Been working on a site redesign since the old site was written in .asp and not compatible with the new service.  Luckily WordPress takes a lot of the work away but a little coding still needed.

Qindaar and VMailce played a bit over the Holiday Weekend, but not much to report.  We killed Breaker several times but he dropped the same useless piece over and over.  We were quite depressed by this but at least the experience was good and made a couple of hundred AA’s.

We are gearing up for next weekend and hopefully better drops in Gnome Mountain.

Sorry that the Site was down for a week.  Moved it to a new hosting provider, www.hostinger.com

I needed a bit of assistance after a week of trying to troubleshoot, I reached out to their support people and in 5 minutes the site was back up, all I had to do was repoint to the database server and fix a few links.

This weekend Vmalice, Qindaar and friends will team up for the holiday special.  50% added XP, more rare spawns and drops.  Holiday’s are always a challenge to play but worth the effort.

Happy EverQuesting!

May 15, 2019
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*** Items ***

– Fixed an issue in displaying items, such as the Silkfang Pack, that would either force items to display gibberish or crash your client.
– Mounts now show their speed in the item display window.
– Fragment of the Citadel Key, Fragment of the Apitarx Key, and Calix Quirinus’ Key now stack to 100.
– Set the luck on the tank-melee version of Djarn’s Gold Amethyst Ring to 5 like the rest of that rank of ring.
– Changed the Consigned Silken Bridle horses to the correct “Silk” speed.
– Increased the drop rate of several pieces of gear that drop of Rare monsters in the Plane of Disease.
– Reduced the effect of Crippling Guard and Tendon Slicer.
– Added a chance for Weeping Heaven augments to drop from standard mobs in some Burning Lands zones.
– Removed Overdrive Boon from Dynamometric Timing Chain and Fractured Gear Set and added Overdrive Punch and Boon of the Seeress as separate spells.
– Increased the AC on the rings from Gnome Memorial mountain: Finger Band of Phases, Steel Banded Collar, Prime Healers Trinket, Whirling Torsion Spring, Fitted Rat-ling Control Board, and Etched Retention Bearing.
– Improved the click area for the Hovering Ball Familiar.

*** Quests And Events ***

– Unfettered Emerald Excellence – Fixed a bug that was causing raid challenge achievements to always be granted.
– Raid events from Veil of Alaris and later will now grant more progression keys after they have been open for 3, 6, and 9 months on live servers. Previously this would begin after 6 months. On Progression Servers these events will grant more progression keys as soon as the expansion unlocks, and add additional bonuses after each of the next two expansions unlock or at 3 month intervals, whichever is faster.
– Dragon in the Works – Slowed the rate that the dilapidated mechanics spawn. Reduced the amount that they heal the dragon. Also lowered the hit points of the mechanics a bit.
– Mechagnomic Whirlrender (Raid and Group) – Made a number of bug fixes, messaging improvements, and mechanic changes to this event.
– – Fixed a bug that prevented multiple ballistae bolts fired simultaneously from causing the boss to spend more time grounded.
– – Fixed a bug that caused the boss to spam a message while he was grounded.
– – Fixed bugs that caused some of the add NPC models to look wrong.
– – Fixed bugs that caused Whirlrender Mortar and Seeker Rocket to not work properly.
– – Fixed bug that caused the boss to cast Static Blast instead of Slashing Claws and vice versa.
– – Changed the Claw Attack mechanic. The boss will now warn periodically that he is using a left or right claw attack, 10 seconds before hitting everyone on his left or right, respectively. The player tanking the boss should be immune to this attack.
– – Changed the Static Blast mechanic. The ability will now land on a random character on the boss’s hatelist, and will only choose the player tanking the boss if there are no other players on the boss’s hate list. The player struck with the Static Blast spell will have a decal indicating the spread radius of Static Blast. Reduced the spread radius. Note that the duration of the decal is not associated with the duration of the debuff and the decal will not spread with the debuff.
– – Improved messaging for the event. All important event messages should use the Event Messages filter and color. Added many messages, such as indicating how many ballista bolts struck the boss. Changed the rocket attack message to indicate to the entire zone who is being targeted. Fixed some typos. Any message sent to a pop up should also be sent to chat.
– – Mechagnomic Whirlrender (Raid) – Increased NPC spell resistances, NPC melee damage output, and spell damage.
– Raid chests in House of Thule will now drop more key items.
– End of Empire (mission) – fixed a bug that could prevent the soulfeasters from becoming active properly.
– Greatest Gnome Hunters – It should no longer be possible to not get enough parts to drop.

*** Spells ***

– Corrected an issue where spell guard effects were being applied to direct damage spells twice.
– Fixed the spell description text for the Hovering Ball Familiar

*** AA ***

– Necromancer – Added a passive component to Scent of Terris that improves the resist modifier of all Corruption, Fire, and Magic spells.
– Wizard – Corrected an issue that prevented Acromancy Debuff from triggering when using Acromancy.
– Shaman – Corrected a bug where rank 32 of Malaise was attempting to trigger the best known version of Malosinata rather than Malosenete.

*** Progression Servers ***

– Progression servers that have not launched Underfoot now allow players at level 20 and higher to use the Extended Target Window.
– Lord Yelinak should spawn properly in the open world and Agent of Change instances.
– Restricted the spawns of a few Kunark era dark elves in Kithicor to the unlock of Ruins of Kunark.
– The Emissaries that give out Sun Shard quests should be available and give out their quests as soon as Ayonae Ro has been defeated, and remain until Two Gods has been defeated.

*** Miscellaneous ***

– Many Veil of Alaris and Rain of Fear zones now have load balancing enabled.
– Track now indicates whether your target is above or below you.
– Corrected an issue where you would crash when attempting to convert an augment inside another item.

*** UI ***

– Adjusted the Tribute Master window to allow the description pane to be resized.
– Items with limited charges will now display the remaining number of charges when placed in a Keyring.
– – Hotbuttons made from Keyring items will now display recast time and remaining number of charges.
– Added a message in the chat window when players are invited to an instance.

– Changed –
EQUI_TributeMasterWnd.xml

*** Previously Updated ***

– Defending Knowledge – Fixed a problem that prevented the horn from appearing near Bjerg Sen the Tranquil.
– Addressed an issue that would cause some machines to not be able to login.
– Temporarily, all beings in Gnome Memorial Mountain that have a chance to drop coin will also drop a pod of water.
– Lord Yelinak will now spawn correctly in the Agent of Chance instance.
– Yael will once again appear in the instanced versions of The Ruins of Old Paineel.
– Prince Ralaifin Raid: Made another speculative fix for the ‘Success on aggro’ bug.

– The EverQuest Team

Been spending Weekends with VMalice and gang in Gnome Mountain.  Been having a blast with the quest-line until the second heroic adventure. When entering the south side of the museum we are swamped with at least six to seven MoB’s instantly.  There is not enough DPS in the world to control that many.  Anyone have any thoughts on how to get by them?  I know its doable but can’t figure it out.

Qindaar and Derevaun have been running around EQ a lot lately.  Qindaar a level 110 High Elf Wizard has been mentoring Derevaun a Dark Elf Cleric.  They have successfully leveled Derevaun from a level 85 to a 94 in the past month or so and currently working to achieve 110.

Qindaar has also been hanging with VMalice and gang in Gnome Mountain as of late, doing quests and getting good upgrades.  It is great to be in a zone that is playable and not so hard core as Burning Lands.  We hope to get there soon though.

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Awesome Saturday night!  Vmalice, Qindaar and gang decided to venture into Gnome Mountain.  We took our time on the first quest “The Darkness Howls” and successfully completed it.  Qindaar got himself a new belt out of the deal and that always makes him happy.  Overall the excitement of a new zone that we were capable of completing a task in with just the six of us is always a welcome.  Burning Lands is still too far out of our reach, but we will continue to try.

April 17, 2019
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*** Highlights ***

– There are no longer Progression Server specific spawns in open world zones for Classic, Kunark, Velious, or Luclin bosses. These bosses now spawn at an accelerated rate on all servers, roughly twice the rate that they previously spawned on Live servers. Fabled versions of these NPCs should now work correctly on Progression Servers.
– Added several statless mounts to the Marketplace for progression servers.
– – These new mounts are available for purchase starting with the unlock of Shadows of Luclin and will remain available until Omens of War unlocks, at which point standard Marketplace mounts become available for purchase.
– – These new mounts are equivalent in speed to silk bridles.
– Removed the race specific restrictions on evolving items obtained from The Burning Lands. These evolving items will now gain experience from any experience-giving NPCs slain in The Burning Lands zones and Gnome Memorial Mountain.
– Increased the range that direct-damage and damage-over-time spell messages are reported from 75 feet to 200 feet.

*** Items ***

– Added the correct version of Soothing Breath to Transverse Yaw Stabilizer and Mana Battery Pendant.
– Fate’s Accumulator and Blazing Utopia augments now drop in all The Burning Lands raid zones.
– – The chance for each of these to drop per kill has been reduced.
– Fixed the spelling of Exceptional-Quality Scrap Metal.
– Removed the extraneous quest flag from the book Revenge on the Fallen.
– Added a minimum level to trigger combat activated spells from a handful of weapons and augments that lacked an appropriate required level.
– Added Cleave and Ferocity to The Burning Lands Cleric armor, and Ferocity to Shaman armor.
– Added a chance for NPCs in some The Burning Lands zones to drop Whispering Midnight augments.
– Added the appropriate click spells to The Burning Lands evolving ring and shoulder items that offer rewards.
– Changed the cast proc of Ascending Sun Devotional Staff to Sympathetic Arms of Holy Wrath VI.
– Attached the correct recourse to the Hand/Arms of Holy Wrath VI spells.
– Fixed the roman numeral in the name of Arms of Holy Wrath VI Recourse.
– Minion of Darkness effects will now work on Beastlord warders summoned between levels 56 and 75, when they previously only worked on warders summoned between levels 66 and 75.
– Beastlords can now use the Gloves of Dark Summoning.
– Added Ring of Scale power sources to The Burning Lands rares, and some basepop.

*** Quests And Events ***

– Sixth Anniversary Scavenger Hunt – Fixed a bug that prevented the Collector’s Drachnid Web Sac from dropping from Dreadlands drachnids.
– Bristlebane Events – These events will run for two more weeks in late April this year. The Mischief continues!
– This Ain’t Right – Bristlebane will appear when needed again.
– Danger Zone – Player spells will no longer heal ballistae.
– Danger Zone (Group mission) – It’s again possible to request this task.
– Danger Zone (Group mission) – This task now allows up to 6 characters and mercenaries to participate.
– Dragon in the Works – Changed some of the warnings to use user event colors, and made the dragon immune to knockback effects.
– Dragon in the Works – Added an enrage mechanic. After 30 minutes of fighting, the dragon will grow stronger.
– Mechagnomic Whirlrender – Added an enrage mechanic. After 30 minutes of fighting, new enemies will begin to spawn.
– Mechagnomic Whirlrender – Added logic to prevent the boss from being stuck in the sky.
– Ironing Out the Legion – Allowing the Legendary Clockwork to be activated no longer has a chance to prevent the task from updating. All debuffs on the busy mechanics in the furnace room will be removed when they go back to work.
– Ironing Out the Legion – Added loot to Consul of Cooperation.
– Night at the Museum – Added a delay between when you get the warning that the roboboar is chasing you and the boar slams into you. This should allow you to get away if you are standing next to the boar when you get the warning.
– Night at the Museum – Fixed an issue that could cause the rattling roboboar to kill a seemingly random character when it starts its chase.
– Night at the Museum – Fixed a problem that prevented two of the large gold statues in the museum from respawning after an event reset.
– Trial of Stoning – Fixed a problem that was preventing the pitiless avengers from shooting the accused prisoners during the trial.
– Defending Knowledge – Removed erroneous particles from the zone.
– Unfettered Emerald Excellence – Made the following balance changes to this raid event:
– – Lowered the boss’s regeneration slightly.
– – Increased the damage done to mephits by bane abilities slightly.
– – Increased the amount of time between mephit waves in the final phase of the encounter.
– – Increased the amount of time between armor suit waves in the final phase of the encounter.
– – Decreased the number of mephit spawns per wave in the final phase of the encounter.
– The Mechanical Fortune Teller will now mention the cake-eating challenge if queried for details of 20th Anniversary events.
– Added rewards for the 20th-anniversary challenge and some Gnome Memorial Mountain achievements.

*** Spells ***

– Damage-over-time spells once again display a twincast message when the spell first lands, and no longer reassociate with their caster if they zone or die.
– PvP: Damage shield damage received from attacking players will now deal a maximum of 5% of the attacker’s health per hit. Damage shield damage received from non-player targets is unchanged.
– Beastlord – Ogre Beastlord warders are now a little bit larger by default.
– Ranger – Corrected the name of the Irae Faycite Shard that adds damage to the Hornet Swarm spell.
– Enchanter – Adjusted the stacking of Night’s Endless Terror to better coexist with a number of other abilities.
– Druid – Lowered the required level to cast Zephyr: Lavastorm to 47. Lowered the spell difficulty and price. Moved the scroll from Wanderer Frardok to Wanderer Qenda.
– Reduced the effectiveness of Crippling Snare.

*** NPCs ***

– All racnors are now racnars.
– Added coin to Gnome Memorial Mountain NPCs.
– Tinzenwen Geargoggler has now been given the title ‘Overseer of Repairs’.

*** Mercenaries ***

– Increased some of the statistics of The Burning Lands mercenary items.

*** Progression Servers ***

– Agent of Change instance in Great Divide – The 10th Ring War is now started by handing in the Declaration of War and the Coldain Hero’s Insignia Ring to Sentry Badain in the instance.
– The Blade of the Black Dragon Eye will be available for a brief period starting a few weeks after Ruins of Kunark launches.
– Fabled NPCs are now eligible to spawn in Agent of Change instances.
– Added the appropriate teleportation item to Collectors of Transference in the Nexus and Overthere on Selo.
– Added vendors in Overthere and Firiona Vie that sell melee tomes for disciplines that were previously available in Kunark as commands.
– Updated the dates for Legend of Ykesha unlock to run on the same day as the Planes of Power unlock on Mangler.
– Changed a number of quest items to not drop until the proper expansion has unlocked:
– – Ruined Blackburrow Gnoll Pelt drops have been restricted to the unlock of Planes of Power.
– – Scalded Rat Skin drops have been restricted to the unlock of Gates of Discord. They will now only drop from rats in Dagnor’s Cauldron.
– – Essence of Shadow, Moonlight, Sunlight, and Winter drops have been restricted to the unlock of Shadows of Luclin.
– – Quest drops for Escape to Norrath tasks no longer drop until Dragons of Norrath has unlocked on the server.
– – Many quest items for Planes of Power era newbie quests no longer drop until Planes of Power has unlocked on the server.
– – Removed many Planes of Power era quest items from low level zones.

*** Miscellaneous ***

– Corrected an issue where /nod would cause you to disagree wholeheartedly (/no).
– Players who log in on their character’s birthday will have a rainbow colored name for the day. Updated the /played command to include your age in Norrath.
– Fixed spelling and grammar errors in the 20th Anniversary achievement challenge.
– Fixed an issue with the Rallos Zek Puppet’s name changing back after using a Potion of Familiar’s Amnesia to change its name.

*** UI ***

– Attempting to open the Faction Window while shrouded will no longer cause a client crash.
– If a task rewards a faction change, the Task Window will now correctly link to that faction in your Faction Window.
– Disabled the context menu to move the main chat tab into another chat window.
– Fixed an issue that prevented audio triggers from matching text that contains formatting data such as spell or item links.
– Riposte messages are now reported before their resulting hit damage.
– Added the ability to customize the color that chat windows are highlighted with when displaying a new message.
– Dealing direct-damage with spells now reports the caster as ‘You’ rather than your name.
– Fixed a messaging issue where non-song spells activated by bards would report as the bard ‘singing’ the spell.
– Moved spell reflect messages to the spell failures chat filter.
– Changed a number of places where the name of a spell is displayed in chat to have that name function as a link to the spell description:
– – Spell interrupts, fizzles, and reflect messages now contain the name of the spell that failed.
– – Messages indicating the start of a spell cast now include a link to the spell description.
– – Messages indicating that a spell has worn off now include a link to the spell description.
– – The spell name in damage reporting messages will now function as a link to the spell description.

*** Previously Updated ***

– Fixed an issue that caused the Tsaph Katta Leather Ornaments set to glow neon blue.
– Fixed an issue where characters would fail to create but the name would still appear in use.
– Gnome Memorial Mountain – Removed chance that some items could spawn where characters could not go at the lowest level of the zone.
– Gnome Mountain Raids – Fixed some errors that were preventing travel between the raids.
– Gnome Mountain Raids – NPCs will no longer drop loot that they were not intended to drop. They will also not remain to hold loot between events that they should not.
– Increased the AA experience rate on Selo.

– The EverQuest Team

Qindaar recently, while power leveling Derevaun acquired a nice new dagger.  The Conflagrant Bodkin

Conflagrant Bodkin
MAGIC ITEM ATTUNEABLE
Slot: PRIMARY
Skill: Piercing   Atk Delay: 21
DMG: 143  AC: 172
Effect: Vector of Sickness V
Focus Effect: Sympathetic Perfusion of Plague V
STR: +27 (+16)   DEX: +52   STA: +42 (+19)   CHA: +45 (+21)   WIS: +20   INT: +50 (+53)
AGI: +34 (+16)   HP: +4405   MANA: +4855   Endurance: +4855
SV FIRE: +59   SV DISEASE: +60   SV COLD: +52   SV MAGIC: +55
SV POISON: +56   SV CORRUPTION: +1
Regeneration: +4
Mana regeneration: +6
Clairvoyance: +62
Spell Dmg: +51
Heal Amount: +36
Recommended level of 110
Required level of 106
WT: 4.2   Size: MEDIUM
Class: NEC WIZ MAG ENC
Race: HUM ERU HIE DEF GNM FRG
DRK
Slot type 4:empty
EQ item ID: 152169

It comes in very handy when fighting up close with lower level MoB’s.

Also Vmalice and I continue to try and get the Shield drop form the Bluff Golem.  The

Impervious Guardian’s Buckler

Been a busy few weeks, I decided to try my hand at two boxing and created a level 85 heroic Cleric.  Since creating the toon I have been power leveling him with Qindaar and have him up to level 93.  It has actually been fun and exciting to travel back to older zones as a 110 and explore places that I never dared enter as a level 90.  So it was like an all new experience and a plus was being able to take down named MoB’s solo.

I will post a pic next time around of Derevaun.

March 13, 2019
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*** Highlights ***

– Added tabs to chat windows. See the UI section for more details.
– Look to the Marketplace this month for the Gnomish Heritage Crate. Each crate contains a random item. Trade these Gnomish Heritage items to your friends or collect them all yourself!
– Added new emotes. See Miscellaneous for more information below.
– Updated the appearance of the Gloomingdeep Mines.
– This Saturday the 16th, keep an eye out for brand new progression servers and new content featuring: Gnome Memorial Mountain!

*** Items ***

– Corrected the spell description of Drogan Goblin Familiar.
– The evolving Efreeti Boots and White Satin Gloves will now accept Hero’s Forge ornaments in their evolved state.
– Look to the Marketplace this month for the Gnomish Heritage Crate. Each crate contains a random item. Trade these Gnomish Heritage items to your friends or collect them all yourself!
– Corrected the cast proc on Bloodstaff to the higher damage Sympathetic Blaze of Fire VI.
– Corrected both the proc and cast proc on Deep Cavern’s Shard to the lesser Spike of Corruption VIII.
– As a temporary solution until the core issues with real estate items can be solved we’ve implemented the following functionality for real estate anchors:
– – Activating a Primary Anchor Transport Device or Secondary Anchor Transport Device without possessing the corresponding Anchor item will now give you a replacement Anchor.
– – Druids and wizards whose Guild Hall Anchor has gone missing will be granted a replacement when logging in.

*** Tradeskills ***

– Secret Dawn Mace Muhbis will now return Trillion Cut Elder Mist Diamond and Oval Cut Elder Mist Diamond on failure.

*** Quests And Events ***

– Celestial Fists (Monk Epic) – The spawn in Karnor’s Castle that has a chance to be a drolvarg pawbuster no longer shares an encounter with a drolvarg warlord. The remaining spawns in the room have a higher chance of being a drolvarg warlord.
– Prince Ralaifin (Mission) – A Giant Lapillus Lava Spiderling no longer summons.
– Lost but Not Forgotten – Added an out of character message when speaking to Dismas Kaneriti that indicates that Lost but Not Forgotten is a two group mission.
– Death, Death, Death – This event will be available for four weeks a year now, up from two.
– Unfettered Emerald Excellence – Removed particle effects from Unbearable Heat and Magnificent Presence.
– Fight Fire – Fixed an issue that prevented the Leading a Charmed Life achievement from completing.
– Delivery – The Duende Female Mold is no longer lost upon zoning.
– Defending Knowledge – Fixed a problem that prevented the horn from appearing near Bjerg Sen the Tranquil.

*** Spells ***

– Changed Whispering Midnight Casting Fire, Whispering Midnight Casting Magic, Blazing Euphoria Casting Fire, and Blazing Euphoria Casting Magic to only work with spells that do damage.
– Corrected the spell description for Hand of Holy Wrath VI.
– Corrected a rounding error that caused critical spells to deal one less point of damage/healing than intended.
– Percentage heal spells now display their name in healing messages.

*** AA ***

– Improved the rate that mercenary alternate advancement experience is gained.
– – The mercenary AA experience granted by completing Clayton Teek’s daily bonus tasks has been extended to cover levels 106-110.

*** Progression Servers ***

– Updated the expansion unlock dates for The Broken Mirror and onward to reflect the normal extra time in The Darkened Sea for a level increase expansion.

*** Miscellaneous ***

– The water in Trials of Smoke is now also stocked with Primordial Lion Fish.
– Added the following new emotes: /airlute, /facepalm, /faint, /fight, /fistbump, /freakout, /growl, /maybe, /no, /pie, /pizza, /rps, /ttth, and /yes.
– Fixed a bug when looting items in a raid that would display the number of items remaining on the body rather than the number of items looted.
– Fixed an issue where the event calendar would report that events end 59 minutes later than their actual end time.
– Corrected an issue where melee attacks against slain targets would sometimes report as misses.
– Updated the appearance of the Gloomingdeep Mines.
– Updated various character models to better reflect lighting and detailing.

*** UI ***

– Corrected an issue where DoT damage on players would display the victim’s name instead of the caster’s name.
– Improved the layout of the Marketplace window.
– Direct damage spells caused by a twincast now have a flag at the end of the damage message instead of a separate twincast message. Twincasts of melee abilities are now indicated as twinstrikes.
– Added the option to blink the active chat window when you begin typing.
– Added tabs for chat. All existing chat windows will be put into new tabbed chat windows and will appear where they were placed before.
– – You can move tabs around in the existing windows, or send the tabs to other windows.
– – When using tell windows, by default all of the tells will go into a single tell window in separate tabs instead of opening a new window for each tell.

– Added –
EQUI_ChatContainerWindow.xml

– Changed –
EQUI.xml
EQUI_Animations.xml
EQUI_ChatWindow.xml
EQUI_MarketplaceWnd.xml
EQUI_OptionsWindow.xml

*** Previously Updated ***

– Trials of Smoke – Fixed an issue that prevented looting of the sigils in the Trial of the Speaker’s Amphitheater.
– Spear of Fate – Corrected an issue where Ooglyn would sometimes fail to initiate the Test of Patience.

– The EverQuest Team