** Acrylia Caverns **

- The Chieftain has gone on a vacation. We're retuning this encounter, and beg your indulgence while we work on it.

** Spells **

- Fixed magician summoned focus earrings
- Characters on horses are no longer immune to Ignite Bones
- The Shadowbond series of spells can no longer be dispelled by the Necromancer
- Nature's melody and Song of the Deep Seas should now stack with Dance of the Blades

** Items **

- Added 'focus' effects to over 150 existing items
- Mischievous Chainmail armor is now Dwarf wearable (for those lil Bristlbane worshipin' dorf rogues)
- Changed several of the new cultural chain skirts from Leg slot to Waist slot
- Keys for Veeshan's Peak, Sleeper's Tomb, Vex Thal are now no-drop on the Firiona Vie server
- The key to the Plane of Air should now disappear when the character leaves the plane
- Fixed Sifaye, Owlbear Feather, Grimling fang and Rockhopper talon darts to use the Throwing skill rather than the Archery skill
- Added a 4 second casting time to Golem Metal Wand
- Added a 3 second casting time on Egg Shaped Pumice
- Added a 4 second casting time to Oil of Fennin Ro
- The effect from Hammer of the Sun (Dawncall) now has a longer range
- Fixed it so you can't fire fishing grubs with a bow (we know this had a lot of you worried...)
- Smithed Acrylia Chain and Plate armors are now magical

** NPCs **

- NPC casters should be a little bit smarter now. They will choose their spells a little more carefully.

** Quests **

- Arbogast and Miller should be responding properly now
- Sir Lucan's skeleton should be available again
- Fixed spawns in the Grey for Beastlord Epic
- The Neriak Initiate Breastplate recipe should now work
- Freeport Monk Guild Master Klom Jyson should be responding now
- Made several adjustments that should fix issues with the 10th ring war

** Tradeskills **

- Made some changes to the General Blacksmithing difficulties to make the progression in this trade skill more logical and to allow for more variety in that path
- Added more than 200 smithing recipes
- Enchanted Clay is now stackable
- Sheet of Fiery Metal, Essence of Fire, Imp Blood, and Fiery Temper are now stackable
- Enchanted HQ Ore can now be worked into rings, jointing, sheets, bricks, and blocks in a standard forge

** Pet Changes **

With this patch we've made some rather sweeping changes to the way pets work.

- Pets will not attack mesmerized creatures. Pets basically treat mesmerized NPCs as if they were dead
- Pets are neutral to NPCs. Monsters will not attack pets first unless the pet is being aggressive to something
- Pets take 75% of the experience from a creature if no player does damage to that creature
- Pets take ZERO experience from a creature unless no player does damage to that creature
- The exception to the above rule is Dire Charmed pets, which will take a share of the experience scaled by the amount of damage they do. In most situations (with an active party, for example) the Dire Charmed pet will not take experience. Like all pets, they will take 75% of the experience if no PC does damage to the target. As long as a player does damage to a creature, a Dire Charmed pet will never take more experience than it used to.

- Charmed NPCs will now respond to the /pet report health command
- /pet sit down command should now work on charmed NPCs
- Fixed a bug that was preventing reclaim energy from working on Magician Epic pets.

** Miscellaneous **

- Fixed a bug that was causing a person that logs out with "damage shields: OFF" to be unable to see damage shield even when they turned them back on
- Fixed a problem that was causing crashes when /following someone on a horse if they went out of range
- Fixed a bug that prevented targeting an invisible NPC from horseback, even with See Invisible

The pet changes are a 10 on the SPiffy meter though, that's for sure

Am I the only one who's noticed that since Brad and whatshisface left, we're seeing a lot more of these uber patches?

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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael wrote this then went back to looking for porn:

Am I the only one who's noticed that since Brad and whatshisface left, we're seeing a lot more of these uber patches?

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Yes, when those two left, "The Vision" went with them. Those are the two idiots who believe that forced downtime was something that should be in games.

What's even worse is they are making their own gaming company...hell would freeze over before I bought anything from them =p

I like the new stuff. I like being able to sit around and see what's going on when I'm medding. I like new armor quests. I like new blacksmithing recipes. I like the removal of all pre-50 hell levels. I'm going to LOVE the new Pet stuff. Makes me feel more useful in a group and I haven't even patched yet.

I've seen and done more stuff in EQ in the months since they left than I had doen in the year or so before.

"The Vision" was stupid.

Even though things are turning around, Verant is gonna be perma screwed now because of them :/

And this patch is luv.

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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael was naked while typing this:
"The Vision" was stupid.

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What's crazy is that now, when I say I'd been calling Brad McQuaid a moron and his Vision stupid practically since I bought the game, people don't believe me

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Everyone wondered WTF when Falaanla Marr wrote:
But Brad and them leaving Verant now...People will still have a negative opinion of verant, because of them.

Even though things are turning around, Verant is gonna be perma screwed now because of them :/

And this patch is luv.

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Na most of us know it was because of them two im starting to respect VI more and more, as long as they keep up with these wonderful HELPFUL (god forbid) patches

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Maradön² had this to say about the Spice Girls:
What's crazy is that now, when I say I'd been calling Brad McQuaid a moron and his Vision stupid practically since I bought the game, people don't believe me

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People stopped listening to you because all we heard was the one-track Marawhine. Patch after patch "That's nice but I can't play Necros the way I want to"

You STILL can't play Necros the way you want, Mara. That hasn't changed. You just stopped whining

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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael said this about your mom:
People stopped listening to you because all we heard was the one-track Marawhine. Patch after patch "That's nice but I can't play Necros the way I want to"

You STILL can't play Necros the way you want, Mara. That hasn't changed. You just stopped whining

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See, I'm of the opinion that you stopped listening because I was right and everyone wanted to go on pretending that EQ was absolutely flawless.

If my arguments sounded one track then maybe it's because they were never refuted, only dismissed.

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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Maradön² said:
See, I'm of the opinion that you stopped listening because I was right and everyone wanted to go on pretending that EQ was absolutely flawless.

If my arguments sounded one track then maybe it's because they were never refuted, only dismissed.

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Who thought EQ was flawless? O_o

They were refuted for a while, but you can only talk about necromancers so much before you eventually start ignoring the word all together =p

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There was much rejoicing when Iron Chef Cadga said this:
Na most of us know it was because of them two im starting to respect VI more and more, as long as they keep up with these wonderful HELPFUL (god forbid) patches

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Reynar had this to say about Punky Brewster:

Who thought EQ was flawless? O_o

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It was a universal basic assumption back in the day.

I proposed improvements and was called a whiner. Now they actually make improvements and everyone acts like they thought it should be that way all along

[ 06-05-2002: Message edited by: Maradön² ]

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Maradön² thought this was the Ricky Martin Fan Club Forum and wrote:
It was a universal basic assumption back in the day.

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and i assume youwant my sexy body manbeast

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Maradön² had this to say about Optimus Prime:
It was a universal basic assumption back in the day.

Ninja Edit!

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You've gotta be kidding =p

Oo ninja edit.

Improvements were not always proposed though. And the ones you asked for pertained to a class I believe that only you played on this board.

[ 06-05-2002: Message edited by: Reynar ]

when i get a game first thing i do after i install is look for a patch

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From the book of Reynar, chapter 3, verse 16:
- The key to the Plane of Air should now disappear when the character leaves the plane

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Fuckers.

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There was much rejoicing when Pesco said this:
Fuckers.

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What do you want with PoA anyways? =)

You just didn't listen and kept whining. So we all stopped listening. It was annoying

Hence the reason they were dubbed 'Marabitch' threads.

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Reynar stopped staring at Deedlit long enough to write:
What do you want with PoA anyways? =)

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Dark Cloak of Sky

[ 06-05-2002: Message edited by: Lyinar Ka`Bael ]

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This insanity brought to you by Reynar:
What do you want with PoA anyways? =)

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All the air elementals have (_|_).

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Pesco had this to say about pies:
Dark Cloak of Sky

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Just get a heiro cloak

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Reynar wrote this stupid crap:
Just get a heiro cloak

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I was going to wear the cloak?

50% right-clickable haste is luv.

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Reynar thought about the meaning of life:
What do you want with PoA anyways? =)

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Gwan

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Lyinar Ka`Bael wrote this stupid crap:
I want wood elf and high elf newbie quests, damnit!

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Palador ChibiDragon was naked while typing this:
This is a good patch. Now, to see if any of the toys on my characters got upgraded into focus items.

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Still no word if the items affect bards...

/want spell haste

360 range, from what i hear.

They messed up the icon index for items, or something like that. Servers just went down to fix it.

Feer my BP of Vindi-steak!

I can just imagine firing long tongues at people with my ranger's bow

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So quoth Espio Idsavant:
I wanna see this too but it wont let me ont! GRAAAAA! *threatens the login server with a hammer*

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Heyyyy, I have the same problem!