User Interface Guide
The EQ Legends team has updated the UI and game windows to modernize the experience and introduce key quality-of-life improvements. This guide explains how to navigate the interface, adjust its layout, and customize its appearance.
Interface Overview
Let’s start with the big picture. Going by the numbers, these are the different parts you will see in the default user interface. Each entry below has room for a screenshot or uploaded image, plus notes for future expansion.
Your spell bar displays the current spells you have memorized. You can cast one spell at a time, and some spells have cooldowns that make you wait before casting again. To cast a spell, you can left-click the spell or press a hotbutton if it is assigned to your hotbar. You can have up to 8 memorized at one time to start, with a few more becoming available later.
Hotbars are where you assign macros, abilities, items, socials, or spells. Each open slot on the hotbar can be assigned a hotbutton. Your number keys, 1 through =, are assigned to your primary hotbar by default. You can open more hotbars, assign more hot buttons, and customize your layout.
Press I to open and close your inventory. Pressing Escape also closes it. The inventory has been condensed to include the parts of the UI needed to play the game: character gear, bags, stats, and currency. Right-clicking bags opens them, and pressing B toggles your bags.
There are new high contrast icons that improve the visibility of icons that were hard to see. Most items, gear, and equipment now have tooltips when you mouse over them.
The chat window has two tabs open by default: one for social chat and one for combat chat. You can deeply customize chat. You can change font size by holding right-click and choosing Chat Size, then selecting your preferred size. You can also right-click a chat window and create a new chat window.
A useful early setup step is to place your chat windows where you want them, then right-click each chat window, mouse over Window, and choose Lock so you do not accidentally move, resize, or otherwise disturb them. Most UI windows can be locked.
The player window shows your level, current class information, current state such as resting, health, mana, stamina, EXP, and AA EXP.
The target window shows target information. Instead of EXP and AA, it shows the target’s target, often referred to as target of target or target's target.
The separate Target of Target window can be toggled with Ctrl+U. This information is built into the Target Window, so the separate window may not be needed, but it is available as a preference.
EQ Legends has combined the game menus, window toggles, and EQ button into a multi-menu.
Includes
- Action window containing the Abilities, Disciplines, Spells, and Macros tabs
- Inventory window
- Alternate Advancement window
- Achievements window
- Options window
- Help window
- Instance window, allowing selection of 4 difficulties of the current zone if available
- Marketplace
- EQ Button, similar to but customized from the traditional EQ button
All of these windows have seen many changes for quality-of-life improvements from the original EQ interface.
The group window is the same window used for raids. The group window title changes from Group to Raid automatically when you are in a raid, and it expands or shrinks as members join or leave. The game handles this automatically.
The extended target window shows your active combat targets.
UI Themes
There are three UI themes currently available in game:
- default
- default light
- default modern
To load a UI theme, press Alt + O, left-click Load UI Skin, select your choice of skin, then click Load Skin.
Window and Feature Reference
Pressing L toggles the Actions window.
The Actions window has separate tabs that display all of your abilities, disciplines, spells, and macros. This includes spells that you have not scribed yet. On the abilities tab, there are filters to toggle general and basic abilities, leaving only your combat abilities displayed, including alternate advancement abilities.
The Alternate Advancement window can be toggled using the V key and is also located on the multi-menu.
The Expedition window can be toggled using Alt+Z.
The term “Expedition” refers to unique instances of zones created specifically for your group or raid. Once the expedition has been created, players can be added and removed at will. There are other options available for expeditions; see Expedition for details.
The Find Item window can be toggled using the G key.
The Friend window can be toggled using Alt+F.
This window contains your current list of friends and a separate tab that lists players who are currently being ignored.
The Guild window can be toggled using Alt+G.
You can view the current roster of guild members in the guild management window. If you have permission, you can use the roster tab to promote or demote players.
There is also an invite button that allows you to invite your current target to the guild, raid, DZ, or task. There is also an option to send an invitation to everyone in the guild to a raid, DZ, or task.
The notes tab displays public notes and lets you make personal, private notes about any player.
The information tab allows you to see the MOTD, the guild’s in-game chat channel if one is set, and the guild URL if one has been set.
Just to clarify terminology: in-game key bindings may refer to “hotkeys,” while this guide uses “hot buttons” because that is the term used by the game.
Alt+O opens the Options window. With the Options window open, click Controls. On the Key Bindings tab, you can select all or specific categories to view which keybind options are set or unset.
Note: when you assign a hot button to a keybind, it normally toggles a window or executes a command, but not all of them currently function.
Useful default commands
Q= Attack. You can also set it to~or another preference.B= Inventory bags toggleC= ConsiderCtrl + S= Sit / Stand
Target
TABshould be set to cycle through nearest NPCs.
Chat
H= HailR= Reply
Camera
F9= Toggle camera view
There are many other hot buttons that some players may consider essential, but this is a quick overview of the most commonly used default hot buttons.
The Key Rings window can be toggled using Ctrl+K.
The tabs in this window show the various keys your character possesses. Some items can be placed in the bank or your key ring.
The Loadout tab of your inventory can be toggled using the N key.
Using this tab in city zones or designated safe zones, you can change or add loadouts.
The Mail window can be toggled using Ctrl+E.
The game will send you mail at certain milestones while leveling. If you receive mail for other reasons, including from other players, it can be found here.
The Map window can be toggled with the M key or the Backspace key.
The Options window can be toggled with the O key or Alt+O.
This is where you can set game options, game settings, and keybinds.
Paste from clipboard is enabled by default and can be done by pressing Ctrl+V.
The Pet window can be toggled using Alt+F1.
The Short Duration Effects window can be toggled using Alt+E.
The Spellbook window can be toggled using the K key or Ctrl+B. It displays your spellbook and all of your currently scribed spells.
The Task window, also called the Quest Journal, can be toggled using Alt+Q.
The Title window can be toggled using Shift+T. This allows you to see and set any available titles for your current character.
The UI can be toggled by pressing F10.
The Net Status display can be toggled with the F11 key.
Customizing Your UI
All of your UI windows and elements can be moved wherever you would like, though most cannot be moved off screen. You can resize some windows, open more hotbars, assign more hot buttons, choose between three themes, open more chat windows, decide which chat filters show in each window, and more.
Up until level 20, you will occasionally receive pop-up windows when the game detects an action that matches one of its built-in new player help triggers. These were designed to give players gameplay tips when they do certain things. Each tip can be turned off so it does not display again in the future, which is recommended. You can also turn all tips off, but it is worth leaving them on if this is your first character.
Everyone has their own playstyle and preferences. It can be helpful to see how others set up their UI to get ideas for your own layout. The modern theme is a popular choice because it is easy on the eyes.
Right-clicking on each window gives options to toggle the window lock, set transparency level, and access other window-specific options.
