What's changing on MMO Reconnect

EverQuest Legends is up, and the character you roll tonight can be claimed.

• New

  Claims are open for EverQuest Legends. Pick your world, name the character you rolled, and the people you group with this week can find you here the same way they can on every other EverQuest server. Most people arrive here years after the fact, hunting for someone whose name they half-remember. This is the rare chance to be findable from the first night, before anyone has to remember anything.

• New

  A Legends character can carry up to three classes, kept in the order you picked them. The first one is your primary and travels with your name across the site; all three show on your character’s page.

• New

  The flag you planted turns into a link. If you planned a character on the Legends board and have since claimed one, that row now points at the character you actually rolled and is marked Claimed. You planted that flag before the servers were up, when the character was still a guess. Once the real one exists, the board should show that instead of the guess.

• Improved

  Claiming a Legends character no longer asks which years you played. The game launched this year, so the form states the answer rather than handing you a menu with one option on it.

Search got the front door it deserved, and its results now tell you what they actually found.

• Improved

  Search now opens with the question it is really asking, “Who are you looking for?”, with the box sitting right underneath it. The page reads as a place to start rather than an empty results screen.

• New

  Results now state what they found. A count sits above the list and beside each section, so you can tell whether you are seeing every match or only the beginning of one. When there are more matches than we show, we say “More than 50 matches” instead of dressing a partial count up as the real total. A number you cannot trust is worse than no number at all.

• Improved

  Characters stay at the top and stay whole, and a long run of server matches folds away behind “Show all servers” until you ask for it. A common few letters can match dozens of server names and bury the one person you came here to find.

• New

  If you only half-remember the name, Search now points you to Browse, the same way Browse already points you back to Search.

• Improved

  The server filter now carries its region, so two realms that share a name are no longer the same entry.

Browse now opens on the game you played, and every server and guild page has a shorter address.

• Improved

  Browse opens on a game pick instead of a blended list of every world at once. Choose EverQuest or World of Warcraft and Browse remembers it next time. All games is still there as its own option whenever you want the cross-game view. Two franchises already share that list and more are coming. Starting in the world you actually played puts your people near the top instead of buried under someone else’s server.

• Improved

  A selected game now carries its own two colors on the filter, so you can tell at a glance which world you are looking at.

• Improved

  Server and guild pages have shorter, clearer addresses: /games/eq/servers/bristlebane instead of the old /games/everquest/..., with each version spelled out after its game’s short mark (eq-project-1999, eq-project-quarm, wow-classic, wow-anniversary). These addresses get pasted into Discord and old forum threads, so they should be short to read and stable forever. Every one of them is now locked, which means a link that works today keeps working.

• Fixed

  Every server and guild link you already bookmarked or shared still works. Old addresses send you straight to the new one.

MMO Reconnect has a new look: Slate Ledger 2.0, with a distinct identity for every game.

• Improved

  The whole site moved to a calmer, near-black canvas. Color is now reserved for the things that matter, the person you are looking for and the one action to take, so the page never competes with what you came here to find. A quieter surface makes the signal louder. Brightness is a currency we spend on the reunion, not the chrome.

• New

  Each game has its own two-color identity now: EverQuest in torchlit amber and sapphire, World of Warcraft in dark blue and bright gold, on refreshed, cleaner game marks.

• New

  Server and guild pages now glow softly in their game’s own two colors, behind the game’s mark, a quiet welcome back for the people who played there.

• New

  Hover a game badge on your roster to see which game it is, the exact version (Live, EverQuest Legends, Project 1999, Project Quarm, Classic, and more), and jump straight to browsing that world.

Your roster now leads with your guilds, and shows who you can still reach.

• New

  Hover or focus any guild name in your roster to see how many people from that guild you can still reach out to here. The whole point is finding each other again, so we surface who is still reachable right where you are remembering them.

• Improved

  The expanded view of a character in your roster now leads with your guild history, larger and easier to read, with your choice of a compact horizontal band or a vertical timeline.

Better ways to browse, and a smoother sign-in.

• New

  Sort the Browse directory the way that suits you, including by the most recently active servers and guilds.

• Improved

  Server and guild rows in Browse now show more at a glance, so you can tell them apart without opening each one.

• Improved

  If you first signed up with email and later sign in with Discord using the same address, your accounts now link automatically instead of turning you away. One person, one account, however you choose to sign in.

• Fixed

  Your own character page no longer shows the visitor-only prompts to report the claim or jump to the Discord.

• Improved

  Search results and the Browse directory now show each character's race alongside their class. A little more of the person you remember, before you even open their page.

• New

  Early Access is open to everyone. After a few quiet weeks of fixes and polish, MMO Reconnect is ready for you and your old guild to find each other again. This only works when word spreads, so if it is useful to you, share it with the people you used to play with.

• Fixed

  Character history timelines now stay readable for characters with unusually busy or tightly packed histories, where dates could previously crowd together.

More ways in, and a broken Discord link fixed.

• New

  Sign in with a passkey, using your device fingerprint, face, or PIN. Nothing to remember and nothing we can leak, since the secret never leaves your device.

• New

  Signed in with email but want to be reachable on Discord? Connect your Discord account from your settings.

• Fixed

  The community Discord invite had stopped working. It now points to a permanent invite. The old link was tied to an account that left the server.

• New

  Sign in with a one-time email code, no Discord account required. Discord is still there if you prefer it; it is just no longer the only door.

• Improved

  Signing in with Discord no longer asks for permission to add you to a server. We dropped a permission we did not need.

Search gets filters, and claims get more room for history.

• New

  Advanced search: narrow results by game, server, guild, character class, and approximate level. Turn a common name into the person you actually remember.

• Improved

  Add several of a character's old guilds when you claim it, not just one.

• Improved

  Edit the years you played a character after you have claimed it.

A character's whole history, told as one arc.

• New

  Character pages now show a history timeline: the arc of servers and guilds a character moved through.

• New

  Link characters across a server transfer, a rename, or a re-creation, so a continuous history reads as one story. The ranger you rerolled as a paladin can finally be told as one person.

• New

  The latest posts from the blog now appear on the homepage.

• Improved

  Character pages were redesigned around what matters: who owns the character, who recognizes them, and how to reconnect.

• New

  Browse can now group claimed characters by game.

• New

  Your own area brings your profile, your character roster, and your settings together in one place.

• Improved

  Set each character's visibility right from your roster, without opening it. Change a character from Findable to Public or Private in one tap.

• New

  The EverQuest Legends plans board is live. Flag that you will be there on day one, and see who else is planning to play. Reunions do not only look backward.

• Improved

  Your account settings were reorganized into clear, labeled sections.

• Improved

  Claiming got a ground-up redesign: pick your game and edition first, then fill in the character. The old form asked for everything at once; now it reveals one step at a time.

• Fixed

  Claiming a character you had already claimed used to show a confusing error. It now explains what happened and links you straight to your existing claim.

• Improved

  The homepage was rebuilt as a walkthrough of how a reunion actually happens, from claiming a character to reconnecting.

• New

  Hail a character to say hello. It is a quiet, one-way greeting, and if they hail back, you reconnect on Discord. Declines stay silent, so there is nothing awkward about reaching out.

• New

  Block a character so they cannot see your claims or reach you.

• New

  A guided report and contact form, reachable from the footer, for flagging a problem or getting in touch.

Early Access begins.

• New

  MMO Reconnect is live in Early Access. Claim the EverQuest and World of Warcraft characters you played, and search for the guildmates you are trying to find. A user-driven reunion: the more of your old crew who claim in, the easier everyone is to find.

• New

  Every character has its own visibility, Findable by default, or Public or Private when you say so. Privacy is the default, not a setting you have to go hunting for.