Patch Message - September 27, 2006

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September 27th, 2006
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*** NPCs ***

- Moved Ezna Connoy and Tavin of the Wild a little further south. While they are one with the animals around them, some of their customers were unhappy with their location.
- Increased the elemental essence drop rates off the four elemental gods in Planes of Power.
- Frannie in Surefall Glade now carries shiny new combine smithy hammers.
- Removed Spin Stun from the NPCs in Infected Paw.
- Improved run animations for both male and female Drakkin


*** Tradeskills ***

- Altered the systematic spell research spells Belt of Magi'Kot and Girdle of Magi'Kot to better match the systematic system.
- Added the spells Summon Glowing Bauble, Summon Platinum Choker, Summon Runed Mantle, Summon Sapphire Bracelet, Summon Spiked Ring, Summon Steel Bracelet, Summon Jewelry Bag to the systematic spell research system.
- Vergalid Clay, Medicinal Moss, and Vergalid Slave Manacles have all moved to Sunderock outside of Vergalid.


*** Spells ***

- Four of the mage summoned spells in Serpent’s Spine are now tradable.
- Damage from Necromancer and Shadowknight lich-type spells has been reduced by a third.
- The range on Mayong and Ayonae bane clicky items has been decreased.
- Several unresistable melee attacks no longer work on other players.
- Corrected a problem that was causing some spells to resist more often than they should.
- Bolt spells should now behave more consistently.
- Fixed a problem with illusion spells making everyone default to the same appearance.
- Invisibility should no longer stack with other forms.


*** Missions ***

- Several issues with the Finding Fibblebrap mission have been fixed.


*** Items ***

- The appearance of evergreen leaves on the ground has changed. They now look more leaf like!


*** AAs ***

- Corrected the level requirements for Greater Blood Tithe and Funeral Dirge.
- Players should now be able to get AA experience from Monster Missions.


*** UI ***

- Players using custom UIs should now be able to go back to character select from in game and see their characters.





- The EverQuest Team

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[dohrian]

[Shiuna]

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[Ungkor]

[Tugela]

[Unmei]

[Shiuna]

[Beafly]

[KB]

[Galelor]

[Xekiu]

[Galelor]

[KB]

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[Ungkor]

[Boondowk]

[Retron]

[Ungkor]

[Tugela]

[Ughbash]

[Galelor]

[anaskesia]

At first I was bent out of shape about the recast, but then I realized the true genious of this spell. Now its the problem of the druid and the cleric to cast their versions of the spell on the entire raid person by person... which is fine by me. I have better things to do with my time and spell gems.

I don't really buy the tactical argument, because 3 druids could buff the entire raid of 54 people (18 each) in approximately 2 minutes - (4.5 +2.25)*18 = 121.5 seconds per druid or cleric. Have six druids? 1 minute. Have one druid or cleric per group? 40 seconds. Where are the tactics? I see the tedium... but I don't see the strategy.

For a difference of +2 to the corruption resist, I can't be bothered honestly unless for some inexplicable reason we were short on both clerics and druids.

EDIT: If +2 to this resist makes an unbelieavably huge difference, I'll be surprised and I'll grit my teeth and cast this spell... but really, what are the odds?

Also, please note that the bard version increases this resist by 7, 11, and 15 and appears to be instrument modifieable (though I could be reading that wrong). Even if it wasn't instrument modifiable, thats better than the shaman version and has no recast at all.

EDIT #2: I do realize that rank 3 of this spell increases the resist by 25 (ie: its twice as good as rank 1). The difference between the cleric/druid rank 3 and the shaman rank 3 is +5.

[Beafly]

Spell recasts are not tactical in any sense of the word. They are stupid. They serve only to frustrate the caster. If this spell was unbalanced then fix it some other way.

For example, you could turn it into a group only AA buff with a 3 second cast time, 10 minute re-cast and a 10 minute 10 second duration. Here is another idea... how a bout an Aura!!!! Make it overwrite Tribunal and a shaman could MGB tribunal on his raid and maintain an aura on his group with an upgradeed pr/dr buff and the corruption resist buff. Managable! A single shaman would be able to maintain it on one group only. I don't care how they do it, but STOP tying up my spell gems with this crap.

[Tugela]

[Tineren]

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