All EverQuest Live Servers will be coming down on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 3:00 am US Pacific* for a Game Update. The servers are estimated to be unavailable for approximately 5 hours. Keep an eye on the EQ Players website and the forums for status updates and for news if additional downtime is needed.

• Mercenary Roster Quest - A new tradeskill quest is available to obtain a mercenary slot for your roster by adding Hero's Barracks as a reward, if it has not been maxed at 4. See Mercenary Captain Cecille in the Plane of Knowledge. You must have mastered all basic tradeskills to take this quest.
• The achievement "Master of Alaris" now grants Hero's Barracks as a reward, which grants an additional mercenary slot, up to the maximum of 4.
• Players who participated in Beta can now Claim their reward!

• Vyer's Stud is now usable by beastlords.
• Prescient Fleeting Quiver now has 39% haste.
• Rustic Coat of Carnage and Modest Warmonger Coat now have Sundering Discipline Quickening.
• Rustic Coat of the Assassin and Modest Carnifex Coat now have Eradicator Discipline Quickening.
• Empowered Trophies now have their intended graphics.
• The Token of Fanfare should now be far less intrusive.

• Some tradeskilled ornamentations were showing the incorrect icons. These have been fixed.
• Soloist Ascension Sleeve Seal of the Warchief now correctly has String Resonance.

• Mercenary Roster Quest - A new tradeskill quest is available to obtain a mercenary slot for your roster by adding Hero's Barracks as a reward if it has not been maxed. See Mercenary Captain Cecille in the Plane of Knowledge. You must have mastered all basic tradeskills to take this quest.

• Scent of Terris should now correctly modify corruption resists instead of counters.

• Krongar the Enrager may now appear after killing Rallosian defectors in the Valley of Lunanyn.
• Prowlers in Beasts' Domain will no longer remain in the same spot where they lose agro.

• Origin is now auto-granted at level 5 to all players. The reuse time has been lowered to 18 minutes.
• Hastened Origin has been refunded, as it is no longer relevant.

• The achievement "Master of Alaris" now grants Hero's Barracks as a reward, which grants an additional mercenary slot, up to the maximum of 4.
• The achievement "Make Haste" for the mission "Secrets of the Stones" now requires the fragment delivery within 15 minutes, as intended, rather than 8 minutes.
• Fixed a bug that would prevent the completion of the "Pillars of Success" achievement during the mission "The Growing Threat."

• Sooty Fine Runic Papyrus is now dropping on progression servers.
• Unfired Shade Summoning Figurine and Shade Summoning Figurine, for the quest "Vampyre Troubles," can now be combined on progression servers.

• Changed the default window size for EQ on a fresh install to default to the current desktop resolution.
• Made a change to prevent out-of-memory crashes on 64-bit systems. On 64-bit operating systems, EverQuest will now use 4GB of address space instead of only 2GB.
• Changed the default display for chat filters to automatically hide SPAM marked messages.

• Added the ability to tint any control a certain color from the UI XML. The new property is called BackgroundTextureTint.
• Converted the button tinting from the "Buy Slot" button in the Mercenary window to use the new tinting option.

• Changed - EQUI_MercenaryManageWnd.xml SIDL.xml