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Nepabrite
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Register: 11/20/11
Posted: 4/12/12, 5:38 PM

Magelo Sync has been patched!

Today, all Everquest servers went offline for a game update. Below, we have posted the patch notes as found on the Everquest Community Website:

Highlights

  • Destrea Kinmare in the The Plane of Knowledge needs your help to stop the cruel experimentation that is underway within The Hatchery. Completing this mission provides a health and mana boost to the Dragonscale Skystrider Mount, which can be purchased in the Marketplace.
  • Modified the functionality of prestige items so that armor or weapons with prestige augments inserted do not become prestige.
  • Made numerous changes to Tier 3 and Tier 4 Veil of Alaris raids.
  • Most items with activated spell effects can now be triggered from within your inventory.
  • Maxed tradeskill trophies now produce a 24 slot tradeskill component bag in addition to the 12 slot general carry-all.
  • You can now create an Extraplanar Trade Satchel using Extraplanar Silk.
  • Reduced the number of players required to experience several older raid events.
  • Secalna Galnor can now send you to the tutorial if you are level 10 or lower.
  • Corrected an issue where players who had completed non-repeatable tasks in the past were not receiving achievement credit. This should clear up many issues where players were unable to complete the Hero's Journey meta-achievements.
  • You can now ask Arias to send you to a different instance of the second Tutorial zone, if the initial instance is too full and another one is available. Just tell him that you [wish] to go.

Items

  • Nearly all items that previously needed to be equipped in order to activate their spell effect should now be useable from your inventory if you are capable of equipping that item. These changes intentionally exclude a number of quest and bane items.
  • Rod of Alsa Thel can now be placed in your bank.
  • Midnight Veil can no longer be stored in banks or real estates.
  • Woodwind Finesse I effect on the Twisted Reed Flute will no longer affect PBAE songs.

Tradeskills

  • Maxed tradeskill trophies now produce a 24 slot tradeskill component bag in addition to the 12 slot general carry-all.
  • You can now find Extraplanar Silk in Veil of Alaris and House of Thule zones. To find instructions on how to use it to craft an Extraplanar Trade Satchel, visit Bookseller Shoden in Argath or Sherin Matrick in the The Plane of Knowledge.
  • Looted cultural crafting components now have small coin and tribute values.
  • Added a coin or tribute value to many looted poison and jewelry tradeskilling components.

Quests & Events

General
  • Destrea Kinmare in the The Plane of Knowledge needs your help to stop the cruel experimentation that is underway within The Hatchery. Completing this mission provides a health and mana boost to the Stone Shield, which can be purchased in the Marketplace.
  • The number of players required for the following events has been reduced from 18 to 6: Proving Grounds raid trials, and Erdna the Sleeping Giant in The Steppes.
  • Quests granting reward sets that offer faction gains will now adjust opposing factions accordingly.


13th Anniversary
  • Removed the option for 1 AA point as a reward. The quests now grant a small amount of experience upon completion.
  • Lowered the re-use time of the mining pick used in "Responsible Mining".
  • Corrected a few issues with "Ferocious Feralings" and "Rumor Has It...".
  • Added an achievement related to the missions.
  • The AA reward has been increased to 5 AA points, but may now only be selected once.
  • 13th Anniversary raid rewards - Players who have already completed the raid should be granted a reward set via their raid achievement. The reward set allows you to select either augmentation that drops from the event. This choice is only granted once. Subsequent victories will allow you to choose between receiving factions or experience.

Cacophony of Power raid
  • Decreased the mana drain on Dissonance of Depletion.

Fumerak the Quintessence raid
  • Fixed a number of bugs, reduced the damage output of Fumerak and its adds, and improved the messaging.

Order of Three raid
  • Removed an unnamed exploit.
  • Decreased the melee damage of all three main bosses.
  • The long-term debuffs (Life Enhancing Light, Coat of Oilflowers, Song for the Sea, and Coat of Roiling Water) no longer prevent out of combat regen.
  • Reduced the radius of Bonds of Guilt and changed the spell's effect from a long snare to a short stun.

The Triune God raid
  • Prevented the Blinding Lights from moving in a cluster and affecting avatar pathing.
  • Reduced the sphere of influence sizes for Blinding Lights, Filth Clouds, and personal charm effects. Blinding Lights no longer has a knockback component, and its damage has been reduced.
  • In the first phase, now only 4 of 8 crystal shards need to be destroyed. You also can damage the Triunity for up to 10% of its health, instead of 5%, on each vulnerability window.
  • Charmed avatars will now stay focused on attacking crystal shards.
  • In the second phase, the HP of crystal relics has been reduced by 30%, and their vulnerability window has lengthened.
  • A checkpoint has been added after the second phase.
  • The length of time between several emotes and their consequences has been increased.

Time and Tides raid
  • Lowered the initial DPS of High Priests within the raid.
  • Those who are currently on top of a High Priest’s hate list should no longer receive a whirlpool emote.
  • Increased the amount of time characters have to respond to the whirlpool emote.
  • Decreased the radius of the whirlpool effect.

Two Sides of the Stone raid
  • Significantly lowered the amount of HP Vision or Decay will heal when a condition is "failed".
  • Characters who are dead and unable to follow the "jump" emote will no longer trigger the fail condition.
  • Characters now have a little more time to execute their "jumps" and remove "filth".

Unearthing Alra raid
  • Clarified the effect of each tower.
  • Made a number of changes to the messaging to better explain some previously ambiguous mechanics.

Raids
  • The number of players needed to start the following raids has been reduced to 6: Ancient Heroes - Lady Vox, Ancient Heroes - Lord Nagafen, Big Bynn's Return, Crazok Moonfang, Fippy's Revenge, Ralkor's Crystals, The Fanged Moon, and The Soulbleeder Must Bleed.
  • Reduced from 4 to 1 the number of players required to be at each altar in the "exiles" portion of the Inktu'Ta, the Unmasked Chapel raid.

Spells

Enchanter
Magician
  • Exigent Minion and Exigent Servants have discovered a new ability that will only work against certain strong raid targets.

NPC

  • Fixxin Followig is in a great mood due to the 13th anniversary and will be more likely to chat with folks that he normally does not like.
  • Geniveve, the Tribute Master in Crescent Reach, will now accept the tribute of any race, not just Drakkins.
  • Laurentiu and Marilena in Goru`kar Mesa are more willing to accept the help of higher level adventurers undertaking the Hero's Journey.
  • Secalna Galnor can now send you to the tutorial if you are level 10 or lower.
  • Corrected an issue where Cook Idriak was not accepting the Ripe Bixie Head for his task "Heads Above the Rest".

AA

  • Enchanter - Mesmerization Mastery is now restricted to single-target mez spells only. Area-of-effect spells are not extended.

Achievements

  • To complete the "7th Anniversary Tasks" achievement, you now only need to finish one of the three tasks.
  • Added a list of tasks to the Alaran Language Master achievement that shows the language points for the completion of various task groups.
  • Corrected an issue where players who had completed non-repeatable tasks in the past were not receiving achievement credit. This should clear up many issues where players were unable to complete the Hero's Journey meta-achievements.

Progression Servers


Mercenaries

  • Bloodbone Skeleton tank mercenaries will now keep the attention of their targets as reliably as other mercenaries.
  • The following caster DPS mercenaries now cast at the same speed and generate the same amount of hate as other mercenaries - Amygdalan, Aviak, Bloodbone Skeleton, Dragorn, Gingerbread Man, Girplan, Hadal, Marionette, Rallosian Ork, Sarnak, and Swinetor.

Miscellaneous

  • Added two small signs in the Guild Lobby to signify which door will take you to a standard guild hall and which door will take you to a real estate guild hall.
  • You can now ask Arias to send you to a different instance of the second Tutorial zone, if the initial instance is too full and another one is available. Just tell him that you [wish] to go.
  • Made it so that members that do not have access to prestige items will no longer be able to insert a prestige augmentation into an item.
  • Modified the functionality of prestige items so that armor or weapons with prestige augments inserted do not become prestige.
    • The item slot now appears purple when an item has an augment that is prestige (but the item itself is still enabled).
    • When examining the item, the item name will appear purple, and any augments that are disabled as a result of being prestige appear red.
    • If the item itself is prestige, and disabled as a result, then prestige augments are factored into the item display stats.
    • If the item itself is not prestige, then disabled prestige augments are not factored into the item display stats.

UI

  • Made it so that every UI window will have the "Help" option in its right click menu.
  • Fixed an oversight where the "Style_Qmarkbox" didn't actually make the window display its "?" in the title bar. Now it will.
  • Converted all the locations from defining the visibility of the "?" in code to the XML file instead.
  • Added the "DecalSize" and "Location" properties to the ListboxColumn UI type. This allows custom UI designers to specify the size and positioning of graphical elements within list boxes. This has been implemented in the EQUI_MarketplaceWnd.xml for an example.

Changed

  • EQUI_AAWindow.xml
  • EQUI_AdventureLeaderboardWnd.xml
  • EQUI_AdventureRequestWnd.xml
  • EQUI_AdventureStatsWnd.xml
  • EQUI_AlertHistoryWnd.xml
  • EQUI_AltStorageWnd.xml
  • EQUI_AudioTriggersWindow.xml
  • EQUI_BandolierWnd.xml
  • EQUI_BankWnd.xml
  • EQUI_BarterMerchantWnd.xml
  • EQUI_BarterSearchWnd.xml
  • EQUI_BarterWnd.xml
  • EQUI_BigBankWnd.xml
  • EQUI_BodyTintWnd.xml
  • EQUI_ClaimWnd.xml
  • EQUI_CombatAbilityWnd.xml
  • EQUI_DynamicZoneWnd.xml
  • EQUI_FellowshipWnd.xml
  • EQUI_FriendsWnd.xml
  • EQUI_GiveWnd.xml
  • EQUI_GuildBankWnd.xml
  • EQUI_GuildManagementWnd.xml
  • EQUI_HotButtonWnd.xml
  • EQUI_Inventory.xml
  • EQUI_ItemExpTransferWnd.xml
  • EQUI_JournalNPCWnd.xml
  • EQUI_LeadershipWnd.xml
  • EQUI_LFGuildWnd.xml
  • EQUI_LootWnd.xml
  • EQUI_MailAddressBookWindow.xml
  • EQUI_MailCompositionWindow.xml
  • EQUI_MailWindow.xml
  • EQUI_MarketplaceWnd.xml
  • EQUI_MerchantWnd.xml
  • EQUI_NewPointMerchantWnd.xml
  • EQUI_PetInfoWindow.xml
  • EQUI_PlayerCustomizationWnd.xml
  • EQUI_PointMerchantWnd.xml
  • EQUI_PotionBeltWnd.xml
  • EQUI_PvPLeaderboardWnd.xml
  • EQUI_PvPStatsWnd.xml
  • EQUI_QuantityWnd.xml
  • EQUI_RaidWindow.xml
  • EQUI_RealEstateItemsWnd.xml
  • EQUI_RealEstateLayoutDetailsWnd.xml
  • EQUI_RealEstateManageWnd.xml
  • EQUI_RealEstateNeighborhoodWnd.xml
  • EQUI_RealEstatePlotSearchWnd.xml
  • EQUI_RealEstatePurchaseWnd.xml
  • EQUI_SendMoneyWnd.xml
  • EQUI_SkillsWindow.xml
  • EQUI_SpellBookWnd.xml
  • EQUI_StoryWnd.xml
  • EQUI_TaskSelectWnd.xml
  • EQUI_TaskTemplateSelectWnd.xml
  • EQUI_TaskWnd.xml
  • EQUI_TitleWnd.xml
  • EQUI_TradeskillWnd.xml
  • EQUI_TradeWnd.xml
  • EQUI_TrainWindow.xml
  • EQUI_TributeBenefitWnd.xml
  • EQUI_TributeMasterWnd.xml
  • EQUI_TributeTrophyWnd.xml
  • EQUI_VoiceMacroWnd.xml
  • EQUI_VoteResultsWnd.xml
  • EQUI_VoteWnd.xml
  • EQUI_ZoneGuideWnd.xml
  • EQUI_ZonePathWnd.xml
  • SIDL.xml

Previously Updated

  • Corrected an issue that could prevent players from requesting Bobo Gleemaker's mission 'This Ain't Right'.



Jelan
Admin

Nbr post: 11375
Register: 5/4/01
Posted: 4/14/12, 2:29 AM

Completely forgot to mention that Magelo Sync has been patched about 8hours ago to work with the latest EQ game client. Have a great WE everyone !