Patch Notes - Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Here are the patch notes for Wednesday, June 17th update:


*** Highlights ***

  • Fixed an issue where a player could crash after logging back into a load-balanced zone (/pickzone) or gating to a point in a load-balanced zone when that particular instance had closed.
  • Corrected an issue causing players entering mission instances of some zones to be teleported to the non-instanced versions.
  • Fixed an issue regarding binding in a load-balanced zone; you should now properly be sent to an available zone when gating or returning to your bind point.
  • Fixed an issue with the leave on corpse option in the manage loot window that could cause crashes.
  • All Noble Exchange merchants can now be used to send or receive parcels. These merchants are available in every starting city, the Plane of Knowledge, the Bazaar, and other zones throughout Norrath.

*** Items ***

  • Bard - Reduced the casting time of the Arpeggio spells on certain breastplates from 0.3s to instant.

*** Quests & Events ***

  • Arx Mentis raids - Glowing Essences of the Citadel now have a small chance to drop in Tier 2 Arx Mentis raids and drop more commonly from Calix Quirinus.
  • All Arx Mentis progression raids - Now drop exactly six Essences of the Citadel rather than between four and eight.
  • Anniversary - The 5th-13th Anniversary events have been extended to run until July 15th.
  • Heritage - The Crushbone and Permafrost Hardcore Heritage events have been extended by a week and will now end on 7/1.

*** Spells ***

  • Buffs with limited charges that are consumed when their focus effect is applied now continue to apply their remaining effects until the spell that was focused by that buff is finished resolving. This corrects a problem where the critical chance portion of spells (like Chromatic Haze and Frenzied Devastation) was never applied during the buff's final charge, because the buff was removed after the focus effect was applied but before the critical chance modifier was checked.

*** NPC ***

  • All Noble Exchange merchants can now be used to send or receive parcels. These merchants are available in every starting city, the Plane of Knowledge, the Bazaar, and other zones throughout Norrath.
  • Added factions to many NPCs in newbie zones that did not have them before, causing guards to hate them once again.

*** AA ***

  • Bard - Restored the doppelganger effect and removed the shadowstep component on the AA line "Lyrical Prankster".
  • Beastlord - Corrected a bug with ranks 4-6 of the AA line "Nature's Salve" that caused them to cast the spell associated to rank 3 of the ability. Ranks 4-6 should now increase in power and trigger the effect on your warder as originally intended.
  • Rogue - Corrected an issue that caused rank 6 of AA Extended Envenomed Blades to not function.
  • Rogue - Corrected an issue that prevented all ranks of the AA Enduring Vision from working.
  • Wizard - Arcane Fusion no longer deals damage to non-NPC targets. This should ensure that wizards who fail their Bucolic Gambit are slightly less likely to annihilate themselves.
  • Corrected a typo in the description of the buff cast by the AA "Glyph of the Cataclysm".
  • Corrected several inconsistencies with the casting level of AA abilities.

*** Progression Servers ***

  • Restored the spell merchant Gadallion to the Southern Desert of Ro in all eras.
  • The Wizard spell Rend is now available on Progression Servers in all eras.
  • The Potion of Companion's Amnesia is now available for purchase in the marketplace on all Progression Servers.
  • "an old froglok" in Upper Guk no longer spawns on Progression Servers until the Planes of Power expansion is unlocked.
  • Luminescent Weapon Grade Ore is no longer be available for purchase on Progression Servers until Rain of Fear has unlocked.
  • Some cookie molds that were not available at launch are no longer available on Progression Servers.
  • Recipes that call for Thalium Ore are no longer visible on Progression Servers until Dragons of Norrath.

*** Miscellaneous ***

  • Steamfont Mountains will now correctly use load balancing as intended.
  • Corrected an oversight that prevented players that were created on the Vox server from being able to select the suffix "of Vox".

*** UI ***

  • There is now a chat message of how much time you have before you can run /pickzone again, if you have a timer remaining.
  • You now get a message in chat with what instance you are in when you run /pickzone in a load-balanced zone. This will only appear when it is possible for the window to open, meaning any circumstance where /pickzone won't function (such as combat) will prevent this message from appearing.

- Changed -

*** Previously Updated ***

  • Fixed the Deepwater Harpoon quest. Returned the missing sentries to West Freeport, and Sentry Xyrin will again attack the nearby spectres on the island when inspired to do so.

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Railus is gone!
# Jun 18 2015 at 9:11 PM Rating: Good
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Railus did all the updates and he is gone. He posted goodbye letter a while ago.
Sign of life.
# Jun 18 2015 at 11:06 AM Rating: Decent
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Any sign of life is a good sign. Thank you Cyliena
Happy To see you
# Jun 17 2015 at 5:04 PM Rating: Good
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glad to see you are here still :)
Happy To see you
# Jun 17 2015 at 5:04 PM Rating: Decent
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glad to see you are here still :)
Thank you Cyliena
# Jun 17 2015 at 4:40 PM Rating: Excellent
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I suspect this is just Cyliena trying to be nice while she still has access to the site. There are still no updates and no one has responded to our questions, either here, or on the zam site or via twitter or facebook.

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Are You Guys Officially Back?
# Jun 17 2015 at 11:37 AM Rating: Decent
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...I hope so. :)
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# Jun 17 2015 at 10:33 AM Rating: Good
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YAY you guys are still around!
On behalf of all of us that use your site, WE MISSED YOU!!!
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# Jun 17 2015 at 11:19 AM Rating: Decent
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Not to be cynical or anything but these are simply patch notes, lifted word for word from Everquest's web site --

https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/game-update-notes-june-17-2015.223797/

Nothing new or updated like for example, the May 23rd update.
YAY
# Jun 17 2015 at 11:44 AM Rating: Excellent
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Mugsynj wrote:
Not to be cynical or anything but these are simply patch notes, lifted word for word from Everquest's web site --

https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/game-update-notes-june-17-2015.223797/

Nothing new or updated like for example, the May 23rd update.



maybe people dont go to the daybreak website they just come here for info on EQ.
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# Jun 17 2015 at 12:43 PM Rating: Good
I think the point is that its just a news article, not a database update. EQ database info has been static for weeks now.
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