Test Update 02/10/16

Still can't login to Test.

Crashes every time I try to login to server.

ditto, crashing when tryin to log into test from my Windows 8 , AMD , ATI machine..craptop running windows 7 works just fine though =(

Ummm because they still tank better by far. *shrugs*

There are two separate issues preventing people from getting into test. We are still looking into it and hope to have a fix today. As we have been unable to reproduce these crashes locally, it has been a challenge narrowing them down.

I have been able to get to character select and enter world about 50% of the time by hitting play again on launchpad after the initial crash from server select after acknowledging the removal of the "logged in character". XP operating system, Nvidia graphics.

Try on a system with less RAM

Fed up!

If there is any log information I can provide to you to assist, let me know.

Except that's not the issue.

Or windows 8?

why is this being implemented please because I don't understand why wizards are now being given even more godly status and you are completely ruining another class Necro , we are probably the hardest class to play it the current game with the combination required to play a Necro is insane and takes a lot of hard work .

this Nerf is pretty much saying to me that you want me to change class please tell me what class you want me to play

oh btw and thanks its taken me 14 years and 100 days to get me necro to the level that I play at and you are just about to put me back 6 years thanks a lot

No, they fully stack. Proficiency affects only DI part of damage. It never mitigated a full 30% damage. It normally averaged to about 27%. It does not stack with (un)unholy or atleast should not because they are the same SpA 168.

Things don't just partially stack out of no where. It's all dependent on the SpA. Mantle/Carapace are 162 and Prof is 168. Hence, they fully stack.

Based on your numbers, you're mitigating I think the exact same amount, if not more, than what I was on my raid geared warrior if my memory serves me correctly.

If that's the case, then I guess a congratulations to now becoming the best tanks in the game is in order. We don't even get the 3/10 with LS because it's completely trivialized by mantle/carapace + prof stacking. My hats are off to you.

I PMed you why people with windows 8/10 are crashing before char select its in this thread.

Not sure where you get your idea that Manaburn helps wizzys with sustained. Extract from my log when I cast Manaburn on Live yesterday. Please note the length of time it lasted.

[Wed Feb 10 21:19:25 2016] You begin casting Mana Burn XVI.
[Wed Feb 10 21:19:28 2016] Praetor Vitio was hit by non-melee for 2400000 points of damage.
[Wed Feb 10 21:19:28 2016] Praetor Vitio was hit by non-melee for 1 points of damage.
[Wed Feb 10 21:19:28 2016] Praetor Vitio is hit by an enormous blast of magical energies.
[Wed Feb 10 21:19:35 2016] Your Mana Burn XVI spell has worn off

How many other spells do you think I had time to cast before it faded? 7 seconds from the AA landing to fading. In my book that is helping my burst not my sustained. Especially with its long long long refresh

The 27% is exactly what I see when using a shield, but I don't ever get a >50% from, say, the 27% + http://spells.eqresource.com/spells.php?id=34732, even though the ability tells me I ought to. Whatever math is behind it is not obvious to me.

You could be right about Unholy Guardian, as I only used it a few times the whole night, though I'll need to test it again after Test issues are done. I do believe, however, that Unholy Guardian still gives a benefit, just as not much as worth its cost now.

And I should be, because raids do not give you additional flat % reduction from abilities, after all. It only results in the damage being pushed towards the lower end, which is still very important as a round of 10,000+ hits still hurts a lot when we're talking about group players.

But both of those abilities have damage limits. I imagine that, in raids, they are going to fall off a lot faster, which is where the difference with Warriors remain. In groups, http://spells.eqresource.com/spells.php?id=49008 still makes up for Knights' ability to heal themselves. And as I said, even with all of the benefits on Test, it still only results in a group Shadow Knight being able to keep up with the damage on current content, and I'm saying that as a person who's played this class in both raids and groups, so I know what I'm doing. I'm pretty sure Warriors still have it easier on this content due to http://spells.eqresource.com/spells.php?id=49008.

I was not able to log in to test on windows 7 last night either. I would switch from live to test, patch, and it would come up to the live server select. When I tried to select a live server, it would kick me off with an error that i cannot remember atm. I would have to go switch back to live. Tried multiple times, and never could get test server as a selection.

We lost a battle, but not the war.
We are back to the time before Def Proficiency, when knights got their 36 % def disc and us 45 % being the only difference. A time where guilds will keep wars MT Raid Boss, not because they have a better mitigation, but because you cannot remove them suddenly and you need to find them an utility somewhere in the raid, but knowing that knights can MT these raid bosses as good as warriors and bring dps for SK, added utility for paladins, it would be better if tanks were all knights.
Of course, you will see all the active knights whinners, who made their downplaying real ability campaign to make devs listening them without looking to balance class, saying nothing on the subject, that they are overpowered compared to warriors atm in the class balance.
Enjoy your time with it, just know that in EQ things don't stay the same the whole time.

Warriors are actually decent dps if given the right group.

Here is my dbg.txt from a few minutes ago. My set up is a quad core AMD 3 ghz with 16 GB of DDR 3, a 2 GB Nvidia Geforce 430 GT running Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit.

[Thu Feb 11 12:43:55 2016]00000:Starting EverQuest (Built Feb 10 2016 09:40:12)
[Thu Feb 11 12:43:55 2016]00001:EverQuest Configuration Type: RELEASE_NON_AVATAR
[Thu Feb 11 12:43:55 2016]00002:Timezone: UTC-6h00m
[Thu Feb 11 12:43:55 2016]00003:Loading graphics DLL.
[Thu Feb 11 12:43:55 2016]00004arsing INI file .\defaults.ini
[Thu Feb 11 12:43:55 2016]00005:INI file .\defaults.ini loaded.
[Thu Feb 11 12:43:55 2016]00006arsing INI file .\eqclient.ini
[Thu Feb 11 12:43:55 2016]00007:INI file .\eqclient.ini loaded.
[Thu Feb 11 12:43:56 2016]00008:Graphics DLL Configuration Type: GraphicsDLL9
[Thu Feb 11 12:43:56 2016]00009:Graphics DLL Version 2.00.90242
[Thu Feb 11 12:43:56 2016]00010:Initializing timers.
[Thu Feb 11 12:43:59 2016]00011:Checking critical files.
[Thu Feb 11 12:43:59 2016]00012:Initializing WinSock.
[Thu Feb 11 12:43:59 2016]00013:Enumerating 3D devices.
[Thu Feb 11 12:43:59 2016]00000:Found adapter #0 - NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 (10.18.13.6175)

[Thu Feb 11 12:43:59 2016]00001:Adapter #0 - NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 :

[Thu Feb 11 12:43:59 2016]00002:32Bit = 1, D32 = 0, D24 = 1, D16 = 1

[Thu Feb 11 12:43:59 2016]00003:16Bit(565) = 0, D32 = 0, D24 = 0, D16 = 0

[Thu Feb 11 12:43:59 2016]00004:16Bit(1555) = 0, D32 = 0, D24 = 0, D16 = 0

[Thu Feb 11 12:43:59 2016]00014:Initializing keypress handler.
[Thu Feb 11 12:43:59 2016]00015:Loading keyboard tables.
[Thu Feb 11 12:43:59 2016]00016:Creating window.
[Thu Feb 11 12:43:59 2016]00017:Checking display driver version.
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:00 2016]00018:Activating window.
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:00 2016]00005:CRender::InitDevice: Using 32bit mode.

[Thu Feb 11 12:44:00 2016]00006:CRender::InitDevice: Using vsync 0.

[Thu Feb 11 12:44:00 2016]00007:CRender::InitDevice: Using 24bit depth buffer with 8 bit stencil.

[Thu Feb 11 12:44:00 2016]00008:CRender::InitDevice: HardwareTnL Enabled.
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:00 2016]00009:Using hardware vertex shaders.

[Thu Feb 11 12:44:00 2016]00010:Initializing render system.
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:00 2016]00011:Trilinear Mipmapping available.

[Thu Feb 11 12:44:00 2016]00012:Vertex Shader Version: 3.0

[Thu Feb 11 12:44:00 2016]00013ixel Shader Version: 3.0

[Thu Feb 11 12:44:00 2016]00014:Initializing engine internals.
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:00 2016]00015:CRender::InitDevice completed successfully.

[Thu Feb 11 12:44:00 2016]00000arsing INI file ./eqlsUIConfig.ini
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:00 2016]00001:INI file ./eqlsUIConfig.ini loaded.
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:48 2016]00019:Server selected eqworld-25.everquest.com (8565800375).
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:48 2016]00020:Initializing DirectInput.
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:48 2016]00021:Initializing Keyboard.
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:48 2016]00022:Initializing Mouse.
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:48 2016]00023arsing INI file .\eqclient.ini
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:48 2016]00024:INI file .\eqclient.ini loaded.
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:48 2016]00025:Creating font list.
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:48 2016]00026:Creating game object.
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:48 2016]00027eleting obsolete files.
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:48 2016]00028:Loading string tables.
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:48 2016]00029:Loading database strings file dbstr_us.txt...
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:49 2016]00030:54906 strings read.

[Thu Feb 11 12:44:49 2016]00031:Initializing client variables.
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:49 2016]00032arsing INI file .\defaults.ini
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:49 2016]00033:INI file .\defaults.ini loaded.
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:49 2016]00034arsing INI file .\VoiceChat.ini
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:49 2016]00035:INI file .\VoiceChat.ini loaded.
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:49 2016]00036:Loading spell effects.
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:49 2016]00037:Initializing display structures.
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:49 2016]00038:Voice Manager loaded 12 macros from VoiceData.txt.
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:49 2016]00039:Memory mode defaulted to Balanced
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:49 2016]00040:Attempt to send message 24785 on a void connection.
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:49 2016]00041:Networking: using port [57794].
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:49 2016]00042:Networking: Connection Established [1]
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:49 2016]00043:WorldAuthenticate: Initiating Login.
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:49 2016]00044:WorldAuthenticate. I got a message of type 0x5a42 (23106).
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:49 2016]00045:WorldAuthenticate. I got a message of type 0x26cd (9933).
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:49 2016]00046:*** ERROR: WorldAuthenticate. ??? UNKNOWN MESSAGE

[Thu Feb 11 12:44:50 2016]00047:WorldAuthenticate. I got a message of type 0x2eb7 (11959).
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:50 2016]00048:WorldAuthenticate. I got a message of type 0x2604 (9732).
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:50 2016]00049:WorldRPServer message: server name test

[Thu Feb 11 12:44:50 2016]00050:WorldAuthenticate. I got a message of type 0x2431 (9265).
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:50 2016]00051:Could not open file: RealEstateItemGroups.txt

[Thu Feb 11 12:44:50 2016]00052:Could not open file: RealEstateCosts.txt

[Thu Feb 11 12:44:50 2016]00053:Loaded RealEstateCosts.txt, 0 cost elements loaded.

[Thu Feb 11 12:44:50 2016]00054:Could not open file: RealEstateDefs.txt

[Thu Feb 11 12:44:50 2016]00055:Could not open file: RealEstateDefs.txt

[Thu Feb 11 12:44:50 2016]00056:WorldAuthenticate. I got a message of type 0xe8b (3723).
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:50 2016]00057:WorldAuthenticate. I got a message of type 0x435b (17243).
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:50 2016]00058:WorldAuthenticate. I got a message of type 0x4962 (18786).
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:50 2016]00059:WorldAuthenticate. I got a message of type 0x1413 (5139).
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:50 2016]00060:WorldAuthenticate. I got a message of type 0x56cd (22221).
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:50 2016]00061:WorldAuthenticate. I got a message of type 0x7b07 (31495).
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:50 2016]00062:WorldAuthenticate. I got a message of type 0x2d4d (11597).
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:50 2016]00063:WorldAuthenticate. I got a message of type 0x438d (17293).
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:50 2016]00064:Check 1x. 0xe3de4852

[Thu Feb 11 12:44:50 2016]00065:Check 1sa. 0x4a01ee4b

[Thu Feb 11 12:44:50 2016]00066:Check 1sa. 0xa179fbfd

[Thu Feb 11 12:44:50 2016]00067:WorldAuthenticate. I got a message of type 0x76ad (30381).
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:50 2016]00068:WorldAuthenticate. Access granted.

[Thu Feb 11 12:44:50 2016]00069:Exception in TryLogin Code = c0000005 ADDR=0x004d0943
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:50 2016]00070:EAX=47461663 EBX=0deaa020 ECX=000000ee EDX=00000018
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:50 2016]00071:ESI=00000078 EDI=1152efe8 EBP=000059d9 ESP=0028e468
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:50 2016]00072rocess was trying to READ invalid data.
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:50 2016]00073:Invalid access occurred at virtual address 0x1152f000.
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:51 2016]00074:Fatal error occurred in mainthread! (Release Client #630)

[Thu Feb 11 12:44:51 2016]00075:Client Version: Feb 10 2016 09:40:12
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:51 2016]00076:Skin Directory:

[Thu Feb 11 12:44:51 2016]00077:Graphics DLL Loaded: Graphics DLL Version 2.00.90242
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:51 2016]00078:Graphics Build Date: Feb 10 2016 09:41:31
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:51 2016]00079:Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 430, 10.18.13.6175

[Thu Feb 11 12:44:51 2016]00080:Gamestate at crash = 6

[Thu Feb 11 12:44:51 2016]00081rocessor: 4 of type 586
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:51 2016]00082:Memory: Load: 28, Total Phys: 16346, Avail Phys: 11664, Total Page: 20826, Avail Page: 15350, Total Virtual: 2047, Avail Virtual: 1704, FreeBlocks: 771,250,238,179,77,36,29,29,18,14
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:51 2016]00083ools: Temp: 0(0). Persistent: 0(0). OnDemand: 0(0). Zone: 0(0)
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:51 2016]00084:MaxTextures: 1281k, CurrentTextures: 0k, HighQualityTextures: 0k
[Thu Feb 11 12:44:51 2016]00085:CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 945 Processor 3011863

[Thu Feb 11 12:44:51 2016]00086:Memory Mode: Balanced

[Thu Feb 11 12:45:02 2016]00087:Crash Details: Logging in