Year: 2020

With the release of Claws of Veeshan, I’ve folded all the maps into the main download and included other changes, including a massive remapping of Kernagir, the Shining City.

Original EQ
* North Karana – added farm on east side of zone.

Scars of Velious
* Cobalt Scar – added missing NPCs.
* Western Wastes – added hills on east side of zone.

Omens of War
* Riftseeker`s Sanctum – added a few missing NPCs.

Prophecy of Ro
* Skylance – clarified some geometry.

The Buried Sea
* Katta Castrum – clarified some geometry.
* Jewel of Atiiki – clarified some geometry.
* Solteris, the Throne of Ro – clarified some geometry.
* Zhisza, the Shissar Sanctuary – clarified some geomtery.

Underfoot
*Kernagir, the Shining City – remapped almost entire zone from scratch. Significant improvement.

Claws of Veeshan
* All maps folded in.

I finally managed to squeeze in enough time to clean up all the new CoV maps and get them to the level of detail I wanted. Temple of Veeshan took quite a bit of time with hallways and stairs. The only part I could not get to is a few tunnels in Dragon Necropolis where the rats see through rogue sneak.

CoV Maps

Another round of beta maps can be found below. I added significant amount of details to all the zones. Temple of Veeshan East wing is still a bit rough and I need to spend some time pulling it into 3d modeling program so I can copy/paste detailed geometry. Aside from getting past mobs that see through rogue sneak/hide, I’m mostly going to focus on cleaning up and running my line reducer.

CoV Maps

Cobalt Scar:

Dragon Necropolis

Western Wastes

Another evening of mapping completed. Based on what I’ve seen of the zones so far:
Cobalt Scar – different layout but with some similarities to original zone, with the addition of Siren’s Grotto. I remapped perimeter of new CS and bolted on the Grotto. I made a run-through and looks accurate. More details to come.
Dragon Necropolis – a complete nightmare of traps and see-everything mobs. I used a 115 rogue just to get past all the dracoliche’s, but the traps and bats in the tunnel killed me dozens of times.
Skyshrine Temple – appears to be same geometry as older zone, but doors and other extras are different.
Sleeper’s Tomb – even with a 115 rouge, I couldn’t get further in than the waist-high pile of corpses in the first room. Appears to be same geometry as original zone, but the ice has blocked and altered many areas.
The Temple of Veeshan – similar but but different. I remapped an enormous amount of the zone and cleaned up with my 3d modeling tools. I think it looks crude, but feedback has been very positive.
Western Wastes – similar to original zone, but different. I used by bard to quickly map the zone. Still rough for my standards.

I always relish the release of a new expansion. It is a chance to explore and record the journey. The first night of beta, I had to create and beta buff a character while waiting on my main, and while trying to map the Temple of Veeshan, I kept falling below the world. Even then, I managed to map swaths of Cobalt Scar including the splice with Siren’s Grotto. I am thankful I remapped SG a few year’s ago and had some excellent geometry to lock onto. I made a few passes through, and all my vertical tunnels appear spot-on.

Tonight, I focused on sections of The Temple of Veeshan. If I tried to map the northern area, I kept falling through the world, and instead, I started to focus on the Western wing.

I’ve included rough versions of the maps.

CoV Maps

With the upcoming beta of the latest EverQuest expansion, I am publishing my latest set of maps. This set has a bit of improvements from original release through the latest. The biggest improvements are in the Omens of War and The Buried Sea expansions where I remapped entire zones from scratch.

Original EQ
* The Warrens – added missing NPCs

Scars of Velious
* Cobalt Scar – added missing NPCs

Shadows of Luclin
* Shadeweaver’s Thicket – clarified labels
* Shadow Haven – clarified labels
* The Deep – clarified labels
* The Fungus Grove – added missing NPCs
*The Twilight Sea – added missing NPCs

Planes of Power
* Plane of Fire – clarified labels
* Plane of Tactics – clarified labels
* Plane of Time – clarified labels

Omens of War
* Anguish – remapped almost entire zone from scratch. Significant improvement
* Muramite Proving Grounds (A) through (F) – remapped from scratch. Significant improvement
* Wall of Slaughter – added missing NPCs

The Buried Sea
* Barren Coast – revised labels based on quest location descriptions
* Katta Castrum – some geometry cleanup
* The Open Sea (A) through (E) – remapped and created maps for all the ship-to-ship combat zones

Torment of Velious
* All zones – more hunter locations, labels, and more

Time for another set of map files. I spent some time chatting with a few players that were on EQ emulation servers and was asked if I could spend some time fixing some classic maps. Not knowing what I was really getting myself into, I agreed. I will confess that it wasn’t easy. On some of the servers, you could see the in-game map, but couldn’t edit. So, I wound up going back to using /loc and dusting off some very old code that could take the information from the log file and plot out a map. After that, it was just cleanup. Took a lot of time, but it was very nostalgic revisiting all the original zones.

Maps for those on EQ emulation servers:
East Commonlands
East Freeport
Highpass Hold
Innothule Swamp
Kerra Ridge
Nektulos Forest
North Desert of Ro
Oasis of Marr
Misty Thicket
South Desert of Ro
The Steamfont Mountains
The Lavastorm Mountains
The Ocean of Tears
Toxxulia Forest
West Commonlands
West Freeport

Ruins of Kunark
* City of Mist – Added NPCs and groundspawns.
* Emerald Jungle – Added missing ruins throughout entire zone. Massive improvement!
* Firiona Vie – Added missing ruins.
* Swamp of No Hope – Added missing ruins. Added missing NPCs. Remapped & added paths.
* The Field of Bone – Added missing NPCs
* The Overthere – cleaned up ruins throughout zone.
* Trakanon’s Teeth – Remapped ruins in SW area. Cleaned up ruins near The Ruins of Sebilis

Torment of Velious
* Tower of Frozen Shadow – very clean & detailed map
* Added & clarified hunters
* Added legends with collection & hunter information

Indeed! Arrived home this evening eager to get back to validating my latest map of the ToFS, but servers are down. I will release the maps, sans-final-in-game-version-unseen. [your skill in hyphenations has increased +10].

This batch of maps includes final maps of all of ToV, including map legends . Hunter PH’s and my final detailed maps of ToFS.

Enjoy these maps!

Brewall