July 2026 Everquest Producer's Letter

Hello and welcome to the Everquest producers letter for July 2026. And let’s see what’s going on. >> [laughter] >> I have not read it yet, so I don’t know. Now, this came out a few days ago. What? July 1st. I was I didn’t make the video. I’ve been busy. But, here we go. So, producers letter Frost re-launch da da da. Spring 26 game updates merge Rizlona and Var Dune. Overhaul the guild dummies and uh free for all free free for all da da da Lorien song. So, there we go. Uh some revamps to some spells. We’ve talked about all this ad nauseam over the last few months, so it’s pretty much everything we know of the leveling stuff on Phinigel and Frost reaver. Let’s see here. The Chrono promotion, we talked about that in the test server video. So, you if you buy a Chrono right now, you get this illusion. Uh which is the little candlestick, not the big candlestick. Not to be mistaken with if you ordered Shattered Eros, you get the tall candlestick. This is the short one. Big difference there. In a few weeks, Extra Life incentives will be posted and fundraising will ramp up. If you’re new to our Extra Life fundraising, I recommend reading the guide before joining the team. See, questions should be directed at and uh Angelina. [sighs] Oh my god, I can never say her name right. Uh Angelina? I don’t I I apologize. I’m I’m I’m gifted in not the good way. I am not good at talking. Uh see here on the Discord. Here’s a sneak peek to one of the incentives, a good puppy. So, a mount, blue dog. My god. A cobalt riding dog. Now, they have they they have an opportunity right here. I’m going to give this one to to them for free. Make him red. Make him big. And call him Bradford. All right? Just just think about that one for a little bit. And uh we’ll uh go from there. Uh coming up, we’re updating Heroes’ Journey achievements to make several more quests more group friendly. We saw that in the test server patch note video. Almost every single quest that was a pain in the ass. Uh now everybody gets an item. See here. Hopefully uh they continue that into uh Hopefully they continue that into uh the rest of the expansions because there’s some other stuff that’s pretty painful. Uh I’m proud to announce that our second time-locked progression server of 2026, Lothar, will be opening August 26th at 12:00 p.m. Uh Pacific Standard Time. It’s going to have personal loot. We went over the rule FAQ that came went out. So, that one that video should already be out. Uh Serpent’s Spine is where this one will start and uh Yeah, so this will be this is this sounds pretty fun. I’m I’m I I have an idea for it. I have an idea. I haven’t had an idea for a video series in like 2 months. And uh I think I got one. Um let’s see here. Fun fact, this marks the 12th anniversary of the EverQuest uh anniversary of EverQuest uh 12th expansion, Serpent’s Spine. Uh a bit more about the personal loot. Yeah, so we we there’s a whole there’s a whole uh Lothar FAQ that talks about the personal loot. Uh it goes into more detail, but effectively everybody involved in the kill gets loot, right? It’s pretty simple. Uh, solo players don’t get additional loot. Everybody in the kill in the group, so if you got a full group, everybody gets an item. Pretty cool, I think, is how that works, but uh Uh, you know, somebody on test servers got to like let me know how this actually works. I believe it’s on the test server right now. And little teaser about this year’s expansion, strings thing strange things are happening in the demiplanes. Fortunes wheel is spinning wildly, lifting the um lifting the unlucky and casting down the fortunate. Is something meddling with fate? You’ll be mad to miss this expansion. Oh my gosh. Is this a Bristlebane expansion? Um, and then we have this uh This is only looks like looks like something out of Dark Souls. I mean, it looks pretty cool. Definitely uh interested to see what uh these cast shadows and stuff. Interesting to see what where the where this expansion’s going to go. Uh We will uh we’ll do the expansion. I got I’m going to have one character. I’m going to I’m trying to level going to try to level up a character on your now and then I can do the expansions with uh since I’m no longer boxing uh as much as I was. I’m I have three active accounts and we’ll see where we end up with that. Uh, I’m trying to re- re- rebuild all that right now is kind of where I’m focused on trying to figure out what I want to do uh with that going forward, but uh we’ll figure that out, but uh definitely we will be taking part in this expansion. Uh Damned if I do and damned if I don’t. If I have to just have my warrior uh and a mercenary, I will go through and do this expansion. Depending on you how it goes. But that’s the producer’s letter. Uh lots of news, right? Like I I didn’t read the whole thing. Uh but uh you know, we’ve kind of covered them all this in all the news articles and stuff up to this point. And we talked about it. Now this is, you know, this is where I’m interested, right? I’m interested in this. I’m interested in Lithar uh and stuff like that. So this will be cool. Uh very cool. So thank you very much for watching and please have a fantastic day.