EVERQUEST II EXTENDED
Fixed a bug causing Platinum subscribers to not be able to use the shared bank.

USER INTERFACE
Fixed a bug that would cause your AA slider to reset to 50% upon zoning.
Sort by current zone for the quest journal now properly puts the current zone quests at the top of the list.
We have disabled the spells from replacing old ones in the hotbar until we can track down a bug regarding it.

SHADER 3.0
Fixed an issue causing parts of some structures in Halas to show as wireframe.

ITEMS
Torque of the War Blade and Ring of the Vice Vigoth now have resists added to their stats.
Runic Deflection on Band of Mreeptahp’s Fury now correctly wards your target.

STONEBRUNT HIGHLANDS
The King Speleothem multi-stage event in Stonebrunt Highlands should now be fixed. Player should now be able to progress through the stages and fight the end boss.

UNDERFOOT DEPTHS
Zaalax, Xaalax, Saalax and Yaalax : Seismic shock should strike the correct targets named by Zaalax.

This coming weekend will have a double experience bonus, kicking off on September 3rd at 10AM PDT and concluding on September 7th at 10AM PDT. Adventurer, Alternate Advancement and Tradeskill experience will all have a 100% bonus applied to them. This bonus weekend will affect all US, French, German, Japanese, Test and EQ2 Extended servers.

On the 20th of this month, the phases of the moon will once again be aligned, revealing the secretive grottos. Moonlight Enchantments will run from 12:01AM PDT on September 20th and will conclude at 11:59PM PDT on September 21st. No new items are expected to be on the grotto merchants.

Eight new druid rings in Norrath still feature the Druid Ring Reconstruction Event quests. Complete these repeatable quests to earn tokens that can be exchanged for special reward items, several of which are unique to this event. Players who have helped out with at least ten different tasks for the rings can assist Kurista in fulfilling the Path of the Prophet. This event is expected to remain until Game Update 58.

This coming weekend will have a double experience bonus, kicking off on September 3rd at 10AM PDT and concluding on September 7th at 10AM PDT. Adventurer, Alternate Advancement and Tradeskill experience will all have a 100% bonus applied to them. This bonus weekend will affect all US, French, German, Japanese, Test and EQ2 Extended servers.

On the 20th of this month, the phases of the moon will once again be aligned, revealing the secretive grottos. Moonlight Enchantments will run from 12:01AM PDT on September 20th and will conclude at 11:59PM PDT on September 21st. No new items are expected to be on the grotto merchants.

Eight new druid rings in Norrath still feature the Druid Ring Reconstruction Event quests. Complete these repeatable quests to earn tokens that can be exchanged for special reward items, several of which are unique to this event. Players who have helped out with at least ten different tasks for the rings can assist Kurista in fulfilling the Path of the Prophet. This event is expected to remain until Game Update 58.

Account services, including account maintenance, all commerce, and Station Store will be down for maintenance for 3 hours on Thursday, September 2, 2010, from 5:00 am PDT to 8:00 am PDT.

The Station Store and all commerce avenues will be unavailable for the duration of maintenance. This may also affect the performance of the forums and any or all accounts’ abilities to log in.

Here’s our handy Time Zone Conversion Tool to help you plan!

See the hotfix patch notes below the jump!

EVERQUEST II EXTENDED

• Classes can now be purchased individually off the Marketplace and through character creation.
• Armor crates have been added to the Marketplace selling sets of armor for all levels.
• You can now purchase Broker Credits from the marketplace!
• Broker Credits can be used for a one-time purchase or sell action on the broker for Bronze and Silver members.
• Selling and purchasing stacks of items count as a single broker credit so use them wisely!

USER INTERFACE

• The XP bar will now stay put through relogging.
• The bonus xp from max level characters now displays properly at character select.
• Your UI settings should now be restored after using the /loadui command.
• The mini-map zone name will now display correctly after using /loadui.
• Fixed a bug where using /loadui while banking would keep you from using the banker until you zoned or logged out.
• Fixed a highlight bug on the city selection page of character create.
• Parts of the achievement interface and all of the paperdoll windows that were red will now be blue when loading the “Default Blue” skin.
• The background color of the paperdoll is now exposed to the UI files via the PaperdollBackgroundColor property.
• Fixed a bug causing coin to not be draggable to the coin section of the Character window.
• The Character window has undergone a few changes:
• The Auto-Inventory area has returned.
• The stats dropdownbox has been replaced with buttons
• The main tabs were moved back to the top of the window, sub-tabs were moved to the bottom.
• Your character’s name was moved to the titlebar.

WELCOME WINDOW

• The item of the week will display the item of the week description rather than a copy of the message of the day.
• The Sentinel’s Fate Daily Mission now appears on the Welcome screen.

QUESTS

• Adventurers looking to worship Anashti Sul and on the quest “Gathering Feathers” should now be able to locate the necessary scroll within Gorowyn’s Grand Atheneum.
• Darklight Wood: You can now defeat ghoulish Nerian to update your quest.
• Feral Citizenry: Ghoulish Nerians should no longer remain in an “unattackable” state after being exposed to the Strobe of Innoruuk.
• The statue of Razorwing Steeldown within “Ascent of the Awakened” will now grant a replacement “Totem of Aaryonar” to anyone who has lost it and completed the quest “The Riddle of Razorwing.”
• The “Totem of Aaryonar” is no longer removed upon completion of the quest “Feeding the Flames.”  It is now removed upon completion of the quest “A Final Froglok Word.”

ITEMS

• Troubadors who have completed the quest “An Ayonic Journey” can now read all of the pages within the book, “The Case of the Lost Lute.”
• The wicked wand of malice has been altered. The effect attached to the wand is now an on equip effect. The 10% cast speed on hostile spells has been changed to a generic 10% cast speed mod attached to the item.
• Roehn Theer: Godslayer Breastplate rewards have been made more in line with the challenge.
• Shroud of the Faithful is now claimable one per character.
• Fixed a rendering issue with Dendroxa the Envenomed.
• Stigmatic Frenzy now correctly triggers on the caster’s group.

ABILITIES

• Damage Reflection abilities can no longer do more than 300% of the max health of the caster before Crit Bonus and Potency.

Inquisitor

• Chilling Invigoration is now correctly modified by the Inquisitor’s stances.

POPULATION

• Stonebrunt Highlands: NPC Combatants found outside of Quel’ule should no longer fly up into the sky.

ASCENT OF THE AWAKENED

• Drop rate of the “Ornate Winged Eye” has been increased and should now drop even if mobs are grey.

THE VIGILANT: INFILTRATION

• There should now be a new respawn area in the beginning section once the first two groups of Zeklings have been defeated, thus keeping the circle of death from occurring.

ICY KEEP: RETRIBUTION

• Kastus & Odaufe should no longer one shot players with their respective frostbite damage shields. It is still recommended players not hit them with the wrong damage type however as they can still easily kill players with them.
• Kastus & Odaufe should no longer regain their damage shields if not killed quickly enough after being hit with the ice axe.

UNDERFOOT DEPTHS

• Mosaasus now has a smaller hitbox area.

PERAH’CELSIS’ ABOMINABLE LABORATORY

• Players now have more time to get to the platforms to prevent his adds from coming to life.

PALACE OF ROEHN THEER

• Zone-in issue has been fixed.

This month you can pick up two new Neriak-themed house items: a plain purple streetlamp and a Neriak display counter.  Also new this month’s festival: if you’re simply overloaded with City Tokens, speak to Sanya Farshore who will be happy to either buy them from you for 250 status points each or sell you some new paintings!

Here in the States we celebrate Labor Day on the first Monday of September, giving most of us a three day weekend.  What better way to spend it than in Norrath!  Today on the official forums SOE announced a true double experience weekend:

This coming weekend, from 10:00 am PDT on Friday, September 3rd, until 10:00 am PDT on Tuesday, September 7th, we will be running a true Double XP promotion (+100% XP).

The bonus applies to AA, tradeskill and adventure experience gained this weekend. Our French, German, Japanese, Test and EQ2 Extended servers will also be enjoying the increase in XP gain.

If you want to maximize that double experience, our handy Time Zone Conversion Tool can help you plan! 

Whether you’re looking for the recipe for Mooshga Mush or need a Chocolate Chip Cookie, you should find it all on our new Recipe Book Guide!

We walk you through the entire zone in our updated Greater Faydark Quest Series Guide!

Some new bugs that slipped in with Game Update 57 will be fixed and a few player requested features, such as City Tokens selling to merchants for status, will be introduced. You can read the full patch notes below.

Update Notes: Tuesday, August 24, 2010

MENTORING

• Increased mentoring xp bonus given when mentoring another player.
• The experience bonus for having players mentor you adds the percentage displayed in the tooltip rather than modifying the base experience from killing a monster.

USER INTERFACE

• Dynamic icons on the world navigation map will now continue to update after reloading the UI.
• Fixed an error in the maintained window causing an icon to become stretched.
• UI Modders can now disable the snapping behavior of the XP bar by setting the “EnableSnapping” property to false.

TRAVEL

• All bell travel should now have an option to enter Freeport or Qeynos directly depending on your alliance.

ITEMS

• Mastercrafted items that are actually better than Mastercrafted will now say so (such as MASTERCRAFTED LEGENDARY or MASTERCRAFTED FABLED).
• (Fan Faire request!) City Tokens are now also worth status.  Guildhall Commodities Exporters and Sanya the General Goods merchant at City Festivals will now pay 250 status points for them, if you don’t wish to use them to purchase festival goods.
• The five mounts that were missing from the mount merchants have been returned.
• The following mounts now move at +25% movement speed: Gorowyn Destrier, New Halasian Courser, Kelethin Courser, and Neriak Destrier.
• The Skyblade Skiff received by platinum fan faire attendees is now claimable one per character instead of one per account.

PVP ITEMS

• Kinetic Barrier, Elemental Barrier, Combat Expertise, Suppressed Rage, Free Movement and Reflection should no longer send error messages to the chat log during PVE Combat.

QUESTS

• New Halas Citizens with the quest “A Final Froglok Word” will now find they can continue conversing with Lady Erillis and complete the quest.
• Recipes for the new Steamfont tradeskill quest line now require the appropriate level of fuel.

PALACE OF ROEHN THEER

• Pets should no longer trigger retributive effects when fighting the sages Mandoril, Medorius and Mikla.
• Zone in should only zone the individual player instead of the entire raid.

GREATER FAYDARK

• All instances of “Amythest Pond” have now been corrected to “Amethyst Pond” in Greater Faydark.