Update Notes - May 20, 2026

Highlights

Raid difficulty NPCs will now give a two and a half minute (instead of five) out-of-combat timer.

Bramblefang and Short Spear of Resonant Fracture should both now have their particle effects.
Fixed an issue where Free Storage key ring items would count towards used slots.
Fixed an issue where you could equip multiple augments in the same Lore Equipped Group.
Created new Time Locked Progression starter packs for Frostreaver, available when the server opens.
Consuming Magic found on group-tier Necromancer robes from Shattering of Ro and raid-tier Necromancer robes from The Outer Brood should now work correctly for spells up to level 130.

Tallongast (Raid) - Adjusted the center point and radius of the tether area.
Tallongast (Raid) - Single-target heals should now affect good eggs.
Spitetangle (Raid) - Fixed an issue with the "Cracked" achievement. As part of the fix, the prisons will now despawn when their health drops to approximately 15%.
Spitetangle (Base, Mission, and Raid) - Changed the Spite zone geometry and the pathing in the large open room of the sewers to reduce the instances of NPCs going under the floor.
Echo of Hate (Raid) - The Wax oozes should cover more of the raid area. Its aura is also a larger radius.
Spiteful Machinations (Quest) - In the Labyrinth of Spite, Drew Xiomar will now talk to all players regardless of level but will only grant the task Spiteful Machinations if level 115 or higher.
You can no longer swap to a higher level persona while assigned to an Lost Dungeons of Norrath adventure.

Hybrid and Melee Classes - Adjusted existing Progressive abilities to fix the three ways they had been falling behind both content and other abilities. Rank 1 of a new ability is now equal to Rank 6 of the previous ability and all other ranks are upgrades. We are targeting June for a similar upgrade for Caster and Priest classes.
Beastlord - In addition to the larger upgrades to the Dichotomic Fury line, added a new boost to Pet Critical Melee Damage that improves along with the amount of HP, Mana, and Endurance that the line returns.
Magician - Corrected the description for Dyzil's Deafening Decoy to properly reflect that it consumes Malachite, not Peridot.
Updated the achievements that all Reciprocal Progressive abilities from The Outer Brood use for advancement. Ranks 2 and 3 can now be obtained by accomplishments from Laurion's Song and not Night of Shadows, The ranks obtained from achievements in The Outer Brood are unchanged.

Raid difficulty NPCs will now give a two and a half minute (instead of five) out-of-combat timer.
Considering an Encounter Locked NPC will now show who it is locked to.

Implemented a method for players to lower their level on Vaniki and Frostreaver so they do not have to create corpse piles to lower their level to meet challenges. Seek out a Priest of Discord.

Typos were fixed in the components and collection items for the Claws of Veeshan achievement: Altered Velium.
Fixed DX11 memory corruption that caused random client crashes.
Using the /hotbutton command with a very long argument will no longer crash the client.
Fixed a zone crash that could occur in raid instances.
Added a speculative fix for a zone crash involving inventory item processing.
Fixed an issue where mounts could die if hit by an area effect spell soon after being summoned.
Fixed awkward camera bounce when on certain mounts while in first person view.
Partial item stacks can now be combined in the Activated Items keyring by picking one up and placing it onto another.
Depositing stackable items into the Activated Items keyring will now attempt to fill any partial stacks in the keyring even if the keyring is full.

The borderless fullscreen checkbox in the Options Display window now behaves itself.
Mitigated a crash when re-entering the world after camping out to server select screen, while in fullscreen exclusive mode.

Fixed an event scheduling bug that prevented the Tempest Festival NPCs from appearing.

- The EverQuest Team