THE IMMEASURABLE MENAGERIE IS LIVE!

Abandoning his laboratory in Everfrost for one unbound by time, realities, and Celestial interference, Miragul, the infamous Master Etherealist, is hopping through time and space, plucking beings and locations from places he visits and weaving them into an intricate and elaborate arena. But for what? Why is he doing this? What is his end goal? He's invited adventures of the highest abilities and experience to see for themselves! You'll find a portal to the Celestial Conveyance and his Immeasurable Menagerie in Splendor Sky Aerie's Sanctuary.

DESTINY OF VELIOUS HAS COME TO VARSOON!

Following the events of Sentinel's Fate, the twin Swords of Destiny, Soulfire and the Qeynos Claymore, have been drained of their powers, setting the stage for the destruction of the EverQuest universe. The prophecy known as Age's End begins to unfold in the legendary continent of Velious, and it's here that the war for Norrath will arise. If there is to be any chance of saving Norrath, the Swords of Destiny must be restored. Varsoon can now use flying mounts!

HOT ZONES

We’ve added Hot Zones too! In case you’re not sure what hot zones are, they are zones which will have bonus rewards for a set time. All hot zones will grant double currency rewards from drops and mission completion in the hot zone, and might grant additional rewards depending on the specific hot zone that will be displayed when you enter the hot zone! Playing in these zones will surely benefit you, so be on the lookout for them!

The current hot zone can be viewed in the zones window (Alt + z by default), and the current Ballads of Zimara hot zone rotation is:

  • Aether Wroughtlands: Ferric Fields [Heroic II]
  • Aether Wroughtlands: Tarnished Oasis [Heroic II]
  • Zimara Breadth: Strungstone Ascent [Heroic II]
  • Darkpaw Warrens [Heroic II]
  • Aether Wroughtlands: Native Mettle [Heroic III]
  • Vaashkaani: Argent Sanctuary [Heroic II]
  • Zimara Breadth: Razing the Razelands [Heroic II]
  • Vaashkaani: Golden Rule [Heroic II]

Ballads of Zimara Heroic II hot zones will grant a new Hot Collection, and the Ballads of Zimara Heroic III will grant bonus Forgotten Bells.

ITEMIZATION

  • Baubles such as petamorph wands that are not attuned when attempted to be used will now pop up the attunement window to attune the item.
  • Updated the descriptive prose on Ready Check to more accurately describe its bonus calculation.
  • Shortbow of the Lake Fisher - Now properly equips in the ranged weapon appearance slot, instead of primary.
  • Valorous Short Bow - Now properly equips in the ranged weapon appearance slot, instead of primary.
  • Divine Exemplar's Plate Boots and Mighty Soldier's Sabatons now use the proper icons.
  • Frostfell Flame Andiron - House item will now automatically restart the flames you last chose to activate.
  • The adornments Aura of the Terranai: Cloak, and Aura of the Terranai: Waist are may now be equipped by all classes.
  • Corrected an issue that prevented many expendables from being auto-consumed when they had a use restriction, even if that use restriction was passed.
  • Adornments will no longer display the accolade slot as an acceptable slot.
  • Addons will no longer display the accolade slot as an acceptable slot.
  • Updated the icon for Boil Burster.
  • Familiars may now be summoned on Time-Locked servers as visual pets, but will not grant any statistic bonuses.

ABILITIES

  • Familiar, Mercenary, and Mount infusions have been restricted to no longer work on Time-Locked servers.
  • Beastlord
    • Corrected an issue that caused Animalistic Intent to cost more power then listed.
  • Channeler
    • Summon Construct will no longer cancel when an encounter triggers a party wipe due to a failed fight script.

QUESTS

  • Kunark Ascending: Resurrection Machination
    • In Charasis: Maiden's Chamber (Agnostic), attempting to loot Drusella's corpse while she is still playing her death animation should no longer interfere with spawning the bones necessary for the quest.

LIVE EVENTS

  • Mounts can now be used in Kamp Krulkiel & Mines of Meldrath.

ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Ballads of Zimara: Flawless Execution has been renamed to Ballads of Zimara: Supremacy.

HOUSING AND GUILD HALLS

  • The five precocious Year of Darkpaw pup plushies that did not want to be "crated" in the house item depot can now be stored within: Black French Bulldog Plushie, Loyal Protector, Piebald French Bulldog Plushie, Wirehaired Retriever Plushie, and Tan Frenchie Plushie.

SERVICES

  • Huuvadri, the bartender in Splendor Sky Aerie's Sanctuary, has expanded his selection of drinks.

USER INTERFACE

  • Main Chat Window
    • Added slider to increase input text size up to 36.
    • User Interface -> Chat Window -> Input Font Size

ZONES AND POPULATION

  • Sundered Frontier
    • Adeela, of the Craftkeepers, should no longer be tempted to wander into nearby Paineel structures.
    • An infused deposit of ore should no longer have the possibility of spawning underground near the tox flies and bruisers.
  • Ballads of Zimara Hot zones will drop consumable buffs for use in the Immeasurable Menagerie.

ABILITIES - ORIGINS

  • Summoner pet abilities now process as player abilities instead of NPC abilities.

GENERAL - ORIGINS

  • Collections now go through the group options looting method on looting.

QUESTS - ORIGINS

  • Corrected an issue that prevented Of Spars and Sails and ... from being progressed with Dajor Botswein.
  • Re-positioned several reports for Reports from the Borderland so that they can be collected.

ITEMIZATION - ORIGINS

  • Weapon delays that had decimals into the hundredths (or in one case, more!) places have now been rounded down to the tenths place.
  • Corrected an issue an issue that set prices on items that crafted at multiple items per combine too high.
  • Updated all non-pristine items to follow the crafted item valuation based on the the cost of the fuels it takes to craft the item rules.

ZONES AND POPULATION - ORIGINS

  • Corrected an issue that prevented most NPC's from inheriting their level and tier resist multiplier. Encounters level 40 and higher will now correctly inherit resists. Level 39 and below encounters have been left unchanged.
  • Nagalik Dredactikal may now only spawn in the first instance of Solusek's Eye.

PREVIOUSLY UPDATED

  • ZONES AND POPULATION - ORIGINS
    • Corrected an issue that caused several encounters in permafrost to set their drop treasure chance down from 100% to 1%. This update was pushed to Anashti Sul on August 19th.