Hail, Norrathians! Since the April Producer’s Letter, we’ve had some excitement with Frostreaver’s launch. This new Time-Locked Progression Server launched with the rules voted on by the player base. To learn about everything available on it and when things unlock, head over to the website and read all about it. Also, yearly server events and bonuses, wallpaper, and posters of various past expansions have been released! And, a reminder; the Terror of Luclin expansion items are in the Marketplace until July 15th but only until 11:59 p.m. PT.
Our spring 2026 game updates introduced a server merge of Rizlona into Aradune, the completely overhauled Guild Hall Decorative Dummies, and permanently unlocked the Laurion's Song expansion free for all on Test and Live servers. Significant class balancing occurred as we standardized most Progressive abilities across hybrid, melee, caster, and priest archetypes, making Rank 1 of a newer ability equal to Rank 6 of the previous tier to prevent classes from falling behind. Mercenaries received extensive tuning, resulting in a low-level health reduction and high-level performance boost for tank variants, alongside enhanced damage capabilities for DPS versions. In raid environments, the out-of-combat timer triggered by raid NPCs was cut in half from five minutes to two and a half minutes. Progression server quality-of-life improved with the new level-lowering system via the Priest of Discord on Vaniki and Frostreaver. Finally, we fixed numerous engine stability flaws, including critical DirectX 11 memory corruption bugs causing client crashes, and implementing a fix to stop items and spells from entering a faulty cooldown status if a cast failed while a player was mounted.
On to the new things! The Krono Promotion started today and will run for the entire month of July. Anyone who purchases Krono from the Official EverQuest website this month will get a player illusion, Guise of the Kronowick, for every Krono purchased. Don't miss out on this cute little critter!
Guise of the Kronowick
In a few weeks, our Extra Life incentives will be posted, and fundraising will ramp up. If you’re new to our Extra Life fundraising, I recommend reading the guide before joining the team. Questions should be directed to Angeliana either on the forums or in the Official Discord. Here's a sneak peek of one of the incentives. Awwww... good puppy!
Cobalt Riding DogComing up, we're updating Hero's Journey Achievements to make several quests more group-friendly. Some tasks previously took longer to complete in a group than they did solo because each player needed to loot or collect items individually. With these updates, additional items will drop based on group size, allowing groups to complete objectives more quickly and bringing group progress closer to parity with solo play.
I'm proud to announce that our second Time-Locked Expansion server of 2026, Lethar, will be opening on August 26th at 12:00 p.m. PT! This server will have Personal Loot on it and will open with all the expansions leading up to and including The Serpent’s Spine. The goal of the new Personal Loot system is to encourage playing cooperatively with others by distributing loot directly to players. Instead of worrying about who gets the rare item that the NPC had, players can now focus on which monster to slay next and having fun while doing so.
Fun fact: this year marks the twentieth anniversary of the launch of EverQuest's twelfth expansion, The Serpent's Spine. Will you be on Lethar celebrating with us?
A bit more about the Personal Loot system. It will give bonus loot directly to players who are in a group or raid and who earn credit for killing an NPC. Solo players will not receive additional loot. Personal Loot will be given in addition to the loot that the NPC would normally give and will be accessed via the Advanced Loot window. More information on this server will be released next week, so be on the lookout for the article.
Finally, a little teaser about this year’s expansion. Strange things are happening in the demiplanes. Fortune's wheel is spinning wildly, lifting the unlucky and casting down the fortunate. Is something meddling with fate?
You’d be Mad to miss the next expansion,
Jenn Chan
Head of Studio
