Miscellaneous: patch timeline:

[kalzin]

Items bolded are geared towards incorrect or not-available items/updates...

July-Dec 2000
Stand Out Occurrences:
- NPCs stop saying "hit by non-melee for XX points" (July 19)
- Wurmslayer becomes a one-hand slasher (Aug. 9) Sorry guys, it was origonally 2hs
- Epic quests are introduced (Sept. 19)
- Players are now able to exceed 200 in one tradeskill (Sept. 19)
- Corpses of NPCs 55th level or higher get 30-minute decay timers (Sept. 28)
- Pauses are added to socials, /camp command added (Sept. 28)
- Velious goes live (Dec. 6)
- NPCs gain RAMPAGE and FLURRY abilities (Velious Release)

Jan-June 2000
Stand Out Occurrences:
- Plane of Sky is introduced (Jan.)
- Casters respawn with no mana after being killed by a player (Feb. 3)Players spawn now with no mana reguardless of PK or NPC death...
- City of Paineel is introduced (Feb. 17)
- Erudites can now be Shadowknights (Feb. 17)
- Rogues get the Evade ability (Feb. 17)
- Deity-specific items are introduced (Apr. 10)are these in yet?
- Kerra Ridge and Splitpaw are revamped to higher level (Apr. 10)
- Kunark goes live with a new level cap of 60 (Apr. 21)
- Newbie guards get buffed to their current levels (May)
- The Hole is introduced (June 22)
- Lady Vox and Lord Nagafen are no longer attackable by players over 52nd level

[nilbog]

Originally Posted by kalzin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

- Wurmslayer becomes a one-hand slasher (Aug. 9) Sorry guys, it was origonally 2hs

It doesn't say that. The patch indicates wurmslayer becoming a 1hs. It could have been a 1hand blunt. In this case, it was piercing. :P

Originally Posted by kalzin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

- Casters respawn with no mana after being killed by a player (Feb. 3)Players spawn now with no mana reguardless of PK or NPC death...

Are you suggesting that since pvp kills yielded no mana, that pve should yield mana? Need specifics, but this patch doesn't say that.

Originally Posted by kalzin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

- Deity-specific items are introduced (Apr. 10)are these in yet?

Which ones?

[Feachie]

Originally Posted by nilbog [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Are you suggesting that since pvp kills yielded no mana, that pve should yield mana? Need specifics, but this patch doesn't say that.

patch doesn't say it but it implies that a death by an npc is treated differently.

[Rais]

The no mana from pvp duels was caused by a guy named Raistin flying though levels. He had a stern talking to from some GMs about it.

Lady D rocked tho!

NPC deaths was different and not treated as duel deaths. On here tho as a caster, you don't respawn with full mana.

[kalzin]

I do appologize, apparently it was 2hs, piercing, and landed finally on 1hs... I'll post the db reference but im pretty sure gordon may be correct.

Official_EverQuest_Forums [ 11:14 AM EDT ] - Ogamok
Gordon had the following to say here on the Official Everquest Message Boards


What we *really* need is a "polearm" skill. We really don't like the idea of paladins wielding daggers or rapiers, but really wouldn't have a problem with them using lances and polearms. Unfortunately, new skills aren't technically feasible at this time.

In any case, the change from 2HS to piercing was a mistake, and it's been switched to 1HS to go live with the next patch.

-Gordon

pulled from a meta-search using LawTSI's LAW50 EDD function and
http://web.archive.org/web/200006220...assCookie=true

[kalzin]

well this isn't much but heres the db entries...
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