Just double checked and seems I forgot to upload the updated quest for Tserrina, but its up now. Either leave your instance for a minute, or wait for reboot.

Has same chance to drop like other bosses. 

Its been 2 days now, and I just got woke out of bed by a powerful aftershock.

Websites reporting 900 aftershocks so far with some of them being 5.0's.

http://earthquake-report.com/2013/10/15/very-strong-earthquake-mindanao-philippines-on-october-15-2013/

That website had lots of pictures and videos of the earthquake.

There is a video showing church collapsing and people running.

Another video showing dead bodies under the rubble.

My family here is ok thankfully. Read some where about 144 deaths and 37k displaced, although probably updated more by now. We probably live 20 miles from the epic center.

Soon as the aftershocks stop, and my nerves settle, will take a look at the Halloween Event to maybe add new stuff to it for this year Oct 25-31.

Just update that I'm alive, and power just came back on here finally after 1 1/2 days.

Got plenty of emails to read and reply too, but will take some time.

I think there was a mistake made in the coding when attempting to make the minimum required limit of credits to be maintained by the player when withdrawing credits 40 instead of the old value of 50. The credit vendor says you need to maintain 40 credits now, but one still must maintain a balance of 50, as maintaining anything less does not allow for the withdraw of credits.

Didn't realize there was a mistake there, but I found the 1 line of code that I forgot to edit, and fixed it.

So the new minimum balance is now 40, after either next reboot in public, or if you make instance the code will be updated right away.

With all the stuff that Hateborne and myself added to the zone, its definitely a place worth going to.

Heroic Resist Augments
Charm v1 and v2 upgrades
Various Armor and Weapon drops added huge stats
Roaming Gnome for Pet Weapon Quest
Coward Aug (reduced aggro effect).
Pet Illusions
Essence(s) of Frozen Shadow

... and probably some other stuff I'm forgetting, but basically you can work on all of that stuff at the same time. And you'll probably get a few AA while doing it.

[Updates from Hateborne:]

New recipes for Ultimate Weapons 1-7 are now in effect.

Can no longer trade items to pets in commons (60 pvp zone).

Updates from Hateborne:
Mage phantom necklace for pets now tradeable and has heroic resist.
Phantom Necklace now target friendly.
Pet weapons FBv2 and OWS now have heroic resist.
add 5% ResistAll to Defensive Boon
set unlimited charges to embalmer's skinning knife and Shield of Shadows
add mana to Beer Stained Coldain Tunic

There is more than one way to spawn a bat, and then again some people have bad days with RNG.

I'm sure nobody complains when the RNG is your favor though

Just random luck, and multiple different ways that bat can be spawned.

Every character needs to be keyed.

Once you all get to the 7th floor and get master key from Tserrina, then you can use the left mirror on first floor to go strait to the 7th floor, then you'll be in a mirror room where you can teleport to any other floor.

Essence 1-7 will probably be for UW Ranks 1-7, and then the final-final boss that drops non-rank essence will work for all UW Rank 8+

Of course I could duplicate all the recipes in the database tables and swap out a master essence for all the ranks, but I don't see any real point doing that extra work.

If your one of the few lucky players to acquire an essence from the final boss, then just trade it for a lower tier essence. I've already seen people trying to sell some in ooc.

Spells 10-09-13 now available for download.
The zip file now includes dbstr_us.txt that has updated descriptions for some stuff.

Augment Slot Type Descriptions:
Slot types 15, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 have updated colored text descriptions.
Description is shown on both the augments and the armors.
Might add some more soon, but those numbers are the custom unique ones to EZ so far.

Spell Descriptions Update:
Ring of the Ages - Ancient Ethereal Runes
Earring of the Ages - Divine Interventions
Shield of the Ages - Ancient Stonewalls, Ancient Parrys, Ancient Enhancements
UCv1-3 - Ultimate Worn Effects, Ultimate Focus Effects, Ultimate Runes
Icestrike - All Proc Effects
Firestrike - All Proc Effects
Ninjastrike - All Proc Effects
Mana Necklace - All Mana Converts
All Ultimate Weapons - All Worn, Focus, and Proc effects except for some on Greatstaff.

Combine 2 Frozen Shadow essences of same rank to get next rank?

No, you'll have to go to the proper floor/boss and acquire one.

Sorta yeah.

Essence of ToFS Rank 1 is from Floor 1 and is required for UW 1 recipe.
Essence Rank 5 is from floor 5 to create an UW 5.
Etc.

You can find the essences dropping now, but recipes are not updated yet, need more time when awake.

[Hateborne's Updates]

Essences of Frozen Shadow ranks 1-6 will start dropping off ToFS bosses floor 1-6 as a RARE drop.

May take more than a day of play to find one. They are not no-drop so you'll be able to sell and trade them with each other.

Just regular play getting charm upgrades, heroic stones, and keys, you'll eventually see them drop and players may ooc sell them to each other, esp since you only need 1 of each essence per rank, then sell the rest if you find more.

Recipes for UW 1-6 are not updated yet to use these essences, but you can start farming them already now.

May eventually rename the regular ToFS essence to be rank 7, but for now it shows no rank yet.

Added pet illusion spells as rare drop on ToFS bosses.

Added Slimy Sapphire of Cowardice augments as rare drop on ToFS bosses.

Updated Teleporter and Teleporter Pet to display the tier number, and to allow 2.5 zone by saying "mird" or "The Hushed Banquet". Cazic Thule 2 suits of armor are the beginning of custom armor names/stats that are not available on Live, and so will be our Tier 1+2 suits of armor. So we're up to 11 tiers of custom suits of armor by now.

Hateborne's Updates
fix Over Raided Healing research to return Over Raided Healing
fix Armor of the Crab research to return Armor of the Crab
revamping druid epics to manage threat better and provide better DPS (with less burst)
update druid/shaman forms to lower threat as well
remove DS from cowardice augs

Need to start updating spell descriptions in the dbstr_us.txt file and Natedog brought to my attention about other neat stuff we can do with that file including color coded descriptions of augment slot types on items, see screenshot below:



There is no custom dbstr_us.txt to download at this time but will probably start including it with future spell file updates. The dbstr_us file that I started using to customize is about 5 MB, or about 500k when zipped for download.

There are more stuff that can be done with that file as well, and can see the categories here:

http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=DbstrUsTxt

Used category 16 for Aug Type descriptions.

The spells are category 5 and 6, and lore tags are category 7.

Not sure what other categories will use in that file.

Will be time consuming to add custom spell descriptions to all our custom spells, and currently discussing the project with Hateborne and Natedog right now.

After next reboot the T7 wrist pattern will no longer be lore.

Seems the custom weapon models that drop in T7 and T8 can use the click affects now from inserting the Epic Augments. I'm guessing this got fixed at some point when we updated the source code.

Since that is working, I can continue that course and drop some new weapons with new graphics in each tier for T7+ and just have Epics that insert into Slot Type 21.

I realize T7 and T8 have same graphics, so will have to make (use) some new graphics for T8, and maybe create some for T9 as well.

UW 1-6 essences are top of list to do very soon here as well. I know some people are waiting on that.