UPDATE: Harvesting nodes have been taken offline to alleviate the crash issue.

UPDATE:  Since the patch there have been a lot of crash issues.  Holly Longdale tweeted:

We are looking into the terrain zone crashes since our update. Seems related to new harvestables. We'll update you as we learn more. #eq2

US EverQuest II Live Servers will be brought offline on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 4:00AM PDT for an update. Estimated downtime is four hours.

EU EverQuest II Live Servers will be brought offline on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at approximately 11:00AM London Time for an estimated downtime of four hours.

Patch notes are below.

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION
Castle Highhold: Thresinet's Den [Heroic]
Vexven Mucktail will now spawn with fewer Mucktail gnoll skeletons defeated.

Precipice of Power [Raid]
Karana's "Muscle Lock" spell should no longer spam onscreen messages. It will print the messages to chat instead for those engaged in the encounter.

ITEMS

• Endemic Shoes of the Augur no longer have an appearance of a robe.
• Guise of the Coercer's reuse time has been reduced.
• Altar of Malice Advanced Solo and Heroic boss encounters now have a chance to drop Malice Shards. Malice shards may be used to purchase armor from the Barter and Exchange merchant.
• Greater Offensive Focus adornments have had prose tweaked to be clearer that they increase ability damage only.
• Unquestionable Fury may now be used by Warriors and Crusaders.
• The Ancient Plundered Shank should now use the piercing skill for determine damage rating.
• Cloaks and Belts from Altar of Malice zones have had their stats redistributed.
• Cloaks and Belts from Altar of Malice zones have had their tables simplified to avoid very large tables.
• Cloaks and Belts from Altar of Malice zones all now have either weapon skills or casting skills.

TRADESKILLS
Two versions of the Tradesman's Satchel will be added to the marketplace shortly after this update. When unpacked in your inventory these satchels will grant a large amount of common harvestable resources as well as a chance at bonus items. Possible bonus items include spellshards/foundations for the appropriate tier as well as new components used in the crafting of new and powerful white adornments that grow in power as you level. Recipes for these new adornments may be purchased off of adornment recipe merchants.

Rare Provisioner Harvests have been added to garden nodes of all types, recipes that use these new harvests have been added to existing recipe books at level 1 and 10, and new Advanced Provisioner recipe books which can be purchased from any recipe vendor.