Patch note Map 16 2007

Posted on SOE EQ forum and expected in game in an hour or so when they
go down.



May 16, 2007
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*** Highlights ***

- Jardel's Hook Mission: Long ago, a holy war brewed between the
Redfeather aviaks and the Suncrest goblins. Using a blessed artifact
of the ocean god, Prexus, the Suncrest goblins shaped the tide in the
Buried Sea. The aviaks, fearful of the power the goblins possessed
countered with their own artifact blessed by Karana, the god of
storms, which created monsoons and heavy rain. This era in the Buried
Sea became known as the Time of Storms. Many years after it began, the
war ended abruptly when a powerful siren stole both artifacts and hid
them somewhere in the vast expanse of the Buried Sea. Find out what
happened to these powerful artifacts in a new mission in the Buried
Sea!

- Ocean of Tears: The Ocean of Tears has a new look. Sail over to
check it out and to experience the return of the boats!

- A new integrated web browser has been added to EverQuest. This web
browser will be accessible from either the help menu or the /petition
command. From this point forward, all problems related to switching
to an external browser will be eliminated because this browser will
pull up in an in-game window.

- Congratulations to the winners of EverQuest's "The Fabled
Adventurer" Video Contest. The First Place winner was Quarken of the
Maelin Starpyre server. You can view the winning video on
EQPlayers.station.sony.com.


*** Recently Reported Issues ***

First of all, we want to thank everyone for their assistance with
reporting bugs in the game. Your effort helps us pinpoint the source
of bugs so that they can be resolved as quickly as possible. Our main
source of reports on bugs comes from the in-game submitted /bug
reports but we also get verification from /petitions and forum posts.

In order to make sure everyone knows what we are currently aware of
and working on, we will be frequently posting a List of Recently
Reported Issues that have been addressed. The following is a list of
the Recently Reported issues that have been resolved in this update:

Issue: Tartons Wheel (A Rod)
Summary: Players are unable to combine Staff of the Wheel in A
Glowing Chest. The recipe that players must combine in order to get
the Staff of the Wheel and Star of Eyes, eventually leading to the Ice
Comet spell, is currently not useable.
Status: The combine works properly again.

Issue: Elder Longshadow #4 Trailing Longshadow.
Summary: Players can port into the instance before completing the
first element of the quest. The player is ported into the instance
with no way to update element 0 of the task.
Status: You can no longer enter the instance before you have updated
the first element of the quest.

Issue: Shaman spell 'Protection of Wishka' when scribed becomes
'Wishka's Favor'.
Summary: Name and description of item do not match the spell that is
scribed from.
Status: The spell scrolls have been changed to the proper spell name.

Issue: NPC 'a goblin headmaster' in the 'Ocean of Tears' zone is not
spawning.
Summary: The Goblin Headmaster is no longer spawning in the Oot zone.
Status: The Goblin Headmaster is spawning again in the new version of
Ocean of Tears.

Issue: EQPlayers site not updating character profiles.
Summary: People are reporting that their character profiles are still
not updating.
Status: With this update, work will be done on the EQPlayers
database. The hardware will be upgraded. We believe that this will
help prevent the database from becoming overloaded which is what was
causing many people not to get updated. There are some other changes
that they will be making as well in regards to the flow of
information. Once the upgrade is done and the changes are made we
will be able to track the situation closer to determine exactly what
is causing the problem if it occurs again.

Issue: Vah Shir Illusion makes Rogues naked.
Summary: Armor doesn't show up correctly when under illusion.
Status: The illusion should no longer hide the armor.


*** Items ***

- Guardian Blade is no longer useable by Paladins, Shadowknights, or
Rangers as they can't actually obtain it.
- Improved Silver-Wrapped Turquoise Earring.
- Changed the icon for Ink of Terris Thule.
- The Bucket of Slop used in the Meek Shall What? task is now Lore.
- Fixed backstab issues with Eye of the Onyx Guardian and Rogue Epic
2.5.
- Added a worn effect to Venesh's Evergreen Gauntlets.
- Improved Jagged Blood, Iron Ring, Scorched Froststeel Ring, and Ice
Enameled Gorget of Battle.
- TBS pet class items are now useable by Frogloks.
- Added Pelzia's Replenishment to Keikolin's Forcephase Sandals.


*** Quests & Events ***

- Fixed a bug with Bloodeye's event. He will now cast his curse less
often.


*** Spells ***

- Dawn's Sunlight now works on Burst of Sunlight Rk. II.
- Mana Flare and Mana Recursion have been changed so that DoT spells
can now also trigger the damage effect.
- Reduced the reuse timer on the Unholy Aura Shadow Knight Discipline
to 36 minutes.


*** NPC ***

- Caerlyna has decided she is willing to hold brown handmade
backpacks.
- Temporarily deactivated the "Avalanche" event in Icefall for
performance reasons.


*** Tradeskills ***

- Changed the recipe of the Yttrium-Imbued Oak Bow to return the
Planing Tool.
- Altered the recipe "Summon Heatstone" to use Breath of Solusek
instead of "Summon Element Scroll."
- Added recipes for Spell: Summoning: Earth and Spell: Conjuration:
Fire.


*** Missions ***

- There's an exciting new quest and mission series in the Barren
Coast. Speak to Farwhendle Higglespout in The Barren Coast for more
details.


*** Tasks ***

- Changed the cultural tasks to be available at the required level of
the items they make not the recommended level.
- In shared tasks if the leader disconnects, the leadership is passed
to another active member of the shared task.


*** AA ***

- All Shadow Steps from the Wizard AA "Dimensional Instability" should
now have the same range.
- The Silent Casting AA ability will now appear in the "Short Buff"
window.
- The AA Glyph of Destruction will now increase the damage of all
Damage over Time spells when active.


*** Miscellaneous ***

- Armor of Experience should now display the correct absorption
messages.
- Mipmapping has been setup so that it is turned in every model when
the mipmapping option has been selected. Mipmapping allows for a
clearer view of the models as distances change.
- When you cast a Heal Over Time spell on another player you can see
how many hit points you've healed that player. This can be filtered
using the Heal Over Time filter in your Options Window under Filters.
- The Tribute Benefits window is now closed whenever the player
changes to or from shroud character form.
- Fixed a message error with throwing weapons.
- Corrected an inconsistency with the purchase messages of player
merchants.
- Corrected an issue with the /corpsedrag command.
- Added two new commands /booklearn and /bookunlearn that take a
single argument (the item # to be learned/unlearned.)
- Characters with non-weapons equipped should not longer get error
messages when they autoattack.


*** User Interface Changes ***

- Changed -

EQUI.xml
SIDL.xml
EQUI_NoteWindow.xml
EQUI_BookWindow.xml

- New -

EQUI_HtmlWnd.xml


*** Previously Updated ***

- Increased the experience gains in the Dragon Necropolis and Wall of
Slaughter Hot Zones slightly.


*** Future Tradeskill Changes ***

We will be making a change to the cultural armor that will nullify the
usage of all existing drops in the cultural armor and symbol crafting
process. For the slot 12 raid augments, only the drops for the seals
will be changing, the rest of the drops required for the various steps
of the slot 12 raid augments will be staying the same. Those of you
who have stockpiles will want to make use of them as best and quickly
as possible, as once the changes go in, the currently existing
cultural recipes will no longer work.

For more detailed information please see the "Upcoming Cultural
Changes" sticky thread in the Artisans Way forum of the official
EverQuest forums.




- The EverQuest Team