April 11, 2024

• Overseer Agents and Overseer Quests are now separately searchable on EQ2U.
• Added a level 130 filter to the Dragon's Armory ACTLoot view.

April 10, 2024

• We have updated Collections, Recipes, Recipe Components, Guild Achievements, Marketplace, sorting of "Year of Darkpaw" achievements, and 1 new Mercenary.
• We noticed that Quest and Collection data for Ballads of Zimara has finally appeared in Census, so we have cleared out all the crowdsourced data and done a full reload from official Census data. We also updated the three types of Linkbacks: Items which are a Collection reward, Items which are a Quest reward, Examining this Item offers the Quest.

March 31, 2024

• Item Search can now find more Effect types as some Autoattack stats have been renamed or reshuffled.

February 24, 2024

• Mercenaries are now available as a Patreon-only feature on EQ2U. This has required well over 150 hours of development effort, as well as the tremendous contributions of players with screenshots and missing details.

February 10, 2024

• Since it seems clear that quest data will be withheld for 3-6 months after each expansion, I have put over a hundred hours into a whole Quest Crowdsourcing backend system on EQ2U to allow YOU, our players, to help us label quests! It is hoped that with this November's expansion, we'll have quest data almost immediately as thousands of players fill in these details as they make their way through the quests.
• When viewing your Quest Journal on EQ2U, if you see a quest that says "Help us with quest #4094328432432", please check your in-game Quest Journal and if you see a perfect match, please submit the quest name, level, and tier for that quest to us! Thank you in advance for your efforts. See you this November!!

February 10, 2024

• EQ2U has a new feature developed in partnership with an enthusiastic and dedicated player named Tune. This feature allows you to see items sold by a Vendor and, in reverse, when viewing an item see if it's sold by a Vendor. This feature has been contributed to aid Time-Locked Expansion players.

December 26, 2023

• Added achievement subcategories and graphics for Ballads of Zimara, Shattered Overture, Year of Darkpaw, Summer Jubilee.
• Added more collections from crowdsourced data as official data is being withheld from Census.

December 2-4, 2023

• EQ2U updated for Ballads of Zimara expansion -- level cap raised to 130, loaded Guild Achievements, updated Marketplace data, added 2,276 recipes in 48 recipe books, added Maedjinn Lore & Legend
• Updated EQ2U item icons
• Loaded level 126-130 Ballads of Zimara Spells -- 847 were added with replacement levels.
• With the tremendous help of Airablade and Taled, nearly all of the Ballads of Zimara collections have been crowdsourced and added to EQ2U.

November 30, 2023

• EQ2U Now Has a Patreon!! -- You can support continued development and gain access to Patreon-specific features.

August 7-8, 2023

• Deleted "Crawled" and hand-entered Quest Data which had limited info and no reward info.
• Completely rescanned all EQ2 Quests from Census and loaded the last 5 expansions and Game Updates with official data. EQ2U Quest Journal has increased from 12,268 to 14,248 quests.
• Quest Lists now have a placeholder image in the Quest Details area.
• Clicking a Quest now displays a Loading message in the Quest Details area.
• Optimized Quest Details to no longer make a Census query to determine if the quest can be acquired by examining an item. This data is now locally cached.
• Improved Spell/Combat Art lists. 36 spells were missing. 80 spells were lacking spell replacement data. Epic 2.0 and Epic 3.0 display was cleaned up and links directly to recipes/info.

June 20, 2023

• Updated Recipes.

May 24, 2023

• Added Plumes/Textures/Event Slot/Feather Boa equipment slot.
• Added ability to search for Plumes/Event items.

April 22-27, 2023

• Added Rewards to Achievement pages. These can be toggled off with Hide/Show Rewards.
• Added individual icons for Epic 3.0 spells.
• Updated Recipes.

April 7, 2023

• Fixed EQ2U Signatures
• Enabled Wishlist features when viewing House Items. Requested by a user.
• Marked "Tarinax" and "Kaladim" servers as no longer active.
• Added "Zarrakon" server.

February 9, 2023

• ACTLoot Tracker: Items with more than 20 loot tracker entries can now load a separate page to view up to 200 mobs that drop that loot.

February 5, 2023

• Item Search now has a Minimum Resolve field separate from Min and Max Stat Values.
• Item Search now has a Sort Order choice between Stamina, Resolve, Item Name, Item Level, and Slots (typically used for Bags).

January 23, 2023

• PRESTIGE shows more reliably on adornments that are flagged as such.
• Item Search Results and Recent Discoveries search results display improved.
• Item Search: "Overseer" type added
• Recipe Search refactored. This may show recipes for which a book has not yet been discovered.

December 27, 2022

• Added "Not Started", "In Progress", "Complete", and "All" filters to Character Collections pages.
• All Spell pages now use internally hosted icons since new icons aren't being exported anymore.
• Collection Items now sort correctly on non-character collection detail pages.

December 22, 2022

• Despite a lack of data, Renewal of Ro collections were added to EQ2U using player-submitted data. Thank you!

December 10-13, 2022

• Added Achievement Sorting for recent expansions and GUs.
• Added Achievement Banners for all expansions, GUs, and Live Events that didn't have them.
• Rewrote Achievement Categories and the Subcategory Navigation to be far easier to maintain going forward. Please let me know if you find any bugs!
• Removed a bogus extra query that was making Achievement pages slow!

December 2-8, 2022

• Ascension levels 21-25 added.
• Added Crit Bonus Overcap, Melee Multiplier, and Flurry Multiplier to Item Searches.
• Searches for Bags (Containers) now return in reverse order and show the number of slots in the Item Search Results.
• Item Icons updated.
• Fixed a bug with Item Search Links that had punctuation or spaces.
• Updated Recipes, Marketplace data, and Guild Achievements.
• When viewing Recipe Books known by a character, you can now filter the list to only those recipes for your Primary Tradeskill class.
• Added Epic 3.0 level 125 spells.

June 2, 2022

• Rewrote our Local Item Search to produce passable results when Census is unavailable. It's still an extremely limited version of our item search and intended only as a fallback.

March 28, 2022

• Census Status -- If we are unable to connect to Census for 15 minutes, a no-connection icon will appear in the top banner with the elapsed downtime, as well as a large red caution bar.

January 18, 2022

• Gear Report now lets you pick which package of Adornment slot colors to show. You can pick Yellow/Red/Purple for Velious+, Orange/Black+ for PoP, and Red only for the current expac.

January 8, 2022

• Character progress on Collections has been improved to display collected items in the same order they appear in-game.
• Our Dragon's Armory loot tracker (ACTLoot) has undergone a significant rewrite. Filters work more consistently and there are new ones -- Collectible and Spell.

December 29-31, 2021

• At long last, Collection progress can be viewed for each Character. There's a lot more we want to do with this feature some day, but for now, it emulates the in-game view.
• Search for items of type Harvest or Harvest (Rare). Results are sorted in reverse itemlevel order.
• Level 121-125 spells and combat arts were added.
• Item icons refreshed.
• Character Equipment Views now deal with items with up to 6 (!) adornment slots.

December 3, 2021

• Visions of Vetrovia
• Increased Adventure and Tradeskill level caps to 125.
• Loaded Recipes, Recipe Books, Collections, Factions, Marketplace and Guild Achievements.
• Next up? Delete our hand-entered Kunark Ascending, Reign of Shadows, and Blood of Luclin quest data and load the actual data from Census now that it is available!

May 12, 2021

• Added Tarinax server

March 26, 2021

• Hand-entered Quest data for Reign of Shadows is now available.

February 14, 2021

• At long last, Alternate Advancement / Prestige data has been cleared and reimported into EQ2U. For now, we are supporting live (not TLE) servers with level 120 spells. At some point we may be able to support AAs at level 100 and 110. As for TLE, we'd need a data source to support that.

February 11, 2021

• Character Search added "Resolve" and "Potency" fields. We also fixed a bug where the current page wouldn't be selected.

February 7, 2021

• Recipes have been updated for Reign of Shadows. Some 1,402 new recipes in 119 new recipe books. It will take us some time to categorize the recipe books.

February 1, 2021

• Character Achievements "Other Hunts" tab is now navigable.
• Achievements now use internal EQ2U icons.
• Guild Level to 350.
• Turquoise adornments on Item Search.
• Fixed the longstanding bug with Guild Search getting lost when paging through results.

January 13, 2021

• If the same character name exists multiple times on a game server due to old Census data, EQ2U will now always pull up the most recently updated one. This primarily affects Gear Report.

December 19, 2020-January 6, 2021

• Item examine windows have been reformatted to match the in-game columns and appearance.
• Vah Shir player race and skills added.
• CELESTIAL tier added to items and item search.
• Factions, Collections, Marketplace, Item Icons, Collection Rewardfrom, Guild Achievements updated.
• Level 52 "profession" spells now display a note if we speculate it's at Ancient or Celestial quality but cannot determine this due to missing data.

June 17, 2020

• Blood of Luclin quests are now available on EQ2U! -- Thanks to Alarra, Mermut, and at least 2 anonymous players for hand-tagging some 200 quests with names and categories!

June 13, 2020

• Collections now display Dedith's Dragon's Armory Loot Data much more prominently. When viewing any Collection, you will see the zones that drop the items in that collection.

May 22, 2020

• Quest Journal v2 is now live! Over 6,000 quests which are no longer available in-game are now "expired" or hidden by default from being listed on EQ2U. If your character has completed them, then they will still be shown in your Quest Journal listing.
• Quest Journal Filters have been rewritten as they have always been buggy. You should find that the Active, Complete, Unstarted, +Duplicate, and +Expired buttons now behave as expected!

April 8, 2020

• Fixed an esoteric bug with Gear Report when viewing guilds where if there were no matching characters in the last batch loaded from Census, the page would fail.
• Fixed Gear Report to accept level 70 characters for Kaladim. When the level cap goes up, someone needs to e-mail me!

January 20, 2020

• Items of type "Snack" can now be searched for.

January 1-7, 2020

• Blood of Luclin expansion!
• Character Level increased to 120
• Spells & Combat Arts now go to level 120. There are still a few which don't display the right max upgrade tier, especially level 60 class-defining spells.
• Recipes have been fully updated. Over 5,500 new recipes from 500 books were added. Over 1,000 recipe books were categorized. New Spell/CA upgrade recipes were not properly named with tiers, so this was manually done to 2,100 recipes.
• Lore & Legend: Akheva
• Collections, Achievements, Guild Achievements, and Marketplace updated
• Character Details: Ascension Class and Level as well as Ability Doublecast are now displayed.
• Item/Equipment Icons: We are now using internal graphics for item icons throughout the site. Please let us know if we missed some!

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