User Interface Guide

Interface

EverQuest's interface has evolved for more than two decades, and it can feel overwhelming when you first log in. The Legends team has introduced meaningful updates to modernize the UI, and this guide will help you learn the essentials and then show you how to manage and customize your interface to your preferences.

Part I: Interface Essentials

Let's start with the big picture!

EverQuest Legends Interface - Beta 2026-04-24

Going by the numbers:

1. Spell Bar - shows currently loaded spells.
2. Hotbar - assign abilities, spells or macros to hotkeys.
3. Inventory - press 'I' to open/close your inventory.
4. Chat Window - Tab 1 shows chat, Tab 2 shows combat.
5. Player Window - shows your player information and resources.
6. Target Window - shows your target information and resources.
7. Multi-Menu Window - quick access to multiple menus.
8. Group Window - other players in your party.
9. Extended Target Window - all your active combat targets.

These windows load onto your screen when you first log in.

Let's go over each of these briefly.

Spell Bar

Your spell bar displays the current spells you have memorized. You can cast one spell at a time and some of them have cool downs that make you wait before casting again. To cast a spell, you can left-click the spell press a hotkey if it is assigned to your hotbar. You can have up to 8 memorized at one time to start, and a few more become available later.

Hotbar

Hotbars are where you can assign macros, abilities, items, socials, or spells. And each of the open slots on the hotbar can be assigned a hotkey. If you want to change a hotkey, hold right-click over it to modify or clear it. You can move a hotkey to another hotbar slot by holding left-click down on a hotkey until it "sticks" to your mouse, then you move it with your mouse and left-click an empty slot to move it there.

Note: In key bindings in-game, hotkeys are called "Hot buttons." Also, each "hotbar" is assigned a "Hot button page" in game, which can be assigned a shortcut key. I suppose I could re-write this guide to match the naming convention used in-game but I have called them hotkeys and hotbars for so long, it's a hard habit to break! I just wanted to make note of that for clarity.

Inventory

Your inventory shows your character gear, bags, stats, and currency. It has a handful of buttons and tabs with their own information and function. It is a very useful and deep system you'll want to become familiar with. Pressing I key opens and closes your inventory. Pressing escape also closes it.

Chat Window

The chat window has two tabs open by default, one for social chat and one for combat chat. You can deeply customize chat and we'll go over a lot of those options later in the deep dive below, but for now you should know that you can change the font size by holding right-click and choosing 'chat size' then selecting your prefered size. You can also right-click your chat window and create a new chat window. Something I usually do early on is set up a couple chat windows where I want them and then right-click the chat windows, mouseover 'window' at the top and choose 'lock' so you don't accidently move, resize, or otherwise mess up your chat windows. While I am on the topic of locking windows, nearly all of them can be locked so, lock what you want!

Player Window

The player window shows your level, your current classes, your current state (i.e., resting), your health, mana, stamina, EXP and AA EXP.

Target Window

The target window similarly shows the targets information, but instead of EXP and AA, it shows their target (often referred to as "target of target" or "target's target").

Extended Target Window

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Where these windows appear on your screen may vary a little depending on your resolution. All of these windows can be moved to your liking, you can resize some of them, you can open more hotbars, assign more hotkeys, open more chat windows, choose a light, dark or modern theme, and much more!

If you are a minimalist, you can set your UI up that way. If you prefer to fill your screen with several chat channels, hotbars and macros, you can do that too. We'll cover all of that stuff in the deep dive. For now, I am going to focus on the essentials so you can focus on playing, not wrestling with windows.

Oh, and I bet you started seeing tip windows start to pop up not long after you logged in? That's normal - they were designed to pop up when you log in on a character below level 20, when you zone, or when the game detects an action that matches one of its built-in "new player help" triggers. You can turn these off, but I would recommend leaving them on for several levels for your first character.

... there's a few essential hotkeys you should know.

Hotkeys

First and foremost for hotkeys, is your 1 through = number keys, those are assigned to your primary hotbar. You can open more hotbars and assign more hotkeys and customize your layout, but we'll save those details for the deep dive further down in this guide.

Alt+O opens the options window. With the options window open, click on controls. On the Key Bindings tab you can select all or specific categories to view all the keybind options that are and are not set.

Note: when you assign a hotkey to a key binding, it normally toggles a window or executes a command, but not all of them currently function.

Under the Commands category, important keys to know are:

• Q = attack (you can also set it to ~ (tilda key) or your preference)
• B = inventory bags toggle
• C = consider
• Ctrl + S = sit/stand

Under the Target category:

• TAB = should be set to cycle through nearest NPCs.

Under the Chat category:

• H = hail
• R = reply

Under the Camera category:

• F9 = toggle camera view

There are many other hotkeys and some would deem them worthy of putting them here, but that is a quick overview of the most used default hotkeys.

Exaltations

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Part II: Deep Dive

Three UI themes are currently available; default, default light, and default modern.

To load a UI theme, press Alt + O, left-click "Load UI Skin", select your choice of skin, then click Load Skin.