Been a Busy Few Weeks in EQ

With the release of the new expansion, Vmalice, Qindaar and the gang of seven have been spending time collecting our Tiet 1 armor for the new expansion.  Derevaun is almost complete while Qindaar lags behind a bit.  Vmailice has been a huge help in scoping out where we should camp in advance.

While not adventuring with the gang, Qindaar continues working the hunters quests.  Slowly he completes them.  He is currently stuck in North Desert Ro camping the very illusive Dunedigger.  He spawns in game time once every two years, so you can see he is quite impossible to get.  This is the same dilemma he faced in Jaggedpines trying to get the very rare black leapord.

Going to take a break from the hunters quests to work on the new anniversary quests and see where that leads https://edsogolow.com/2024/01/18/1791/everquest/

Have fun gamming!

Alpha Testing has begun on Pantheon, Rise of the Fallen

I am excited to be testing the alpha release of Pantheon.  I have spent about two hours so far exploring the world with just some minor graphics issues like tree branches in homes, running down hill and the grass is above me and one spot where I was on grass and next under water.  Overall the game is smooth, and graphics are good.

Because of th NDA I can’t get more detailed.  Looking forward to this games release.

Alpha Launch – Finally

Great News!  I received my email last night inviting me to the Alpha Testing program for Pantheon, Rise of the Fallen.  It had been many years since I had pledged on the production of this game.  At times we all thought it was never going to happen, but at least there is testing going on.

Do to the Cone of Silence, I will not be publishing a lot about how it is going, but I will keep you all updated on what I can talk about.

Game Updates for December 12, 2023

December 12, 2023
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*** Items ***

– Added the proper armor class value to the Aura of Preservation XVI tribute benefit.
– Laurion Inn Voucher and Shalowain’s Private Reserve alternate currencies now have description text.

*** Quests & Events ***

– Corrected an issue that caused monster missions, such as those offered by Old Man McKenzie, to check the minimum level incorrectly.
– Updated the Calendar events for Laurion’s Song raids with correct descriptions.

*** Spells ***

– Faycite shards for many Laurion’s Song abilities are available from Lauren Festule, Victor Pedalfoot, and Charice Malfor, who can be found on the second floor of the Laurion Inn.

*** AA ***

– Rogue – Adjusted the Class AA, Anatomy, ranks 37-40, to correctly target enemies at least 1 level lower than the required level of the AA.

*** Miscellaneous ***

– Laurion’s Song zones will now spawn pick zones when appropriate.
– Corrected an issue with the Legacy Character experience bonus not applying to alternate advancement experience.

– The EverQuest Team

Game Updates for December 5, 2023, Release of New Expansion Laurion’s Song

December 5, 2023
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*** Laurion’s Song ***
Welcome to EverQuest: Laurion’s Song, the 30th expansion for EverQuest!
A door appears in the Plane of Tranquility, and the heroes of Norrath walk through to find a warm and cozy-looking building. Light from the windows illuminates a clearing in a forest. Music and voices as well as the tantalizing smell of cooking meat and mead drift on the air. The inn’s presence invites adventurers to rest and revel after exhausting and dangerous exploits. Welcome to the Realm of Heroes, the place where the greatest heroes go when their adventures are over. Can you discover what the mystery is that lies under the façade of comfort and revelry?
– Reach the new maximum level of 125!
– Learn new spells, combat abilities, and alternate abilities.
– Find new items and learn new tradeskill recipes.
– Explore seven new zones.
– Participate in new raids and quests.
– Complete new achievements.
– Swap to another class while retaining your name, inventory and much more with with Alternate Personas. See details below.
– To start, enter into Laurion Inn through a new door in the Plane of Tranquility.

*** AA ***

– Paladin – Blessing of Light – Increased the min/max damage bonus granted to the Divine Might spell line at rank 26 to 775% and 825%, and at rank 27 to 800% and 850% – also increased the damage bonus granted to Blunted Strike at rank 27 to 90%.

*** Miscellaneous ***

– Alternate Personas
— Swap to another class while retaining your name, inventory, and much more with Alternate Personas.
— An Alternate Persona gives your character the opportunity to play as though you are a different class from within the same character.
— To create a persona, use the Persona tab of the Inventory Window.
— Details can be found in the tip window, accessible by clicking on the list of Persona classes.
– Speculative fix for client crashes caused by having multiple corpses in a zone along with the living player.
– Fixed a bug where players would be stuck with an invalid expedition invitation if the expedition was canceled before they responded to the invitation.
– Corrected an issue where progressive disciplines such as Ecliptic Rage would not work from the /discipline command when given the ability name. For example “/disc Ecliptic Rage” would not work.
– Reduced pet combat lag due to spell casting and weapon procs.
– Increased the maximum level cap to 125.

*** UI ***

– Separated “Other” chat filter into multiple channels based on color of the message.

– Changed –
EQUI_Animations.xml
EQUI_Inventory.xml
InventoryWindow.html

– Added –
InventoryWindowPersonas.html

– The EverQuest Team

EverQuest Updates for November 15, 2023

November 15, 2023
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*** Tradeskills ***

– The recipe for Song: Pests of the Piper Rk. II should now make much more sense.

*** Quests & Events ***

– Fixed a bug where rewards from shroud missions wouldn’t display properly and were unable to be selected.

*** AA ***

– Added an additional rank of Disruptive Persecution to the Terror of Luclin AAs, available at level 120, that procs Knight’s Yaulp VI.

*** Overseer ***

– Optimized UX for starting quests and improved performance.

*** Miscellaneous ***

– Updated /camp to accept the ‘fast’ parameter which allows camping immediately in zones that allow fast camping. This can be used in conjunction with existing parameters.
– The /follow command will no longer consider player corpses as potential targets when a name is provided.

*** UI ***

– Adjusted the color of the health bar in the Target of Target window and the window’s default position.
– Windows using the new UI engine can no longer be resized if they are locked.
– Fixed a bug where duplicate buffs would always display the last caster as the caster of the buff.
– Created a new chat filter for Raid Victory Messages to reduce system messages spam.
– Converted the Casting Window to the new UI.
– Added commas to the display of guild tribute amount.
– Fixed an issue where the Respawn Window could become unresponsive.

– Added –
CastingWindow.html

– Changed –
EQUI_TributeBenefitWnd.xml
EQUI_TributeMasterWnd.xml
TargetOfTargetWindow.html
index.html
main.css

– The EverQuest Team

Qindaar Gives Up!

Qindaar has spent almost three months in Jaggedpines and has decided to move on.  After about two months of trying to get Fiercewind to spawn he is giving up and moving on to try again some other day.  Qindaar hates that this is the last MoB he needs to complete the Hunters Quest for Jaggedpines but boredom has set in along with frustration.  It is time to move on!

Qindaar experienced this once in the Field of Bones and moved oin there as well but came back after accomplishing other tasks.  He will do the same here.

Happy Hunting!