Here are some feature updates, improvements and bug fixes that we've been working on for you during December.
Playing Favorites
Although I've only spent a modest amount of time on the housing side of EverQuest II, our favorite game has a substantial community of talented furnishing and decorating ...
2023-12-20 19:38:31 +0000 UTC View Post
A little over two years ago when we were still scaling up many of the basic UI parts, one component that was not cooperating was the overhead nameplate. There were two areas causing trouble: the ornate brackets around heroic and epic targets, and a lack of space between certain NPC names and their sub...
2023-12-16 20:28:28 +0000 UTC View Post
If you're a ProfitUI CE player, you can't go wrong with the Classic ProfitUI skin. And the updater also offers two other low-key choices for alternate custom skins: Fossil and Storm. But what about those default themes -- Red and Blue?
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2023-12-10 22:34:40 +0000 UTC View Post
A new version of the DarqUI Utility is available at eq2interface.com.
If you are unsure about how to install or upgrade DarqUI, take a look at this video.
Importa...
2023-12-04 04:20:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, technically not yet. But I wanted to answer some questions about what you'll see today and through the weekend.
You may have noticed some DarqUI file updates filtering in over the past few days, and after the servers go down for the last time before 2023-11-29 14:12:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Here are some changes that have been worked into the premium UI recently. Reapp's ACT Statter and the DarqUI Stat Monitor, Quest Journal, Maintained window, Maintained Spell Monitor and DarqUI Help files have all been updated!
Challenging the "Stats" Quo
It's rare, but every now and then we have a...
2023-11-19 23:05:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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....
2023-11-11 17:34:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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 2023-10-31 18:55:53 +0000 UTC View Post
In the October newsletter we introduced some useful improvements to the premium Clock window, in the form of custom command lines...
2023-10-31 01:52:37 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ea...
2023-10-29 23:40:37 +0000 UTC View Post
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....
2023-10-05 18:27:31 +0000 UTC View Post
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 mer...
2023-10-04 11:30:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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 newslette...
2023-09-30 15:55:54 +0000 UTC View Post
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 DarqU...
2023-09-14 23:14:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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 it...
2023-09-07 18:31:51 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2023-08-30 15:30:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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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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 th...
2023-08-20 20:16:21 +0000 UTC View Post
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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2023-08-14 17:28:12 +0000 UTC
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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 ...
2023-08-14 02:40:38 +0000 UTC View Post
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 po...
2023-08-08 22:32:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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 2023-07-31 18:38:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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 2023-07-20 20:56:47 +0000 UTC View Post
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 stre...
2023-07-13 16:22:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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 su...
2023-07-12 02:21:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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 y...
2023-07-03 17:27:53 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Hi...
If you've ever wanted to add more than four commands to an Icon Bar button, this is the video for you. You can also find out how to activate an Icon Bar icon remotely, from a hotkey for example, and how to add Icon Bar commands into the middle of a larger standard macro.
Update: Everything in this video...
2023-06-30 19:35:26 +0000 UTC View Post
The EverQuest II Overseer System offers a "daily grind" that's justified by providing useful random rewards in the form of gear, training reducers and other expendables. Over time we've made several little improvements to the premium Overseer window 2023-06-20 13:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I'll admit that using DarqUI 2K and 4K interface pieces makes EverQuest II feel magical, but we haven't come up with a trick yet to make your game immune from typos, bugs and other reportable issues.
Until that day arrives, the Typo, Bug and Feedback windows are availab...
2023-06-19 20:52:26 +0000 UTC View Post
