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Site Additions & Updates:
Foot Armor: Boots of the Dead Dream
Mob Dropped Necklaces I: Amulet of the Storm
1H Blunt Weapons II: Scepter of Al`Kabor

3:50pm PST -Graffe

Al`Kabor's Fusibility Research:
Al`Kabor visited the Great Divide last night doing research for Fusibility. Zealpath Skyphire of the Karana server sent in a summary as well as pictures of his reward for helping out old Al with his studies -

• Al`Kabor's Fusibility Research

Anyone seen Graffe? "Ya, he's camping Al`Kabor for some scepter."
10:02am PST -Graffe

Site Additions & Updates:
Chest Armor I: Ancient Wurm Hide Robe
Equipment\Miscellaneous I: Hand of the Master
Mob Dropped Rings: Lady Zavo's Ring of Boosting, Reapers Ring
Library: Wizard Equipment Guide v1.3

3:57pm PST -Graffe

Site Additions & Updates:
Head Armor I: Crown of Resiliance, Circlet of the Skies (stat update)
Face Armor: Mask of the Dragon Slayer
Back Armor: Astral Cloak of the Titans
Chest Armor III: Sentry Robe (mob info)
Mob Dropped Earrings: Dragon Blood Earring
Mob Dropped Necklaces I: Bronze Sigil of T`Vyl, Black Alloy Medallion
Mob Dropped Rings: Ring of Lightning, Ring of Winter (mob info), Ring of the Frozen Flame

4:34pm PST -Graffe

Forum Post of the Day Year:
A post was created on the General Forum last night by Verbalsabre. I feel, as do others, that this is a wonderful post that makes many sit back and realize what a great game EverQuest really is -

• Me and my soapbox - by Verbalsabre

Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts with all of us Verbalsabre.
10:53am PST -Graffe

Site Additions & Updates:
Neck Armor: Spider Fur Collar
Jewelry\Mob Dropped Earrings: Diamondine Earring, Dragon's Tear Earring, Tijoely's Earring
Jewelry\Mob Dropped Necklaces II: Yelinak's Talisman
Jewelry\Mob Dropped Bracelets: Bracelet of the Sky

9:42am PST -Graffe

Same Ol' Makil Rargon:
The Western Wastes MoB 'Makil Rargon', who is thought to be the beginning Translocational Suppression Quest MoB, has not changed his reply messages in today's patch. See Sunday's news for more info on the subject.

Thanks to Calendriac of Tarew Marr for info.
11:18am PST -Graffe

Velium Chill of Al`Kabor:
This spell, which was once thought to be a high level questable spell, has had an attribute changed in the spell data file today. Where it was once labled 'Classes: Wiz (L60)', it is now labeled 'Level: None' (GM use only). This is just another verification for those that have been e-mailing saying they are confused because other websites have it newly listed in the 'New Luclin Spells'. Lawrence Poe made a statement concerning it last week that was also reported in Saturday's news.

Info found using EqCaster.
7:46am PST -Graffe

Patch Message:
Today's patch is in. A couple good spell stacks were fixed by Poe and made it in this time. Here's a few things that directly effect us as wizards -

• Barrier of Force will now stack with Protection of the Glades.
• Manaskin and Protection of the Glades will now stack.
• /target playername will now work on invisible targets as long as the character doing the targeting has the ability to see invisible.

For the complete patch message, click here.

7:32am PST -Graffe

Hot Topic of Familairs:
This is a hot topic right now and it's good to see something is being said on it. Although Verant will only let us guess at what -

I heard a rumor that Wizards will be getting a form of pet, a familiar. Any truth to that, and if so what types of familairs will they have? What type of "abilities" will they bestow the Wizard?

Can’t really say yet, other than that Familiars will be more persistent than traditional pets.

Click here to view the whole thread.

More good news! THANKS!
11:21pm PST -Glinlor

Translocational Suppression Quest Found?:
A new wandering mob in Western Wastes named 'Makil Rargon' could possibly be the mob we need to speak to in order to initiate a quest for one or all of the upcoming Gate Suppression spells -

You say, 'Hail, Makil Rargon'

Makil Rargon says 'Greetings, Shard . I am Makil Rargon, an esteemed assistant to the great wizard [Al'Kabor]. What can i help you with?

You say, 'Who is AlKabor?'

Makil Rargon says 'Al'Kabor is the most powerful wizard on all fo Norrath. I'm currently assisting him with his fusibility research'

You say, 'How are you assisting his fusibility research?'

Makil Rargon says 'I'm afraid the master has not authorized me to disclose any information about his fusibility research at this time. Perhaps when the experiments are completed I will be able to explain it to you. For now, I must get back to work.

I have created a forum in the Quest area for everyone to share what they know. You can go there by clicking here.

Thanks to Shard Elay of Bertoxxulous for the info!
9:56am PST -Graffe

Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself:
Just a friendly reminder to go get your virus scanner's database files up to date. There seems to be a random strain of 'TROJ_SIRCAM.A' flowing around (I've recieved 4 different versions of it today alone). It's a worm virus that infects your e-mail and mass e-mails everyone in your contact list. It actually has it's own SMTP engine and it's spreading quickly. If you don't have a virus scanner, you can scan your computer via the web at Trend Micro's House Call. Oh... and no, my systems didn't get infected. =)

3:48pm PST -Graffe

Velium Chill of Al'Kabor..Doh:
Poe gave us some info on that spell we been trying to find. DenmonX wrote:

PLEASE let us know if this spell is live or not, and throw us SOME kind of bone as to how to START the quest for it. PLEASE. At least, at the very least, let us know if it's live.

Velium Chill of Al'Kabor is not a player spell, any confusion caused by it are as a result of parsing the spdat, which I do not apologize for.

- Lawrence Poe

Click here to view the whole thread

5:29am PST -Glinlor

Luclin Spells:
The new talk in our wizard world is the recently found Luclin addition spells that were found on the Test Server for just a short while. They only lasted on the Test server for a couple hours before that data file was replaced. I will list the spells here but just remember that there is the chance that we may never see such spells -

• Decession (L56)
  Evacuate to location -1,-1 in the same zone
  Mana Required: 650
  Casting Time: 8.0 seconds
  Spell Recovery: 2.25 seconds
  Recast Delay: 10.0 seconds
  
  
• Elnerick's Entombment of Ice (L39)
  Decrease Current Hitpoints from 303 (L39) to 345 (L60), Root
  Resistance Check: Cold + 15
  Mana Required: 225
  Spell Duration: 4 ticks (24 seconds)
  Casting Time: 5.0 seconds
  Spell Recovery: 2.50 seconds
  Recast Delay: 3.50 seconds
  
  
• Garrison's Roaming Vision (L58)
  Summons a (description was blank.. thought to be another Eye of Zomm/Talon upgrade)
  Mana Required: 200
  Spell Duration: 200 ticks (20.0 minutes)
  Casting Time: 6.0 seconds
  Spell Recovery: 2.25 seconds
  Recast Delay: 10.0 seconds
  
  
• O'Keils Embers (L12)
  Damage Shield by 3 (L12)
  Increase Fire Resist by 10 (L12)
  Resistance Check: Fire + 25
  Mana Required: 35
  Casting Time: 3.0 seconds
  Spell Recovery: 2.25 seconds
  Recast Delay: 6.0 seconds
  
  
• Summon Minor Familiar (L29)
  Skill: Conjuration
  Mana Required: 290
  Casting Time: 12.0 seconds
  Spell Recovery: 2.25 seconds
  
  
• Summon Lesser Familiar (L49)
  Skill: Conjuration
  Mana Required: 490
  Casting Time: 14.0 seconds
  Spell Recovery: 2.25 seconds
  
  
• Summon Familiar (L54)
  Skill: Conjuration
  Mana Required: 525
  Casting Time: 14.0 seconds
  Spell Recovery: 2.25 seconds
  
  
• Summon Greater Familiar (L60)
  Skill: Conjuration
  Mana Required: 650
  Casting Time: 16.0 seconds
  Spell Recovery: 2.25 seconds

Pretty cool spells, if you ask me. The level 39 DD with a root?! Simply awesome. Familiars? Wow! I had to send a message to Geoff Zatkin on the familiars. He and I would go round and round about them. I don't care if they just sit there and do nothing. A familiar is wizard-defining.. very neat indeed. How about the O'Keils addition? Yes, I know.. it's a very low damage shield but for a level 12 wizard, remember.. you are still part of the fray every now and again. Not to mention you can drop it on party members and it's also a Fire Resist buff. Feel free to talk about the spells in the General Forum. There are a few threads already going on the subject.

Important Note: All of these spells were found on the Test server. Some or all of them are subject to change and deletion. This news does not mean that these are definitely going to be some spells we will see in Luclin. They are in a testing phase.

*Graffe bounds off into the distant fog yelling, "We might be getting familiars! We might be getting familiars!"*
11:42am PST -Graffe

Site Additions & Updates:
Head Armor II: Rebreather
Face Armor: Transparent Eyepatch
Chest Armor III: Wily Warlock Robes
Miscellaneous Armor: Buckler of Insight
2H Blunt Weapons II: Staff of the Chamberlain, Velium Brawl Stick
Equipment\Miscellaneous II: White Dragon Statue
Equipment\Tomes: Velketor's Spell Book
Library: Abscond Project (couple of updates)
Quests: Buckler of Insight, White Dragon Statue

12:13am PST -Graffe

Site Additions & Updates:
Wrist Armor: Kelciferous' Armband of Artistry
Hand Armor: Gauntlets of Dragon Slaying
Chest Armor II: Plasmatic Priest Robe
Chest Armor III: Sal`Varae's Robe of Darkness
Mob Dropped Rings: Crystasia's Crystal Ring
Equipment\Miscellaneous II: Red Resistance Stone
Library: Abscond Project (couple of updates)

3:28pm PST -Graffe

More From Poe on Barrier of Force:

"im wondering will PotG and Barrier of force ever stack i find it rather silly that a rune and a HP buff dont stack seeing that barrier is the effect of an epic weapon which would be far more powerfull then a normal casted spell."

"I've corrected the issue in the spdat, these two effects should stack next patch."

- Lawrence Poe

Click here to visit the original thread.

Thanks for the heads up Poe!
2:33pm PST -Glinlor

Spells & Poe come out to talk:
I found this today, some rather interesting stuff showed up. Whizbang from our own forum had a response -

"Any chance there will be solo teleports (gates) to points in Velious other than the Iceclad Ocean? We got them for Kunark (Combine Gate), and it'd be a great savings in time and mana if we could get them for the Great Divide, Wakening Lands and Cobalt Scar as well."

Thanks for reading this.

WHIZBANG DUSTYBOOTS
Vazaelle

"I've been wanting to put those in for a while, hopefully I can get them in soon."

- Lawrence Poe

Click here to visit the original thread (recommended)

2:28pm PST -Glinlor

Patch Day:
Today's patch doesn't have much in it that deals with wizards directly. Possibly one update that would be important to the PVP'ers out there -

• Fixed a bug that wouldn't allow a player to target an invisible PC or NPC with the F7 or F8 keys even if they had See Invisible up.

For the full patch message, click here.

12:31pm PST -Graffe

Site Additions & Updates:
Head Armor I: Circlet of the Falinkan
Chest Armor I: Dark Gold Sr. Apprentice Robe
Chest Armor II: Robe of the Primordial Ritualist
1H Blunt Weapons II: Staff of the Morning Dew, Staff of the Silent Star
Quests: Circlet of the Falinkan

Special thanks to Rombus for submitting the Circlet of the Falinkan quest in a manner that made my life so easy. Perfectly done friend.. almost a cut-and-paste job!
10:17am PST -Graffe

Happy 4th!

Java-Chat Now Available:
The java-chat script is now available for those of you that have been waiting to chat with your wizard friends via the web. There are two ways to use the java-chat but I recommend using the draggable window version. Using the standard version will not allow you to browse the site without becoming disconnected from the chat. So, if you wish to use the chat, there is now a link to the Chat page in the frame to the left. Enjoy!

6:23pm PST -Graffe

Site Additions & Updates:
Face Armor: Netted Kelp Veil, Dragon Scaled Mask (updated stats)
Shoulder Armor: Netted Kelp Amice, Silver Chain (also worn in Arms, Chest, Back, & Leg slots)
Hand Armor: Netted Kelp Gloves, Slime Blood of Cazic Thule
Foot Armor: Netted Kelp Lined Shoes
Equipment/Miscellaneous II: Vermillion Orb of Torrefaction (updated stats)
Equipment/Tomes: Iron Scroll of War
Equipment/Containers: Archeologist Pack, Bag of Sewn Evil-Eye, Herbalist Pack, Light Burlap Sack, Traverlers Pack, Travelers Pouch (all updated pics)
Al`Kabor's Journal Entry III: Zavo's Cloak of the Mortals (added quest reward pic)

4:43pm PST -Graffe

Happy Independence Day!:
Today is America's 225th birthday if you were wondering what all the explosions were about. I'm just wishing you all a great 4th of July and hoping you all remember what the day is about. No, it's not about fireworks. ;) Happy Birthday America! Everyone have a safe holiday!

10:44am PST -Graffe

Fennin Ro Rune Event:
Dynamite Shortfuze of Fennin Ro will be holding a Rune Event today! Here's the info -

• Server: Fennin Ro
• Where: Toxxullia Wizard Spires
• When: Monday July 2nd
• Starting Time: 3PM PST (6PM EST)
• Ending Time: When all is said and done, and we have finished having fun!

For more info on the event, I created a post to the General Discussion Forum that you can view here.

1:46pm PST -Graffe