All U.S. servers will come down for a hotfix at 7am PDT on Thursday, March 24, 2011. The expected downtime is one hour. The U.K. servers will have their hotfix at 5am London Time on Friday, March 25, 2011. Estimated downtime is 2 hours.

The full patch notes are available after the hop.

• Fixed a client crash issue.
• Fixed a bug where some auction channel messages would not be passed through the spam filter.
• Fixed a bug that allowed NO-TRADE currencies to be put into the shared bank.
• Fixed a bug with linking items in chat.

ZONE PROGRESSION / POPULATION

• Fixed zone crashes associated with some RAID NPC curses.

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Shadowed Corridors

• The Armored Presence should respawn more reliably when his encounter is broken.
• Alvik the Cold will now warn players slightly before he begins to heal himself.
• Spectral Librarian Emiida should say something when casting "Gather Knowledge" and "Project Knowledge" that is more appropriate to what players need to do to avoid the spells.

Forgotten Pools

• The red/blue room buffs from Forgotten Pools will no longer function outside of the zone.

ABILITIES

• Freeblood summoning their bat swarm will no longer be knocked off their feet.
• You can no longer stack ability mod bonus on your pet.

Warrior

• Exploding Heart will trigger properly once again.

LIVE EVENTS

• Live Event dance spells can no longer trigger procs.

EQ Anniversary Event

• Allizewsaur now has all his sounds.
• Quillmane’s wings no longer stutter when he descends.
• The Ancient Cyclops in Portal to the Past: Southern Desert of Ro should once again drop his chest if killed after he has defeated players the first time.
• Fixed an issue where the Ancient Cyclops could become unkillable.
• Path to the Past: Qeynos Ruins should once again give a 18 hour lockout when completed.
• Pyzjn should now award AA experience when killed.

TRADESKILLS

• Fixed the tradeskill progress tool-tip on the character window.

QUESTS

Public Quests

• The Storm Gorge cavalry updates for Velium Coldain Insignia Ring are now granted all at once when the cavalry wave is cleared, instead of one at a time.
• Ring War will never drop optimal loot for players who only take on the final stage, as intended.
• Players at public quests who stand around AFK and only participate at the end will get worse loot than before, in general.

Great Divide

• Drammind Gul should no longer be in two places at once.
• The book necessary for "Flight Reading" should now have a sparkle effect on it.
• The Freeblood "Cloud of Bats" ability should now give better directions on how to acquire the flight power.
• ROI’s have been added to Drammind’s quest series.
• Goahmari and Rime forces outside of the Goahmari Village will no longer lock the encounter preventing quest updates. 

ITEMS

• Rebalanced some of the quest reward, non shard, and PQ armor items to be more inline with their challenge level.

Source: Station Launcher