Update Notes: Tuesday May 31, 2017

All EverQuest II Servers will be brought offline on Tuesday May 31th, 2017 at 7:00 AM PT (14:00 UTC) for an update. Estimated downtime is less than 2 hours.
Update notes for this downtime can be found in the Game Update Notes forum once they're available.

GENERAL
  • You can now hide your ‘Not For Sale’ items when at a merchant.
  • You can now filter the broker by Ascension Classes.
PROVING GROUNDS
  • Most cleric reactive heals have been increased in the Proving Grounds by 30-40%.
FAMILIARS
  • Fixed an issue where Familiars were not properly persisting through death.
TRADESKILLS
  • Mass production crafts will now maintain their quantity when repeating the craft. This option can be disabled in Options [Advanced] > User Interface > Tradeskills > Repeat Craft Maintains Quantity.
POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION
General
  • Many Kunark Ascending encounters had outgoing damage that was tuned in line with a bug that allowed some wards to act as potent damage reduction. The outgoing damage on these encounters has been tuned and will continue to recieve daily adjustments over the next couple weeks based on encounter damage logs.
Chamber of Rejuvenation [Raid]
  • The Reet Ritualist should no longer dispel Glacial Freeze.
  • Bursting Spores should no longer attempt to spread to players who already have the spell on them.
ABILITIES
  • Fixed an issue that prevented Manaburn from applying damage in the Proving Grounds.
ITEMS
  • Crusader's Medal's may now be exchanged for Defender's Medal's from Aldaelon Rootbed, Omarin T'Zaana and Gramdur.

Update Notes: Thursday May 11, 2017


All EverQuest II Servers will be brought offline on Thursday, May 11th, 2017 at 7:00 AM PT (14:00 UTC) for an update. Estimated downtime is less than 2 hours.
Update notes for this downtime can be found in the Game Update Notes forum once they're available.
PROVING GROUNDS
  • Rewards are now granted upon leaving a match if any were earned by completing objectives.
  • When the 2nd objective is completed (on either team), neither teams' numbers can be reinforced by anyone outside the match.
  • After the first team completes the final objective, the opposing team's group count will be checked periodically. If their group total falls below 3, the match will end.
POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION
Vaedenmoor: Realm of Despair [Raid]
  • You should no longer occasionally get spammy messages regarding progression within the zone.
Raids
  • Adds in tier 4 raid boss encounters have had their health slightly increased. It should still be less time to kill adds from previous to update 103.
ABILITIES
  • Adornment Reclamation will now remove orange adornments.
ITEMS
  • Procs on familiars will now be modified by stats.
  • Familiars no longer conflict with Deity pets.
  • Wantia adornments that have been removed from a piece of gear have had their proper slots restored.
  • The Awakened Sedition, Sword of the Bloodmoon now grants Max HP and Armor Mitigation increase.
QUESTS
  • The Siege of Zek: Rise of The Sanctifiers - The enchanted Green Hood vessel in Antonica is now available to non-members.
  • Light of the Destroyer: Adventurers should now be able to help their friends in the final battle, even if they are not currently on this quest. The instance should pull in the group, as long as the quest holder clicks on the entrance.
TIMELOCKED SERVERS
  • Corrected an issue that granted players on the Timelocked server a Tears of Veeshan era hit point buff as soon as they hit level 90. This buff is now locked behind Tears of Veeshan being live on the server.

Update Notes: Tuesday April 18, 2017

US EverQuest II Servers will be brought offline on Tuesday, April 18th, 2017 at 7:00 AM PT (3 PM UTC) for an update. Estimated downtime is less than 2 hours.

All EU servers will come offline at 9:00 PM PT (4 AM UTC April 19th) for this update. Downtime is anticipated to be approximately 2 hours.

Update notes for this downtime can be found in the Game Update Notes forum once they're available.



POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION
Vaedenmoor: Realm of Despair [Raid]

  • The number of adds in the Raenha, Sister of Remorse encounter should no longer grow for each successful threshold passed.
  • The number of adds in the Raenha, Sister of Remorse encounter required to be killed if the script is failed should no longer grow.
  • Deaths in the Raenha, Sister of Remorse encounter still affect add numbers.
  • Respawn speed on adds in the Raenha, Sister of Remorse encounter are no longer affected by reuse debuffs (in players' favor).
  • All adds in the Raenha encounter now count toward the add count mechanic.

Ruins of Kaesora: Ancient Xalgozian Temple [Raid]

  • Xalgoz should now send a warning message for his event at 5%.

Ssraeshza Temple: Inner Sanctum [Heroic]

  • Stonefang's ability, Shed Scales, no longer targets mercenaries.

ABILITIES

  • Glacial Freeze will no longer reduce the level of a player in duels.

ITEMS

  • Frozen Wall of Recollection's protection value has been brought in line with other TSO raid shields.

QUESTS

  • Case of the Missing Headpiece - Chancellor Thanial Vylardin now updates the quest, even if you are working on the scout Epic 2.0.
  • Zek, the Scourge Wastes - Scourge of the Scourge now updates only when slaying orcs specifically stated by the quest.

STORMHOLD

  • Corrected an issue that reduced auto-attack damage on TLE servers.

Update Notes: Tuesday February 14, 2017

US EverQuest II Servers will be brought offline on Tuesday, February 14th, 2017 at 7:00AM PT (3 PM UTC) for an update. Estimated downtime could be up to 2 hours.

All EU servers will come offline at 9:00 PM PT (5 AM UTC February 15th) for this update. Downtime is anticipated to be approximately 2 hours.

Update notes for this downtime can be found in the Game Update Notes forum once they're available.



POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION
Arcanna'se Spire: Forgotten Sanctum [Heroic]

  • Sabellah'Xen, Keeper of Fire's adds now despawn when he is defeated or when his encounter is reset.
  • Caelan'Gael, Keeper of Growth's adds now despawn when he is defeated or when his encounter is reset.
  • Lachina, Defender of Magics' adds now despawn when she is defeated or when his encounter is reset.

Kaesora: Xalgozian Stronghold [Heroic]

  • General Janosz's adds now despawn when he is defeated or when his encounter is reset.

The Ruins of Cabilis [Heroic]

  • Smith Xzatik's adds now despawn when he is defeated or when his encounter is reset.
  • War Baron Eator's adds now despawn when he is defeated or when his encounter is reset.

ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT
General

  • Corrected a bug that allowed pets and swarm pets to not be affected by stat caps.

Channeler

  • Truespirit Rift should no longer interfere with wards.

Bruiser

  • Removed the proc description from the Void Strike buff as it was causing too much confusion. You will now have to scribe and cast Void Strike, then examine Lightning Fists to view the increase in damage.

Warlock

  • Increased Draw from the Void damage.
  • Dark Aggravation may now spell or ability doublecast.

Ranger

  • Increased the base damage of the Heartseeker Hawk's abilities.

Beastlord

  • Prospective Fix for several Beastlord abilities healing enemy encounters.

QUESTS

  • Missions from The Shadow Odyssey, Sentinel's Fate, Destiny of Velious, Scourge Keep and fabled dungeons can now be filtered in the "Mission Timer" tab of your Journal.

PUBLIC QUESTS

  • Mudfin hydromancers are now a bit more difficult to damage.

Update Notes: Friday February 10, 2017

All US and EU EverQuest II Servers will be brought offline on Friday, February 10th, 2016 at 7:00AM PDT (3 PM UTC) for an update. Estimated downtime is approximately two hours.


Update notes for this downtime can be found in the Game Update Notes forum once they're available.


 

GENERAL
  • A filter has been added to the missions list in the quest journal.
ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT
Mystic
  • Replaced a dropped digit in the adept Strength of the Ancestors.
Illusionist
  • Corrected an issue with Chronal Mastery that was preventing the fervor effect from applying to the entire group.
Summoners
  • Pet Weapon Mastery will no longer overwrite Planeswalker or Reaper default weapon with a weaker weapon.
Necromancer
  • Reaper's Soul Drain will no longer heal the Reaper's target.
Warlock
  • The triggered effect of Void Mastery is now named Void Surge.
Wizard
  • Corrected an issue with Fiery Blast clearing the recorded damage value when it double casts. Fiery Blast no longer double casts and will instead multiply damage based off of Spell and/or Ability Doublecast.
Templar
  • Impart Faith should now cast at the correct base ward value. If you have the same tier of spell in Shield of Faith the ward values should be identical.
ITEMS
  • Corrected several cases where TSO set effects were dealing less damage with their upgraded versions (eg. Life Drain II was doing more damage than Life Drain III).
QUESTS
  • The mission, Crypt Jaunt, in Crypt of Dalnir: Baron's Workship [Heroic], can now be completed.
  • "An Unfinished Catalogue" in Lost City of Torsis: Reaver's Remnants [Heroic] can now be un-unfinished.
  • Shades of Drinal: Trial of Everafter - Drinal's Steward, located at Ashen Tower, will now respond appropriately, even if you have completed "Shades of Drinal: Great and Small"
  • Feast for a Gift - A failure string has been added for those who do not meet the requisites for this quest, when shared.
  • Quests Awakening Bonds: Forks in the Road - Zealots of Grozmok, ghostly bats and impurity mobs required for these updates have had their difficulty reduced.

 

Update Notes: Tuesday February 7, 2017

All US and EU EverQuest II Servers will be brought offline on Tuesday, February 7th, 2016 at 7:00AM PDT (3 PM UTC) for an update. Estimated downtime is approximately two hours.


Update notes for this downtime can be found in the Game Update Notes forum once they're available.


 

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION
  • All raid encounters above tier 1 now have a base mitigation increased based off of expected mitigation debuff values.
  • All tier 3 and higher raids have had their panic mechanic made a bit more forgiving.

ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT
General
  • Plane Shift will no longer apply an illusion to epic 2.0 pets.
  • Corrected a bug in Battle Coordination that prevented the application of Open Wounds to the casters group.
  • Corrected an issue that prevented summoner epic 2.0 pets from casting their epic attacks.
  • Glacial Freeze will no longer have its duration reduced by harmonization.
Summoner
  • Planeswalker and Reaper may now be Flash Cast.
  • Planeswalker and Reaper pets will now benefit from all pet enhancement AA's except where the enhancement is for hate gain.
  • Energy Clash will now be able to be cast with Reaper or Planeswalker pets.
Monk
  • Reduced the amount of damage that gets reflected with Master's Interpose.
Guardian
  • Guardian will now cast the triggered effect. Moved the maximum melee damage effects to the triggered effect.
Templar
  • Impart Faith will now cause Shield of Faith to cast a second effect which carriers the noxious, elemental and physical wards to correct an overwrite issue.
Illusionist
  • Timelord will now use the correct tier based cooldown.
Mystic
  • Smoothed out the duration increase granted by Strength of the Ancestors so that the larger portion of the increase comes from higher tiers of the spell.
Assassin
  • Shadow Agent will now use the correct buff package.
Etherealist
  • Implosion will no longer cause the target to teleport to the assisted player, if pass through targeting was used.
ITEMS
  • The Awakened Dragon's Temper now grants DPS instead of ae autoattack chance.

Update Notes: Tuesday January 31, 2017

All US EverQuest II Servers will be brought offline on Tuesday, January 31st, 2017 at 7:00AM PT (3 PM UTC) for an update. Estimated downtime could be up to 2 hours.

All EU servers will come offline at 9:00 PM PT (5 AM UTC February 1st) for this update. Downtime is anticipated to be approximately 2 hours.

Update notes for this downtime can be found in the Game Update Notes forum once they're available.


POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION
Lost City of Torsis: Reaver's Remnants[Challenge Heroic]

  • Neh'Ashiir has had her max health reduced.

Isle of Vul

  • Reduced the control immunity on Fathad Zastim.

ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT

  • Spell Weapon Damage Bonus and Weapon Damage Bonus have been consolidated into one stat, Weapon Damage Bonus.
  • Corrected an issue with Glacial Freeze that would cause the targets to heal after returning to their natural level.
  • Pass Judgement will now correctly grant a Fervor component to Heretic's Destruction instead of Fervor Overcap.
  • Targets of Oration of Sacrifice may now trigger Fierce Combat for the entire duration of the effect at a maximum of once per 1.5 seconds.
  • Unfetter will now correctly remove the stealth component to Hidden Assault.
  • Corrected an issue with Shadow Trickery's fervor effect not applying correctly. Added the amount of fervor increased to the examine of Shadow Trickery.

ITEMS

  • Reduced block chance on several non-shield TSO items that were incorrectly set too high.
  • Corrected the 4-piece set bonus on TSO Inquisitor raid armor to stack with the class focus.
  • Added resists to all mercenary accolades.
  • Epic weapon damage procs now do the appropriate damage type.
  • Greater Relics are no longer flagged as Prestige.

QUESTS

  • The Warriors Call: Volume III - Pages for Potions, Transcendence of Life and Death Volume II should now have more spawns and spawn in Wizard's Den additionally.
  • Corrected an issue with The Warrior's Call: Volume IV where a player could get stuck if they left the Keep after completing the puzzle but without speaking to Slaviss.
  • Into the Maw: Corrected an issue that prevented players who killed Zastim out of order from bypassing the barrier.
  • Convenient Conversion - Deletion of the quest now removes "Convert of the Silver Reaper Robe" from player inventory.
  • Fighter Epic Quests - Srilk should now be seen by your entire group.

Update Notes: Tuesday January 24, 2017

The U.S. EverQuest II Servers will be brought offline on Tuesday, January 24th, 2017 at 7:00AM PST for an update. The EU Server will be updated at 5:00AM London Time on January 25.

Estimated downtime is approximately two hours.

Update notes for this downtime can be found in the Game Update Notes forum once they're available.
POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION
Vaedenmoor: Realm of Despair [Raid]
  • High end difficulty encounters have had their "Panic" mechanic made a bit more lenient toward the beginning of the encounter.
  • Vhaksiz the Shade has had his health adjusted.
Ruins of Kaesora: Ancient Xalgozian Temple [Raid]
  • Xalgoz has had his health adjusted.
  • Xalgoz's Staff of Control should now correctly be able to be used on Xagloz but is still not a required item to defeat his encounter.
  • The Strathbone Runelord should no longer remain immune to damage at low health for an extended amount of time.
Crypt of Dalnir: The Kly Stronghold [Raid]
  • The Kly has had his health adjusted.
Lost City of Torsis: Ashiirian Court [Raid]
  • Lord Rak'Ashiir has had his health adjusted.
Tomb of the Mad Crusader [Raid]
  • Xebnok the Wretched no longer charms players.
Lair of Haunts [Quest Zone]
  • Corrected an issue that caused the zone to not allow a group to zone in.
  • Tombwatch L'Drykk can no longer be charmed.
Arcanna'se Spire: Order and Chaos [Raid]
  • The botanist will now spawn plants slightly faster once engaged.
Kaesora: Tomb of the Venerated [Heroic]
  • The first two nameds, Chatizad and Zannaska, have had their hitpoints reduced and their adds now spawn less frequently.
ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT
  • Corrected an issue that would cause Ascension Combos to be heavily influenced by lag.
  • Removing the daze effect that randomly got applied to Double Up.
  • Corrected a bug with the duration of Glacial Freeze which made it to apply for longer than intended.
  • Gift of Bertoxxulous will now cooperate with ascension buffs.
ITEMS
  • Adjusted a number of set bonuses on TSO raid armor to ensure proper ability stacking.
  • Corrected protection values on a number of shields dropped in Innothule and original Kunark overland zones that were too high. Boosted some TSO raid shield protection values to compensate.
QUESTS
  • The Map is a Key. The Key is a Map? will reward a primary hand weapon for Rangers.
  • Awakening Bonds: Once Was Lost... will reward a primary hand weapon for Channelers.
  • Jerol in Village of Shin now offers "Lilly's Letter" to those who have completed "The Heart of Qeynos" and "A Body to Die For".
  • Body to Die For - Lilly now responds appropriately, even if you have completed "The Eyes Have It".

Update Notes: January 12, 2017

Accounts and Purchases will be unavailable beginning at 4 AM PT (Noon UTC) for approximately 2 hours.

All EverQuest II Servers will be brought offline on Thursday, January 12th, 2017 at 7:00AM PDT (3 PM UTC) for an update. Estimated downtime is approximately two hours.

Update notes for this downtime can be found in the Game Update Notes forum once they're available.



GENERAL
Fixed an issue where client updates for Beastlords would be sent way too frequently.

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION
General

  • Shady Swashbuckler XVIII - Now offers The Shield of the Magi, for those who have completed "Koada'dal Magi's Craft".
  • Several Heroic bosses have had issues with spawning more adds than was intended. These should now properly spawn the correct number of adds more reliably.

Ruins of Kaesora: Ancient Xalgozian Temple [Raid]

  • Bleeding Bite will now increase the amount of damage taken from all sources.

Kunark Ascending: Raids

  • Achievements for killing Shanaira the Prestigious are no longer hidden.

Crypt of Dalnir: Ritual Chamber [Heroic]

  • The Kly's reflections will now unroot when they receive damage.
  • An achievement has been added for defeating The Kly [Challenge].

Arcanna'se Spire: Repository of Secrets [Heroic]

  • Adds properly despawn for the Tabor'Zaai and Xerxes'Kade encounters.

ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT

  • Ethereal Mastery, and Ethereal Expertise now use the new Ability Doublecast stat instead of a scripted effect.
  • Double Up now uses the new Ability Doublecast stat instead of a scripted effect.
  • Fixed an issue with certain abilities when using pass-through targeting.
  • Focused Offensive now displays the correct chance to recast any offensive Combat Art on Time-Locked Servers.
  • Reduced the spell tier multiplier on Ethershadow Assassin.
  • Corrected the display on combat mitigation debuffs. They will now show their full reduction after all multipliers in the ability examine and tooltip.
  • Cheap Shot no longer casts a separate 2 second Cheap Shot on termination that only applies to non-heroic targets. Instead, its duration has been increased to 4 seconds and can affect heroic targets that are not immune to stuns.

ITEMS
Gear from The Shadow Odyssey expansion has been upgraded to provide progression for the Time-Locked Expansion Server.

QUESTS

  • Quest targets for "Mending a Broken Land" and "Never Ending Mending of a Broken Land" have been made to respawn faster.
  • You no longer have to wait 18 hours after completing "Mending a Broken Land" to pick up "Never Ending Mending of a Broken Land".
  • Flying wyverns should now count toward "Mending a Broken Land" and "Never Ending Mending of a Broken Land" kills.
  • Spirits in the Streets - Nelik Ulnya will now accept your report from Acolyte Ksylia, even if you have completed "Collective Memory" or "Grobb, Not Forgotten".
  • Collective Memory - Nelik Ulnya will now only offer this quest after "Spirits in the Streets" is completed.
  • Ritual of Bone should now progress normally after speaking with Osh.
  • A Message to Osh - Osh will now respond to those who have used the spiritgate, even if the player is on "Curse of the Magic Thief" or "Awakening Bonds: Forks in the Road."
  • Awakening Bonds: Whispers of the Past - The mortar and pestle will now require the necessary component.
  • How the Mighty Fall - Skalmos is now susceptible to being damaged by the most mighty.
  • The Warriors Call: Volume II – People who used the incorrect forge and now have the Indestructible Hammer and no update should use the Worker’s Sledgemallet to travel to the Forge of Time and Space and click on the correct forge. This will update your quest.

PUBLIC QUESTS

  • Jaled Dar's Shade and The Iksar Hero's hitpoints have been further reduced.
  • Shade of the First Brood - First Brood sentries should no longer spawn under the world.

Moonlight Enchantment is Back

The monthly live event Moonlight Enchantments starts tonight! The grottos will open on the 20th at 12:01am PT and close on the 21st at 11:59pm PT. The time applies directly with no conversion to all servers.


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