Jan 15th Patch message

[kianimus]

*** Announcing The Legacy of Ykesha ***

The Legacy of Ykesha will be the first download-only extension for EverQuest. This product will not be available in stores. This extension will include some great new gameplay features, as well as new zones for characters ranging from level 35 up to level 60.

Legacy of Ykesha Features include:

A new playable race: Frogloks
Enhanced Looking For Group Tool
New Cartography System
New Magic Item slot: Charms
Armor Dyes
Dozens of new creatures
Expanded bank capacity
New zones
New spells

For more information, please visit www.legacyofykesha.com


*** Patch Information ***

** Gameplay/Features **

- With our last patch and the patch today, we've significantly reduced the amount of bandwidth that EverQuest needs to use, even in large raid or extremely-crowded-zone situations.
- Fixed a problem with tints not properly updating when armor is removed.
- Fixed a bug with character faces displaying incorrectly to other players when you zone in after them.
- Fixed resurrection timer that was counting down against the 3 hour limit when player was not logged in.
- Corrected a problem with health and movement updates being delayed.


** Spells **

- NPCs will now notice Druid and Shaman Percentage Heal spells in a manner similar to traditional healing spells.
- Removed the chance for slow spells to be reversed from the 17 NPCs that had this ability.
- Fixed a bug that was preventing Curses, Diseases, and Poisons from being removed.
- Raised all recast times below 2.25 seconds up to 2.25 seconds. This is a change in the spell data as the first part of a two-part change needed to correct the "Recast time not met" problem. More information is available at the Developer's Corner at www.everquest.com.


** Alternate Advancement/Special Abilities **

- The range on the Bard Ability "Boastful Bellow" has been increased slightly.
- Fixed a bug with Harm Touch that was not allowing it to increase the standard amount per level over level 60.


** User Interface **

- Fixed a bug with effects in the Songs window. They were not getting removed on the client when the bard was dispelled.
- Introduced new Story window. The purpose of this window is to provide story updates in a readily available location. ALT-N toggles the window. You can select to have the window pop up when new story elements are added if you wish.
- Item Links are once again creatable from Items and from other Item Links. Please do not attempt to "mine" the servers for undiscovered items. Links now have a built-in mechanism to prevent those who would go on fishing expeditions by sending up many bad links in an attempt to discover new items. These invalid links are logged, as are the accounts of those who create them.
- Added an optional confirmation box before spending AA points. To turn on this confirmation box, please check the Options window.


** Miscellaneous **

- Sage Quests in Plane of Knowledge have been fixed.
- The event to fight Bertoxxulous in the Crypt of Decay will reset 4 to 6 hours after the event is failed. It will respawn normally if the event is won.


** New/Changed Interface Files **

- EQUI_StoryWnd.xml (actually added with the Jan. 9th patch)
- EQUI_OptionsWnd.xml

[kianimus]

Well this looks eminantly useful for Tradeskills.

First and formost "More Bank space!!!" I wonder how much?

Armor dyes. That should produce some fun.

Also the new slot "charms" looks ripe for crafted items.

Definatley waiting with baited breath for this.

[Yakk]

Armor dyes. That should produce some fun.

Actually, I'm afriad it will create a daoc-like "you can't tell anything about someone's gear by how it looks".

EQ was very neat in that form followed function -- you can TELL how well someone is geared by what they had on, or if they had something you haven't seen before. Even if it was just a slightly different shade.

Darn dirty apes...

And duplicate posts.

Perty please can we lock this one so's I don't gotta over read.

[Ianthe]

Once you reached the upper levels you can't really tell melee plate classes apart except by the weapons they are holding. Too many things were made such that anyone and everyone can wear them. So colors traditionally assigned to classes in the lower stages suddenly no longer held true. Course once you start hitting full sets of ornate/elemental that might stabalize again... but the armor dyes will take care of it.

Now the question is how many paladins are we going to see running about in black armor?

[Angelsyn]

Now the question is how many paladins are we going to see running about in black armor?

Not me! Personally I love my Burnished Gold/Deep Red colour mix that I have now.

Of course, this will increase the market in the Helm of Raldukan. Many people refused to buy them because of the Pink colour.

[chubbyone]

I personally cannot wait for the dye to come in hate human cultural purple color on my cleric , but NO MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Raolinx]

Hehe. i would love Black armor for my bard. It just seems like the best color for mine. Did I mentione I hate Lambent Blue.

[Snapdragyn]

"I personally cannot wait for the dye to come in hate human cultural purple color on my cleric , but NO MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Hehe, that's the EXACT color I've been dying (pun intended) to have my bard in forever! Probably a nice silver bp & legs, with rich purple for the 'highlight' pieces.

Either that or solid black -- I do look good in black. Hmm, or black & grey? Black & deep red! Oooh, or silver & rich blue.

Too many choices! Hey, maybe it'll be cheap enough we can change wardrobes every week or so -- now THAT'D be cool!

[Kieroth_whiteleaf]

LOL.

My DEF warrior wants purple armor. I've been considering leaving my HEF cleric in Fine steel just so she can keep her current "green" look.

I want nightmare plate *MOSTLY* because I heard it's purple in color - yeah, the stats are nice, but there *IS* better out there.