Here's what Darkpaw updated today.

Source

Highlights

• A new heritage crate, the Rallos Zek Heritage Crate, is available in the Marketplace.
• Added missions to the 26th anniversary content.

Items

• Added a slight chance for NPCs level 30 or greater in Echo Caverns to drop Spell: Remove Curse.
• "Adopted" metamorph items from crates are now Heirloom.
• Jade-Tinted Spectacles can now be converted into an augmentation version and back again.
• Added new icons for Inert Engrams and Energized Engrams that indicate the level of abilities they award.
• The Fellowship Registration Insignia will now reset its timer if it is in your Teleportation Key Ring and your teleport fails.
• Items that are not equip-able by the character, indicated by a yellow equipment slot, no longer modify the character's stats.
• Dragon's Hoard items should now go with you in a server transfer.
• Renamed Shard of Dark Matter to differentiate the items.

Tradeskills

• Recipes for Voidstone Infused Fish Scales will no longer return the source fish on failure.

Quests & Events

• The High Priest (Mission and Raid): Increased the interval between Penance and Purification in both the raid and mission slightly. There will be 3 less calls for these mechanics over the course of the raid event. Most importantly, entering the auras of the Ministers of Punishment or Cleansing with the appropriate debuff will grant a 10 second grace period from their negative effects. However, these auras will now check every 15 seconds and punish anyone in them without the debuff or that are in the grace period.
• The High Priest (Raid): Lowered the HP on the raid NPCs by 10% or less. Added a fix for the failure of the Undelivered achievement at the end of the raid. If there were messengers up when the boss was killed they could trigger an achievement failure. They will not anymore.
• Brood Architect Hazuri (Raid): Added a speculative fix to unripe experiments remaining in the event after a reset.
• Brood Architect Hazuri (Mission and Raid): Increased the delay between Hazuri spawning pools and using the ability linked to those pools. That delay was not present at all in the mission, so we have added it to the mission as well.
• Bristlebane Day: Cold Blooded Kiroric Huk in The Twilight Sea, and Kotunm, an ornate chest and Kiroric Huk (after completing the mission) in The Twilight Sea: Sea of Resurgence are now able to be found.

Spells

• Magician - Updated icons for the summoned items Quiver of Drenesh, Folded Quiver of Drenesh, Void Arrow, and Molten Dacite Orb.
• Cleric - Changed the Dissolve Corruption and Cleansing Acquittal lines of spells to allow targeting members of other groups.
• Druid - Changed the Fawnwalker's Breeze line of spells to cure curse counters instead of corruption counters.
• Druid and Shaman - Changed the Chant of the Napaea line of spells to allow targeting members of other groups.
• Shaman - Changed the Blood of Nadox line of spells to allow targeting members of other groups.
• Corrected an issue that caused some ranks of the Aureate's Bane line of spells to not fully remove some ranks of the Cure of Subjugation line of spells.
• Fixed a spell stacking blocker issue that affected spells including Virtue and Talisman of Kragg.
• Fixed a bug that prevented weapon stances from switching correctly.
• Corrected an issue that allowed NPCs to hit through certain defensive abilities such as Fortitude or Voiddance.
• Changing personas should more reliably respect blocked buffs.
• Altered the spell line names for many spell lines.

AA

• Most Focus AAs, including Synergy AAs, have been updated so that all ranks grant their benefits to every spell in their respective spell lines. AAs that exclusively focus the triggered effects of a spell line have not been updated.

NPCs

• The bar patrons in Timorous Falls no longer offer experience when killed.

Overseer

• Added a Mass Convert Agents button to the Agents tab of the Overseer Window. It will convert duplicate agents of one rarity, leaving a specified number of duplicates unconverted (with a minimum of 1 remaining). The same functionality is also available via /overseermassconvert.

Progression Servers

• Made minor tuning changes to the spell resist system used on Vaniki. Players should resist NPC spells more frequently, and players should land spells on lower level NPCs more frequently.
• Adjusted Mitigation of the Mighty so it appropriately reduces hand-to-hand damage instead of increasing it.

Miscellaneous

• You must now type the entire command when using /exit or /quit.
• Added a speculative fix for client rendering crashes and performance improvements.
• /queuemelody will no longer be interrupted if you have no target, run out of mana, out of range, or out of line of sight, unless no songs in the melody can be played.
• /queuemelody is now capable of playing the same song consecutively if it has no duration.
• Attempting to teleport to a campfire that was in a zone that is no longer up should now reset the cooldown on your Fellowship Registration Insignia.
• Altered the phrasing of the hidden items component of the 2025 Live Events achievement.
• Fixed a typo in a component of Bristlebane Day: A Cure for Kiroric Mission Challenges achievement.

UI

• Spell Failures chat messages have been split into Spell Failures (Yours) and Spell Failures (Others).
• When logging in, you will no longer see your entire ignore list in the chat window. You can still see the full list by doing /ignore.
• Fixed a bug where /lootnodrop usable wasn't working properly.
• Resizing the game client window no longer reopens the inventory window if the real estate Plot Items window is open.
• Updated the confirmation message when transferring to a free trade server.

Changed

• EQUI_OverseerWnd.xml
• EQUI_RealEstatePurchaseWnd.xml

Previously Updated

• Corrected an issue where Lifetime accounts did not receive the AA autogrant.
• Corrected an issue where Marketplace purchases would sometimes not grant the item.
• Fixed spell stacking for cases that include Curse of Subjugation and Weapon Proficiencies.

-The EverQuest Team

With a quarter of 2025 already gone, it's time for an update on where we are and what's coming up!

The Darkpaw Swag Store has been getting updated with posters and other goodies, and we're far from finished. As a matter of fact, we've just added the 26th Anniversary Key Art Poster. Keep your eyes peeled for more updates to the store throughout the year. If you have suggestions or ideas on what you'd like to see in the swag store next, please send them by Norrathian Express to Angeliana.

26th Anniversary Key Art Poster

Fundraising for Extra Life has already started! This year's Darkpaw Games page is up and ready for sign-ups. Check out our handy Extra Life Guide for more details. And stay tuned for an article detailing our group and individual incentives in the coming months. We look forward to surpassing our goal once again this year with your help.

Darkpaw Games is recruiting once again! And our search is on for weavers, of a sort. If you fancy yourself a storyteller (designer) or a costumer (character artist), look at our openings. We are seeking those special someones who are as passionate about Norrath as we are. You should love to have fun, enjoy working with amazing people, and want to contribute your talents to the best game ever created (I'm not biased on any of that)! If you're interested in joining our rather active guild, please apply through our Careers Page HERE! We look forward to meeting you!

Now, onto what has happened so far this year. We've had The Outer Brood's raids unlocked with Tier 1's in January, Tier 2's in February, and Tier 3's in March. Erollisi Day saw some new quests. We put out EverQuest's The Outer Brood and EverQuest II's Scars of Destruction expansions music together onto streaming services, and we had several unlocks across our Time-Locked Progression Servers. Brew Day has come and gone with the hoisting of ales in honor of Brell. Bristlebane's Day saw some new content and new fun paper bag ornaments, and Stomples' Day made a reappearance.

And lastly, we had a blast celebrating EverQuest's 26th Anniversary with new content and some awesome jade items just for logging in. Be quick if you haven't already gotten them because these free jade items are only available up to April 20, 2025, at 11:00 P.M. PST! The Anniversary Tower, the Year of Darkpaw items, as well as an unvaulting of all the old Heritage Crates for a limited time, also arrived with this Anniversary. There is still time to get your jade items and complete the quests! That's not all, new anniversary missions are coming out later this month as well, so log in today!

January

• The Outer Brood Tier 1 Raids unlocked
• Erollisi Day – New Content
• Swag Store Update
• Yelinak unlocked Underfoot
• Oakwynd unlocked The Serpent's Spine

February

• The Outer Brood Tier 2 Raids unlocked
• The Outer Brood music on Streaming services
• Yelinak unlocked House of Thule
• Mischief unlocked The Broken Mirror
• Aradune and Rizlona unlocked The Burning Lands
• Teek and Tormax unlocked Lost Dungeons of Norrath

March

• The Outer Brood Tier 3 Raids unlocked
• 26th Anniversary
• Brew Day
• Bristlebane's Day – New Content
• Stomples' Day
• Swag Store update
• Oakwynd unlocked The Buried Sea
• Teek and Tormax unlocked Gates of Discord

Now let's look forward into the coming months! Rathe Day is our way of bringing attention to Earth Day. Be sure to join us as we help to save something endangered in Norrath! Tempest Festival will be back with some new content, our new Time-Locked Progression (TLP) server will launch, Pride Month will return with some new Pet Illusions for your collection, Hardcore Heritage and Scorched Sky will make their return, and we have a host of unlocks across our current TLPs.

April

• Rathe Day
• More 26th Anniversary Updates
• Tempest Festival – New Content
• Aradune and Rizlona unlock Torment of Velious
• Mischief unlocks Empires of Kunark

May

• Progression Server Launch
• Yelinak unlocks Veil of Alaris
• Oakwynd unlocks Secrets of Faydwer
• Teek and Tormax unlock Omens of War and Dragons of Norrath

June

• Pride month giveaway
• Hardcore Heritage
• Scorched Sky
• Mischief unlocks Ring of Scale

Now, to discuss what many of you've been waiting for — the new TLP server ruleset will be Expanded Start with Resource Hunter, Encounter Locking, Legacy Characters, and True Box. True Box will be removed when Planes of Power unlocks. Read on for more details below!

• Expanded Start
  • Start with Ruins of Kunark, Scars of Velious, and Shadows of Luclin unlocked and level-locked to level 50.
  • Enjoy access to a more varied level 50 experience with Iksar and Vah Shir available on launch day!
  • Spend 24 weeks experiencing everything our first 3 expansions have to offer before the level cap is increased to 60.
  • Planes of Power unlocks 12 weeks later, followed by additional unlocks happening at the regular cadence with a compressed level 70 range.
• Resource Hunter
  • The hunt is on for daily, zone-wide bonuses!
  • Every day at midnight Pacific, a limited number of zones in each unlocked expansion will be assigned a random bonus.
  • Find the zones to find the bonuses and share your discovery with the community!
  • Bonuses may include any of the following:
    • Increased EXP
    • Increased Loot
    • Increased AA EXP (In level 50+ zones)
    • Increased Coin Drops
    • Reduced NPC Spawn Times
    • Increased Rare NPC Spawns
    • ... and more!
• Name Reservations
  • Want to make sure you get your character's name before launch? Name reservations will once again be available via the /reservename command. The following dates indicate when you'll be able to reserve names for the new server, and how much /played time your character needs from an existing server to be able to reserve the name:
    • April 30: 200 days played
    • May 7: 100 days played
    • May 14: 40 days played
    • May 21: 10 days played
  • Keep in mind, characters cannot reserve their name if they have changed names in the past 30 days.
• This TLP will launch at 12:00 P.M. (noon) PST on May 28, 2025!

Now that the high-level bullet points are listed. I'd like to take a moment to talk about the story behind the story with this TLP server. First off this is an experimental server, so we're trying some new things combined with some classic things and also bringing back a few of the experiments from years past.

Expanded Start. It's been a request for some years where some players wanted to have more expansions unlocked from the start (here's looking at you players that main Iksar and Vah Shir). With this year's expanded start, players will have access to more player races, locations, and tons more content with oodles of loot to obtain right from the start.

Slow Initial Unlocks. The fact is the population on every progression server declines as more and more expansions unlock. So, to keep a healthy server population for a longer period, we are extending the unlock time within some of the early expansions. We hope the slower initial progression leads to a longer, healthier progression server over the lifespan of the server.

Resource Hunter. The concept behind this ruleset is to expand the experience of hot zones to a new daily method. We hope that it will not only bring the thrill of finding new special areas but also bring the community together in the hunt. The Resource Hunter ruleset of random daily bonuses should not only encourage playing in a variety of zones and exploring more of Norrath, but also make it more rewarding to roam in different zones than you might normally on a TLP.

Encounter Locking. While it initially had some controversy, looking at the lifespan of Oakwynd it has been seen as a net good for the server. We received enough feedback and analyzed the data, and it appears to have ultimately benefited the server enough to try it again.

Legacy Characters. We're big fans of this ruleset. We tried it and we liked it overall, so we're doing it again. It will be interesting to see how it works in parallel with the Alternate Personas feature.

I hope you are as excited about this year's Time-Locked Progression server as we are!

And with that this Producer's Letter has come to an end but our journey is far from over.


Sharpen up your Fangs,
Jenn Chan
Head of Studio

Join us on Social Media!

Click Read More to see all the site updates for the month of March 2025.

Source

Highlights

• Fixed a bug that caused NPCs, including pets, to pause their melee attacks after casting a spell. This fixes the infamous "pet melee lag" issue.

Items

• Aureate Figurine and Empowered Aureate Figurine now share a recast timer.
• All Heritage crates are available for a limited time! (3/16 - 4/1)
• Consuming a Perfected Augmentation Distiller when swapping augments is now indicated in a different color.
• Many type 7/8 augments from Torment of Velious, Claws of Veeshan, Terror of Luclin, Night of Shadows, Laurion's Song, and The Outer Brood have been moved off lore groups onto lore-equip groups.
• Updated prices of Wrist Armor Lining of Rebellion and Feet Armor Lining of Rebellion sold by Tamlin Wrathbone in Hodstock Hills.
• One of the two augments that were named Sharp-Edged Pearl Shard has had its name changed to Rough-Edged Pearl Shard.

Tradeskills

• Fixed a bug where buying Tradeskill Depot slots up to the maximum value would fail to actually increment the value.

Quests & Events

• Brood Architect (raid) - Breath of Hazuri is now a cone spell rather than an area of effect.
• Brood Architect (raid) - The Own the Hoard achievement can now be completed.
• Brood Architect (raid) - Fixed an issue that would cause the unripe to not be damaged when mesmerized if all of them were mesmerized.
• Silence the Cannons (raid) - Changed the decal for the cannons from the "rainbow" to the "frost" version.
• The Perfect Companion (quest) - Updated the Perfect Companion quest to complete appropriately if you have collected 15 of 16 hair samples.
• Added a meta achievement for completing all live events for the year. This achievement will be updated throughout the year as the events become available.
• Fixed collect steps on quests not updating when looting the item via Advanced Loot.
• Bristlebane Day - During the celebration head over to the Twilight Sea and check in with Kiroric Huk. He looks a little green.

Spells

• Paladin - Increased the amount of hate added by all ranks of the Valiant Deflection ability, as well as the additional hate added to the Valiant Healing component. Added Paladin levels to Valiant Healing II and higher. Lowered the casting time. Increased the mana cost so the line is now slightly less efficient than pure heals with similar cast times.
• Paladin - Increased the initial hate and duration hate added by the Righteous Audacity line of magic resistance debuffs. Extended the duration to a base of 5 minutes, made it harder to resist, and increased the mana cost.
• Shadowknight - Increased the initial hate and duration hate added by the Insidious Audacity line of magic resistance debuffs. Extended the duration to a base of 5 minutes, made it harder to resist, and increased the mana cost.
• Added spell descriptions for spells used by "named" NPCs in The Outer Brood.

AA

• Enchanter - Updated the Class AA, Calculated Insanity, with 1 new rank available at level 125, increasing the spell critical damage bonus to 24%.
• Enchanter - Updated the Class AA, Chromatic Haze, with 1 new rank available at level 125, increasing the spell damage bonus to 400%.
• Enchanter - Updated the Class AA, Illusions of Grandeur, with 1 new rank available at level 125, increasing the spell critical damage bonus to 186% and the spell critical damage over time bonus to 146%.
• Enchanter - Updated the Class AA, Mental Contortion, with 1 new rank available at level 125, increasing the damage per tick to 18000.
• Paladin - Updated the Class AA, Blessing of the Faithful, rank 1 - max rank, to have a trigger chance of 84% - 90% and to increase base melee damage by 35% - 280% and AC by 300 - 4500. Additionally, the triggered spell now also triggers Aegis of the Faithful, which grants nearby group members a rune that absorbs 60% of the damage from a melee hit that exceeds 3200 - 43000, up to 11200 - 154000 total damage for 30 - 42 seconds. Aegis of the Faithful also heals for 230 - 7850 health every 6 seconds.
• Shadow Knight - Updated the Class AA, Mortal Coil, rank 1 - max rank, to have a trigger chance of 80% - 86% and a duration of 30 - 42 seconds. The trigger chance now also has a cooldown of 36 - 48 seconds.
• AA ranks of Trophy Collector obtained on different personas before it became shareable should now be the correct rank on all personas.

NPCs

• Fixed a bug that caused NPCs, including pets, to pause their melee attacks after casting a spell. This fixes the infamous "pet melee lag" issue.
• The target ring for the dragons of the Outer Brood should now be more suitable for their size.
• The hit points restored to the NPC by Choking Grapple has been reduced.

Miscellaneous

• Fixed a bug where tribute wasn't properly separately upgraded per persona.
• Tribute will now always be deactivated when swapping personas.
• Guild real estate neighborhoods can now evict non-guild plots that are owned by a player who's not in the guild after 30 days. The auto eviction option is controlled by a checkbox (default: OFF) in the Guild Management Window's Access tab. The auto eviction option checkbox is restricted to the guild leader.

UI

• Fixed an issue that obstructed the search for spell scrolls by level in the Bazaar.

Changed

• EQUI_DragItems.xml
• EQUI_GuildManagementWnd.xml
• EQUI_RealEstateManageWnd.xml
• EQUI_RealEstatePurchaseWnd.xml

Previously Updated

• Fixed an issue with luck data that could cause spells to do damage instead of heal.
• A few quest items that drop in The Broken Mirror expansion have had their No Free Trade flag removed.
• Corrected an issue that could cause a world crash.

-The EverQuest Team

Click on Read More to see all the site updates for the month of February 2025.

Source

Here are the patch notes.

Items

• Fixed an issue that was preventing augments acquired from Tides of Time from socketing into items they otherwise should have.
• Fixed an unintentional error that stripped the spell from the item Spell: Teleport.
• Adjusted chest drops in The Outer Brood missions to include a wider variety of type 5 augments.
• The Outer Brood weapon damage augments should no longer have decreasing stats after converting to their Reactive or Harmonious versions.
• Argent Whirligig Flyer Control Device should now have a levitation effect.
• Acolyte's Assaulting Fire, Casting Fire, and Defending Fire of the Harbinger augments have received spell damage increases.
• Updated most familiar-summoning items to also cast pet illusions.
• Arrows equipped in the ammo slot that are unusable by the character are no longer effective and the character is out of ammo.
• Merchants now include deity restrictions when you ask them to 'show only items I can use'.
• Archetype - Sympathetic Amplification - Several spell-triggered magical effects from equipped weapons and augments were missed in the initial introduction of this AA. They've now been updated to both receive the benefits of this AA and no longer trigger from other proc effects or twincast.
• Adjusted the luck range of newly created group and raid tradeskill items from The Outer Brood.
• The Modified Aureate Spanner's Perform "Maintenance" description now displays without error.

Tradeskills

• Improved the performance of the Tradeskill Depot.

Quests & Events

• Tides of Time: Players can no longer place a banner or campfire in the tower.
• Tides of Time: Miacallie Herlsas and the clockwork artificer now only spawn during the Anniversary event.
• Tides of Time: The repaired keys and clockwork artificer now only offer their tasks during the Anniversary event.
• Year of Darkpaw collections now run as part of the Anniversary event.
• Tides of Time: The tower key quests are now offered during the Anniversary event.
• Theater of Eternity quests The Bigger the Door and We Have to Go Back! have changed how their items are dropped and who can loot them. Now they will drop if anyone in the group (and in the zone) that gets the kill credit is on the task and has the item needed for the step (Attuned Crystal Vial or Empty Aureate Supply Pouch). Also, only a person with the required item can loot the items for the quest.
• Reduced the damage on the spells cast by most rare/named NPCs in The Outer Brood. Many were cut in half or more. A few had their durations reduced. Even fewer were altered so that their effects would work (mostly changed from instant to having a duration so effects like movement slow could have time to work). Over all, the spell damage output from these NPCs will be a lot lower.
• The Control Room mission reset is better now. The mystic will return on reset, along with the pillars.
• Purification and penance in the High Priest mission in The Outer Brood will no longer give experience for evolving items.
• Chasing What's Not Real: Can now be run during the Anniversary event.
• Chasing Madness: Can now be run during the Anniversary event.
• Reflections of You: Can now be run during the Anniversary event.
• Inner Turmoil: Can now be run during the Anniversary event.

Spells

• You will now automatically dismount when changing personas.
• Improved the effectiveness of all Convergence spells from The Outer Brood.
• Magician: Corrected the Grant Ring of Perfected Levitation spell to summon an item with 6 charges of a 30 minute duration spell and renamed it to Improved Levitation. Sorry, nobody's perfect.

AA

• Fixed a bug where AAs that should be shared between personas weren't always sharing.
• Enchanter - Updated the Class AA, Eldritch Rune, with 3 new ranks available at levels 121-125, increasing max damage absorption to 490k at max rank.
• Enchanter - Updated the Class AA, Glyph Spray, with 3 new ranks available at levels 121-125, increasing max spell and DoT damage absorption to 175k and max DoT damage absorption per hit to 13.5k at max rank.
• Enchanter - Updated the Class AA, Reactive Rune, ranks 19-21 and added 3 new ranks available at levels 121-125, increasing max melee damage absorption to 108k with a 51k min hit and max spell damage absorption to 105k with a 49.5k min hit at max rank.
• Enchanter - Updated the Class AA, Rune of Banishment, ranks 5-8 and added 2 new ranks available at levels 122 and 125, increasing max melee damage absorption to 249k at max rank.
• Enchanter - Updated the Class AA, Veil of Mindshadow, ranks 29-32 and added 2 new ranks available at levels 122 and 125, increasing max melee damage absorption to 464k at max rank.

Overseer

• Changed the order of the Laurion's Song Overseer collection reward items.
• Added Laurion's Song tradeskill components to the Overseer rewards.

Progression Servers

• Evolving Server Ruleset Skill Bonus now works as intended.
• Vaniki now uses the originally intended new spell resist system.

Miscellaneous

• Changed the description of the Unpurged achievement in the Herald of the Outer Brood to match the reality needed to complete it. It now reads: Don't remove any of the defenses from the scalewrought guardians.
• Removed outdated information from the Help document covering Evolving Items.
• Fixed an issue that reset guild access permissions to default values upon a world server restart.
• Mangler now accepts incoming server transfers from other Live servers.

UI

• Clicking on an Achievement component's name while holding certain key combinations will now search in various windows similar to clicking on an item's icon.
  • CTRL+ALT will search using the Find Item window.
  • SHIFT+CTRL will search using the Bazaar Search window.
  • SHIFT+ALT will search using the Barter Search window.
• Hotbuttons that link to an item that moved between a key ring and the inventory will find the item if it still exists.
• Updated cursor item links from Key Rings to be able to be auto equipped or used to start a trade.
• When a single targeted buff fails due to being blocked by a target player or player pet, a message will now display saying so.
• Fixed an issue that prevented chat tell windows' operations after too many were opened.
• The Claim Window can now be sorted numerically by clicking on the Feature Count column.
• Hotbuttons should no longer disappear when moving items to or from a key ring.
• Fixed a bug where the scrollbar in windows using the new UI engine could be dragged outside its bounds.

- The EverQuest Team

Click on Read More to see all the site updates for the month of January.