July 15, 2026
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*** Highlights ***

– Made changes to multiple Hero’s Journey quests to make them more group friendly. See the Quests & Events section for details.

*** Items ***

– Merciful Shield found on cleric breastplates in Shattering of Ro should now trigger the correct version of Recurrent Merciful Shield.

*** Quests & Events ***

– Food for Thought – Lize`s chests now drops One of Lize’s Trinkets for the group.
– Bile From Below – The Unearthed Bonesnapper Beast now drops the Saliva Covered Hardened Metal Alloy for the group.
– Lost Memento – The rats and snakes now have the chance to drop Anarynn’s Lost Gold Locket for every member of the group.
– The Ancient Tablet – The inhabitants of Vergalid Mines now have a chance to drop the Ancient Tablet for group members.
– Lost Souls I – Skullrend now drops Klazag’s Amulet for the group.
– Lost Souls II – The followers of Vergalid now have a chance to drop the Void Etched Symbol for each player in the group.
– Duskmold – The twittering mounds and doomshriek mushrooms now have the chance to drop the Twittering Fungus Cap and Doomshriek Mushrooms for the group.
– Serric Lives – The Kickpick goblins now have the chance to drop the Piece of Serric’s Tabbard for the group.
– Earthy Extermination I – The bonesnappers now drop Bonesnapper Meat for the group.
– Earthy Extermination II – The bonesnappers now drop Bonesnapper Egg for the group.
– Earthy Extermination III – Vergalak now drops Fillet of Vergalak for the group.
– Feather for Your Cap – The griffons and ridge watchers now drop Pristine Ridge Griffon Feathers for the group.
– Spooky! – The giant zombies now drop the Glowing Glass Shard for the group.
– Dead Wood, Treants – The treants now drop the Treant Wood Heart for the group.
– Dead Wood, The Shambling Mounds – The shambling mounds now drop their Shambling Mound Branches for the group.
– Summon the Spirits – The gnarl thorns now drop Bog Bark for the group.
– Hardy Seeds – The hedge devils now drop Hardy Seeds for the group.
– Pieces of the Past – The skeletons near the ruined tower now drop the Ogre Relics for the group.
– The Golden Pick I – Mucktail rock breakers now drop their Part of a Broken Pick Haft and Tarnished Golden Pickhead for the group.
– The Golden Pick II – Rotwood Saplings and Darkwater Lockjaws now drop their Rotwood Treant Branch and Darkwater Crocodile Skin for the group.
– Bixie Plans – The Stone Hive Bixies now drop the Bixie plans for the group.
– Ore for Smelting – The mucktails now drop Hunk of Blightfire Ore for the group.
– The Ghostpack Fens – The ghost wolves and Denlord Darkmoon now drop Etheral Ghostwolf Pelts and Denlord Darkmoon’s Tooth for the group.
– The Slashclaw Cliffs – The slashclaws will now drop their Pristine Slashclaw Pelt for the group.
– The Darkwater Pools – The crocodile and turtles will now drop Darkwater Crocodile Skin and Moors Turtle Shells for the group.
– Kindling for the Fires – The hedge devils now drop their Hedge Devil Branches for the group.
– The cave bears from the bear cave in the Hollow, now have the chance to drop the Pristine Bear Hide for the group.
– The Ashengate Orders – Dyn`Leth’s Courier will now drop the Ashengate Orders for everyone in the group.
– Thrills and Quills – The vermin from the Haunted Hall now have the chance to drop Crescent Vermin Hides and Crescent Bat Hides for the group.
– Cap of Color – The sporelings in the mushroom grove now have a chance to drop Sporeling Cap for everyone in the group.
– Slightly Less Than One-Half of a Baker’s Dozen – The sporelings in the mushroom grove now have a chance to drop Tasty Truffles for everyone in the group.
– A Dark Heart – Apothecary Shelga will now drop Shelga’s Pouch of Ingredients for everyone in the group.
– Tallongast (Raid) – Fixed an issue where food adds that are up when Tallongast dies invalidates the Starvation achievement.
– Hagralazoo’s Memories – Hagralazoo has had her faction requirements lowered to dubious (-500).
– Adventures now allow you to swap personas up to one level higher than your character was when you started.

*** Spells ***

– Bard – Converted Covariance of Sticks and Stones from referencing individual song spell groups to referencing the entire Insult/Disdain lines of songs.
– Enchanter – Updated the Dichotomic Reinforcement line of progressive spells to correct the multiple ways it had fallen behind. Rank 1 of new spells are now equal to rank 6 of previous spells, and ranks 2-6 are all upgrades.
– Magician – Updated the Dichotomic Companion line of progressive spells to correct the multiple ways it had fallen behind. Rank 1 of new spells are now equal to rank 6 of previous spells, and ranks 2-6 are all upgrades. Updated the skill damage mod to keep progressing throughout the spell line.

*** NPCs ***

– Fixed an issue that caused loot to be inaccessible from Tunare and Avatar of War when completing their respective events across multiple instances.

*** Progression Servers ***

– Made a speculative fix to Terror of Luclin raid success messages that say “ERROR” instead of mentioning the event name.
– Moved Vhaksiz the Shade, Salczek the Fleshgrinder, Maareq the Prophet, The Acolyte of Affliction, and Grummus to different randomized loot buckets.

*** Miscellaneous ***

– Made a speculative fix to an issue where raids on high population servers would sometimes get into a bugged state and disband.
– Race changing in a pickzone will no longer sometimes set the wrong starting city.

*** UI ***

– Fixed a crash in UI radio buttons when loot is rolling out in Advanced Loot window.

*** Previously Updated ***
– Fixed a crash in UI radio buttons most commonly seen with Advanced Loot window.

– The EverQuest Team