July 2026 Everquest Test Server Patch Notes

Hello and welcome to some EverQuest test server patch notes. So we’re going to talk about this today. This came out a few days ago, but I’ve been out of town, so you know, >> [laughter] >> that’s how it is. Highlights made changes to multiple Heroes Journey quests to make them more group friendly. See quests and events section for more details. Items Merciful Shield found on the cleric breastplate in Shadow Ro should now trigger the correct version of recurrent Merciful Shield. There we go. All right, so now normally I go through and read every single thing here. Oh, that changed from when I read it before. All right, so we’ll go with that, but it’s a lot of a lot of quest changes. All right, we’re going to talk about this. I’ve done the Heroes Journey. I’ve done it. I’m thinking about doing it again. I’m thinking about doing it again. And this is looking looking pretty tasty. So let’s let’s go through this and talk about it here. Food for thought. Lizzy’s chest now drops one of Lizzy’s trinkets for the group. Now, if you’ve ever if you’ve ever done the Heroes Journey, you will realize that it that before these changes, it was the most painful thing in the world to box because everything was like one drop or a rare one drop. And it looks like they fixed it. I complained about it in those videos like years ago. Now they finally fixed it. It took a TLP to do it, but here we are. The Uneartha Bone Snapper Beast now drops saliva covered hardened metal alloy for the group. Lost Momento. The rats and snake now have a chance to drop the lost gold locket for everyone in the group. Oh my gosh. The ancient tablet in Habit’s of Vergalid Mines now have a chance to drop the tablet for the group. Oh my god, this is so crazy. Lost Souls one, Lost Souls two. Skull Render now drops the amulet for the group. The followers Virgilite now have a chance to drop the Void Edge Symbol for everyone in the group. I mean, come on now. This is just fantastic news. If you’ve ever done these quests, you will understand how fantastic this is. Like when you’re grouping and you’re doing stuff with other people, doing quests and stuff, right? And you’re looking for a specific item to drop for everybody in the group, right? You like take a while then you have to like think about it, right? Like oh, did Bob get that? Did Did you get that one already, Sam? You know, like I don’t know. It’s been an hour since we got the last drop. Uh this is fantastic. Dusk Dusk Mold of Twittering Bounds and the Doom Shreek Mushrooms now have a chance to drop the Twittering Fungus Cap and Doom Shreek Mushrooms for the group. Sirik lives the Kick Kick Pit Goblins now have a chance to drop the the piece of Sirik’s tabard for the group. Earthly extermination 1 2 and 3 all drop for the group, right? So the fillets, the eggs, the meat, everybody gets one. I mean, this is just this this this is some good stuff. Like like it seems like this is a lack luck lack luster patch. But this revolutionizes the hero’s journey every way that is conceivable. Feather in your cap. The Gryphons and the Ridge Watchers now drop everything for the group. Spooky giants The giant zombies drop it for the group. I mean, this is I’m I’m I got I can’t read the rest of this, but every single every single quest that I ever complained about uh has gotten the group love. Now I would I would love to see them do this for every single expansion in the game uh from the very first quest that requires a group drop like this while grouped all the way through. Remove like with personal loot and hopefully they do this going forward for all the expansions going forward, right? uh Th- This is one of the like the things that make like they kind of drive people to boxing, right? Is I don’t want to wait for Bob to get the thing, right? Like like if Bob’s some dude I don’t know, right? And like I have to roll the you know between me and Bob to get, you know, the what is it? It’s a Uh where’s an item here? The uh the broken pick haft, right? Like and then Bob leaves the group cuz he got his part, right? Now I’m Now I’m like, “Oh man, now I got to do this all over again cuz Bob left the group, you know?” Like These things happen. Now like if you’re grouping with friends, it’s different because you like you don’t care as much, right? But if you’re grouping with like total randos and you know, and people are like in and out like hot in, hot out, right? They’re just hot swapping people left and right in some groups and uh yeah, this is this is fantastic. Uh but it looks like just about every single thing uh gets updated, right? And then it looks like the Talongast raid fixing an issue where food adds uh that were up to intelligence died the starvation achievement. Uh looks like they fixed an achievement. Well, that’s fantastic. Let’s see here. Some uh quest there had its faction lowered and adventurers now uh allow you to swap your personas one level higher than your character was when it started. All right, so that’s pretty nice there. But uh looking through this like it looks like every every group thing is is group droppable now, right? I think we went through uh like some of these quests when I was doing uh some some videos and you know, we were only getting one one item off of the, you know, the group. I think it was boxing six and it was kind of annoying. So, it’s pretty nice. All right. Bard converted conver- uh conveyance of stick and stones from referencing individual song spell groups to referencing the entire insult the stain lines. Enchanter updated di- uh dichotomic dichotomic reinforcement line of the progressive spells to quickly multi- apply ways that it fallen behind. And magician, same thing. Exact same thing for the magician. So, uh magicians are doing more damage and enchanters possibly doing more damage. And uh that’s the alliance spell, I believe, for the bard. So, >> [laughter] >> that’s only for uh like three plus bards in a group. So, that’s not really going to happen unless it’s a raid. Progressive servers made a fix to the Terror of Luclin raid success messages that say error instead of mentioning the event name. Moved uh Haxes the Shade and Sallix the Flesh Grinder and Mayek the Prophet and the Acolyte of Affliction and Grummus to different randomized loot buckets. Miscellaneous made a fix where raids on high population servers would sometimes bug out and disband. Raid changing in a pig zone will no longer sometimes set the wrong starting city. This That is a good one, I think, really. And previously updated crash in the UI radio buttons most commonly seen in the advanced loot window. Uh there we go. So, test server has been uh been updated. All right. So, uh there we go. Um now, I’m going to talk about some other news that’s going on. Like I I was looking, right? So, this this is a good this is these are good changes. It doesn’t look like it’s a lot, but it is a lot. And it’s 100% related to Luclin, which launches in August, which I believe is next month. Uh they’re also doing a Chrono program. It’s uh for the month of July. If you purchase a Chrono from their website, you will get a illusion of the candle. Guys of the Chrono wick. Which is the little one, not the big one. The big one is what you got for buying Shadows of Ro. The little one is what you get for buying a Chrono. And if you purchase a 25 pack of the >> [laughter] >> of Chrono, you get 25 of those. Jeez. Oh, man. I tried to buy a Chrono that left for for the black crow one, and I couldn’t buy one because it wouldn’t let me put a secret secret code or something on my account. I don’t know. I think it’s cuz it’s like tied into their system and they own pretty much own my account now. Uh this promo begins July 3rd will end and it started today. What was today? Uh July 1st. So, this started July 1st. It ends on the 31st. It is the 9th. You got plenty of time. Plenty of time to buy your Chrono and get the guys and uh Oh, there is if you buy an EverQuest too, they get a different item. You must buy it off the EverQuest website. So, the everquest.com website. Now, I think my internet is like totally jacked. I don’t think that’s going to actually load. Um I’ve been having issues all day. Uh that’s why I haven’t been playing uh today. I just got back from my vacation. Uh so, Chrono is like the uh in-game thing that you can trade for things. Yeah, why? It’s not This what This not EverQuest 2. Really? Sorry, that’s That’s not going to load, but if you go to the EverQuest 2 website, uh which doesn’t seem to uh logistically want to load anymore, but uh yeah, there we go. My network’s down. Um that will result in a different item for EverQuest 2, which I don’t know. Now, I’ve I’ve been I’ve been actually thinking about playing a little bit of EverQuest 2, uh starting up, doing some stuff there, maybe continue the character we had or make a new one. Uh is a little bit of a little bit of a thing, but uh yeah, there we go. Uh that is the test server update. Uh it’s it’s a doozy like change-wise. Hopefully, they continue these kind of changes moving forward into the next expansions for Luclin, so that every single expansion becomes group-friendly and uh nice. And uh if you want a guise of the Chronowisp, you can go buy a Chrono here from everquest.com/chrono and pick up yourself a guise of the Chronowisp. Wisp. >> [laughter] >> I’m going to try to buy one again. I think it’s kind of funny. All right. So, thank you very much for watching and please have a fantastic day.