Patch Message 3/16

[tnexus]

EverQuest's 6th Anniversary
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To help celebrate the 6th Anniversary of EverQuest, a fresh scavenger hunt has been added. Check in Firiona Vie, Overthere, or Dreadlands for more on this quest. Finish this challenging hunt and you will receive a potion that doubles your experience for 30 minutes and comes with 10 charges.
Your old friends, the Fabled NPCs have returned to Norrath and bring the fabled versions of their items with them. Look for new Fabled NPCs in your favorite Kunark zones.



General
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- Increased the spell rune drop rates for Greater Muramite Runes and Glowing Muramite Runes in Muramite Proving Grounds and Riftseeker's Sanctum.
- Reduced the number of mobs that will summon in Veksar.
- Volkara in the Volkara's bite mission has been made a little more challenging.
- The fight against Vishimtar has been made more challenging.
- The Citrine Spell Stone has been renamed to Citrine Spell Bauble.
- Level 20, 40 and 60 Tradeskill Pattern Book Quests for Wood Elves, Kelethin Half-Elves, Dwarves, High Elves and Gnomes have been altered slightly to make them a bit friendlier to complete.
- The encounter with Grinbik in Bloodfields for the Ranger epic has been made a bit less confusing.
- "A shady Highpass citizen" in Highpass will look kindly on you and spread the word on your increased friendship if you complete his tasks.
- Several missions have been tuned to bring their completion time on par with the other DoN missions:
Diving for Lavarocks
Dragon Eggs
Diseased Pumas
- When the task "Keeping the Goblins Out" has been finished you should now get the completion text.

Items
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- The Icefloe Hammer is no longer a 1 handed piercing weapon, it is now 1 handed blunt and the bonus to backstab has been removed.
- The Lance of Engulfing Flame now has a proc instead of a worn spell.
- The Robe of Transcendent Thought has been changed to Drape of Transcendent Thought.
- Various Anguish class leg pieces have been altered.
- Academic's Pants of the Arcanists now has the focus effect "Frost of Anguish".
- The mana preservation focus on several Tacvi chest pieces has been increased slightly.



-- The EverQuest Team

Nothing about tradeskill nerfs, that's encouraging so far!

[Qualan]

Nothing about fixing fletching either- which is dishearthening

[Kakg]

Yeah but the bit about making the symbol book quests for gnomes is very heartening for me. Selfish I know but it's taken 4 days so far just to get 12 old wurms and I still had to get a further 68 more. Mixed in with all the slaughtering of old Mistmoore mobs now spawning in Lesser faydark in order to keep my Ring of Scale faction from exploding it was going to take a huge amount of time to finish.

[Brickhaus]

Wood Elf fletching has been reported to be fixed on Test pre-patch. Although not every fix on Test makes it into the next patch, I fully expect the fletching fix to work when the servers come back.

I wonder if the 6th anniversary stuff has:
a) pushed continued tradeskill revisions (trival changes, smoother progression recipes, etc.) to the back burner
or
b) not going to be announced in a patch message, like a lot of tradeskilling changes

Brickhaus

[Qualan]

I am not a woodelf

i consider fletching broken when it takes 7 hours to get 300 as a woodelf or karana follower and 4+ months for any other player

Modifying the book quests is good though- although if you are smart and have a bard/enc willing to help you can finish the quests quite fast. They fixed the missions but not the tradeskill quests.

BTW this was /feedback, /bug and PM'd to SOE. Charm NPC, hand in item and then kill and loot item will tick away the collects

Seems to me that they were a bit lazy on the tradeskill quests and went for regular drops/cashloot items to be looted for the quests which means it is quite simple to bypass the looting requirement.

I understand the looting requirement to make sure there is no raid of tradeskillers killing the mobs and with 120 kills all in raid will have finished their book

[Kellan]

EverQuest's 6th Anniversary
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To help celebrate the 6th Anniversary of EverQuest, a fresh scavenger hunt has been added. Check in Firiona Vie, Overthere, or Dreadlands for more on this quest. Finish this challenging hunt and you will receive a potion that doubles your experience for 30 minutes and comes with 10 charges.
Your old friends, the Fabled NPCs have returned to Norrath and bring the fabled versions of their items with them. Look for new Fabled NPCs in your favorite Kunark zones.

Kunark dragons and Venril Sathir all got upgraded spells/effects:
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/newspells...-16%2010:03:49
The Fabled dragons' Fear has a -1000 resist adjustment ... the whole raid WILL get feared just like the old days hehe.

I wonder how good the new Fabled Trakanon BP's will be...

[Eleena Transient]

The BP off of the Chardok King (or queen not sure which) is superior to my cleric BP off Quarm.

And it has right click Invis!!! (HUGE for a cleric)


oh, also in todays patch the spell Essence of Concealment (shaman potion) was modified, so guessing its now Improved Invis

[Sylphan]

I'm not a wood elf so I don't know about that. But I checked all the recipes for all the main tradeskills and didn't find any changed trivials.