Triple Station Cash on 4/28/12 Only

From EverQuest - Community News:

Get TRIPLE Station Cash for 24 hours only!

Hurry! This offer ends at midnight!

*Valid from 12:00AM PDT 4/28/2012 through 12:00AM PDT 4/29/2012. Excludes purchases of SC made by SMS.

EQ Coming Down the Entire Day on Monday, April 23, 2012

From EQ Community News:

Maintenance Notice: Monday, April 23, 2012 – 24 Hours!

Important: We will perform maintenance beginning at 12:01AM Pacific* on April 23, 2012. This will impact the following services:

• Login for our games WILL be affected from 12:01 AM Pacific* to approximately 11:59 PM Pacific*
• Commerce transactions, including purchases on our websites and in-game marketplaces will be unavailable between from 12:01 AM Pacific* to approximately 11:59 PM Pacific*
• Account management will be unavailable starting 12:01 AM to approximately 11:59 PM Pacific*
• All Games will be unavailable starting 12:01 AM to approximately 11:59 PM Pacific*

We apologize for this interruption and will resume all affected services as soon as the maintenance is completed.

*Convert to your local time

"Emergency" Patch Scheduled Thursday, April 12, 2012

From the SOE forum:

All EverQuest Live Servers will be down on Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 5:00 am US Pacific* for a Game Update. The servers are estimated to be unavailable for approximately 3 hours. Keep an eye on the EQ Players website and the forums for status updates and for news if additional downtime is needed.

*Time Zone Converter

Although no reason was announced for the patch and it doesn't state it is an "emergency" patch, it is believed that the reason for it is to fix the "Worn" Focus Effects bug and other problems.

"Worn" Focus Effects Broken

It appears that items with an effect that contain the word "Worn" in them are not working after the latest patch.   An example would be arm armor with, "Effect: Cleave IX - 05 (Worn, Casting Time: Instant)".  This affects everyone, but melee classes seem to have the greatest loss of power.

It is assumed that this bug crept in when SOE removed the necessity to equip most clicky items in order to click them.

More on the issue can be found on the SOE forum here , here and here.    No word yet on when it will be fixed.