There is a thread running on this now at the EQ forums:
http://boards.station.sony.com/everquest/Forum4/HTML/015108.html

At 10:18 AM 1/21/00 -0600, you wrote:

>From: "JasonF" <JasonF@...>
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>I'm not too concerned yet, but did anyone else playing last night notice a
>staggering drop in the number of procs that their weapons are firing? I was
>fighting Ogre Bouncers inside Oggok last night with my Ykesha and I believe
>the number of times it fired over the course of about 4 hours of play was
>either 2 or 3 - that's a very serious drop, perhaps an order of magnitude.
>The last hour or so I loaded up all of my DEX equipment and played Chant of
>Battle and had a DEX of 186 and didn't proc once. After killing Bouncers I
>ran over to Cazic-Thule and beat on some lizzies and gators for testing
>purposes (also 186 DEX) and got not a single proc while there (around 20
>solo kills).
>
>Crier Sharpsong