Thursday, October 17, 2002
Congrats Naillin got his EPIC - Nature Walkers Scimitar Wow- our first druid epic. Everyday this guild continues to amaze me.
Patch Message 10/16/02 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- October 16, 2002 3:00 am ------------------------------ ** Odd New Objects in the Land ** Folks across Norrath and on Luclin have reported seeing odd new objects in various locations. They appear to be some sort of magical portal, though local spell casters have yet to discover how they arrived or exactly what their purpose is. They have determined, however, that these objects are slowly building in power. Attempting to use these portals at this time can have unexpected results. Experts recommend that adventurers avoid these objects until they know more. For more information on these odd devices, visit www.planesofpower.com ** Important Notice Regarding Alternate Advancement Reimbursement ** Due to the changes made to Manaburn, Rods of Mystical Transvergence and a previous change to Innate Regeneration, we are reimbursing several Alternate Advancement (AA) abilities. Once you log in today, if you have any of these abilities, please check your AA window immediately! If you have more than 30 unspent points, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT that you make certain that your character has 30 or fewer AA points before The Planes of Power launches on October 21st! The return of these AA points may put your total number of unspent points over the 30 point maximum. Your pool will be reduced to 30 the first time you log in after the launch of Planes of Power on October 21st. We will be refunding all Alternate Advancement points in the following abilities: Innate Regeneration Refunded Alternate Advancement points may be spent in any way you choose. None of these abilities is being removed, and of them only Manaburn is changing. NOTE: Cannibalization, Gather Mana, and Mind and Body Rejuvenation will not function if you do not have the necessary prerequisite, Mental Clarity 3. ** Alternate Advancement ** - Mana Burn can be cast on any given target only once every minute ** Defensive Changes ** - Decreased a monk's ability to mitigate damage (please see the Developer's Update on www.everquestlive.com for more details) ** Spells ** - Complete Healing will now heal a maximum of 7,500 hit points - Fufil's Curtailing Chant should now stack with Occlusion of Sound ** Interface ** - New Alarm feature added. When you first log in you will see a pop up asking if you wish to set an alarm and if so for how long. There is also an option to choose to never see that pop up again. If you choose this option you will need to set ShowAlarmWindow=TRUE in your eqclient.ini file in order to see the pop up again. The alarm will trigger after the time you set has elapsed, no matter what character you are playing on whatever server, up until the moment you log out. ** Beastlords ** In order to allow us to better tune warders, we have made changes to the way that these pets work. Previously a Beastlord would summon a pet using an ability button and then use level-appropriate buff spells to increase the pet's level. Because of the way this mechanic works, it was very difficult to tune these pets. Hopefully this will have the side benefit of making things a little easier on Beastlords by reducing the number of steps required to cast the pet. Beastlords will now summon their pets using spells rather than an ability. The series of spells that was previously used to buff the pets will now simply summon the appropriate pet. Unfortunately, these pets will no longer zone with the Beastlord, and will need to be resummoned (instead of rebuffed) after zoning. We have made some adjustments to these pets already. - Added the casting time reduction that is already in place for Paladins, Rangers and Shadowknights to Beastlords ** Items ** - Merchants now highly value the Staff of Forbidden Rites and will only sell them at an extremely high price. ** Trade Skills ** - Made it slightly easier to get skill increases while doing Tailoring, Tinkering, Smithing, Baking, Brewing and Alchemy. Made it slightly more difficult to get skill increases with Pottery and Fletching ** Miscellaneous ** - Player Character corpses with no items will decay in 3 real life hours, not 7 days - Fixed a bug that was causing Lay Hands to not heal enough damage ** List of UI files updated or added with this patch ** UPDATED EQUI.xml NEW FILES EQUI_LoadskinWnd.xml ** Fan Faire ** Greetings Norrathians! The portal to the San Francisco Fan Faire has been updated to include a full schedule, forums, hotel information and more. Registration is still open but the reservations are going fast. If wish to join the fun, teleport over to: everquest.station.sony.com/fanfaire/ to reserve your spot and see what's new! Those of you who have already registered, we'll see you on the weekend of November 8th in San Francisco! |
