Patch Notes: December 1st, 2014

[Tankdan]

Gamma is making EQ unplayable right now, hope this was not intentional.

It's just going to cause people to use 3rd party gamma changers.

[Kenzi]

Can't test anything if I can't see it.

[Vicatin]

Its so....dark. Yikes... that cant be intentional right?

[Raev]

I am also curious about the adjustment of mob cooldown/da/dw chance. I couldn't find it by searching the forums.

[Titanx]

Kanras: Reduced Make Poison skill cap to 200.
I think there is an issue with decreasing Rogues Make Poison skill:

From patch notes: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/hist...es-2000-2.html

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July 19, 2000 7:00 am
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***Patch Day***

*Miscellaneous Changes/Fixes*

- The "Safe Points" have been moved in Field of Bone and Lake of Ill
Omen to someplace "safer".
- You can no longer cast invisibility on any pet.
- Foul language issued through /emote will now be handled by the
profanity filter.
- Corrected a bug that allowed linkdead players to walk through locked
doors.
- Rangers above level 50 will now do double damage with Archery against
non-moving, non-rooted targets. These restrictions allowed us to
enhance archery without creating a new kiting problem.
- Corrected a bug that had rangers doing less melee damage than was
intended except when fighting an NPC who was also a ranger.
- Pets, both PC and NPC, will no longer cast "Gate".
- A large rat says, "Hit by non-melee for XXX damage", is history. The
new message given probably isn't the source of never-ending humor that
the old one was.
- Updated pathing information in Innothule Swamp.
- Corrected many, many, MANY spelling and grammar errors in the world.
- Fixed a large number of spell gems and spellbook icons. Take care to
take a look at your spell lineup to familiarize yourself with the new
gems/icons.

*Poison*

- Implemented the high level Rogue poisons (level 51+).
- Increased Rogue "Make Poison" skill cap.
- Substantially reduced chance to fail "Apply Poison".
- Rogues will now automatically sit when right-clicking on a poison.
- Failure to make a poison will now return the vial.


Since we are already past this date in the timeline, why would you go back to 200?

[Tankdan]

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Not playable without another 3rd party program.

Edit: And it ruins my gamma outside of game.. frustrating.
Edit2: It's actually much darker than that pic indicates, after rebooting that screenshot got much lighter until I load EQ again and my gamma screws up. I can't even see my character in ThurgA if I zoom out.

[hammertime7795]

Yeah was to dark for me today even in a dark room.

[Skew]

Its really dark. Like neckbeard basement dark.

[karsten]

something's fubar with it being too dark

I use wineq2, if that helps with troubleshooting. It looks like the game swings the gamma way down as soon as it begins to log onto a server

[Faited]

Thank you, devs, & all the testers for making this happen!

1) Having a bear of a time getting the spell files to work.
2) Finally was able to get in-game, but everything was too dark so i re-logged to reset settings & BAM! spell files error again /sigh

3) I think Titanx (in his comment above) is correct in that reducing the Make Poison cap will cause problems in the (near) future. I wish I could remember how that all went back in the day, it's been SO long. I was the first Rogue on Xegony to attain 200 Make Poison & 200 Apply Poison back on Live. I used to keep super detailed notes but that's not helping me now since the hard drive they were on took a nosedive yrs ago.......off to do more research.