PATCH NOTES - October 14
- Patcher 3.8: the LAN preset patches from the website. It updates itself.
- Run the patcher: new spell file and client update.
- Heals and buffs cast while targeting an enemy now land on you even when the enemy is out of range (no more "target is out of range").
- Named mobs on the map (/mapmobs) glow in rainbow colours.
- Guildmasters train every class your character has, not only the first.
- Malosinete, Wind of Malosinete, Scent of Terris and Turgur's Swarm AAs are instant with a 1 second recast. Scent of Terris can be added to #autoskill.
- Skin of the Reptile is a level 65 druid spell, as on THJ.
- Xegony now raises a Shield of Air with each wave: while her defenders live, your hits on her land on them instead, and waves no longer stack.
- Plane of Time: skeletons at the graveyard carry your group to any first trial (and back); trials start a minute after you arrive; the event timer is longer.
- Fabled named in R3/R4 instances no longer vanish mid-fight. Emperor Ssraeshza no longer despawns in instances.
- Symphonic Aura is back to 5 songs. Tome of Rage Volley is sold by Kurlond Axebringer in PoK.

PATCH NOTES - October 12
- New patcher (3.7): fresh look, live player count, server status and XP bonus banners, quick links to the website. It updates itself.
- Spells now follow THJ numbers: nukes cast in 3 seconds and DoTs in 1 second (recast covers the rest), DoTs last twice as long, heals and buffs use their normal cast times. Run the patcher for the new spell file.
- Bard songs match THJ: Denon's Desperate Dirge scales with level (cap 252), Forpar's songs add 15 pct to DoTs and Rizlona's line adds 10 to 150 pct to nukes for your group, Jonthan's Inspiration procs Song of the Storm Strike, Puretone is a 15 minute disc that blocks silence.
- Experience is a true 1x rate. The patcher shows when a bonus is on.
- New gear system: spell damage and healing gear is worth the same per second for every spell (nukes, DoTs, HoTs, runes, procs, bard songs); caps raised to 1000.
- Player area spells hit every target in range. Symphonic Aura keeps up to 8 songs.
- Meet Grug in the Bazaar arena: a parse dummy that hits back and calls friends. His Mom (by the Fay Portal) resets him.
- Bazaar arena: the raid boss dummy is now Grug. He hits back and calls in Gruglings. Grug's Mom by the Fay Portal resets him.

PATCH NOTES - October 11
- Spell file update (run the patcher): Necromancer Mend Bones and Renew Bones heal your pet without targeting it.
- Dragons of Norrath is open with your Gates of Discord era: solo tasks and crystal merchants in Lavastorm. Shadowrest holds old corpses (ask a Soulbinder). Full notes on the website.
- Client update: loot window closes after Sell All / Loot All, class labels fixed, /mapmobs size, windows remember their spot, new Echoes of Memory store window (#eom ui). Run the patcher.
- More pet illusions in the store; run the patcher.
- Marketplace button = Echoes of Memory store; 89 glamour ornaments; Ornament Vendor makes any weapon look (5000 pp).
- New Lifesteal / Renewal / Venom augments; Kerafyrm drops Prismatic Scales; Seru drops augments.
- Legendary leveling capped near 200 kills; Ornate and PoP elemental armor combine Legendary.
- Missions open solo with a ready prompt; boss events separate per instance; bots any race/class.
- THJ AA updates (Blade Guardian, Hold the Line, Battle Leap, Warlord's Resurgence, Shield Specialist, Reptile).
- #shield shows rune shielding; dummy parse counts songs, DoTs and pets; /target finds mobs on the map.
- Website: quest guides, spells, pets, recipes, character tools, Bazaar buying. Full notes on the website.

Oct 9: Model update (pets). Patch to get it.
Oct 8: Model update (illusions). Patch to get it.
Oct 8: Spell file update. Patch to get it.
Oct 7: AA window now shows real numbers per rank. Patch to see them.
Oct 7: Full Brewall map set added for every zone (open the map window). Patch to get them.
Oct 6 (late): Instance picker has a Respawning / Non-respawning choice (Fabled Dungeons never respawn). Patch to get it.
Oct 6: Patch and restart the game. Ranged: shoot or throw at any distance; #ranged makes auto-attack fire your bow (melee skills reach as far as it shoots). New AA Call Group (1 point, all classes) pulls your group/raid to you, into your instance. Fabled Dungeons (R4) are offered in every zone; named spawn more in harder instances and a mercy rule helps unlucky named/quest drops. #runes shows what your runes absorb. Utility Kit bag (Bazaar Bag Merchant): a shield or instrument inside works from your bank. Epic 1.5/2.0 weapons are no longer lore with each other; arrows level up in the Power Source slot as a stack. Tri-class fixes: poison/alchemy combines, innates, LoH/HT timers and casting stats use your whole spec.
Welcome to Bigg's Adventure, a private emulated realm. By invitation only.
Oct 5: NEW Instances! Click the new Inst button under the EQ button (or /inst) to make a private copy of the zone you are in - Solo or with your group, Normal/Heroic/Mythic/Ascended. Right-click it (or /zones) to join a public Heroic/Mythic/Ascended copy of your zone. Charges refill hourly. Also new: /allbags shows all your bags in one window. Patch and restart the game.
Oct 4: Every AA description now lists the classes that can train it, and locked AAs say which expansion unlocks them. Gear is no longer LORE, so you can hold copies to Merge. Fabled named drop Legendary loot; the Dungeon Warden lets you choose Normal or Fabled named.
Oct 4: Patcher 3.6 - if you use a custom UI skin, the patcher now makes sure the Bot Manager, Hoard, Loot and other server windows are the current ones (fixes a missing Invite All button).
Oct 4: The Bot Manager window can be resized - drag a corner to see more bots.
Oct 4: Multiclass bards (Bard not your first class) can now sing while moving and their songs keep pulsing like a pure bard. Symphonic Aura now plays self-only songs such as Amplification.
Oct 4: The target window now really shows your target level (Lvl N) - patch and restart the game.
Oct 4: Personal loot - everyone in your group/raid near the kill gets their own loot (fading, feign death or a level gap no longer cut you out). Fabled foes have awakened: fabled named can replace their normal versions once the next expansion is open, and Fabled Memories in the Bazaar sends your group or raid into private fights against the legendary fabled (Venril Sathir, the Avatar of War, Rallos Zek and more). Decapitation only works on targets at or below 20% health.
Oct 4: Patcher 3.5 + the game can now use up to 4 GB of memory (was 2 GB), which should stop crashes when zoning (the patcher updates itself, then updates eqgame.exe on the next run). Problems starting the game after this? Tell Trevor. To go back yourself: in your game folder copy eqgame.exe.prev over eqgame.exe, then make a text file patcher_ignore.txt containing the line eqgame.exe so the patcher leaves it alone.
Oct 4: Target window shows your target level. New AAs: Situational Awareness (all), Dimensional Armory (MAG). Holy Shield (PAL) reworked into a runic shield. AA class fixes (druid pet AAs, Twinproc, Steadfast Will, Subtle Blows to BER and more). Bot Manager Invite All button. Targeted area spells hit your target first.
Oct 5: Bot Manager has an Invite All button (or type ^inviteall) that invites your spawned bots into your group. Targeted area spells always hit your target first.
Oct 4: The spell gem memorize menu now only lists spells you can use right now (your current classes and level). Everything stays in your spellbook.
Oct 4: World echoes (Insight, Plenty, Vigor) now show in your song window. AA exp is a flat 10x until you reach your account best (or your own total after a loadout swap).
Oct 3: Press N for the new Loadouts (Classes tab): build alternate class loadouts like character creation and swap for 500pp. Each class now keeps its own level - you play at your lowest class. Pet tab shows your pet stats and gear bonuses. You need a 3rd class to level past 10.
Oct 3: Echo of Insight and Echo of Plenty now show in your buff window with the time left. Personal loot goes to the Advanced Loot window, looted items stack, the EoM Merchant shop is open, and the guild hall works (Tearel in the Bazaar can send you there).
Oct 3: Patcher 3.4 - fixes "certificate has expired" on PCs with antivirus HTTPS scanning (e.g. Avast). If your patcher shows that error, download the new patcher from the website Downloads page.
Oct 3: Power Source progress fill, hotbar buttons grey out when autoskills/auto-AAs fire them (class AAs included), Inspect in the Hoard window. Tiered bags, instrument upgrades, EoM shop window and a Bazaar poison vendor are live on the server.
Oct 3: Echoes of Memory - a new account-wide currency (Alt Currency tab, #eom). Earn it from level milestones, first raid boss kills, Lost Heirlooms, epics and a daily visit; spend it in the Bazaar on world echoes for everyone (bonus experience, vigor, mote finds) and on illusions and bags.
Oct 3: Rogues of any class combo can now Sneak + Hide and move while hidden (it no longer requires Rogue as your first class).
Oct 3: Map mobs - open your map and type /mapmobs to see this zone's mobs on it, coloured by difficulty. /mapmobs find <name> tells you if a mob is up and where (and draws a line to it); /mapmobs named on shows named mobs only.
Oct 3: Backstab works with any primary weapon (non-piercers do less damage). New Rules... button in Advanced Loot (or /advloot rules) to see, filter, pause and remove your auto Loot/Sell/Store rules.
Oct 2: The Lost Heirlooms is live - hail Aiden Silverwing in PoK (by the Guild Lobby ramp). Silverwing charm quest, levels 20-65.
Oct 3: Personal loot. In a group or raid everyone near the kill gets their own loot roll, straight into their bags (your Advanced Loot Sell/Store rules apply; full bags = parcel at any Parcel Courier). Corpses keep only the coin. Bigger groups roll slightly lower chances each (down to 60%).
Oct 3: Lay on Hands and Harm Touch reuse is now 15 minutes. New free AAs: Smite (Paladin) and Reave (Shadow Knight), 15-second strikes (cost 1% of your max health) that each take 1 minute off Lay on Hands / Harm Touch - both can go on #autoskill.
Oct 3: The Augment Vendor in the Bazaar sells weapon proc augments: Augment of Striking I-IV and Augment of Mending I-IV.
Oct 2: #autoskill can now fire your activated AAs (Gut Punch, Divine Stun, Bite of the Asp...; buy the AA, then turn it on). Permanent Illusion keeps illusions through zones (recast once). Bite of the Asp scales with level.
Oct 2: AA update + full AA refund for everyone (re-spend your points!) - 78 starter AAs are free (Rampage, Harvest of Druzzil, Fading Memories...), the era-locked AAs are now trainable (no more era-locked AAs), Mana Burn/Act of Valor use % of max mana, Killing Spree, Seized Opportunity, Slay Undead, Doppelganger, Dance of Blades, Infused by Rage and more.
Oct 2: Exaltations - click the proc slot on an Enchanted/Legendary weapon to move its proc to another one. Bard Symphonic Aura AA, Heroic Leap now leaps, quest journal tracks classic quests.

Oct 2: the four gift illusions got their extras (speed + levitation, damage shield, AC). Patch, click the old illusion off, click the item again.
*** NEW PATCHER 3.3 - UPDATE ONCE, THEN IT UPDATES ITSELF ***
Log in at www.biggsadventure.com, open Downloads, download the patcher, unzip it and replace
BiggsAdventurePatcher.exe in your game folder with the new one. This is the last time: from 3.3 on
the patcher updates itself. (The window title shows the version; no number, 3.1 or 3.2 = old.)
It also stops MacroQuest from starting by itself (a cause of crashes at login) and explains
problems clearly (server down, no internet, files in use, wrong folder).

PATCH NOTES - October 1
- Character creation: pick your primary AND secondary class on the creation screen (Primary/Secondary tabs).
- Auto-skills: /autoskill (or #autoskill) - turn on Frenzy, Kick, Bash, Backstab and more; they fire on cooldown while you auto-attack.
- Spell ranks: right-click any spell (book or gem) to upgrade it with Motes of Adventure - Place Mote, then Upgrade. Ranks I-X: more damage/healing, less mana, faster cast, longer duration.
- Mote Alchemist (Bazaar, by Tearel): trade her motes or hail her - 2 motes of a kind become 1 of the next kind.
- Melee: Berserker abilities work with one-handers and a shield; backstab from any angle with any weapon; melee perks from any of your three classes.
- 28 buff slots for everyone (Mystical Attuning adds more).
- The Marketplace button opens our Echoes of Memory store: icons, categories, previews, buy with EoM. /target <name> also finds the mob on your map. Run the patcher.
- Mounts work while you are in an illusion form (Pact of the Wolf and others): your form shrinks and rides on the mount. Run the patcher.
- Beastlords: every race has its own warder look (lion, puma, treant, griffon, spider, rockhopper, rabbit, junk beast, scaled wolf, sporali, wurmling).
- Boss instances: hail a Dungeon Warden near each progression boss for your own copy.
- Gear: Enchanted (blue) and Legendary (orange) names and slot highlights; Power Source slot upgrades items as you hunt.
- Fixes: mana shows for every class mix, respawn crash, corpse decay, #feedback keeps your whole message.

Found a bug? Type #feedback and your message in game.