May 2026 Everquest Test Server Patch Notes

Hello and welcome to some EverQuest test server patch notes uh for the test server. >> [laughter] >> So, for May uh May 2026. All right, let’s uh let’s stop messing this up here. All right, highlights. Raid difficulty NPCs will now give a 2 and 1/2 minute instead of 5 out of combat timer. Uh that is an improvement, but uh feels too long still. Uh items, Bramble Thing and uh Short Spear of Resonant Fracture uh should both now have their particle effects. Uh fixed an issue where free storage key items would count towards the items. All right, well I always I always wondered what that actually meant, free storage, right? Like uh cuz like you put it in the bank, right? And it still takes up a bank slot, so it’s not free storage in the bank, but it’s I guess free storage in dragon hoard or uh any of the [clears throat] key rings, so. Always something I was always curious about. Uh created a new time lock progression starter pack for Frost River. Uh who else is excited for Frost River? I I literally uh the day before uh yesterday, I bought the uh the remaining uh pack of the Fangbreaker once, so I was uh good to go and have a little extra baggage, if you will. So, that’ll be fun. Uh also, the one that the server opens, we’ll be able to get uh two uh 40 42 something slot bags, so that’ll be nice. Quests and events. Town Ghast, now this is a Shattered Row raid, adjusted the center point and radius of the tether. Talon Ghast raid, single target heals should now affect good eggs. Spirit Tangle, uh this is the spite raid, uh Spite Tangle, I guess. I don’t know why I said spirit. Spite Tangle, or the raid uh existing issue with the uh cracked achievement. As a part of the fixed prisons will now despawn their health drops approximately 15%. Spite Tangle, this is this covers the mission, the the raid, and the base open world zone. Changed the Spite zone geometry and the pathing in the large open room in the sewers to reduce the instances of NPCs going under the floor. That is the opposite of the problem I’m having when I play in the sewers. Um now, unless they’re talking about the mobs above the floor uh coming down, cuz that’s that’s what I get, right? You heroic leap, you aggro everything that you heroic leap arc against, and it comes down crashing upon you. And uh you know, help you if you don’t have if you don’t have the power to take whatever comes at you. Uh which is definitely difficult. Uh so definitely hopefully that’s an improvement because uh uh honestly, it makes me avoid that zone entirely because of the uh of that. Echo of Hate raid, the wax oozes should cover more of the raid area. The its aura is also larger radius. Spiteful Machinations, this is a quest in Labyrinth of Spite. Uh Drew Zalmar will now talk to players regardless of level, but will only grant the task Spiteful Machinations if you are 115 or higher. So, you know, 115’s like the the men you can go into these, I think. I think you can get task added at like uh 110. But uh you need to be like 115 to to hang. Uh hybrid melee and Uh, hybrid melee classes, adjusted the existing progressive abilities to fix the three ways that they had been falling behind both content and other abilities. Rank one of the new ability is now equal to rank six of the previous previous ability. What? And all of the ranks are upgrades. We’re targeting June for similar upgrades for priests and casters. Okay. It sounds like the progressive ability. So, this is like the What is it? What’s I can’t even think of the that dichotomy fury, right? Uh, that’s the Beastlord line, right? Whatever that fury line, the uh Uh, there’s a whole line. Everybody gets one. Uh, so it looks like this is going to upgrade those all significantly, like crazy significantly. All right. Uh, so it looks like June. So, this is from May, June. So, next month, next patch, they’re going to get the casters and the priests, right? All right. So, this is hybrid and melee classes. All right. So, this this is the warrior one, the ranger one. All right. So, that makes more sense. Uh, Beastlord, in addition to the larger upgrades to the fury line, they’ve added new boost to the pet critical melee damage that improves along with the amount of HP, mana, and endurance the line retains. That sounds pretty interesting. Uh, I use this on cool down on my Beastlord, so I mean, I don’t know if that’s the correct way to do it, but Uh, that’s how I do it, so that’s uh that’s what it is. Uh, but uh Blurb did sound happy about it in Discord. He did mention that uh there is this this he mentioned this, so Uh, so it sounds like it’s probably a good thing. I mean, if if it is, so Uh, we we will be playing a Beastlord uh main on uh Frostriver, but it is going to uh be a while before we get that line of spells. Uh probably 2 years. >> [laughter] >> Maybe 3. Updated the achievements that all reciprocal progressive abilities from the outer brood use the advancement used for advancement. All right, so update all the achievements. Ring two and three can now be obtained by accomplishments uh from Lorien’s song and not a shadow night night of shadows. Obtain the ranks. What? [laughter] This makes no sense. Updated the achievements that all reciprocal progressive abilities from the outer brood. All right. They’re used for advancement. Ring two and three can now be obtained by accomplish ments from Lorien’s song and not night of shadows. The ranks obtained from achievements in the outer brood are unchanged. I Yeah, you got me there. >> [snorts and laughter] >> Uh I’m the the best I can the best I can read this is since rank one is is being buffed, right? >> [music] >> And is equivalent to the old raid version, I guess, right? Rank six. Now, rank two and three can be obtained uh additionally from doing Lorien’s song progression. So, ideally, if you’ve already done a Lorien’s song progression, you’re going to start at rank three in the new system. Or if you’ve already completed the outer brood, you’ll be back at rank six, right? Uh which will give you even more power. I don’t know what the differences are on those. We’ll have to look at those after the patch goes live and see. Uh but it sounds pretty crazy. Uh strong buff. I mean, like I I find like when I click it on my warrior, I still so can’t remember the name of it. Uh when I click the one on the warrior, right? Like I feel like I’m I’m tanky. I feel like I’m I’m good to go for a little bit. I I can I treat it as a mini defensive. So, uh if it’s better than that, I mean, hell yeah. Uh Magician corrected the description for Dazzle’s Deafening Decoy to properly reflect that it consumes Malachite, not Peridot. Didn’t I know that it would consume Malachite every time I cast that? I I used to cast that I think if it’s a lower level subs uh sub 60 mage ship swarm pet. I used to cast that all the time on my on my mages, but uh that’s interesting. Uh NPCs raid difficulty NPCs will now give two and a half instead of five out of combat timer. Consider Consider a encountered locked NPC will now show who it is locked to. Miscellaneous typos were fixed in the components and collections items for the Claws of Viniction a achievement altered velium. Nice. Uh fixed DX11 memory corruption that caused random client crashes. Using the {{}slash} hot button command with a very long argument will no longer crash the client. Fixed a zone crash that occurred in raid instances. Added a fix for zone crash involving inventory item processing. Fixed an issue where mounts could die if hit by an area of effect spell soon too too soon after being summoned. >> [laughter] >> That one’s funny. Fixed an awkward camera bounce on certain mounts while in first person view, like the rabbit. Partial stacks uh partial item stacks can now be combined in the activated item keyring by picking up one and placing it onto another. Interesting. I >> [music] >> tried to think of activated items that can stack. Maybe potions can go in there now? I don’t know. I thought I didn’t think they could. Depositing the stackable items to the activated items ring will now attempt to fill any partials. Okay, so maybe you can put potions in there now, huh? I didn’t know. >> [laughter] >> I totally totally didn’t know that. Uh UI, the borderless full screen checkbox in the options dialogue uh has now will now behave itself. All right. Mitigated a crash where reentering the world after camping out at the server select screen while full screen exclusive mode. I’ve had that happen a few times where you camp out and you just crash and there’s no fix. All right. Previously updated the fix an event scheduling bug that prevented the Tempest Festival NPCs from appearing. I think they hot fixed that the other day. All right, so uh kind of light light patch this month, I would say. Uh some raid fixes. I I don’t know how bad these are. I mean, I’m I’m I’m sure all the raids have been completed, right? I mean uh so at this point. So, I would assume that’s not that. But, the bags, that’s a nice highlight, right? You know, those are you know, some of the best value bags you can buy in all honesty outside of House of Thule uh uh expansion bags, but uh cuz you get if you buy the the thing, you get two bags, right? Two bags. Like uh let me see here. Here we go. Like everquest.com. And then uh yeah. So, if we go over here, Fang Breaker. Uh no. Don’t expose me. Don’t expose my information. There we go. Packs. There we go. So, this is this is going to be it’s literally going to be the same thing as this, right? It’s just going to be renamed. So, if you buy this one, right? You get the lunch box and it’s a 40 slot bag, right? It’s lore, though. If you buy this, and $20. If you buy this one, it’s 34, you get the 40 slot bag, plus you get this back, plus you get 3x uh experience potions, plus 5x experience potions, you get all this other stuff. Now, these things These None of these are like heirlooms, so you have to like whatever cleric character you claim this on, you uh you pretty much you’re stuck with it forever um until you use them, so something to consider there. But the uh House of Dual over here is like the best value in the world because these are all 999999 claim, right? So, effectively, you’re never going to run out of House of Dual mounts or House of Dual bags unless you do something really dumb. Uh but uh pretty cool, and you get the discordant contract, so you can get the uh the uh imp mercenary, right? Uh so, it’s pretty cool. But uh yeah, this will be updated with the new version. So, hopefully, they’re not 40 slot, they’re more like 42, 44. Uh that would be nice. I feel like I mean, I think I have a 50 slot bag from uh doing hunters, so >> [laughter] >> I feel like 40 slot is a little small, if you ask me. I mean, I think my uh Journeyman Warrior, his smallest bag is 44 slots, so uh you know, you know, moving up with the times there, you know, you get to get to the bigger bags, but uh uh definitely uh that’ll be an option. That seems to be the highlight of this, if you ask me. But uh yeah, so there you go. That’s the test server patch notes. As always, these typically go live exactly like they are. Sometimes Sometimes, I’m gifted with a new thing to say in the next video. Um but uh most of the time, they will go live like this. There might be an you know, another detail like nerfing shaman bots, randomly. Uh definitely uh uh something interesting to see. Uh but uh definitely uh we’ll see where this goes. And I am not going to read the comments, [laughter] but uh you can. I’ll link this in the description. 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