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Celestial Spellshards Cost *How Much?!*

Here's a new widget that's going to save you some time (but sadly no plat) at the crafting station.

Recently we had a daily tip that shows a quick way to reload a recipe after acquiring the raw materials needed to craft it. Often if your stock is running low you'll use the Broker to pick up the needed recipe components. But that's another search that adds extra steps to the process.

Darq Side member Ixoth suggested a way to skip some of those steps, and I think yo...

November Waypoints

Q: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a pumpkin by its diameter?
A: Pumpkin pi.

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Even though you haven't seen the usual slew of postings this month, we've been mighty busy working on feature updates, dealing with Beta, and getting the next utility version ready to publish. Here are three things scheduled for ...

On the Clock

In the October newsletter we introduced some useful improvements to the premium Clock window, in the form of custom command lines that can be set up to repeat at intervals. Late in development we hit upon a method that makes timer countdowns very accurate, where previously the precision of very lon...

Ballads of Zimara Beta Update

Note: This post is for DarqUI Premium patrons who are using the 2K or 4K UI on the Beta server. A very special group indeed!

The Ballads of Zimara beta test is in full swing, and I hope you've had a chance to check things out over there. If you want to use DarqUI Premium in Beta, it's pretty easy to do -- our all-in-one video has two sections on Beta setup.

A couple of interest...

NPC Spell Monitor Tweak

I call it a tweak, but in fact it was a bug fix for the NPC Spell Monitor. It was just two lines of code, but it is enough of an improvement on how the component works that I wanted to show it to you. My other reason for this post is to encourage you to take a look at the Monitor if you have not already played around with it.

The NPC Spell Monitor is one of those components where you can choose h...

DarqUI 2K/4K: Group 32

Good citizens of Norrath and right noble champions of the Darq Side! The day will come to pass when the 2K/4K Project shall reacheth its journey's end. The Scribes of Scaling will silence their keyboards and cease imbibing icy tankards of Red Bull.

Brave warriors, veterans and recruits alike will no longer squinteth mere inches from the screen. And the Grand Compendium of Enlargement will thenceforth cast its crowning mark upon the hallowed chronicles of Norrathian legend.

But it ...

October Waypoints

Two monsters were at a Halloween party. Suddenly one said to the other, "That girl just rolled her eyes at me! What should I do?" The other monster replied, "Be a gentleman and roll them back to her."
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Usually our Waypoints newsletters tell you about bug fixes and features that are scheduled to be released in the near future, and we do have some of those. But today I also want to show you three b...

New Theme: Lazereth

Back in August, Darq Side member Annoying (@Lazereth on Discord) messaged me with some refinements to the Storm color theme that worked better with the overall look and feel. Storm, if you have not checked it out, is a very flat, very minimalist UI theme or "skin" that can be applied to DarqUI from the Themes page of the utility.

While we were discussing the fixes, I mentioned that Storm was actually developed as a clean set of base graphics files to ma...

Broker Presets Update

As new expansions roll in, so do new harvestable resource tiers, status relics and various other tradeable bits and pieces useful to Norrathian daily life. Both DarqUI and ProfitUI CE have controls to check the Broker window quickly for these necessities, but the UI components have to be updated manually to include any new item categories.

Many thanks to Darq Side member Dr. Pepper for taking the reins and updating Market Presets for both UIs to get them current. Well d...

September Waypoints

Q: Why was the robot couple’s anniversary in the fall?
A: They were autumn mated.
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Work of Art

We have a talented digital artist among our ranks who is developing a beautiful new UI theme that will become available in September. I've seen it under development, and I can tell you it's an elegant and understated theme that you will definitely want to check out. Word on the street is that one of our other members is contributing design ideas to the proje...

Look What I Found...

Update: A new control in the premium Broker window can be set to automatically relist all of your Broker items whenever you open the window. Check it out here, about midway down the post!
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As you probably already know, a new Beta will start on August 29 for Gam...

Battalion Seasons Display

Even if you don't consider yourself a "hardcore" EverQuest II player, you're most likely chasing the seasonal Battalion Buff that improves some of your more desirable stats over time. The Battalion system is not exactly the most intuitive, and many threads have been posted in an attempt to sort it all out. [2023-08-20 20:16:21 +0000 UTC View Post

Relisting Broker Delistings

Update #2: A new control in the premium Broker window can be set to automatically relist all of your Broker items whenever you open the window. Check it out here, about midway down the post!
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Update: It looks like there may be a default solution for this issue on the way with the Shattered Overture game update. 2023-08-14 17:28:12 +0000 UTC View Post

Tooltip Delays Drive Me Crazy

Update: An automated version of this feature has been added to the premium UI. Check it out in [this post], about halfway down.

Tooltips in EverQuest II come in two basic varieties: "plain old" text tooltips and complex tooltips.

A plain old tooltip:

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Two-fer Tuesday

Composite Icon Fixes

Recently in Discord we discussed an apparently new way that the game designers are repurposing existing spell icon assets: instead of a typical image with a colored background, certain icons have begun appearing with two overlapping images. Darq Side member Maris pointed out a couple of examples that you can see in the August Waypoints newsle...

August Waypoints

In local news, my neighbor got rejected for a summer job at the sunscreen company. They told him to reapply.
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Favorite summer activities? Beach, cookouts, EverQuest II. And not necessarily in that order! Hopefully your Hot Hoppers were as busy as mine getting all the new Plumes, plus checking out the new Echoes of Faydwer 2023-07-31 18:38:56 +0000 UTC View Post

July Updates

We're only in mid-July and already we've seen quite a few premium updates this month. Everything from the July Waypoints newsletter plus the groovy new Partial Repair feature, and a few more items that are listed below.

Efficient Crafting

In the past year or so the premium Trades...

Partial Repair

Every now and then the EverQuest II game designers will come up with a completely unconventional idea for an item effect, such as the interactive money sink buff on The Price Paid charm. It took us a few tries here at Darq Side HQ to streamline routine interactions with that item, but the result is reasonab...

ACT Statter by Reapp

If you've been playing EverQuest II for a while, you've surely come into contact with Advanced Combat Tracker (ACT). Combat performance, even for casual solo players, is measured and compared every day using this app. Other combat-oriented functions such as the ability to set conditional alerts and review encounters in a VCR-style time lapse make ACT an essential supplement for our favorite game.

Gearing up for, ...

Mercenary Training Reminder

Here's how to use the new Mercenary QoL feature that was mentioned in the July Waypoints newsletter. The idea is to set up a simple tooltip reminder whenever you start training any mercenary. The reminder will stay persistent until you refresh it, or until you start training a different mercenary.

When it's all set up, the reminder icon looks like this:

2023-07-03 17:27:53 +0000 UTC View Post

July Waypoints

A police officer pulls over a station wagon packed with an entire family on vacation. He asks Grandpa, the driver, "Why were you going so slow?"

Gramps replies, "The speed limit is 20 miles per hour, officer."
"No sir, the speed limit is 70."

"Then what are all the signs that say 20 on them?"
"This is Highway 20. They just mark what highway you're on."

"Ohh... That explains why they were all screaming back there on Highway 166."
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