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EverQuest Legends Patch Notes

The official EverQuest Legends update notes, newest first, with a quick note on what each patch means for your builds. Bookmark it and check back after every patch.

2026-09-09

September 9, 2026 Update

EQLForge note: The headline is the new Dungeon Crawl system: what were non-respawning zones now covers every indoor dungeon, where nothing respawns naturally, rare creatures show on your map, and clearing the objective pays out motes, experience, and a Bonus Chest of loot and coin, plus your instance charge back. This changes how you farm indoor dungeons, you clear your own instance and re-run it rather than camping a placeholder, so our zone and farming guides are being updated to match. Also notable: every Plane of Sky boss is now flagged as a rare creature, and several AAs including Symphonic Aura and Spell Casting Subtlety became toggleable.

Dungeon Crawls

  • Non-Respawning Zones are now known as Dungeon Crawls, active in every indoor dungeon.
  • To finish a Dungeon Crawl, slay every rare creature and enough of the zone's original population. Nothing you kill respawns naturally.
  • Completing a crawl grants motes and experience, and anything you killed may add its loot and coin to a Bonus Chest.
  • The easier the zone is for you, the smaller the payout.
  • Finishing a Dungeon Crawl refunds your instance charge.
  • Rare creatures now appear on your map while you are in a Dungeon Crawl.

Alternate Advancement

  • Spell Casting Subtlety, Symphonic Aura, and Reaching Notes are now toggleable without changing the rank of the AA.
  • The Disabled ranks of AAs were removed and Enabled was dropped from the AA names, with no change to points spent or assigned. A purchased AA can be toggled from its hotkey, shown by a green ring when active.
  • Fixed Blood Rune's cap, which was 5/8/10 instead of 5%/8%/10% of the player's maximum HP.
  • Symphonic Aura now suppresses spell instrument animations and sounds. Spell particle effects remain controlled by the Beneficial Songs option.

Achievements

  • The You're Faunny! and It's Plane to See achievements are now properly labeled as optional.

Gameplay

  • Fixed the running animation acting strange while using instruments or attacking.
  • Bosses in the Plane of Sky are now all flagged as rare creatures.
  • Fixed pets being unable to proc AOE spells.
  • Normalized the levitation fall rate for smoother falling.

Items

  • Spider Silk Cap can be upgraded again.

Spells

  • Further prevented detrimental spells from stripping beneficial spells when their effects collide.

UI

  • Fixed an erroneous string when leaving an instance while in combat.
  • Added a message explaining a failure to earn an instance recharge when a Dungeon Crawl is too easy.
  • Removed the non-existent Castle Mistmoore to The Bloodfalls zone line from the Find window.
2026-08-25

August 25, 2026 Update

EQLForge note: The headline is the Estate of Unrest revamp: its rare named are now guaranteed spawns with no placeholders and improved loot, the same model as the Castle Mistmoore revamp, and Solusek's Eye gets the same guaranteed-spawn treatment. We are re-checking both zones' spawn and drop data against the new behavior. On the item side, Torrid Corruptor now grants a quest title on right-click, Warlord Skarlon armor gained AC, and the Verishe Mal Greataxe gained endurance. Beastlords also pick up a new pet AA, Strike As One.

Estate of Unrest revamp

  • Most rare creatures have new items added and their existing items improved.
  • Undead on the first floor now occasionally drop Fine Steel weaponry.
  • Rare creatures are now guaranteed spawns with no placeholders.
  • More named monsters are flagged as rare creatures, with increased mote drop rates.

Solusek's Eye

  • Rare creatures are now guaranteed spawns with no placeholders.
  • More named monsters are flagged as rare creatures, with increased mote drop rates.

Gameplay

  • Raid boss hit points reduced in the multiplayer raid (voidling) zones.
  • Fixed the instance charge reset timer, which was resetting to a full hour instead of the remaining time.
  • Pets no longer have their own faction or their own aggro range.

Zones and Population

  • Killing Pickclaw goblins now raises faction with the Priests of Mischief.
  • NPC pets can no longer summon pets of their own.

Quests

  • Experience, faction, coin, items, and stats from turn-ins are now bulk calculated.
  • Bulk turn-ins pre-calculate their results and cap the chat output at four blocks.
  • Quest NPCs now accept coin in any denomination.
  • Multiple-item rewards now show the quantity received.

Items

  • Bristly Boar Reins run speed increased one tier.
  • Torrid Corruptor now grants a quest title when you right-click it while equipped.
  • Warlord Skarlon armor AC increased.
  • Verishe Mal Greataxe gained an endurance bonus.
  • Dark Mail items from Najena had their tint corrected.

Alternate Advancement

  • Fixed a Full Potential AA grant issue for level 50 characters.
  • New Beastlord AA, Strike As One (level 35 and up, 6 points): on proc the pet gains a 30% flurry chance for 12 seconds.

Spells

  • Pets now benefit from pet proc spell upgrades.
  • Fixed familiar summoning interfering with pet re-leveling.
  • F1 targeting now prioritizes your pet when both a pet and a target are present.
  • Spell mote upgrades now preview in the display window.
  • Fixed erratic cooldowns on instant-cast spells.

UI

  • The instance menu now shows the next charge time and stays responsive during keybind editing.
  • Tooltips no longer run off-screen when the window is scaled, and map centering respects scaling options.
  • Nameplate scaling, fonts, and draw range were improved, with two new aggro indicator modes.
  • Assorted font, tradeskill window, and modern UI settings fixes.
2026-08-18

August 18, 2026 Update

EQLForge note: The headline is the Castle Mistmoore revamp: its named are now guaranteed spawns with guaranteed stat-bearing loot, which pushes it up the farming list, and we are re-checking its drop tables against the new data. Shadowknights gain earlier sustain with Lifespike at 5 and the new Lifebite tap, and the Soldier's Brooch is smoother now that you choose your reward at turn-in. Faster respawns in Kedge Keep and a small group-XP buff round it out.

Spells

  • Lifespike now trains at level 5 for Shadowknights, down from level 8.
  • A new lifetap, Lifebite, is added at level 10 for Shadowknights and level 8 for Necromancers. It is auto-granted for both classes and sold by the appropriate spell vendors.

Items

  • Bloodmoon now carries the Improved Vampirism III focus effect.
  • Copper Band now grants +1 AC.

Quests

  • The Soldier's Brooch quest in Rathe Mountains now lets you choose your reward instead of it being set by your primary class.

Zones

  • Castle Mistmoore revamped: its named NPCs are now guaranteed spawns, each with a guaranteed common or rare drop that carries stat bonuses, are flagged as rare creatures, and have reduced aggression during the day.
  • Fixed high-level named in Kedge Keep that were taking far too long to respawn.
  • Seplawishinl Bladeblight in the Ocean of Tears now respawns considerably faster.

Grouping and UI

  • Grouping now grants a small experience bonus, as intended.
  • Added UI scaling in 0.25 steps and cursor scaling, plus an option to use your operating system cursor.

Plane of Sky (charm tuning)

  • The wasps and bees have had their stingers filed down while charmed.
  • The wasp known as Murderbee is a bit easier to handle solo.
  • Shimmering Meteors deal less damage while charmed.

Also in this patch

  • Additional combat, NPC, animation, pathing, and interface fixes.
2026-08-04

August 4, 2026 Update

EQLForge note: This update confirms several race/class combos our builder already uses: Kerran Beastlords, Froglok Monks, and Barbarian Berserkers are all in-game, so see the Kerran builds and races guide. It also fixed guildmaster training in the New Sebilisian Expedition.

General

  • Fixed an issue that was causing instances to close prematurely.
  • Fixed an issue where changing loadout to Kerran for the first time resulted in no textures being displayed.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented Armor Ornamentations from being inserted into certain item types, such as chain arms on monk arms, or robes on chestplates.
  • Updated the grave marker for Aradune in East Karana.
  • Fixed an issue preventing autoinventory from working in certain circumstances.

Alternate Advancement

  • Using Harm Touch IX will no longer unintentionally damage the player.
  • The Full Potential AA should now remain effective after swapping to a loadout that is not level 50.

Gameplay

  • The inhabitants of Kerra Isle will now consider players slaying Erudites favorably. They will also celebrate in the slaying of local kobolds in the Warrens.
  • Shanis MacDarren should no longer tell new Barbarian Berserkers to talk to Haladorf.
  • Fixed a bug where cleave wasn't working with 1HB weapons.
  • Kerran Beastlords should now be using the proper summoned Tiger model.
  • Guild Masters in the New Sebilisian Expedition should now train all of the appropriate skills.
  • The Froglok Monk Guildmaster in the Rathe Mountains will now properly train Monk skills such as Feign Death and Mend.
  • The orc apprentice in Crushbone has finished his training, and become a fullblown apprentice!
  • Some misbehaving quest NPCs in Kerra Isle can no longer be inadvertently lured into combat.
  • It is now possible to read a specific “note” type item used in a Kerra Isle quest by right-clicking on it.
  • Upper Guk will no longer have placeholders for named creatures, such as the froglok gaz squire and the froglok shin lord.
  • The Ishva Mal will no longer proc Harm Touch.
  • The Gloomwater Arrow will now drop one at a time in Kedge.

Spells

  • Damage spells that have a stun component should now properly apply the stun (subject to stun immunities from recent stuns).
  • The Shaman spells Tortoise's Healing and Slug's Healing have had their prices adjusted to be in the correct order.
  • Necromancer NPCs and pets should no longer cast Dark Empathy, Shadow Compact, Corporeal Empathy, or Pact of Shadow.

Patch notes are reproduced from the official EverQuest Legends updates. EQLForge is an unofficial fan tool, not affiliated with the developers.

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