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