It is with incredible sadness that we join the rest of the gaming community in mourning the passing of Brad "Aradune" McQuaid. As one of the lead designers, programmers and later the Producer of EverQuest, it was his and John Smedley's "Vision" that introduced so many of us to the world of MMORPGs. On a personal note from Dolby and I, you changed our lives. Without you, our sites wouldn't exist. Thank you. We will miss you. Rest in peace, Aradune.

UI

• Made improvements to taunt messages:

• Taunt messages are sent to all players in the area, and include the name of the NPC being taunted.
• Added a new chat filter for taunt messages.
• Failing to capture your target's attention is more clearly indicated as a partial success.
• Added a message when a player obtains aggro using an aggro lock ability (Ex: Undivided Attention).
• Taunt spells are no longer blocked by spells locking an NPC's aggro.
• Sends a single message to players in the area when someone uses an area effect taunt (Ex: Area Taunt).

• NPC tells are now formatted as 'Soandso told you' while player tells (including cross server tells) appear as 'Soandso tells you.'
• Removed an extra space from raid chat messages.
• Changed the format of tells from tell windows when writing to the log. They now use the same format as regular tells.

Source and full patch notes.

UI

• Fixed an issue that caused formatting data to be printed to log files when considering a rare creature.
• Fixed a bug with the advanced loot window that prevented 'Link All' from functioning.
• The Spell Damage filter should be working again.

• Spell damage messages from NPCs casting on others now display resist type and the spell name, and the spell emote is displayed on a separate line, similar to player direct damage spells.
• Scripted spell damage dealt to other players is now visible.

• The chat filter for Pet Spells now respects if you have Pet Spells set to hide in the options.
• Corrected an issue where kill shots were not being reported.
• The 'Highlight New Messages' chat tab option will now persist between logging in and out.
• Increased the displayed precision of self-only hit points, mana, endurance, and experience.

Changed

• EQUI_AAWindow.xml
• EQUI_Inventory.xml
• EQUI_PlayerWindow.xml

Source and full patch notes.

Highlights

• Mounts now show their speed in the item display window.
• Progression servers that have not reached Underfoot now allow players at level 20 and higher to use the Extended Target Window.
• Track now indicates whether your target is above or below you.

UI

• Adjusted the Tribute Master window to allow the description pane to be resized.
• Items with limited charges will now display the remaining number of charges when placed in a keyring.

• Hotbuttons made from keyring items will now display recast time and remaining number of charges.

• Added a message in the chat window when players are invited to an instance.

Changed

• EQUI_TributeMasterWnd.xml

Source and full patch notes.

Highlights

• There are no longer Progression Server specific spawns in open world zones for Classic, Kunark, Velious, or Luclin bosses. These bosses now spawn at an accelerated rate on all servers, roughly twice the rate that they previously spawned on Live servers. Fabled versions of these NPCs should now work correctly on Progression Servers.
• Added several statless mounts to the Marketplace for progression servers.

• These new mounts are available for purchase starting with the unlock of Shadows of Luclin and will remain available until Omens of War unlocks, at which point standard Marketplace mounts become available for purchase.
• These new mounts are equivalent in speed to silk bridles.

• Removed the race specific restrictions on evolving items obtained from The Burning Lands. These evolving items will now gain experience from any experience-giving NPCs slain in The Burning Lands zones and Gnome Memorial Mountain.
• Increased the range that direct-damage and damage-over-time spell messages are reported from 75 feet to 200 feet.

UI

• Attempting to open the Faction Window while shrouded will no longer cause a client crash.
• If a task rewards a faction change, the Task Window will now correctly link to that faction in your Faction Window.
• Disabled the context menu to move the main chat tab into another chat window.
• Fixed an issue that prevented audio triggers from matching text that contains formatting data such as spell or item links.
• Riposte messages are now reported before their resulting hit damage.
• Added the ability to customize the color that chat windows are highlighted with when displaying a new message.
• Dealing direct-damage with spells now reports the caster as 'You' rather than your name.
• Fixed a messaging issue where non-song spells activated by bards would report as the bard 'singing' the spell.
• Moved spell reflect messages to the spell failures chat filter.
• Changed a number of places where the name of a spell is displayed in chat to have that name function as a link to the spell description:

• Spell interrupts, fizzles, and reflect messages now contain the name of the spell that failed.
• Messages indicating the start of a spell cast now include a link to the spell description.
• Messages indicating that a spell has worn off now include a link to the spell description.
• The spell name in damage reporting messages will now function as a link to the spell description.

Source and full patch notes.

Highlights

• Added tabs to chat windows. See the UI section for more details.
• Look to the Marketplace this month for the Gnomish Heritage Crate. Each crate contains a random item. Trade these Gnomish Heritage items to your friends or collect them all yourself!
• Added new emotes. See Miscellaneous for more information below.
• Updated the appearance of the Gloomingdeep Mines.
• This Saturday the 16th, keep an eye out for brand new progression servers and new content featuring: Gnome Memorial Mountain!

UI

• Corrected an issue where DoT damage on players would display the victim's name instead of the caster's name.
• Improved the layout of the Marketplace window.
• Direct damage spells caused by a twincast now have a flag at the end of the damage message instead of a separate twincast message. Twincasts of melee abilities are now indicated as twinstrikes.
• Added the option to blink the active chat window when you begin typing.
• Added tabs for chat. All existing chat windows will be put into new tabbed chat windows and will appear where they were placed before.

• You can move tabs around in the existing windows, or send the tabs to other windows.
• When using tell windows, by default all of the tells will go into a single tell window in separate tabs instead of opening a new window for each tell.

Added

• EQUI_ChatContainerWindow.xml

Changed

• EQUI.xml
• EQUI_Animations.xml
• EQUI_ChatWindow.xml
• EQUI_MarketplaceWnd.xml
• EQUI_OptionsWindow.xml

Source and full patch notes.