Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Game Update Notes - March 13, 2024

https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/game-update-notes-march-13-2024.296788/

 Highlights

  • Starting March 16th, seek out Alta the Frightened in Crescent Reach to start the 25th Anniversary quests!
Items
  • The names, icons, and lore text have been swapped for the Guardian's Girdle and Assaulter's Belt.
  • Type 7 augments available from Miacallie Herlsas in Tides of Time have had stat adjustments where applicable.
  • Fixed an issue that caused Selyrah mounts to disappear and their buffs to misbehave.
Quests & Events
  • Reduced the price of mounts on the anniversary merchant.
Spells
  • Cleric - Increased the damage of ranks 2 and 3 of Unrelenting Hammer of Zeal.
  • Enchanter - Increased the HP and damage of ranks 2 and 3 of Flariton's Animation.
  • Shaman - Increased the HP and damage of all ranks of Suja's Faithful.
  • Shadowknight - Increased the HP and damage of all ranks of Minion of Fandrel.
  • Wizard - Increased the damage of ranks 2 and 3 of Kindleheart's Pyroblade.
  • Wizard - Irae Faycite Shard: Glacial Ice Cascade will now also focus Wildice Cascade XI rather than Rimeclaw Torrent.
  • Monk - Moved all abilities in the Clawstriker's Flurry line of abilities from timer 9 to timer 12.
Mercenaries
  • Fixed a bug where mercenaries suspended after a persona swap would unsuspend after zoning without the mercenary window reflecting the unsuspension.
Progression Servers
  • Modest Illdaera, Elegant Oseka, Stately Ladrys, and Ostentatious Ryken armor are now marked as quest items.
Miscellaneous
  • Doubled the maximum number of allowed players per pickzone for Laurion Inn.
  • Increased the Dragon's Hoard cap to 500.
  • Optimized the processing performance of the client log file to reduce hitching and stuttering.
  • The per-kill Alternate Advancement experience cap is now applied before most server and character-based experience modifiers to be more consistent with leveling experience.
  • Corrected an issue that caused a player's level and class to not get updated in the Guild Window after leaving a monster mission.
  • Made several changes to improve client and zone performance.
  • Refined the tuning of Memory.ini for smoother framerate: Balanced and Most memory modes have pre-loaded textures. Least memory mode has always had deferred texture loading.
  • You will no longer be able to bind in Nagafen's Lair, Permafrost Keep, Kedge Keep, Plane of Sky, and Plane of Fear.

The EverQuest Team

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Darkpaw explains Windows Display Calibration

Many players have complained about EverQuest being too dark after the DirectX 11 upgrade on January 17, 2024. Darkpaw has now created a document explaining how to calibrate the display settings of your Microsoft Windows PC. 

This may (or may not) help your EverQuest gaming.

Read it here.