March 11, 2026
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*** Highlights ***

– Added level 115 Heroic Characters that will be available in the Marketplace starting March 16, 2026.
– The game client now supports borderless fullscreen windowed mode.

*** Items ***

– The drop item confirmation dialog should now disappear when any type of auto inventory occurs.
– Updated pre-Shattering of Ro worn focus spells with a different damage effect that will yield increased direct damage output and improve buff compatibility, bringing them in-line with the previously updated Shattering of Ro spells.
– Adjusted loot tables for Enraged Shattering of Ro raid chests.
– Scalp of the Ghoul Lord can now be used by all classes.

*** Tradeskills ***

– Fixed an issue with crafting using items from the Personal Tradeskill Depot.

*** Quests & Events ***

– Altered the pet tanking behavior to “default” in a large number of mission NPCs in Torment of Velious, Claws of Veeshan, Terror of Luclin, Night of Shadows, and Laurion’s Song.
– Ruined Relic (Raids) – Added a Null Vortex to both raids and removed the zone-based levitation suppression.
– Year of Darkpaw – Oasis of Fear: Fixed an issue where progress could break when Kill and Investigate steps trigger simultaneously.

*** Spells ***

– Bard – Moved Selo’s Accelerating Canto into the Movement memorization category.
– Bard – Reduced the mana cost of all Shattering of Ro songs.
– Bard – Corrected the timer of Yaran’s Disdain from 6 to 3.
– Beastlord – Corrected the timer of Ankexfen Lance from 7 to 11.
– Beastlord – Adjusted mana costs of Shar`Drahn’s Chill and Spiter Blood to better reflect their actual power increase. Reduced the cost of Shar`Drahn’s Chill significantly. Increased the cost of Spiter Blood slightly.
– Druid – Corrected an error with Duskthorn and Frondbarb that caused the “Wild” versions of those spells to remove the spell entirely instead of replacing the lower-damage version.
– Necromancer – Added a No Twincast flag to the spells Livianus’ Grip of Decay and Mourgis’ Grip of Decay to match the behavior of later spells in that line.
– Shadow Knight – Lowered the mana cost of Dire Constriction XI.
– Paladin and Shadow Knight – Moved the availability of Deflection Discipline from Seeds of Destruction to Depths of Darkhollow. Corrected data that allowed it to be available earlier via autoscribe.
– Fixed a bug where spell AAs wouldn’t work after running the spell auto-grant.
– Added a help message if /autogrant spells is used and the setting is not enabled.

*** AA ***

– All Classes – Unwritten Glyph items can now properly grant level 130 ranks of Mythic Glyphs.
– All Classes – The Special AAs Curse of Blood, Affliction of Blood, Torment of Blood, Temptation of Blood, and Invitation of Blood are now persona shared.
– Wizard – All ranks of The Focus AAs Focus: Chaos Scintillation and Focus: Rimeblast Cascade now correctly focus the Fire and Cold spells, respectively, in the Wildmagic Strike spell line.

*** Progression Servers ***

– Enabled free transfers off Rizlona and updated it to be free to play.

*** Miscellaneous ***

– Added a fix for client crashes related to NVIDIA graphics drivers.
– Fixed an issue that prevented the Preview Item Window from rendering transparent items.
– Fixed 2.0 pixel shaders that were overly bright and shiny on actors and items that have bright white colors.
– Made the following changes to resurrection:
– – Resurrection failure should respond with more detail if the dead player declines, if the offer times out, if the player is zoning, or if the player has already been offered a resurrection.
– – Resurrection AA abilities should properly reset in more failure cases, such as a player exiting the zone or declining.
– – Added the deceased player’s name to several resurrection chat messages.
– – Targeting a dead player with multiple corpses who has not yet respawned should now properly target the corpse over which they are hovering.
– – Resurrections that restore experience now show the percentage gained.
– – Updated NPC death messages to be slightly different from player death messages.

*** UI ***

– The Bazaar Search Window’s Find Items button will now more accurately show when a search can be performed again regardless of how the previous search was initiated.
– Hotbutton item links will now be more visually consistent.
– Converted the Group Window to use the new UI engine.
– With New UI Engine display option enabled, in-game windows that are supported by the New UI Engine will now save their positions distinctly for each desktop window mode: restored, maximized, and fullscreen.
– The game client now supports borderless fullscreen windowed mode. A Borderless Fullscreen checkbox has been added to the Options Window Display tab.

– Changed –

EQUI_CharacterCreate.xml
EQUI_CharacterListWnd.xml
EQUI_HotButtonWnd.xml
EQUI_Inventory.xml
EQUI_OptionsWindow.xml
index.html
main.css

– Added –
GroupWindow.html

– The EverQuest Team