August 4, 2026
The first real EverQuest Legends patch after launch, plus the hotfixes through August 6. Upper Guk loses its named placeholders, Irridium refunds go out, and household disconnects get addressed.
The first patch after launch week, covered a couple of days late, with the August 5 and August 6 hotfixes folded in. Upper Guk losing placeholders on its names is the one worth acting on. For a game this early with this many known bugs, the list is shorter than expected.
Source: EQL Update Notes, 8/4/2026. The August 5 and 6 hotfixes below were posted to Discord and are not in that document.
The One That Matters
Upper Guk names.
- Upper Guk no longer has placeholders for names such as the froglok gaz squire and the froglok shin lord.
- That makes Ghoulbane farmable without the placeholder dance, which matters if a Paladin is anywhere in your plans.
- Leveling there now doubles as a loot run, since the names are up rather than gated behind a placeholder cycle.
Worth planning around: this is the second dungeon pass in two patches, after the launch note that cleared The Hole, Lower Guk, Nagafen's Lair, Splitpaw, the Warrens, and Mistmoore.
General Fixes
Bugs, mostly.
- Buff charge counters display correctly, showing 17 instead of 1.
- Instances no longer close prematurely.
- Switching a loadout to Kerran no longer leaves you untextured on the first try.
- Armor ornamentations can now go into chain arms on monk arms, robes on chest plates, and similar mismatches.
- Auto inventory works in cases where it previously did not.
- Aradune's grave marker in East Karana updated.
AA and Combat
Small but real.
- Harm Touch rank 9 no longer damages the player who cast it.
- Full Potential AA survives a loadout swap to a loadout below level 50.
- Cleave works with one-handed blunt weapons again.
- The Ishva Mal will no longer proc Harm Touch.
- Gloomwater Arrows drop one at a time in Kedge.
- Damage spells with a stun component apply the stun properly, subject to the immunity window from a recent stun.
- Necromancer NPCs stopped self-healing with Dark Empathy, Shadow Compact, Corporeal Empathy, and Pact of Shadow.
Funny while it lasted: necro NPCs were healing themselves through everything you did to them.
Gameplay and Quests
NPCs behaving.
- Kerra Isle inhabitants now approve of slaying Erudites, and of clearing the local kobolds in the Warrens.
- Quest NPCs on Kerra Isle can no longer be lured into combat by accident.
- Note-type items on Kerra Isle can be read by right-clicking.
- Shanis MacDarren stopped sending new Barbarian Berserkers to Haladorf.
- Kerran Beastlords use the correct summoned tiger model.
- Guild masters in New Sebilisian Expedition train all the skills they should, and the Froglok Monk Guildmaster in the Rathe Mountains now trains Feign Death and Mend.
- The orc apprentice in Crushbone finished his training and became a full orc apprentice, note the missing R.
- Shaman Tortoise and Slug healing prices corrected, down from roughly 150 platinum.
Hotfixes Through August 6
Posted to Discord rather than the notes.
- Void-touched Potential weekly timer fixed. Players who could not claim it can now get it, and the server resets Tuesdays at 8.
- Transaction history is in account management, so you can see what you actually bought.
- Irridium refunded for the equipment slot purchases that failed. Rebuying works. That took my character from 75 to 100 equipment slots.
- Disconnects fixed for multiple players in the same household, which reads as anti-boxing code catching real people. Truebox on the TLPs has the same flaw, where two actual people in one house trip it.
- Backend resource issue identified and patched, though it takes time to take effect. The lag should ease as peak population comes down.
State of play at recording: servers lagging and the login server down, on top of achievements still not working.
Act On These
- Go to Upper Guk. Named placeholders are gone, so Ghoulbane is a real farm now.
- Check your account transaction history if an Irridium purchase ever failed. Refunds went out and rebuying works.
- Rebuy equipment slots if you got bitten by the original bug.
- Server resets are Tuesdays, which is when the Void-touched Potential weekly rolls.
- Expect lag to fade, not to be fixed by anything you do.
YouTube Generated Transcript
Hello and welcome to some note Natch post for August 4th, 2026 for EverQuest Legends. Now, uh we’re going to go over this and then we got to get pop into the Discord for the hot fixes because obviously today is not August 4th and I am lazy. I bought a new car. I’ve been busy. Did yard work yesterday. Uh so general buff charge counter should now properly be displayed. So 17 will be displayed instead of one. Fixed an issue that was causing instances to close prematurely. Fixed an issue where changing loadout to Karen for the first time would resulted in no textures being displayed. fixed an issue that prevented armor ornamentations from being inserted into certain types of items such as chain arms on monk arms or robes on chest plates. Updated the grave marker for Ardun in East Kana. Fixed an issue preventing auto inventory working in certain circumstances. Uh, alternate advancement. Using harm 9 will no longer unintentionally damage the player. Full potential AA now remains effective after swapping a load out that is not over not that is not level 50. Game play. The inhabitants of Cara Island will now consider the player slaying Iridites favorably. They will also celebrate in slaying of the local cobalts in the warren. Shannis Mcdarin should no longer tell new barbarian berserkers to talk to halidorf. Fixed a bug where cleave wasn’t working with one-handed blood weapons. Karen beast lords should now be using the proper summoned tiger model. Guild masters and new civilian expedition should now train all appropriate skills. The frog lock monk guildmaster in wraith mountains should will now properly train monks such as feain death and mend. The orc apprentice in Crushbone now has finished his train finished his training and become a full-blown orc apprentice. Now [music] notice the missing R in that part of the name. Uh some behav misbehaving quest NPCs in Cara Island can no longer be inadvertently lured into combat. It is now possible to read a specific note type item in the Cara Island by right-clicking on it. Upper Guck will no longer have placeholders for names such as the Froglike Gaz Squire and Frolock Shin Lord. That is a nice change right there. Hopefully uh people can get their Ghoul Banees. I’m going to be leveling some characters there. I’ll tell you that to try and get uh Ghoul Bane for when I make a paladin. [music] Uh Ishvaba Maul will no longer proc harm touch. The gloom water arrow will now drop one at a [music] time and catch spell uh spells. Damage spells that have a stun component should now properly [music] apply the stun subject to stun immunities from a recent stun. The shaman spells, tortoise healing, slugs healing have had their prices adjusted. Correct order. Uh they were like 150 platinum. It’s pretty crazy. Um, necromancer NPCs should now no longer cast dark empathy, shadow combat, corpial healing, or pack the shadows. [music] Now, these are all they were self-healing themselves with their heals that took damage. It was kind of funny, but uh all right. So, that’s that’s what happened on August 4th. Now on August 5th, there was a hot fix correction an issue where [music] the weekly timer was incorrect for the void toy void touched potential weekly task. Affected players are unable to get their void touch potential will now be able to attain it. The server will once again reset on Tuesdays at 8D. Right? So that’s when the server reset is. Additional notes. So, this is uh the 6th. Yesterday, they did another I guess fix. Additional notes. Um or no, that’s uh that’s still the fifth. I’m sorry. Uh now you can look up your transaction history and your account management, see what you’ve purchased. [music] Uh now, I know in a few videos I complained about not being able to get my uh equipment slots and stuff cuz [music] it just like ate my chrono or not my my chrono, what is it? Aridium. ate my aridium and didn’t give me the slots. Uh they did refund all of those those uh slots and you can now reby them if you choose to. Uh and they work. So I was able to go from uh 75 to 100 equipment slots and I was very happy there. [music] Uh we have addressed an issue resulting disconnects when multiple players from the same household were playing together. Uh some antibboxing code right there. Uh probably related to the way True Box works and uh like True Box Truebox the the the code they have for True Box on the TLPS is absolutely horrendous because [music] uh even if you are like two people you can Truebox yourself. [music] Um it’s just it’s just horrendously painful. [music] Uh like it’s just like a limitation for no reason. Uh hot fix pushed 85. Let’s see here. We identified an issue that was causing unintended resource issues on the [music] back end. We deployed a fix, but it will take some time to take effect. Combined with the peak population coming down, the lag will dissipate shortly. Uh [music] the servers are experiencing some lag and I believe the uh uh right now, as of right now, the login server is down. So that is the patch notes for today. Uh well, for [music] like two days ago, I guess. I don’t know. I’m lazy. But uh pretty pretty good patch. I was expecting more [music] um in all honesty this this early on with the sheer amount of bugs. Like achievements don’t work and there’s a lot of other things. I was expecting a lot [music] more fixes this early on. But it is what it is. Thank you very much for watching and [music] please have a fantastic day.
