July 7, 2026
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*** Highlights ***
- Made changes to multiple Hero's Journey quests to make them more group friendly. See the Quests & Events section for details.
*** Items ***
- Merciful Shield found on cleric breastplates in Shattering of Ro should now trigger the correct version of Recurrent Merciful Shield.
*** Quests & Events ***
- Food for Thought - Lize`s chests now drops One of Lize's Trinkets for the group.
- Bile From Below - The Unearthed Bonesnapper Beast now drops the Saliva Covered Hardened Metal Alloy for the group.
- Lost Memento - The rats and snakes now have the chance to drop Anarynn's Lost Gold Locket for every member of the group.
- The Ancient Tablet - The inhabitants of Vergalid Mines now have a chance to drop the Ancient Tablet for group members.
- Lost Souls I - Skullrend now drops Klazag's Amulet for the group.
- Lost Souls II - The followers of Vergalid now have a chance to drop the Void Etched Symbol for each player in the group.
- Duskmold - The twittering mounds and doomshriek mushrooms now have the chance to drop the Twittering Fungus Cap and Doomshriek Mushrooms for the group.
- Serric Lives - The Kickpick goblins now have the chance to drop the Piece of Serric's Tabbard for the group.
- Earthy Extermination I - The bonesnappers now drop Bonesnapper Meat for the group.
- Earthy Extermination II - The bonesnappers now drop Bonesnapper Egg for the group.
- Earthy Extermination III - Vergalak now drops Fillet of Vergalak for the group.
- Feather for Your Cap - The griffons and ridge watchers now drop Pristine Ridge Griffon Feathers for the group.
- Spooky! - The giant zombies now drop the Glowing Glass Shard for the group.
- Dead Wood, Treants - The treants now drop the Treant Wood Heart for the group.
- Dead Wood, The Shambling Mounds - The shambling mounds now drop their Shambling Mound Branches for the group.
- Summon the Spirits - The gnarl thorns now drop Bog Bark for the group.
- Hardy Seeds - The hedge devils now drop Hardy Seeds for the group.
- Pieces of the Past - The skeletons near the ruined tower now drop the Ogre Relics for the group.
- The Golden Pick I - Mucktail rock breakers now drop their Part of a Broken Pick Haft and Tarnished Golden Pickhead for the group.
- The Golden Pick II - Rotwood Saplings and Darkwater Lockjaws now drop their Rotwood Treant Branch and Darkwater Crocodile Skin for the group.
- Bixie Plans - The Stone Hive Bixies now drop the Bixie plans for the group.
- Ore for Smelting - The mucktails now drop Hunk of Blightfire Ore for the group.
- The Ghostpack Fens - The ghost wolves and Denlord Darkmoon now drop Etheral Ghostwolf Pelts and Denlord Darkmoon's Tooth for the group.
- The Slashclaw Cliffs - The slashclaws will now drop their Pristine Slashclaw Pelt for the group.
- The Darkwater Pools - The crocodile and turtles will now drop Darkwater Crocodile Skin and Moors Turtle Shells for the group.
- Kindling for the Fires - The hedge devils now drop their Hedge Devil Branches for the group.
- The cave bears from the bear cave in the Hollow, now have the chance to drop the Pristine Bear Hide for the group.
- The Ashengate Orders - Dyn`Leth's Courier will now drop the Ashengate Orders for everyone in the group.
- Thrills and Quills - The vermin from the Haunted Hall now have the chance to drop Crescent Vermin Hides and Crescent Bat Hides for the group.
- Cap of Color - The sporelings in the mushroom grove now have a chance to drop Sporeling Cap for everyone in the group.
- Slightly Less Than One-Half of a Baker's Dozen - The sporelings in the mushroom grove now have a chance to drop Tasty Truffles for everyone in the group.
- A Dark Heart - Apothecary Shelga will now drop Shelga's Pouch of Ingredients for everyone in the group.
- Tallongast (Raid) - Fixed an issue where food adds that are up when Tallongast dies invalidates the Starvation achievement.
- Hagralazoo's Memories - Hagralazoo has had her faction requirements lowered to dubious (-500).
- Adventures now allow you to swap personas up to one level higher than your character was when you started.
*** Spells ***
- Bard - Converted Covariance of Sticks and Stones from referencing individual song spell groups to referencing the entire Insult/Disdain lines of songs.
- Enchanter - Updated the Dichotomic Reinforcement line of progressive spells to correct the multiple ways it had fallen behind. Rank 1 of new spells are now equal to rank 6 of previous spells, and ranks 2-6 are all upgrades.
- Magician - Updated the Dichotomic Companion line of progressive spells to correct the multiple ways it had fallen behind. Rank 1 of new spells are now equal to rank 6 of previous spells, and ranks 2-6 are all upgrades. Updated the skill damage mod to keep progressing throughout the spell line.
*** Progression Servers ***
- Made a speculative fix to Terror of Luclin raid success messages that say "ERROR" instead of mentioning the event name.
- Moved Vhaksiz the Shade, Salczek the Fleshgrinder, Maareq the Prophet, The Acolyte of Affliction, and Grummus to different randomized loot buckets.
*** Miscellaneous ***
- Made a speculative fix to an issue where raids on high population servers would sometimes get into a bugged state and disband.
- Race changing in a pickzone will no longer sometimes set the wrong starting city.
*** Previously Updated ***
- Fixed a crash in UI radio buttons most commonly seen with Advanced Loot window.
- The EverQuest Team
