August 2026 Everquest Test Server Patch Notes

Hello and welcome to some EverQuest test server test update for August 11th, 2026. Right, [music] so exciting news. Some new test server changes right before the launch of Luclin. Let’s see what we got dealing with today. Highlights made several improvements to the resource hunter system. See the progression servers section for more details. Okay. Items applied a six-month loot doubling mechanism to visual armor components dropped in Shattered a Road Raid chest. Wow, double loot. >> [laughter] >> That is crazy. Uh, for raid too. That they should apply that to the uh, the groups. I think that would be nice there, too. Original character models should now display helms and robes more reliably. Fixed an issue preventing custom Velious helmets from displaying properly to other players. Created a new TSS restricted time-locked progression starter pack for Luclin. Uh, I have no idea what that is. Is it Is it already live? Oh, I I’m going to guess it’s just a new uh, bag bundle. Maybe it’s uh, the collector’s edition. I That [music] would be some That would be some hype. Uh, quests and events. Ashenback raid that was a message when the someone fails the don’t stand in the fires challenge achievement. Water sprinkler of Nim Ankh. This is the cleric epic 1.0. Changed the sequence of events for Shmendrik Lavawalker and the spirit of flames. The loot in the encounter chain should now be locked to the character that turned in Lord S’kraal’s arm. Reduced the spawn time of Shmerkle Lava Walker. Now, this is a significant bottleneck right here. This is a significant bottleneck for the cleric epic one when everybody’s trying to do it, right? This is how >> [music] >> people were multi-questing the the epic one to, you know, someone who hadn’t done anything at all in the quest, right? So, you do this [music] and it it multi-quests a lot of, you know, a lot of little things to somehow, which is pretty interesting. Uh that they fixed it after all these years. Spells all fixed all fixed an issue with the gate spells [music] uh effect that could still fail 1% of the time even with a base effect one [music] value of 100. All right. That line needs a rewrite. I’m not 100% sure what’s going on there. Fixed the threshold comparison error that could prevent spells with thresholds from applying [music] effects when actual values were very close to the threshold percentages. All right, need some more information on that one. Uh one feels that one feels like it’s missing something. Uh cleric fixed the holy remedy, holy light, promise renewal, and anticipated interposition spell lines sissa so that there was no longer a gap spell lines sissa sissa uh where neither where neither the regular nor the bonus heals would land. Promise renewal promise renewal uh paladin flipped the order of the heals in the pestilence line of self heals so that the most common heal is preceded [music] or processed first and the least common heal is processed last. I have I I literally played a paladin to 130 and I have no idea what the pest and pentance? Line of I I can’t even remember what that spell line is. I think it’s the self buff I think is what it is. Pentance I I think that’s what it is. I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know. Uh, see here. NPCs, loot locked NPCs that spawn another NPC when they die now pass the loot lock to the spawned NPC. [music] On servers with encounter locking enabled, NPCs that spawn with loot lock will now automatically encounter [music] lock to that player if the player [snorts] leaves the zone. No uh, and no other group or raid members are in the zone, both locks are forfeit. Progression servers, if [music] you have a contract of the chosen claim, it is available when it is now available when the seeds of destruction unlocks. Resource hunter, uh, most zones now have a low frequency to get a tribute usage bonus when gates of distribute [music] gates of discord is unlocked. Zones without rare NPCs should no longer get rare NPC [music] spawn bonuses. Lost dungeons of Norrath mission zones are now eligible for bonuses, notably excluding NPC spawn bonuses. Coin drop bonuses are now less frequent in the House of Thule and later expansions. Several specific zones that did not benefit from experience and faction bonuses can no longer get them while other zones are now more [music] likely to get them. I’m assuming this is like Kale has a chance to get a faction bonus whereas Guk doesn’t, you know? You know, logical things that make sense, right? Uh see here, experience and AA experience bonuses now have higher frequency than coin drop and rare spawn bonuses across most zones. Most city zones are now eligible for skill and faction bonuses as well as tribute donation bonuses when Gates of Discord unlocks. Instance zones created when requesting a group-based adventure, mission, or quest can now receive [music] the same resource resource hunter bonuses as the [music] base version of the zone. This only applies to instances created after the daily cycle of bonuses occurs, but the bonus will persist [music] until the instance closes. Miscellaneous, fixed [music] one of the test copy error messages does not properly displaying, fixed an issue of test copy that could cause servers to crash. The marketplace no longer requires you to enter a zip code with every purchase, resolved an issue that caused the target ring to disappear in certain situations such as Talongast raid. Additionally, more decals can now be rendered in this and other events that use significant amounts of them. UI added an expansion drop-down to the find item and bizarre windows. Note that most items don’t have this [music] data yet. It should be used in conjunction with other item filters. Oh, that is very nice. Thanks for bringing that in. Changed the UI uh bizarre search window, and the find item window. And let’s see here, resource hunter is available on test server. [music] Now, I would like you maybe maybe like put a little resource hunter in Lothar. Yeah, man. Throw some Throw some love at it. Throw all the love at it you can. But, there you go. Test server update for August 2026. [music] Looks good. Looks good. Um Lothar launches on the 26th, I believe. Uh let me double-check that real quick before I >> [music] >> close this out cuz I don’t know when the next video I will make is going to be. Da da da da da. Time for reserve. Yeah, August 26th. You can reserve your name now if you have not. I have reserved my name. My name will be >> [music] >> Nomergod. So, expect to see Nomergod in his little journey throughout uh Lothar. >> [music] >> I do have Voxel also. So, I mean there may be a Voxel running around with it. I don’t know. I haven’t decided what I’m going to do yet. I know there’s going to be a Nomergod. He’s going to be a gnome. And that’s about as far as I got in that thought [music] process there. Uh we’ll see how it goes. But, uh there you go. So, you can reserve your name for Lothar. You know, it’s going to be fun. >> [music] >> Uh so, thank you very much for watching. And please have a fantastic day.