Patch Notes: Friday, December 23rd, 2022

[Rogean]

The latest patch contains new optional files. Download the new Patch Files from the top of the Home page, or the Getting Started Guide.

Happy Holidays
A 25% Experience Bonus, 100% Loot Bonus, and 50% Faction Bonus has been enabled from now until Tuesday, January 3rd.

Changelog

Rogean: Removed FPS Limitations - Requires Optional Files Patch.
Rogean: Restored messages for debuffs wearing off.
Rogean: Resolved an issue with server/client inventory sync related to food/drink consumption.
Rogean: Riposte swings will now generate swing aggro.
Rogean: Added support for new types of bonuses.
Rogean: Adjusted aggro formula calculations for spell SPAs: AC/Atk Debuff, Snare, Slow, Blind, Stun, Fear, Spinstun, Charm, Mez.
Rogean: The SPA above are capped at 1200 aggro, or 400 if the player is not high enough level to use the spell (Ex: Procs).
Rogean: Removed an overall spell cap of 400 aggro if player was not high enough level for the spell. This is instead capped per SPA Above.
Rogean: Bards are now capped at 140 aggro per song/spell/proc in all circumstances.
Rogean: Various spells in our database had erroneous bonus hate values that should not exist in any of our eras. The code handling that is now removed. This affected various spells in the Tashan line and Ykesha proc.
Nilbog: 'Urako's Big Mistake', 'More Help for Innoruuk', 'Majik Power', 'Aviak Chicks', 'Aviak Talons' quests are now multiquestable with correct faction requirements.
Nilbog: The Spiroc Lord now summons a pet.
Nilbog: Added missing quest 'Divine Duty'.
Nilbog: Ithvol K`Jasn's faction requirements function better.
Nilbog: 'Death of Lyda Nasin', 'The Rogue Take', 'Honeybugger Assassin' quests require amiable or better faction.
Nilbog: Nutal Malfoot's 'Healing' quest requires indifferent or better faction.
Nilbog: Added missing npc Keljemor.
Nilbog: Ancient Wurm Hide Robe, Chestplate of Vindication, and Breastplate of Eradication use Velious textures [Sep2001]
Nilbog: Boots of the Vindicator no longer use Velious textures prior to Sep2001.

[gkmarino]

Nice, thank you.

What does 100% Loot Bonus mean?

[Woodark]

Why did Nilbong remove the root wearing off message in the first place?

[nilbog]

Why did Nilbong remove the root wearing off message in the first place?

Nilbong didn't mean to remove them. It was an bug associated with how a different fix was made.

Should be working now, let us know if there are further issues.

[nemi]

is 57 the latest?

[dave3533]

Thank you devs!

[Somos]

Nice, thank you.

What does 100% Loot Bonus mean?


Ditto; please clarify!

[Xer0]

Nice, thank you.

What does 100% Loot Bonus mean?

I would assume it means whatever dice are rolled to figure out drops is doubled. But who knows! Not me!

[Grimlust666]

HECK YEAH! LETS GOOOOO

[Woodark]

Thank you!

[tadkins]

Rogean: Resolved an issue with server/client inventory sync related to food/drink consumption.


Does this mean that hearty/miraculous meals and such last longer now?

[MycahDavith]

Optional?

[Shinko]

Teal Server confirmed

[Obrae]

No mage nerf ?
Must be a mistake

[FatMice]

Damn. Huge nerf to bards.

[patrick210]

can we trade 100% loot for more exp and faction ? 100 exp and 75% faction , ill take that

[Tethler]

100% Bonus loot = double loot drops, or double chance for rare drops? Double coin?

[Vivitron]

Damn. Huge nerf to bards.

[scifo76]

Will the book be up when server is resetting?

[maximode]

Thanks! Y'all are awesome. Keep up the good work.

[Nibbles]

Loot bonus should be interesting. KC gonna be a mess

[Razzi]

"Optional"

[Paparoni]

::moo::

[Kodiak]

Bugs discovered

levitate is bugged, the bobbing is super fast, then when u click it off in mid air you are stuck in mid air and cannot move.

also mouse look sensitivity is locked on 1 slow speed and cannot be adjusted

[thieros]

Thanks Rogean, Nilbog, and Co.! Y'all are da best! Merry Christmas!

[Encroaching Death]

Time to tell my family that I'm "too sick to celebrate Christmas"

[Xer0]

Bugs discovered

levitate is bugged, the bobbing is super fast, then when u click it off in mid air you are stuck in mid air and cannot move.

also mouse look sensitivity is locked on 1 slow speed and cannot be adjusted

There's a whole forum dedicated to that.

[Healicious]

Still locked at 60fps, how does that work?

[Vivitron]

Thanks Rogean, Nilbog, and Co.! Y'all are da best! Merry Christmas!
This too!

[bivouac]

Still locked at 60fps, how does that work?

One common troubleshooting suggestion for frame drops while mouse turning was to lock eqgame.exe to 60fps max in your nvidia control panel. You might check to see if it's still set that way for your graphics card. I bumped mine up to 100fps and it's running faster.

[Ennewi]

/cheer
/applaud

Thanks Rogean, Nilbog, and Co.! Y'all are da best! Merry Christmas!

[loramin]

/cheer
/applaud

[Gustoo]

Crazy bonus for Christmas dannnnggggggg

Good work with the updates every time a new quest I didn’t know was broken gets fixed it’s so cool.

[Nisei]

My game is bugged, Lhranc didn't drop two SK epics

[Frysk]

Awesome, thank you

[ithaqua]

Yellow spell messages are back! Thanks for the great christmas gift )

[Jimjam]

Might the riposte aggro fix also effect aggro from ripostes caused by disciplines?

[Healicious]

One common troubleshooting suggestion for frame drops while mouse turning was to lock eqgame.exe to 60fps max in your nvidia control panel. You might check to see if it's still set that way for your graphics card. I bumped mine up to 100fps and it's running faster.

Thank you bro, totally forgot I seted 60fps max in my nvidia panel.
Testing this right now

[unleashedd]

double drop rate confirmed as such: if a mob has 100% drop rate on something, such as Ancient Cyclops with the ring, it will drop double. So I scored 6 rings in 4 hours today. Another confirmation is Sarnak Berzerkers all dualwield whips in Overthere ;)

[Tann]

Confirmed dorfs at the BB docks dropping 2 axes each, one also dropped a 2h fine steel sword.. Goro from MK style

Thanks staff, hopefully I can play more than a collective 5 hours over the next week <3

[Jimjam]

Guanonharvester dropped both sack and cloak

[hekk99]

Very interesting Christmas bonuses. Thank you.

One in-game irony of the double loot bonus is that some mobs will dual-wield two of the same lore item.

[Uthgaard]

Nilbong

:p

[Zwieback]

Gnoll pup dropped a guise!!!

[Jibartik]

Whoah grats!

[Reiwa]

Damn. Huge nerf to bards.

Explain

[dave3533]

Alright, who broke it? Fess up!

[Rogean]

Hotfix -

Mobs spawned by trigger (Quest Scripts) will no longer be affected by bonus loot.
Resolved some cases of faction modifications being affected by Bonus Faction when they shouldn't. Please petition if you need a faction reset as a result of this.

[Rogean]

Hotfix Version 2 -

Mobs that spawn by trigger can now drop bonus loot again.
Individual Loot Subtables can now be flagged to be unaffected by bonus loot, and we have set this flag on various tables (mostly Epic quest drops triggered by a previous turn in, and some others).

[Varja]

Thanks for Christmas bonuses, and the other fixes in the patch guys. Hope everyone has a good day.

[Raj]

Amazing :cool:

[Encroaching Death]

I'm currently sitting around seething and scowling at my happy family as they shower me in love and gifts.

"If they only knew that the Felwithe guards are dropping TWO swords right now..."

[dablackgoku1234]

how does one set the max FPS and have it presist? Mine defaults to 100fps every time

[Ananka]

I'm AFK from EQ for a couple days. I've set my WINEQ2 to 60 FPS but it only shows 35 max FPS out of 60 before the patch. Will this mean I'm actually playing at 60 now with the change or is there some other option I need to change to get to 60 FPS.

[shiningfury]

how does one set the max FPS and have it presist? Mine defaults to 100fps every time

I would also like to know how to make 60 fps a permanent setting. The patch notes mention an optional setting related to this but which file(s)?

[zelld52]

I'm AFK from EQ for a couple days. I've set my WINEQ2 to 60 FPS but it only shows 35 max FPS out of 60 before the patch. Will this mean I'm actually playing at 60 now with the change or is there some other option I need to change to get to 60 FPS.

Mine changed to 60 FPS without having to do anything on my end, besides patch

[Teddie1056]

So let me get this straight, you just nerfed every single warrior weapon, and now procs are basically all the same agro? That's definitely not classic.

[Barik]

So let me get this straight, you just nerfed every single warrior weapon, and now procs are basically all the same agro? That's definitely not classic.

[Gideion]

I think that it would be fun to add a 38% to lowbies / new toons, lvl 1-30. That would offer an influx of new maybe even over powered " twinked " players looking to lvl in fun zones.:D

[Kjinn22]

So let me get this straight, you just nerfed every single warrior weapon, and now procs are basically all the same agro? That's definitely not classic.

Nor is the Disease Cloud nerf

[long.liam]

I personally tested the hate generation with my brother and we found that the Hate generated for the SPAs scales with HP. I believe it's roughly MOB HP/15 up to a CAP of 1200 for Spells and 400 for procs per element. Stuns have the 1200 or 400 capped plus any dmg done. Flash of Light has two SPAs, AC debuff, plus blind which should be 2400 hate on a 18,000+ HP Mob. Need to do more testing when I have time. Wess was generating about 1200 Hate on the high HP mob. Lines up with my theory because the Blinding Poison III has 3 effects, Blind, AC Debuff, and 4 Poison counters.

[ScruffMacBuff]

That's interesting, but if your tests are correct then why are people reporting less aggro instead of more?

[long.liam]

That's interesting, but if your tests are correct then why are people reporting less aggro instead of more?

That depends on what people you are speaking of. If you're talking about the warriors tanking mobs in NTOV, then most likely it's a proc hate reduction. I don't know what the hate generation was on NTOV weapons, like the trident and all that stuff, but I would assume a lot of the weapons hate was nerfed. No idea if this was classic or not or not correct. My warrior is only 52 and he only has Frostbringer, Infestation, and WESS. I care less about it too. In case of SKs and Paladins complaining, I suspect that's a case of players trying to pull hate off of low HP mobs. Lower HP = Lower hate per spell cast. MY brother's druid could rip a Mistmoore low level NPC off of my paladin while he was powerleveling her. We tried this again with the Paineel Skelly guards in the Newbie area: Guard Heridion and Guard Menbuknar both of which are level 10 Guards with 18,000 HP. My brother's druid was easily able to rip these 2 mobs off of my paladin and hold aggro quite well. I parse the hate generation for Flamelick to rougly 1200 Hate. The aggro cap.

[random_noob]

Looks like the patch fixed my random numerous nightly kicks to desktop! It's been two playing sessions where it hasn't happened ... so thank you!

[Jimjam]

Root vs 40-50 mobs is making big aggro even on resist. Before you coukd throw a root at the start of the fight inconsequentially but now if you get a resist/early break the mob beelines at you.

Stun seems less aggro than before. Was able to chain stun on a wizard without having to worry about aggro when i stopped.

[long.liam]

Root vs 40-50 mobs is making big aggro even on resist. Before you coukd throw a root at the start of the fight inconsequentially but now if you get a resist/early break the mob beelines at you.

Stun seems less aggro than before. Was able to chain stun on a wizard without having to worry about aggro when i stopped.

Are you accounting for the Initial Aggro bonus? The 1st player to aggro an NPC gets a hate bonus.

What type of Mobs were you casting stuns on? What is there Total HP? Who was tanking? A paladin? A SK? Warrior? How long into the fight did you wait until casting stuns? Are you accounting for the Melee range bonus?

[Philistine]

Double loot has been super fun. Thank you!

[Jimjam]

Are you accounting for the Initial Aggro bonus? The 1st player to aggro an NPC gets a hate bonus.

What type of Mobs were you casting stuns on? What is there Total HP? Who was tanking? A paladin? A SK? Warrior? How long into the fight did you wait until casting stuns? Are you accounting for the Melee range bonus?

Monk puller, war tank. Lcy, hands, body guards, knights in kc. Stuns spammed on adds while enc was dealing with pet breaks or on hardest hitting mobs while melee meleed - didn’t take aggro.

Root resist from outside melee range after at least 2-3 rounds of swings would draw aggro.

[long.liam]

Monk puller, war tank. Lcy, hands, body guards, knights in kc. Stuns spammed on adds while enc was dealing with pet breaks or on hardest hitting mobs while melee meleed - didn’t take aggro.

Root resist from outside melee range after at least 2-3 rounds of swings would draw aggro.

Yea I tested Root hate with my brother, it seems to be producing the same amount of hate as the other non damaging SPAs: blind, ac debuff, snare etc. I don't think this is correct. I believe Root and Heal over time spells should be 10 hate.

[Vsai]

Rogean: Bards are now capped at 140 aggro per song/spell/proc in all circumstances.

I have been waiting for the above change since the clickie/aggro nerfs research was accepted. The issue is the numbers don't appear to align with the accepted research.

http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?t=39819


"Non-damaging detrimental bard song hate seems to be capped 40 on level 20+ NPCs."
"The bard cap of 40 also applies to clickable items."

Was that a typo in the patch notes? Or is there new source material we need to look at?

[Encroaching Death]

Anyone else noticed a decrease in aggro with SK?

[Renault]

Where's the classic justification for nerfing bard aggro generation?

[Jimjam]

Where's the classic justification for nerfing bard aggro generation?

Did you follow the link in post 70?

[Allishia]

Rogean: Bards are now capped at 140 aggro per song/spell/proc in all circumstances.

I have been waiting for the above change since the clickie/aggro nerfs research was accepted. The issue is the numbers don't appear to align with the accepted research.

http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?t=39819


"Non-damaging detrimental bard song hate seems to be capped 40 on level 20+ NPCs."
"The bard cap of 40 also applies to clickable items."

Was that a typo in the patch notes? Or is there new source material we need to look at?

That is really helpful, thank you for link. Now just hope they don't nerf the swing agro bonus for offhand weps lol

[Dolalin]

Rogean: Bards are now capped at 140 aggro per song/spell/proc in all circumstances.

I have been waiting for the above change since the clickie/aggro nerfs research was accepted. The issue is the numbers don't appear to align with the accepted research.

http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?t=39819

"Non-damaging detrimental bard song hate seems to be capped 40 on level 20+ NPCs."
"The bard cap of 40 also applies to clickable items."

Was that a typo in the patch notes? Or is there new source material we need to look at?

I'm also curious

[wuanahto]

Does Titanium have LDoN in it? I remember an agro nerf to spells that was enemy level dependent vs the level of the spell learned in it.

Like Paladin Stun(30) and Holy Might(49) was not affect.. effective at level 60/65. There were also way later spells called Cease(9) and Desist(15) for paladin stuns that were shit for agro past a certain level.

[Jimjam]

Does Titanium have LDoN in it? I remember an agro nerf to spells that was enemy level dependent vs the level of the spell learned in it.

Like Paladin Stun(30) and Holy Might(49) was not affect.. effective at level 60/65. There were also way later spells called Cease(9) and Desist(15) for paladin stuns that were shit for agro past a certain level.

That kinda stuff would be calculated server side so the client used oughtn't make a difference. I imagine.

[skwayb]

Where are these "OPTIONAL" Files to increase FPS. I don't see them in the zip file anywhere.

[Encroaching Death]

Anyone else noticed a decrease in aggro with SK?

[wuanahto]

This is nuts. 55 necro passing through checking on a camp. Was camped by a small group. I go to log out not even buffing them or anything. Sitting agro being 20 levels higher than the NPC overpowered a disease cloud and whatever that blue sparkle thing is shadowknights have.

Hearts out to non-war or poor-war tanks when the new server hits.

[wuanahto]

Im thinking Classic had a high baseline agro on said spells/procs
And later xpacs reduced the baseline agro to give the "bonus agro" to current xpac spells/procs

yup, that sounds about right
i just want to play my low level rogue again. banded armor and a crystalline dagger and i am an elder god king of agro in mistmoore

[Encroaching Death]

Where are these "OPTIONAL" Files to increase FPS. I don't see them in the zip file anywhere.

Yeah, same.

Now my screen skips when I mouse turn.

I guess I have to reduce my max FPS in the eqclient.ini file

[Encroaching Death]

Where are these "OPTIONAL" Files to increase FPS. I don't see them in the zip file anywhere.

Anyone know the answer to this one?

[GuyBrush Threepwood]

Looks like these patches are actually fixing crash issues I no longer get memory read errors on windows 11. No idea if any of this is actually classic or not but whatever still enjoying the server.

[Encroaching Death]

Anyone know the answer to this one?

[Khaleesi]

Surprised there are not more comments /replies, this patch release sounds...awful

Kinda feel like this stuff should be on Green only, and leave Blue alone - let it be what it is and retire in peace.

[damianadodd]

Can I just stop by and express my disappointment for P99 nerfing Hole xp, so the crappy loot finally hurt enough to send people XPing in Velks and THEN nerfing whatever zone the Bards liked kiting in (I forget which) so now the Bards all swarm Velks every damn day, sending everyone to XP (on Blue anyway) in Karnors.. which is now the only PUG XP zone in the game 50+. Thanks!

[kaev]

Does Titanium have LDoN in it? I remember an agro nerf to spells that was enemy level dependent vs the level of the spell learned in it.

Like Paladin Stun(30) and Holy Might(49) was not affect.. effective at level 60/65. There were also way later spells called Cease(9) and Desist(15) for paladin stuns that were shit for agro past a certain level.

Cease & Desist came out with Luclin release, so not "way later" but still out of era for this server. Can't recall when they introduced level caps on stuns, may have been during PoP (iirc there was a combat revamp during PoP), but the implementation was that if mob was immune to a spell it gave zero (or 1?) agro. However stuns were still great agro in Luclin, lazy paladins boasted about their "agro button" (macro that had all available zero damage stuns one per line, first one not on cooldown would get cast.) No idea why they'd nerf cast stun agro here.

[DeliciousHalflings]

Can I just stop by and express my disappointment for P99 nerfing Hole xp, so the crappy loot finally hurt enough to send people XPing in Velks and THEN nerfing whatever zone the Bards liked kiting in (I forget which) so now the Bards all swarm Velks every damn day, sending everyone to XP (on Blue anyway) in Karnors.. which is now the only PUG XP zone in the game 50+. Thanks!

Easy solution...nerf Bard kiting. Literally everyone on every server except Bards think it's a major issue, especially when the greedy flute slurpers take most of a zone for their 1hr+ bullshit. Fuck Bards.

[killerbeebs]

Vindi bp.... Why.... Why.... I need answers.... Vindi Bp is a phase spider carapace now

[loramin]

I don't think you're going to get any.

The last bug thread on the chestplate was https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=161840, which determined that it should be black ... back in 2013.

Evidently, some time since that thread, Nilbog decided it should be brown with a smiley face instead (on some races at least). Presumably he found some in-era evidence (either a screenshot from back in the day, or a site that listed the fashion categories of items, like say a ShowEQ log) ... but it could just be him trolling us.

Either way, without a bug thread Nilbog is the only one who knows, and he's very unlikely to explain himself, because that's just not how he rolls.