Update Notes - January 27, 2026
The latest Update Notes for EverQuest II.
Jan 26, 2026
ABILITIES - Origins
- Guardian
- Corrected an issue that caused Tower of Stone to damage your shield even if it did not trigger a stoneskin because it did not meet the damage threshold.
- Corrected an issue that prevented charmed NPC's from casting abilities.
- Corrected messaging when binding recall points outside of Freeport or Qeynos.
ITEMIZATION
- Corrected a stacking issue that prevented several spell buffs that grant both a normal stat and that stats overcap from applying both effects, such as for some Rage of Cthurath food and drink crit bonus and crit bonus overcap effects.
- Corrected an issue that prevented characters that completed the quest Yon Gorroth: For the Greater Good! from seeing Tishan's Assisting Appendage.
- Eyes of the Atoll collection valuable "Eye of the Herald" is now spelled correctly.
- Imprint of the Atoll collection valuables "Cerebral Imprint" and "Immaterial Imprint" are now spelled correctly.
- Mordant Warpwolf Leggings - leggings is no longer misspelled in the bag name.
- Senzu's Proprietary Poison - A valuable in the Nebulous Invocations collection now has its name spelled correctly.
- Rage of Cthurath Void-Soaked standards on the Guildhall Standard Bearer Hireling should now properly apply the correct bonuses to level 135 players within Rage of Cthurath Raid and Untold dungeons.
- Rage of Cthurath Void-Soaked standards on the Guildhall Standard Bearer Hireling should now show exactly how much of each bonus is given once applied within an appropriate zone. The amounts can be seen directly on the applied buff within the zone or by using the "Examine" verb on the placed standard flag.
- Rage of Cthurath Void-Soaked Standards on the Guildhall Standard Bearer Hireling have been renamed to "Scarred" Standards and are unlocked with having the achievement "Cleared: Gerion: Captive Audience [Raid]" They retain their costs of using Scarred Dinar and Velium Drachma as well as being available for Aethermatic Alloys and Essences of Displacement.
- Rage of Cthurath Void-Soaked standards on the Guildhall Standard Bearer Hireling should now properly cost a varied amount of Aethermatic Alloys and Essences of Displacement depending on the rank unlocked.
- Offense I : Void-Soaked Standard, Healing I : Void-Soaked Standard, and Stout I : Void-Soaked Standards can now be purchased by having the account flag given from the achievement; "Rage of Cthurath: Flawless Tier 1 Raider"
- Offense II : Void-Soaked Standard, Healing II : Void-Soaked Standard, and Stout II : Void-Soaked Standards can now be purchased by having the account flag given from the achievement; "Rage of Cthurath: Flawless Tier 2 Raider"
- Offense III : Void-Soaked Standard, Healing III : Void-Soaked Standard, and Stout III : Void-Soaked Standards can now be purchased by having the account flag given from the achievement; "Rage of Cthurath: Flawless Tier 3 Raider"
- The Vulian Etched Shard is no longer Lore.
- The Lit Hooluk Lantern and the Lit Hooluk Dangling Lantern - Description has been added to the house items.
- Collections - The following collections have had their meta valuables added.
- Jar of Darkened Ichor
- Sadistic Implements
- Tun of Fetid Gore
- Unrelenting Horrors
- Untold Riches
ITEMIZATION - Origins
- Expendable items may no longer be bought back after selling them to a merchant.
- Corrected an issue with the following bows that would cause them to be placed into Overflow on zoning:
- Bloodleech Bow
- Bloodstained Bow of Piercing
- Bonerot Bow
- Boneyard Longbow
- Bow of Marksmanship
- Braced Wooden Bow
- Carved Wooden Bow of the Bloom
- Crushbone Scout Bow
- Dawnstrike
- Deathfist Crafted Longbow
- Feather Engraved Longbow
- Foewhistler
- Gnomish Mechanized Bow
- Hardened Ash Shortbow
- Keep Perforator
- Longarm
- Longbow of the Grove
- Lyrech Rivebow
- minecap longbow
- minecap signal bow
- Moonstrung Longbow
- Nature's Bow of the Stalker
- Neriak Practice Bow
- Piercing Bow of the Nightstalker
- Red Oak Recurve
- Rigid Scale Bow
- Short Bow of the Stoneboot
- Star Darkened Longbow
- Steelweb Longbow
- Stonewood Shooter
- Tightly Wound Compound Bow
- Torn Ligament Longbow
- Tunare's Wrath
- Twilight
- Wind-Shaped Bow
- Worked Bow
- Pristine Forged Feyiron Chain Bracers are no longer classified as cloth armor.
LIVE EVENTS
- Vibrant Feathers - Any completions of this collection from here on will now provide a choice between "Petamorph Wand: Wild Aeraquis" or Erollisi coins.
MERCENARIES
- Elba Sharptail should no longer give her greeting each time she is resummoned or the owner zones.
MISSIONS
- The Dominion Of Pain has now been spelled correctly in all of the appropriate missions.
OVERSEER
- The Heritage Hunt will now award the Flamebearer Heritage Crate.
PUBLIC QUESTS
- Void Incursions
- Added further checks for active participation credit while crafting and harvesting.
QUESTS
- Updated all Rage of Cthurath collection pieces to level 135 for depot and broker sorting.
- Oogothl Brawl - Typo in weekly quest stage completion text has been fixed.
- Gluttonous Tendril of Living Tendon - Quest item is now spelled correctly.
- The Untold Mission Showing My Rage [Untold Heroic] now has the correct rewards.
QUESTS - Origins
- Corrected an issue that prevented Orc Shaman from updating Proof in Strength.
- Corrected an issue that prevented Uphian and Zathos from updating The Gauntlet of al-Azhar.
- Toranim Skyblade will now correctly progress Ghoulbane Empowered.
- Entering the veil will now correctly update upon defeating spirits.
- Corrected an issue that prevented rhymposts from updating A Crusade to Faydwer.
TRADESKILLS
- Recipe Scroll: Elemental Mission Materials - Recipes can now be scribed by players who have been offered Flamebearer Taslana's "Elemental" daily tradeskill missions.
- Recipe books for Rage of Cthurath handcrafted items can now be bought (not just drooled over) from recipe book salesmen in cities.
USER INTERFACE
- Guild and coalition recruiting windows should now display results properly.
- Corrected a cosmetic bug that caused some damage numbers to display much higher then they actually were on weapon examines.
ZONES AND POPULATION
- Portals to and from Gerion, Hold of D'Lere and Zon Zobboz are now available in each zone for those with the Rage of Cthurath: Rage of Destiny account flag.
- Gerion: Ark of Ascension [Untold Heroic]
- Fighters now must be out of defensive stance to damage fortified thralls, instead of being in offensive stance.
- You will now receive a message when near a statue in your image during the encounter with the Paragon of the Overlord at stages above 20.
- Gerion: Dominion of Pain [All Versions]
- Updated the location of a Lucanic Dreadflyer which was previously out of range of attacks.
- Zon Zobboz: The Chimeric Chain [Untold Heroic]
- Kur'Granox will no longer kill himself when interrupting... himself.
- Gerion, Hold of D'Lere
- Escape no longer sends you to Zon Zobboz.
- Arabella F'arquharson now has Kartis Literati appearance armor and weapons, the steed Yareth, Allyrian Defender, and the Kartis Literati Mount Infusion in stock.
- Zon Zobboz: Gaze of the Oglth [Raid]
- Gaze, Glare, and Gawk Oglth should now message the raid if they are targeting non-fighters and triggering hatelist changes.
- Gaze, Glare, and Gawk Oglth should now apply a cooldown to themselves of 20 seconds if hatelist changes get triggered.
- Zon Zobboz: The Chimeric Chain [Untold Heroic]
- Vadrak the Vile will no longer increase its size when Irradiated Hide activates to prevent range display issues with its Gamma Blast ability.
ZONES AND POPULATION - Origins
- The Throne of New Tunaria: Operation Overlord is now linked to Echoes of Faydwer expansion instead of the Rise of Kunark expansion.
- Corrected an issue that prevented the revive window from appearing for players that die in The Caves.
- Trainer Luicien Laurel no longer hiding under the furniture in Greater Faydark.
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