Here are the patch notes from this morning's game update (as posted by Piestro on the EQ Forums):

*** Highlights ***

- Mount control has been tightened up considerably. When using a mount you will reach top speed much faster than before, and stop even faster. While in combat, the movement is still tighter than before, but not as responsive as when out of combat.
- All mounts available in the marketplace are now Heirloom. This is retroactive to those already purchased.
- Players that go linkdead while part of a raid are now kicked from both the raid and their group.

*** Items ***

- Mount control has been tightened up considerably. When using a mount you will reach top speed much faster than before, and stop even faster. While in combat, the movement is still tighter than before, but not as responsive as when out of combat.
- All mounts available in the marketplace are now Heirloom. This is retroactive to those already purchased.
- The Dragorn War Mask effect can now be buff blocked.
- Increased the drop rate of some sought-after items from Karnor's Castle and the Ruins of Old Sebilis.

*** Tradeskills ***

- The combine to make Spell: Electrical Charge for the wizard epic 1.5 pre-quest can now be completed in the spell research kit.

*** Spells ***

- Changed gravitate effects so they will no longer affect NPCs that can not move on their own.
- Monk - Moved the right-click entries for Flinch and Intercepting Fist to Disciplines-Timer 9 to reflect their true timer.
- Monk - Moved the right-click entry for Drunken Monkey Style to Techniques-Offensive.
- Monk - Lowered the recast time of Cloud of Fists to 30 seconds. It is now on its own timer.
- Monk - Increased the damage dealt by Six-Step Pattern.
- Monk - Increased the bonuses given by Ironfist Discipline.
- Ranger - Ranks II and III of Bullseye Discipline have been decreased in effectiveness.
- Rogue - Increased the damage done by Wound.
- Rogue - Increased the bonuses given to backstab damage by Daggerswipe.

*** AA ***

- Monk - Slightly increased the damage added by Fists of Steel at all ranks.
- Monk - Slightly increased the damage added by Stonefoot at all ranks

*** Miscellaneous ***

- Fixed a problem with texture memory usage when rapidly zoning between zones with lots of players in them that should free up additional extra memory when needed.
- Fixed a bug that caused housing upkeep to be incorrectly calculated in some cases when using upkeep reducing items.
- Players that go linkdead while part of a raid are now kicked from both the raid and their group.
- Removed generation of SSE instructions in a library that was causing very old AMD processors to crash when running the client.
- Fixed some problems in the preview window that caused some NPCs to not be displayed properly.
- Expansions should now be purchasable on the marketplace by players using their 45 free days.
- Corrected an issue where the following tank mercenaries were not generating enough hate - Banshee, Gnome Pirate, Zombie, Dragorn, Amygdalan, Gingerbread Man, and Bazu.
- Corrected zone-line requirements for Crystallos.

*** Progression Servers ***

- Corrected an issue that could cause an invalid poll to appear after a progression server unlocked a new expansion.
- The Ashenbone Broodmaster should no longer deal massive amounts of damage on Progression Servers.
- Some long-lost items will be available for a limited time in the continent of Kunark on progression servers.
- Rallosian, Draconic, and Tunarian weapon ornamentations can now be claimed on progression servers.

*** UI ***

- Fixed a problems causing some custom UIs to crash the client.
- Fixed a bug causing 1H Blunt skill modifiers to be incorrectly displayed for some items.
- The default key bindings for new installs have been changed to WASD keys for movement control rather than the number pad. Installations with existing keyboard settings will not be affected.
- Fellowships can now be managed anywhere, not only next to Randall of the Fellows in the Plane of Knowledge.

- Changed -

- EQUI_HtmlWnd.xml
- EQUI_MarketplaceWnd.xml
- EQUI_TaskWnd.xml

*** Previously Updated ***

- Removed the requirements for the doors leading in to Meldrath's Mansion (on non-progression servers).
- "Tonic IX" potions are once again usable at level 90 as intended.

 

- The EverQuest Team