Test Update 07/09/2024 - Patch Notes and Discussions

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July 9, 2024

- Added the option to use /who on a player by clicking their name in a chat window.

- The EverQuest Team

Its good, but i like to see option to IGNORE player by clicking their name.
Someone can spam in every ingame chat about PL service and change name every 1 hour or so, and we need to type this name in /ignore command...

Now you can only report them or need to type command like /ignore IidfjbsdfsjdfIlasfd or another some weird name..

 

[Bumkus]

Its good, but i like to see option to IGNORE player by clicking their name.
Someone can spam in every ingame chat about PL service and change name every 1 hour or so, and we need to type this name in /ignore command...

Now you can only report them or need to type command like /ignore IidfjbsdfsjdfIlasfd or another some weird name..

They added this recently. left click name in chat window and it opens window. your can click "add to ignore" there.

 

[Zenn-La]

As I read it lore group family by stat type of the aug. So the level 115 superlative aug for dex would be same lore group as the 125 aug.
So, if you have both equipted now, what happens. Already destroyed some augs that they replaced, so not like I can put the old augs in place of the 115 augs now. So I am to just lose 5 augs, with no replacement.
This far through the tower, and now you decide this? This is a terrible thing to do. Can I sell them back for coins at least? or petition to have old augs recovered from Tribute? Really bad to do this now.

 

[Silvena]

Its good, but i like to see option to IGNORE player by clicking their name.
Someone can spam in every ingame chat about PL service and change name every 1 hour or so, and we need to type this name in /ignore command...

Now you can only report them or need to type command like /ignore IidfjbsdfsjdfIlasfd or another some weird name..

We can do this for sure on Live. It was in the May 15th update.
https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/game-update-notes-may-15-2024.298094/

Added the option to add a player to your friend or ignore list by clicking their name in a chat window.

 

[Iven]

As I read it lore group family by stat type of the aug. So the level 115 superlative aug for dex would be same lore group as the 125 aug.
So, if you have both equipted now, what happens. Already destroyed some augs that they replaced, so not like I can put the old augs in place of the 115 augs now. So I am to just lose 5 augs, with no replacement.
This far through the tower, and now you decide this? This is a terrible thing to do. Can I sell them back for coins at least? or petition to have old augs recovered from Tribute? Really bad to do this now.

Most or all of the augs will be removed from the items and being put into the inventory or the item overflow storage.

As players like you might already had destroyed or sold augs (for tribute) for the YoD tower ones, the new update is problematic. And as you had mentioned, you also did spend Timeless Tokens which would be wasted then. Double punishment. As all the augs do already have the Lore Equipped tag, it might be better to not add the Lore Group tag, as the augs would be obosolete in about two years anyways. And the problem does only affect AllAccess characters that leveled up, which granted and will grant them access to multiple aug tiers..

Basically it is a Persona issue. Instead seeing it as an exploit, it could be seen as a bonus feature that does push the Persona feature sales and their integration and acceptance. The exploit potential (becoming OPed) is rather small imo. Daybreak, think twice, it's magic.

 

[Bumkus]

July 9, 2024
- Optimized spell processing which should result in increased zone performance.

Does anyone on Test have any insight into this change? And more specifically, does it impact pet procs in any way?

 

[Riou]

Does anyone on Test have any insight into this change? And more specifically, does it impact pet procs in any way?

Test doesn't have that many players to come anywhere close to Live Lag so it can't really be determined from Test

 

[Iven]

The real test server(s) are the live servers.

 

[Cairbrae]

Does anyone on Test have any insight into this change? And more specifically, does it impact pet procs in any way?

Spell data processing is more efficient and takes less time for all spells. In theory, more spells can be processed "per frame time", including pet spells/procs, and that should be perceivable as less lag or lag spikes in "spell heavy" situations.

 

[rahzel44]

So, people who destroyed old augs and replaced them with lower versions of their class-stat augs are now out the tokens they spent on the lower augs but also now have to find new augs to replace the ones they can no longer use, 7 months into the anniversary tower?

 

[kizant]

So, people who destroyed old augs and replaced them with lower versions of their class-stat augs are now out the tokens they spent on the lower augs but also now have to find new augs to replace the ones they can no longer use, 7 months into the anniversary tower?

Buy some recovery tokens.

 

[Zenn-La]

Buy some recovery tokens.

Recovery tokens don't work if item has been turned in for Tribute.

 

[Kaenneth]

That's why my Dragons Horde is filled with old augments.

 

[Pikollo]

- Updated Beryl Hero's Forge Ornaments to drop in all of the hotzones. Additionally, there are new updated hotzones that can be picked up to level 105.

Question on this. I always heard Beryl would only drop if you can gain experience from the mob. Is that true or was it just some zones were dropping it?

 

[Lodestar]

Spell data processing is more efficient and takes less time for all spells. In theory, more spells can be processed "per frame time", including pet spells/procs, and that should be perceivable as less lag or lag spikes in "spell heavy" situations.

Does this mean that the benefit is only client-side to FPS, or that there will also be a server-side benefit on spells processing quicker regardless of degree of client FPS benefit? I'm assuming the answer is likely benefit to both.

 

[Cairbrae]

Does this mean that the benefit is only client-side to FPS, or that there will also be a server-side benefit on spells processing quicker regardless of degree of client FPS benefit? I'm assuming the answer is likely both.

Yes "both".

 

[Velisaris_MS]

Question on this. I always heard Beryl would only drop if you can gain experience from the mob. Is that true or was it just some zones were dropping it?

My understanding was that they were using the trivial loot code on the ornaments...you could only get them if you were playing a level-appropriate toon for the zone they dropped in. The patch message is unclear if they did indeed get rid of the TLC with these.

 

[Pikollo]

My understanding was that they were using the trivial loot code on the ornaments...you could only get them if you were playing a level-appropriate toon for the zone they dropped in. The patch message is unclear if they did indeed get rid of the TLC with these.

I don't think I've personally seen one drop even on a level appropriate toon. This with mass pulling in hotzones at times. Would be nice to have clarification though.

 

[Eovandall]

Anyone having an issue with tradeskill trophies not evolving properly? Or, at all? I went from 150 fletching to 296, and trophy stayed at 3/7 the whole time. I have does TS for a long time, and have never had this problem. Thanks!
Eooooooooooooo

 

[fransisco]

Seems to me that in the time it takes to read this and make a post, I could have earned the 5-10 tokens that were "lost" by losing a lower level augment.
Obviously this is unfair punishment - losing 10 coins, most likely because db hates us and wants us to suffer.