is more clearly indicated as a partial success.
    - - Added a message when a player obtains aggro using an aggro lock ability (SPA 444).
    - - Taunt spells are no longer blocked by spells locking the NPC's aggro.
    - - Sends a single message to players in the area when someone uses an area effect taunt (SPA 199).
    - NPC tells are now formatted as "Soandso told you" while player tells (including cross server tells) appear as "Soandso tells you."
    - - Removed an extra space from raid chat messages.
    - - Changed the format of tells from tell windows when writing to the log. They now use the same format as regular tells.


    *** Previously Updated ***

    - Shield of Spines reports the correct amount of healing on the item description.


    - The EverQuest Team
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  2. HoodenShuklak Augur

    Are the veterans rewards changes going to remove already claimed AAs from Coirnav?
  3. Bigstomp Augur


    Is this just an ordering thing?
    Or does this mean if the mob would have missed you cannot riposte?
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  4. Pikollo Augur

    Leave vet aa's alone. I understand lining them up with the server progression idea. But at the same time these are supposed to be aa's entitled to people who have been playing the game for years and earned them. IMO they should have been unlocked from day one on any server if the person has earned them.
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  5. Hateseeker Augur

    Strongly opposed to the unnecessary TLP veteran reward change.
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  6. HoodenShuklak Augur

    Those as rewards such as intensity were super OP in gates. It's not even close to reasonable.

    I'm not sure their motive behind the change but I suspect it could be this? They could just tone that thing down or move it, but things like the bankers and aug merchants are just good and imbalance nothing. I don't even have them but they certainly would be something to miss.
  7. Yinla Ye Ol' Dragon

    Errr why? Translocational Anchor if I remember correctly is a triggered ability where as cryomancy is a proc.

    I hope this is also being done for Live servers as well, as they are all well passed Veil of Alaris. If its good for the goose its good for the gander. :)

    Unfair to make us put up with unwanted changes to deal with issues on TLPs and then not give us the good stuff as well.
  8. Briano Journeyman

    Will loot that has already been obtained on Phinigel be removed with the patch? Asking so I can tribute it if so.
  9. Yinla Ye Ol' Dragon

    Wasn't there a quest or 2 somewhere that you had to use identify an item yourself?
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  10. CatsPaws No response to your post cause your on ignore

    Perhaps I don't understand this quite right? We on the live servers have access to all Veterans rewards as soon as the account is old enough. All expansions are unlocked on live so we don't wait.

    By updating this on TLP they are simply putting expansion date releases/unlock dates on the years for vet rewards. I don't think it is giving them anything free - just clarifying the release of when they can use them on TLP?

    Not sure really:confused:
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  11. Yinla Ye Ol' Dragon

    I read that, as whatever the age of the account they get the Vet AAs as the expansions are released. Live has all expansions released so following that logic everyone should have Vet AAs.
  12. qweasy Augur

    You definitely read it wrong.
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  13. Bigstomp Augur

    I think there was something in EoK maybe. I know there was something in one of the DoN missions that someone had to identify.
  14. Rasper Helpdesk The Original Helpdesk

    The Creator, but the quest giver provides you with a single charge click of identify and casters still have the spell. The way I read it is just removing a (near) useless AA.
  15. Silver-Crow Augur

    - Bard - Capped the maximum number of opponents that can be hit by Vainglorious Shout to 6 and increased the endurance cost for all ranks of this ability by 50%

    This is excessive. Glad I didn't buy that lifetime membership.
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  16. kizant Augur

    If it frees up room for other AAs then it's a good change. It's not like it was useful in the first place.
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  17. jeskola pheerie

    Yeah, vet rewards will still be locked behind account age, they just added further restrictions for TLPs. It's a big bummer for Ragefire, Lockjaw, Coirnav, Selo, and Mangler.
  18. JeffHanson Augur

    Does this change serve some purpose? It seems to be nothing but an unnecessary annoyance.
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  19. That0neguy Augur

    My guess is the way they worded it as "usable" that means even if we have the AA it will fail when we try to use it.
  20. Allayna Augur

    Shield of Brilliance used to be useful as an active skill to block a potential incoming spell, as a passive ability that seems like a major nerf.
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