EqLog Overlay is a Windows companion app for EverQuest Legends. It turns your game logs into live combat stats, useful countdowns, and tools for managing loot, quests, and upgrades. Keep a few small, always-on-top panels over the game, or build a dashboard on another monitor.
The app reads EverQuest log files (eqlog_*.txt) and follows new events as you play.
Combat stats reflect what appears in your log; inventory tools also use inventory exports,
and linked wiki lookups add item, spell, NPC, and quest information.
- Understand your fights. Track DPS, healing, incoming damage, and damage share. Explore ability breakdowns, damage timelines, and damage-type graphs, or revisit recent fights.
- Keep track of time. See estimated spell-effect countdowns and learned respawn timers for the mobs you choose to track.
- Follow your session. Monitor loot, coin, kills, deaths, XP/AA progress, and zone time. Track Motes of Potential across sessions and plan item or spell upgrades.
- Organize loot and upgrades. Compare inventory across storage locations, find items ready to merge, track item-rank increases, and search installed or loose exaltations.
- Find your next quest. Look up quests tied to your items and follow Plane of Sky class quests with rewards, drop sources, and HAVE/NEED counts.
- Learn about NPCs. Browse saved encounters, damage breakdowns, wiki information, and your observed spell resists.
- Notice important events. Keep selected chat channels visible and create custom text or sound alerts for matching log events.
- Make the layout yours. Choose floating or docked panels, organize dashboard workspaces, and customize themes, text sizes, and opacity. Settings and layouts are saved.
Start with installation and first-time setup. Then see screenshots, the full panel guide, or jump to a tool:
| Combat and timers | Loot and progression | Layout and app settings |
|---|---|---|
| Combat panels and graphs | Inventory and loot quests | Dashboard workspaces |
| Spell countdowns | Sky class quests | Themes and appearance |
| Spawn timers | Motes and upgrade planning | Automatic updates |
| NPC compendium | Item upgrades and exaltations | Saved data and backups |
| Custom alerts | Quest opportunities | Optional telemetry |
- Download EqLogOverlay-win-Setup.exe from the latest stable release.
- Close any running copy of the app, then run the installer.
- Launch EverQuest Log Overlay.
The Windows x64 release includes .NET; you do not need to install a separate runtime. Installers are currently unsigned, so Windows may display a SmartScreen warning. Only install files from a source you trust.
For a portable copy, download EqLogOverlay-win-Portable.zip, extract the entire archive,
and launch EverQuest Log Overlay.exe. Keep the launcher, Update.exe, and current directory
together; do not copy just the executable.
- Turn logging on in EverQuest with
/log on. - Use windowed or borderless mode; overlays cannot draw over exclusive fullscreen.
- The app looks for logs in the usual EverQuest Legends and EverQuest Live install folders. If none are found,
it asks you to choose your Logs folder (choosing the EverQuest install folder also works). You can change it
later in General > Log file with Choose folder..., or pick a single file with Browse....
If the folder has no logs yet, type
/log onin game and the log is picked up automatically. - Panels start docked in the main window, except Alerts, which float over the game. In General > Overlays, enable the panels you want and untick docked to float one over the game.
- Unlock floating overlays to arrange them, then lock them to pass clicks through to the game.
The default log folder is:
C:\Users\Public\Daybreak Game Company\Installed Games\EverQuest Legends\Logs
On startup the app reads the selected file's history, then follows new lines live.
With Follow newest log checked, it switches to whichever eqlog_* file is written to next,
such as when you change characters. Startup history does not fire alert triggers.
If floating overlays are missing while arranging them, temporarily turn off Only show floating overlays while EverQuest is active.
Group panels into your own workspace tabs, such as Dashboard, Loot, Sky, Encounters, and Tools. The DPS panel here shows its live ability table in Full details. See the workspace guide for adding tabs, moving panels, and restoring saved layouts.
An example Plane of Sky dashboard with the settings panel hidden. Combat stats, loot, motes, NPC encounters, quests, and inventory are together in one view. Move or resize each tile, or use Pop out to float it over the game. Auto-arrange is off by default, so your custom layout stays where you put it. See Overlays for the complete panel list and layout controls.
Small panels keep useful information visible over the game. Unlock them to arrange them, then lock them to pass clicks through. Gold borders and Dock buttons are visible here because the overlays are unlocked. The Alerts panel can show custom messages and optionally play sounds for matching log events; see Alert triggers.
Each timer shows an effect, its target, and estimated time remaining. See Spell durations for how countdowns are learned and adjusted.
The sections below cover individual features, settings, and tracking behavior in detail.
Use Settings > General > Tracking data > Reset tracking data... to rebuild tracking from logs.
After confirmation, the app saves settings and closes. Open it again to complete the reset and
reprocess the selected log. NPC encounters, resistance observations, learned spell durations and
overrides, spawn timers and overrides, mote history, and tracked inventory are moved into
%AppData%\EqLogOverlay\tracking-backups before fresh tracking stores load.
Settings, alert triggers, layout, themes, original game logs, and lookup caches are preserved.
Only data present in available logs and inventory exports can be rebuilt; other log files must
be opened separately. A failed reset stops startup with an error instead of loading partial data;
the reset request remains for retry and already-backed-up files are not overwritten.
Usage and error telemetry is off by default. Enable Share usage and error telemetry in
General > Application updates to send app-start, feature-use, and error events to Azure Application Insights.
Events include fixed feature/action labels, app version, bundled theme choices (or Custom for
imported/edited themes), Windows-following versus fixed theme mode, and each panel's enabled
state and docked/floating placement. Current theme and panel settings are reported at startup
and when telemetry is enabled; subsequent changes are reported separately. Floating means
configured as an in-game overlay, not proof it is currently visible over the game.
An anonymous random session ID groups events within one opted-in run; it changes on restart
or re-enabling telemetry and is not a persistent user/device identifier. Counts describe
opted-in sessions and actions, not unique people or time spent using features.
For errors, only the exception type and source are included. The app
does not send game or log contents, character or item names, custom theme names/colors,
file paths, exception messages, or
stack traces. Azure Monitor may still process standard service/network metadata. Turn off
Share usage and error telemetry in General > Application updates to prevent new events
from being collected.
Existing saved telemetry preferences are preserved.
Telemetry uses the configured Application Insights connection string; the
APPLICATIONINSIGHTS_CONNECTION_STRING environment variable overrides the built-in default.
Use /who so your own entry appears in the log, for example
[50 DRU/WIZ/ENC] Quethrosar (Erudite). The app matches your character name exactly
(ignoring case), tracks the listed classes in their logged order and level, and updates them
when another entry for you appears. Other players' entries and anonymous entries do not change
your loadout. The character, detected class loadout, and level appear in the app title bar,
as well as the Session overlay and log status. The title bar retains the app version and
updates automatically when your own /who entry changes.
Learned normal spell damage is shared across class loadouts and kept separate by character, level, and exact spell rank. Existing loadout-specific samples also share the baseline. Use /who after changing loadouts: the app cannot detect an unlogged switch and uses the last reported loadout until updated. After a login or changing character, classes are unknown until your own /who entry is read; damage learning uses a separate unknown-level baseline. Historical /who entries are read in order on startup, reconstructing the last reported loadout. Spell resistance outcomes and damage learning both work without /who and across loadouts. Different builds can change typical damage, so combining them can affect reduced-damage estimates.
Settings tabs sit at the top of the side panel, with no global settings stacked above them. General contains log, overlay, and chat settings; each tool uses the remaining panel height. Appearance contains theme selection, JSON import, and the theme editor.
The Appearance tab edits a draft of your selected palette. Give it a name, enter #RRGGBB
colors or use Pick... beside each hex field to open the Windows color picker next to that button.
The picker switches sides or shifts upward near screen edges to stay in the monitor's work area.
Picking a color updates its hex field, swatch and preview; cancelling leaves the draft unchanged.
The preview is a small mock of the real app that uses every theme color: tabs, a search box with
selected text, a spell table with header, alternating, selected and hovered rows, a scrollbar,
normal / hovered / pressed buttons and a checked box, plus Spawn Timers and Experience overlays
over a game backdrop showing heading, dim, good, warning and bad rows. Hover any part to see which
colors it uses.
Apply & save activates the draft and
persists it across restarts. Export JSON... writes an importable theme file without changing
the active theme. Reset draft discards edits and reloads the last selected/applied palette;
choosing a different theme also replaces the draft. Invalid colors are reported and block apply/export.
New installs default to Follow Windows light/dark mode, using Neutral Light or Neutral Dark: simple gray surfaces, readable text, and restrained blue accents. Neutral Dark uses deeper, VS Code-style charcoal surfaces and subtle borders. Changes to Windows app mode apply while the app is running. Both palettes provide at least 4.5:1 text contrast on their opaque surfaces; overlay transparency and the game behind it can reduce actual contrast. Existing saved theme choices are preserved. Uncheck Follow Windows light/dark mode to keep a fixed palette; check it again to resume automatic switching. Applying an edited draft or importing a palette also selects a fixed theme.
Use Settings → Appearance → Theme to switch between Neutral Light, Neutral Dark, Halloween, Midnight Ocean, Enchanted Forest, Crimson Ember (warm red), Royal Amethyst (purple), Arctic Frost (light blue), and Desert Sand (light sand), or choose Import JSON... for a custom palette.
Accessibility themes:
| Theme | For | Overlay status colors |
|---|---|---|
| High Contrast Dark | Low vision / glare; white on black, yellow accent | green / gold / light red, all ≥7:1 contrast |
| High Contrast Light | Low vision, bright rooms; black on white, dark blue accent | dark green / brown / dark red, all ≥7:1 contrast |
| Colorblind Safe (Red-Green) | Deuteranopia / protanopia | good = sky blue, warning = yellow, bad = orange |
| Colorblind Safe (Blue-Yellow) | Tritanopia | good = cyan, warning = white, bad = red |
All text in these themes meets WCAG contrast (7:1 for high contrast, 4.5:1 for colorblind themes).
Changes apply immediately
and the complete selected palette is saved in %AppData%\EqLogOverlay\settings.json; the original
import file is not needed on subsequent starts. Importing another file with the same name is allowed.
Invalid JSON, missing colors, and invalid color values are reported without replacing your theme.
Themes can also set the overlay text colors: section headings (OverlayHeader), secondary rows
(OverlayDim), and good / warning / bad status (OverlayGood, OverlayWarn, OverlayBad, e.g.
spawned mobs, spawns due or expired timers, and capped AA points or errors). These are optional in imported JSON;
omitted ones use the original colors, so older theme files still load. Use contrasting text and
backgrounds. Progress bar fills, chat channel colors, and custom alert colors are separate from the
selected theme. Export a theme from the editor to share it with another user.
Click What's New in the main window's top bar for this version's release highlights and short instructions for using the new features. The scrollable help follows your theme, works offline, and remains available with Settings hidden.
General > Application updates shows the current version and update status. Automatic checks
run at startup and every four hours while the app is running. Checks and automatic downloads
are enabled by default and can be disabled independently. Disabling automatic checks stops both
startup and periodic checks; enabling them starts a new four-hour interval. Periodic checks skip
an active update operation or an already-downloaded update awaiting your restart. Check for updates
and Download update also work manually. Only stable releases from AnQueth/eql are considered;
drafts, prereleases, and downgrades are excluded. Downloads display progress and are verified by
the updater against the release feed. Failures are shown without stopping normal log reading.
Updates never restart the app automatically. Choose Restart to update, then confirm.
The app saves tracking data, stops the log reader, saves the final state, and exits so the updater
can replace application files and restart. A failed data save blocks the restart.
Settings, triggers, inventory, and learned timers remain in %AppData%\EqLogOverlay, outside
the application installation. Development/unpackaged builds and attached debugging sessions are
not updated; existing plain builds must install an updater-enabled release once.
Enable Sky quest tracker under General → Overlays for Plane of Sky class quests (there is no separate settings tab). It can be docked or floating. See Plane of Sky class quests. The overlay is off by default.
Docked overlays live on a freeform canvas, not a wrapping grid. Drag the boxed header grip to place a panel anywhere, including empty space. A full-size highlighted preview follows the pointer, preserving where you grabbed the panel. Drop to place it; Escape or dropping outside the dock cancels the move and restores the previous layout. With Auto-arrange enabled, other panels move live to preview the layout. Panels do not overlap: the panel you just dropped or resized stays anchored where you put it, covered panels are pushed down, and other panels move straight up into available gaps. They keep their columns and never move sideways. With Auto-arrange off, other panels stay put and overlap is allowed. Resizing a panel past the right or bottom edge grows the canvas and scrolls along with the grip; a narrower window or settings-panel splitter adds a scrollbar. Drag near any edge to scroll. Each panel's canvas position and bottom-right-grip size are saved independently of its floating window position and size. Newly docked panels without saved positions are placed in available space automatically. Auto-arrange in the dock window's top bar is off by default: panels stay exactly where you drag and resize them (they may overlap and never reflow on window or splitter resizes). Undocking remembers the panel's last position and size in that workspace; redocking restores them when Auto-arrange is off, including after restarting the app. Tick it to re-pack the current layout and enable automatic rearranging. The choice is saved across restarts. With Auto-arrange on, undocking reflows the remaining panels and redocking places the panel after the others. Buttons, filters, and scrollbars remain interactive in docked panels. Unlock floating overlays to use them; locked floating overlays pass clicks through to the game.
The Loot overlay selector offers Recent drops, Grouped: most recent, and Grouped: item name (A-Z). Grouped rows show the session quantity and last-looted time, combine numeric upgrade variants, and keep different looters separate. Counts cover all observed session drops, not just the recent-drop buffer, and reset with session statistics. Your selected grouping is saved across restarts. Clicking a grouped item opens its EQLWiki page; right-click for quest references.
Click a combatant in DPS for an ability breakdown of that fight, or click the target row for all attackers combined. Recent fight rows also open a combined breakdown. Use the dropdown at the top of DPS to view one of your last 10 fights (newest first); Current fight (auto) returns to following live combat. DPS details also include a Damage timeline tab: bars show damage over the fight (one second each, or wider for long fights), with idle gaps shown as empty bars; hover a bar for its time span, damage, and DPS. The Damage types tab shows one row per damage type (Melee, each spell, DoT, or proc). Every row spans the whole fight, and bars run from when that type started landing to when it finished, with marks at each start and finish; a gap of more than 7 seconds starts a new bar, so 6-second DoT ticks stay together. In Healing, click a recipient, incoming healer, or Observed healers name for session ability totals. Choose Full details in the DPS overlay to show the same ability table and damage graph tabs directly in the overlay; Compact restores the current small rows. The selection is saved. Full details update live each second without resetting column widths, sorting, the selected tab, or your scroll position in the Damage types graph. Both graphs keep their existing visuals unless their own data, fight duration, or start time changes. Details show total, DPS/HPS, share, hits, crits, maximum, and healing overheal. Separate breakdown windows opened by clicking a row are snapshots at click time, not live windows; click again for an updated snapshot. The embedded DPS Full details view is live. Healing detail rates use the span from first to last observed session heal (minimum one second), not the rolling 30-second meter. Only logged events are available; unnamed melee is grouped as Melee and unnamed heals as unknown. Unlock floating overlays with Ctrl+Shift+L to click; docked panels remain interactive.
| Overlay | Shows |
|---|---|
| DPS | Current or picked fight (last 10): your and others' damage, DPS, and share |
| Damage Taken | Incoming damage by attacker/spell (encounter and session) |
| Healing | Heals you cast (with overheal) and heals you received |
| Spell Timers | Countdowns for mez, charm, DoTs, debuffs and similar effects you cast |
| Session | Session and zone time, kills/hr, deaths, XP/AA progress, level, AA-cap warning |
| Loot | Recently looted items and coin |
| Forage | Forage finds (recent with zone, or grouped by most recent / A-Z with per-zone totals), success rate, finds/hr, and Forage skill-ups this session |
| Chat | Selected chat channels |
| Spell Casting | Casts per spell, interrupts, resists and fizzles |
| Alerts | Text from your custom alert triggers (see below) |
| Mob info | Your latest live /consider result, wiki stats, and saved Magic/Fire/Cold/Poison/Disease observations |
| NPC compendium | Search saved NPCs by name/zone; browse wiki stats, per-spell resists, encounter history and average DPS |
| Spawn Timers | Respawn countdowns for the named mobs you track in the current zone (see below) |
| Motes | Motes of Potential looted per tier (session and all time), motes/hr, recent drops, drop rates here, and each tier's upgrade value (see below) |
| Mote upgrade planner | Motes and spare item copies needed for each step from an item's or spell's current +rank to +10 (see below) |
| Sky quest tracker | Plane of Sky class quests, rewards, required items, drop sources, and watched quests |
| Inventory & loot quests | Owned counts by storage location, item/quest wiki links, and quest completion |
| Ready to merge | Upgrade-rank merge candidates with quantities and exact storage locations |
| Item upgrades | Item ranks that increased between inventory exports, with the local date and time of each upgrade |
| Exaltations | Search by effect to find installed and loose exaltations, their host items, and exact exported locations |
| Quest opportunities | Searchable item-to-quest references with inventory counts and lookup progress |
| Wiki activity | Shared lookup queue, request priorities, retry progress, and recent outcomes/errors |
- Lock all overlays (or Ctrl+Shift+L): when locked, overlays are click-through so they don't block the game. When unlocked they have a gold border; drag the boxed header grip to move and drag the edges to resize. The grip captures the mouse until you release it. Titles, rows, and empty panel space never move overlays. A dash in the checkbox means some overlays are locked; clicking it or pressing the hotkey locks all. When all are locked, the same control unlocks all. Docked panels remain interactive.
- Only show floating overlays while EverQuest is active (on by default): floating overlays hide when you Alt+Tab to another app (including the dock/settings), even if the game is still visible on another monitor. They return when EverQuest has focus again. An unlocked floating overlay can keep focus while you interact with it. A minimized or unavailable game never enables them. Docked panels always stay visible. Turn this off to arrange overlays without the game running.
- Expand General > Overlays > Individual overlay appearance and locks, then an overlay's name, to adjust its text size, background opacity, and floating-window lock independently. Size and opacity apply to both floating and docked panels, update live, and are saved with positions. Floating and docked overlays use rounded outer corners, with contents clipped to the rounded outline. Existing settings retain the previous global appearance and lock values until individually changed. Mouse-over background sets a separate background opacity while the pointer is over that overlay. If it is lower than Background, it is ignored: hovering never reduces the background opacity. Moving away restores Background; text stays unchanged. This works for docked panels and locked or unlocked floating overlays. Initially the mouse-over value matches the normal background opacity.
- Unlocked floating overlays also have a compact background-opacity slider just left of Dock. Adjust it over the game to change that panel's opacity; it stays synchronized with Settings and is saved. Unlock with Ctrl+Shift+L first. Hover-only title mode hides the slider until you hover the panel. Clicking the slider focuses the overlay while its thumb captures the drag, keeping the game from treating the interaction as camera input. Click back into the game when finished.
- Enable Hide floating overlay titles and borders in game unless hovered for unobtrusive floating panels while EverQuest is active. Hover to reveal the header and decorations; docked panels are unchanged. Locked overlays remain click-through, and their hover state updates within half a second. Mob info keeps its title visible whenever the panel is active, even in hover-only mode.
- Reset session clears totals. You can also have them reset automatically when you log in.
The app has one normal window you can put on another monitor, maximize, or keep on top. Settings sit in a side panel on the left (toggle it with ⚙ Settings, drag the divider to resize it); docked panels fill the rest. Use + to create your own workspaces. Click a tab to switch layouts, or right-click it to rename or delete it. Deleted workspaces keep their panels and placements; use Restore to bring one back. The current dashboard layout becomes the initial Dashboard workspace, preserving existing panel positions. Closing this window exits the app.
Tick docked next to an overlay to add or remove it from the selected workspace. Each panel also has its own button: Dock on a floating overlay (visible while overlays are unlocked) and Pop out on a docked tile, to move that panel out of every workspace and into its own floating overlay. To move a docked panel between workspaces, click Move to in that panel's title bar and choose a workspace. Dock all docks everything except Alerts in the selected workspace; Float all removes every panel from all workspaces. Drag a tile to move it on the canvas and drag its gold bottom-right corner to resize it. Other panels reflow around it only when Auto-arrange is enabled. Docked panels use fantasy-style metallic frames with beveled edges, inset content, raised title strips, and corner studs. Frame colors follow your theme; floating overlays keep their compact appearance.
Canvas positions and panel sizes, the window's position, and the side panel's width and visibility are saved.
The Mob info overlay is enabled by default. A new /consider result in the live log shows the mob's name, level, faction reaction, difficulty text, and any following creature assessment. The same window updates for your next target; reading startup history does not open it.
Five color-coded rows show Magic, Fire, Cold, Poison, and Disease:
- Wiki is an explicit resistance stat from EQLWiki, when available.
?means unknown, not zero. Many NPC pages, including Heart harpie and A Spinechiller Spider, do not list resistance stats. Wiki race, class, level, HP and AC, damage per hit, attacks per round, attack speed, HP/mana regeneration, aggro radius, run speed, respawn time, and location are also shown. These are reference stats, not live remaining health; estimates and ranges stay as written on the wiki. Missing values show?. The cache date is displayed, and older caches automatically refresh on the next consider to include the additional stats. Special (wiki) highlights listed traits such as Cyndreela's Immune to Flee, See Invis. These traits are separate from elemental resistance values. Use Refresh wiki to update an older cached page that does not yet include special traits. Associated quests (wiki) lists clickable quest pages from the NPC page's related quests and quest-category pages linking to or transcluding that NPC. These appear in Mob info and every NPC compendium view. Click a quest name to open it on EQLWiki; unlock floating overlays first. Associations can mean a quest giver, an enemy, or another mention, not a turn-in checklist. Older NPC caches refresh automatically on lookup; Refresh wiki forces an update. Cached links remain available offline, and lookup failures preserve the previous cache and show an error. - Observed result shows a plain label followed by the percentage and resisted/assessed counts, for example Partial — 65% (13/20). Only explicit resist messages enter the resisted count. Confirmed damage hits count as landed, even below the damage baseline or while learning it. An unknown class loadout does not block direct-spell or DoT landings or damage samples. Other-spell resists are not in this denominator. With no assessed outcomes it shows Unknown — no assessed outcomes. Resists (all recorded outcomes resisted), Partial (more than half but not all), Partially Resistant (20% through 50%), and Not Resistant (less than 20%). Unknown means no comparable observations, not zero resistance. Labels cover your spells whose wiki metadata identifies single-target instant direct damage, including instant Lifetap spells such as Life Leech. Ranked spells fall back to their base wiki page if needed. A successful outcome must match a recent, uninterrupted personal cast. Repeated damage lines for that cast and target do not inflate the count. Reduced-damage hits (cause unknown) are shown separately if they deal less than 90% of typical damage. The baseline is the sample-count-weighted median, not the maximum, learned separately for each character, level, and exact spell rank, shared across class loadouts, across mobs/zones from non-critical, unmodified hits. At least three eligible hits are required; for an even sample count the middle two damage values are averaged. Until then, hits await a damage baseline but still count as confirmed landings. Saved samples are re-evaluated as learning improves, including after updating the app; no resistance reset is needed. Reduced-damage estimates never enter the resisted count or affect the resistance label. Buff changes and mitigation can skew these estimates, so reduced damage is not proof of a resist. Damage observations wait briefly for death messages. The latest candidate hit on that mob is excluded from both learning and resistance outcomes when a death is logged within 3 seconds, even if another player gets the kill. Without a death message (or with one delayed longer than this window), finishing blows cannot be identified reliably. Very recent buffered hits may be omitted if the app closes before they can be checked. Older landings without samples cannot be assessed for reduced damage. Re-reading the log on startup recovers eligible landings previously skipped for an unknown loadout, without duplicating saved outcomes. No resistance reset is needed.
- Single-target damage-over-time spells (wiki duration spells with a per-tick hit point decrease, such as Bond of Death, Envenomed Bolt, Dark Soul and Ignite Blood) also count toward their school. DoTs land fully or are fully resisted, so each cast counts once per mob: landed when its first tick from you hits after the cast, or resisted. Ticks from a DoT already running on that mob when you recast are skipped, and interrupted or fizzled casts don't count. DoT outcomes are tracked separately, so the log history you already have is counted once on the next launch without double-counting earlier resists.
- Resists of debuffs, area spells, and other spells appear as separate counts with an unknown rate. Later DoT ticks and guessed landings are not counted as successful casts. Spells with missing or unrecognized wiki resistance types remain unclassified rather than being assumed Magic.
Observed labels are not exact NPC resistance values or guaranteed immunity. Your level, debuffs, spell modifiers, missed log messages, and small sample sizes affect them. Same-name mobs in the same zone share observations; logs do not identify individual NPC instances. Different logged zones (including difficulty/instance suffixes) stay separate. Wiki values may not reflect a custom rank or zone variant. Observations accumulate across characters and sessions; Reset session does not clear them. Reopening the same log does not count its recorded history again. Moving a log to a different path can reimport its observations.
Use Reset resistances in Mob info to clear observations for the displayed mob in its current zone. Confirm or cancel directly inside the overlay; reset progress, success, and save errors also appear there, without a popup. The panel stays open while confirming or saving. This clears its spell outcomes and damage samples across characters, but keeps wiki stats, spell metadata, NPC encounters, and other mobs/zones. The saved reset cutoff excludes events logged at or before the reset, even from renamed/copied logs; new events resume learning. Unlock floating overlays to use the button. It is disabled if persistent mob storage could not be loaded. Running older builds that do not understand reset cutoffs can discard them.
Under General > Consider / mob information, set the display timeout (default 5 seconds;
0 keeps it until your next consider). Mob info supports the usual docking, independent text
size, opacity, and lock controls. Timed expiry hides it in both docked and floating modes.
Hovering holds an active Mob info panel open, including locked floating overlays. When the pointer
leaves, a fresh full display timeout starts. A new consider still updates the panel while hovered.
The normal EverQuest visibility rule still applies to floating windows.
Unlock the panel to use Wiki or Refresh wiki; docked buttons are always interactive. NPC lookups are cached for one day and spell metadata for seven days. Only mob and spell names are sent to EQLWiki, never the log file. Lookup failures keep cached data and show an error; use Refresh wiki to retry. New observations are still saved while offline.
Spell metadata is also fetched automatically in the background as spells appear in the log: casts, named spell damage/DoT ticks, heals, targeted resists, and wear-off messages. This works during startup history import and live reading, even with both NPC overlays hidden; no consider or NPC selection is required. Repeated names share one lookup, fresh saved entries are reused, and requests run one at a time with at least one second between requests. Results are saved as they arrive and reused across character/log switches. Failed automatic lookups preserve cached data and report an error under General; another observation can retry after five minutes, or Refresh wiki retries explicitly. Closing the app cancels unfinished work; replaying the log rediscovers any spells that still need metadata.
All automatic wiki lookups share a single paced queue. Live /consider information goes first, followed by NPC/item selections and manual refreshes, then background spell, quest, and Sky lookups. Selecting something already queued promotes that lookup instead of downloading it twice. A download already in progress finishes before the next request; long quest searches yield between pages. Occasional turns for older background work keep it progressing without letting a backlog block live considers.
Temporary connection failures, timeouts, and busy-server responses retry automatically up to three times, with increasing delays and respect for the server's requested wait. Waiting retries do not hold up other wiki work. If retries are exhausted, the existing cached data stays available and the lookup error is shown.
Enable NPC compendium under General > Overlays. It starts docked and is off by default; it can also float over the game with its own size, opacity, text size, and lock settings. Unlike Mob info, it stays open until you hide it: searching never changes or reopens the timed /consider panel. Unlock a floating compendium to type and interact; docking keeps it interactive. The search text, selected NPC/zone, and selected view are remembered. Use Overview for combat totals, NPC stats, and resistance-school summaries; Spell resists for individual spell cards; and Encounters for paged fight history. Cards wrap on narrow panels instead of squeezing spell names against long status text.
- Type part of a name to filter recorded NPCs, then choose the name and zone in the list. Full logged zones, including difficulty/instance suffixes, remain separate.
- Look up name opens the exact typed NPC even without local history. Wiki stats, HP, AC, special traits, resistance labels/numbers, and cached spell metadata are shared with Mob info. Open wiki opens the page; Refresh wiki retries or refreshes cached data. Missing values stay unknown.
- Historical considers retain the faction reaction, level, difficulty, and supplemental assessment. They are identified as historical, not your currently selected game target.
- The selected log's history is imported automatically, followed by new live interactions. Use Browse... to import another log; previous NPC history remains saved.
- Encounter summaries include the date, character, reported loadout/level, duration, your damage/DPS, other attackers' damage, incoming damage, and a logged death or end reason. Use Older / Newer in the Encounters view to page through history.
- Your average DPS is total damage divided by summed durations of encounters where you dealt damage, not a simple average of fight DPS values. Durations use last activity minus start plus one second, minimum one second. Other-attacker damage/DPS is separate and includes all observed attackers, not guaranteed group members. These are log-observed damage rates, not estimates of NPC health or remaining HP.
- Per-spell resistance history separates explicit full resists, confirmed landings, reduced-damage estimates, and landed hits awaiting a typical-damage baseline. It uses the same saved observations and finishing-hit exclusions as Mob info. Encounter spell rows separately show damage, confirmed direct landings (including partial/finishing hits), and explicit resists; DoT ticks contribute damage, not additional direct landings.
- A known school does not mean a reliable damage rating is available. Denon's Desperate Dirge and Frost Storm use Targeted AE on the wiki; their cards show Magic/Cold, saved landings/resists, and the AE limitation instead of incorrectly implying their schools are unknown. Multi-target/wave spells and DoTs do not get a fabricated full/partial rating. Missing wiki details and insufficient normal-damage samples have separate explanations. Older cached spell metadata refreshes automatically when observed or selected after an app upgrade; saved observations are preserved. Earlier landings lack damage amounts and cannot be checked retrospectively for reduced damage.
Summaries end only on a logged death or zone/login/loadout/level change, never inactivity. Long gaps in combat do not split an encounter. Missing endings leave summaries Active, so repeated fights against the same NPC name can merge without a logged ending. Previously saved Timed out records remain unchanged; they are not confirmed kills. Active summaries are saved too. Reopening or reimporting the same log path does not duplicate its encounters; moving/copying a log to a different path counts as a different source. Overlapping same-name NPCs cannot be distinguished: they merge until a death/end boundary, and subsequent interaction starts a new summary. Unknown/unlogged class changes still require /who. No raw log lines are stored in the compendium. Saved history survives Reset session and restart. Corrupt history is reported and protected from overwrites; new observations then stay session-only.
Turn on the Sky quest tracker overlay (General → Overlays) to browse the wiki's class tests. Its toolbar has a search box (quest name, reward, required items, and droppers), a class filter (All classes or one class), Wiki, and Refresh. Unlock floating overlays to type. Four tabs:
- By class: each quest shows its reward, who to give it to and what to say, and every required item with HAVE/NEED counts, the mob(s) that drop it, and where your copies are.
- By dropper: required items grouped by the mob that drops them, with the quests that need each item. Items whose wiki page names only the zone (typically runes) are grouped last.
- Need: only the items you still need for the class-filtered (and searched) quests, boss first and then each missing item with how many more you need and which quests use it.
- Watching: click the ☆ next to any quest to watch it. Watched quests can come from different classes and ignore the class filter. The tab starts with a hunt list of still-missing items grouped by dropper, followed by the watched quests.
Search, class, tab, and watch list are saved. The catalog and item drop sources are cached for one day in
sky-quests.json; Refresh forces an update. Network/format errors appear at the top of the list,
keeping previously loaded data available.
Counts use the active character's confirmed inventory exports; loot logs do not change ownership.
Upgrade suffixes are ignored when matching. Unconfirmed historical loot and installed augmentations do
not satisfy requirements. Items may count toward multiple quests (they are not reserved; the hunt list
compares the combined requirement against what you own), and owning every item does not verify faction or
other prerequisites. Refresh the inventory export after turn-ins to update counts.
Collection entries count as owned, with an explicit turn-in-availability warning. Sky adds the
separate Collection count to the loose/worn storage counts when evaluating ownership.
The app checks for <Character>_<server>-Inventory.txt in the parent of the Logs folder every two
seconds. For Logs\eqlog_Quethrosar_qeynos.txt, it reads Quethrosar_qeynos-Inventory.txt beside
the Logs folder. Generate/update the export with /outputfile inventory in game.
The inventory status in the Inventory & loot quests overlay shows the expected path, last import, and errors.
No inventory file is uploaded.
Turn it on under Settings > General > Overlays (it docks by default and can float like any other panel; unlock a floating copy to type in it).
It contains an inventory grid (read-only Carried, Bank, Hoard, Depot, Other,
Collection and Installed counts), quest lookups, item wiki pages, and Complete / reopen.
Copies are combined by base item name; the displayed name shows the highest +N rank
in the current export across all storage and collection sections, not the first copy encountered.
Drag the horizontal divider to share space between the inventory and quest references.
The quest heading stays with its results, and both panes retain a minimum height.
Type part of an item name in the inventory filter to narrow the grid (case-insensitive).
Clear it to show all items. Filtering does not change ownership counts or automatic quest lookups.
Click an item name or select its row to see Copy locations: every exported copy or stack,
with its rank, quantity, exact slot/container location, and loose/worn, collection, or installed status.
Switch to Quest references for linked quests; use Item wiki page to open the item on EQLWiki.
Locations reflect the last export, not later moves or loot. Run /outputfile inventory to refresh them.
Storage, Collection, and Installed counts together match all exported copies.
Loot logs and old manual adjustments do not inflate confirmed counts; saved counts are reconciled
on load. Refresh the export after looting, merging, sales, or turn-ins.
The redundant Owned and History columns are no longer shown.
The Loot overlay also has an item-name filter in every grouping mode. Type part of a name to narrow drops, or clear it to restore them. Coin and session totals remain unchanged.
Ready to merge is a separate overlay under Settings > General > Overlays, with its own visibility, workspace, floating position, text size, opacity, and lock controls. When upgrading from the combined inventory overlay, it inherits inventory's visibility and appearance and is added to every workspace containing inventory, below the existing panels. Floating inventory users get a floating merge overlay too. This happens only once; hiding or moving merge afterward does not cause it to be re-enabled on restart. New users can enable it separately (it docks by default).
It shows items you hold more than once at different +N ranks, grouped by name without the
+N. Each copy shows its rank, quantity and exact location, for example
Worn Wrist, equipment slot 9, Inventory slot 4 (Spacious Rucksack), bag slot 6,
Bank slot 10 (Storage Trunk), bag slot 8, Shared bank slot 1, Dragon's Hoard slot 12 or
Tradeskill depot slot 3. Plain copies count as +0. Two copies that were never upgraded are not
listed, because they look like stackable items. Collections and installed augments are left out.
Repeated worn slots (ears, wrists, rings, Any Slot) are numbered by their order in the export.
The filter box matches item names and locations.
The Item upgrades overlay records an item when a later inventory export shows a higher
+N rank than the previous export for that character (for example, +1 to +2). The first
export for an item establishes its baseline; item quantities are not tracked for upgrade events.
Each entry includes the export's local date and time. The most recent 100 rank-ups per character
are saved in the tracking data and remain available after restarting the app.
Use the item-name filter to search recorded rank-ups without case sensitivity; clear it to show all.
History is stored in %APPDATA%\EqLogOverlay\quest-inventory.json, starting with version 1.0.26.
Earlier builds do not preserve the new history fields when they save that file; avoid running
an older installed or development build against the same tracking data. Past rank-ups cannot be
reconstructed from a single current inventory export.
Enable Exaltations under Settings > General > Overlays. It starts docked and can
float like the other panels. Search by what an exaltation does—for example string,
bard instruments, haste, vampirism, or a spell-effect name—without remembering the
original item's name. All search words must match. Host names and locations are searchable
too, and Installed only hides loose copies and copies in exalt storage.
For each match the panel shows:
- One card headed Exaltation:. Effect and What it does describe the bonus; Effect source links to the original item's wiki page, not the item carrying the exaltation. Installed in names the actual host, with Host location and Socket beneath it. Multiple copies are numbered within the same card; loose copies say Not installed.
- The original item's Focus, Worn, or Proc effects, plus supported instrument/skill and haste modifiers, with linked wiki effect descriptions and spell-slot details when available.
- The exaltation's name and a link to the original item page, without
(Exaltation). - Each installed copy's host item (including its
+Nrank), socket, and physical location: worn equipment slot, inventory/bank bag and slot, shared bank, hoard, or depot. - Copies in exalt storage (the export's
Augmentationsection), labeled Not installed (in exalt storage), plus loose copies in bags/bank. Repeated storage entries count as separate copies. Ordinary items in theEquipmentcollection are not exaltations.
Locations reflect the latest inventory export, not live game memory. Run
/outputfile inventory after moving, installing, or removing an exaltation. Unknown hosts,
missing wiki pages, unsupported effect fields, and lookup failures are shown explicitly.
The panel reports the base item's wiki effects; it does not guess whether click effects or
every original-item stat transfer to exaltations. Click-only effects are excluded.
Export limitation: exaltations installed in items in Equipment storage may be
omitted by /outputfile inventory. The overlay's list and search can therefore be
incomplete even after re-exporting. No match does not mean you do not own it.
Check the in-game Find Item window for these copies. This warning stays visible
above the overlay's search field.
To help find these missing copies, the panel also researches the original items listed in Equipment storage. Their wiki Focus/Worn/Proc effects are cached and searchable as Expected exaltation (unverified). These cards show the original item and its numbered export entry, not a confirmed host or socket. The export entry is not a verified in-game storage slot. Wiki defaults do not prove you still own or have installed that exaltation: it may have been moved or removed. They are counted separately from exported exaltations, hidden by Installed only, and shown only after a supported wiki effect is found. Confirmed exaltations are researched first; researching a large equipment store can take time in the shared paced queue. Results appear as lookups finish and are reused on restart.
Lookups start when the panel is shown, use the shared paced wiki queue, and fill in effect search results as they complete. Only base-item and effect names are sent to EQLWiki—not host items, locations, character names, or the inventory file. Effects are cached locally for seven days (missing pages for one day). Refresh effects bypasses that cache; it does not refresh the inventory export.
A [Quest] marker beside an inventory item or merge group means the cached wiki lookup found quest references. The same marker appears beside items in Loot and the Wiki work queue. Click the marker to open that item's quest references in the inventory overlay; clicking the item name still opens its wiki page. Markers update as background lookups finish, without changing your owned counts or requiring another click. No marker may mean a lookup is still pending or failed, not proof that an item has no quest use. The marker indicates wiki references (including possible rewards or mentions), not verified turn-in eligibility.
After the file stops changing, a successful import replaces the character's owned counts, including carried/equipped and bank/shared-bank items. All nonempty entries are imported, including the three-column KeyRing section (Equipment, Activated, Augmentation, and Equipment-* entries). Collection and installed-augmentation counts are displayed separately and included in wiki lookup processing, but do not count as loose quest turn-in items. Each collection row represents one entry. Empty slots are ignored. Item names are preserved exactly. The status shows imported entry totals. Loot newer than the export time is added without double-counting loot already in the export. Refresh the export after selling, banking, or turning items in; the game does not continuously update this file. Manual owned-count edits last until the next export. Missing/invalid/locked exports keep previous counts and are retried automatically. Quest references are still not verified requirements.
The Quest opportunities panel automatically looks up looted items and groups their quest references.
Use its sort selector for Recent items (latest recorded loot first, inventory-only items last) or
Quest name (A-Z). The search box filters by item or quest name, ignoring case; matching quests retain
all their linked items for context. Clear the box to show everything. Sort and filter persist across restarts.
These controls work docked or in an unlocked floating panel.
It docks by default and can also float. Historical loot is imported as unconfirmed, not owned.
In the Inventory & loot quests overlay, storage counts are read-only and use confirmed exports.
Newly observed loot still triggers lookups but does not increase confirmed counts; run /outputfile inventory
after looting, merging, sales, transfers, or turn-ins. Auto-sold and depot loot are excluded from
log-triggered lookups. Select a quest reference to mark it complete (or reopen it); completion hides it
from the opportunities panel without assuming which items were consumed. Counts and completions are
stored per character in quest-inventory.json. Historical lines are deduplicated with one compact
watermark (latest timestamp and line number) per character and log path; replacing or moving a log can
import it again as unconfirmed history.
Automatic lookups run one at a time, cache results for seven days, and show errors explicitly. The Quest opportunities toolbar puts sorting and filtering side by side, with a horizontal progress bar, checked/total and cached/queued/failed counts, and the current lookup text underneath. Failed attempts count as processed, not cached; use Retry lookups to retry them. Quest titles use accent-colored section headings. Clickable items sit beneath them in indented, translucent cards with bold item names and separate muted inventory details. Use the vertical scrollbar to browse quest opportunities without moving the panel. Use Retry lookups after a network failure. Only item names are sent to EQLWiki.
For a manual lookup, open the Inventory & loot quests overlay and select an inventory grid row to load its quest references automatically. Look up quests repeats the selected row's lookup, and Item wiki page opens that same item's page. Select a result and click Open selected quest. References may describe requirements, rewards, or other mentions; check the linked quest before selling an item. No results means no linked quest pages were found, not that the item has no quest use. “Wiki references checked” means the lookup succeeded. This list shows wiki mentions, not a ready-to-turn-in checklist; hover the explanation beneath the progress text for details.
Click item names to open their EQLWiki pages in Loot, Quest opportunities, inventory, Sky rewards/runes/requirements, and Motes (including tier summaries and recent drops). Numeric upgrades are removed from wiki page names; Sky's displayed aliases retain their actual wiki targets. In an overlay, right-click > Look up quest references opens the Inventory & loot quests overlay, selects its inventory row, scrolls to it, and starts its lookup. Matching ignores numeric upgrades. Items not yet in the inventory grid are added as zero-owned lookup candidates; looking up someone else's loot never adds ownership. Quickly changing selection cannot replace the latest item's results with an older response. This works in the docked panel and in unlocked floating overlays. Press Ctrl+Shift+L to unlock a floating overlay first; locked overlays pass clicks through to the game.
Only the item name is sent, never log files or character information.
Results are cached for seven days in %AppData%\EqLogOverlay\quest-lookups.jsonl (one appended line per lookup; the latest line per item wins and the file is compacted on load).
All item identity comparisons ignore upgrade modifiers such as +1, + 1, or +10, wherever they
appear in a name, using the same normalization for loot totals, inventory grouping, item searches,
Sky requirements, wiki lookups, item-page links, and cache keys. Comparisons also ignore case and
extra whitespace. Displays retain original item names; quantities from upgrade variants are combined.
Network/API/cache errors appear in the tab rather than being treated as an item with no quests.
The Alert triggers tab lets you show a message in the Alerts overlay when a log line matches a regex. Triggers fire only for new lines written while the app is running, never for history it reads at startup. Alert messages are centered in both floating and docked panels and wrap onto multiple lines to fit the panel's width.
Each trigger is shown as a card with three lines: name and alert text, then simple text and regex, then the options below. Click Add trigger to add an empty one. Edits save when you leave a field.
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Enabled | Enable or disable the trigger |
| Simple text | Plain text found anywhere in the line, ignoring case (no regex rules). {C} is your character's name |
| Regex | Matched case-insensitively against the text after [timestamp] . {C} is your character's name |
| Alert text | Text to show. $1 or ${name} insert captured groups, {C} your name. Leave it empty to show the log line |
| Secs | How long the alert stays on screen |
| Sound | Play the Windows exclamation sound |
| Effect | How the alert text moves: None, Grow / shrink, Flash, Shake, Rotate (wobble), Spin, Bounce, Pop in (once, when it appears), or Glow |
| Color | A color name (Orange) or #RRGGBB. A swatch shows the color; type one, or click Pick... to choose it |
Built-in examples:
^{C} has fallen to the ground\.$→ FEIGN DEATH FAILED!^You are no longer feigning death, because (.+)\.$→ Feign broken: $1
Use Test to try a line against your triggers. Invalid regexes are listed under the grid and skipped. Testing automatically enables and reveals the Alerts panel. Floating test alerts remain visible even without EverQuest on screen until the test duration expires, then the usual game-visibility rule resumes. Docked Alerts are brought forward and scrolled into view. To remove triggers, select one or more triggers (click the strip on the left; Ctrl/Shift for several) and click Delete selected or press Delete. Both methods ask for confirmation, defaulting to No. Confirmed deletions are saved.
The Log lines tab shows the raw log as it is read (the last 5,000 lines) so you can find lines to build triggers from.
- Filter shows only lines containing the text. Tick Regex to filter with trigger syntax (including
{C}), which is a quick way to check a pattern. - The list follows new lines while it is scrolled to the bottom with nothing selected. Scroll up, select a line or tick Pause to hold it still.
- Double-click a line (or select it and press Make trigger) to add a trigger from it. Your name becomes
{C}, numbers become\d+, and the regex is anchored with^...$. The app then switches to the Alert triggers tab with the line in the Test box, ready for you to type the alert text.
The app learns how long named mobs take to respawn. When you kill a mob and later see the same name active again (it hits, casts, says something, or takes damage) in the same zone without zoning out, that gap is a sample. A sighting can come well after the actual respawn, so the estimate is the lowest consistent cluster of samples. Instances share what is learned (Nektropos Castle 4 (Refined) counts as Nektropos Castle), but zoning or logging in drops kills that haven't been timed yet, because an instance may have reset. Mobs that keep the same name across several copies (activity right after the kill) aren't timed.
The Spawn timers tab lists the likely named mobs for the zone you're in, from this log and from earlier sessions. Tick Show all mobs to include "a skeleton" style mobs and anything that looked like a player or mercenary.
- Track adds the mob to the Spawn Timers overlay for that zone.
- Override sets the respawn yourself as seconds, m:ss or h:mm:ss. Clear it to use the learned value or wiki fallback.
- Relearn forgets the learned respawn time (for example after a patch changed it, or after bad samples) and measures it again from your next kill. Only sightings after the newest log line count, so old history re-read at startup doesn't bring the old time back. Override and Track are kept.
- Wiki shows a fallback respawn time from the mob's EQLWiki page. Tracked mobs in your
current zone are checked in the background when no learned time or override exists, even
when the settings tab is closed. Existing one-day NPC wiki caches are reused across restarts.
Only explicit durations are used (for example
6min 40secor16:00); missing values, ranges and conditional descriptions remain unknown. Wiki values may differ on Legends or instance variants. Lookup errors appear under General and retry after five minutes.
Timer priority is Override > Learned > Wiki. Wiki countdowns are marked (wiki) and never count as learned samples. Once local learning supplies a time, it takes precedence.
The overlay shows each tracked mob as a countdown after you kill it, then DUE once the time has passed, up once it's been seen alive again, and the learned time when it hasn't been killed yet.
Enable Wiki activity in the overlay list to monitor the shared wiki request queue. It shows each request's priority, URL, attempt count, elapsed time, and whether it is queued/pacing, sending, or waiting to retry. Cache/data-processing operations appear while they run. Quest enrichment progress and its waiting-item queue are shown separately from the HTTP queue, since cached checks need no HTTP request. Cache hits remain in recent activity even when they finish between screen updates. The latest 30 outcomes and errors (including wiki parsing/cache failures) remain visible until the app closes. Polly retries transient failures up to three times; an error in the history can therefore be followed by a successful retry. This panel supports the same docking, visibility, and appearance controls as other overlays. Fresh quest references already loaded from disk are consumed in short UI-safe batches, not one item per screen refresh; these batches need neither HTTP nor another cache write. Missing item, NPC, and spell pages are cached for 24 hours before another automatic lookup. Missing item pages are distinguished from existing pages with no quest references. Network/API errors are not cached as missing pages; explicit force refresh bypasses cached results.
To check fresh information for every lookup type, use Settings > General > Wiki caches > Reset all wiki caches. This immediately cancels pending lookups and clears NPC pages (including associated quests), spell metadata, item quest references, the Sky catalog/drop sources, item effects, and derived wiki timer fallbacks, including legacy cache files. No restart is needed: the next lookups fetch from EQLWiki through the normal paced queue. Visible panels and inventory lookups refill automatically, so the cache may begin filling again immediately. Learned resistances, damage samples, NPC encounters, timers, inventory, quest completion/watch lists, and settings are kept. Resistance categories can temporarily show unknown until spell metadata is fetched again. Reset progress and any file errors appear inline; an incomplete reset can be retried. Reset is blocked if mob tracking data could not be loaded, to avoid overwriting history.
The Motes overlay counts the Motes of Potential you loot, from corpses and Reward Chests:
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The Owned column shows your selected character's current inventory beside the drop counts in each tier row and the total row. Owned includes carried/bank counts from the last inventory export; collection, installed items and historical drops are excluded.
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Every known tier has a row, even when none are owned or recorded. Additional tiers found in drops or inventory appear automatically. Each row shows this session's count and, in brackets, the all-time count. Known tiers appear from lowest to highest upgrade rank; unrecognized tiers follow in alphabetical order. The subtitle shows the session total and motes per hour.
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Gear/Spell shows how many points one mote adds: the first number is for gear, the second is for spells.
≤+Nmeans the mote works on gear at +N or lower. Motes work on spells at any rank. For example,Major 5/16 ≤+4means 5 points for gear at +4 or lower, or 16 points for spells at any rank. Values are from the EQLWiki Mote Guide. Unknown tiers show?. Hover a tier for the details.Tier Equipment points Equipment up to Spell points Infinitesimal 1 +0 1 Minor 1 +1 2 Lesser 2 +2 4 (plain) Potential 4 +3 8 Major 5 +4 16 Greater 6 +5 32 Superior 7 +6 64 Grand 8 +7 128 Ascendant 9 +8 256 Infinite 10 +9 512 -
Recent: the last few drops with tier, quantity, source and time.
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Drops here: mobs in the current zone that have dropped motes, as drops / kills and a percentage. Kills by anyone in view count, and instance versions of a zone are combined. Reward chests are left out of the rates.
All-time totals and drop rates are saved per character in motes.json. The app remembers the last line it counted, so reading the same log again on the next launch doesn't count drops twice.
The Mote upgrade planner overlay (hidden and docked by default) works out what it takes to get an item or spell to a chosen rank up to +10. Going from +N to +N+1 takes 2^N points (1, 2, 4 … 512), and extra points carry into the next step.
Use Stop at beside Current and Points to choose your target, from your current rank through +10 (the default). It applies to Upgrade, Farm copies, What if, and Math, including spare-copy feeding. No steps or farming targets above it are planned, and no resources are spent when Current already equals the target. If Current rises above your selected target, the target rises to match. Motes and merges add fixed amounts, so the final resource can leave extra points; stop adding resources once you reach the target. On the final step, if spare copies alone finish the target, the planner skips motes that would only add unnecessary progress beyond it.
Choose a task tab:
- Upgrade: instructions using your actual inventory and selected owned motes.
- Farm copies: choose Copy level to farm and see how many more copies reach each target. Extra copies already planned subtracts copies you have already included in your farming scenario. This tab does not mix farming totals with the Upgrade instructions.
- What if: change spare copy ranks and see the simulated upgrade instructions. These changes apply only to this tab, not Upgrade or Farm copies.
- Math: detailed tables for the actual-inventory Upgrade plan.
Each tab's content scrolls, including the spare-copy editor, reset button, notes, and results. The shared item, rank, and resource controls stay above the tabs while you scroll.
The item, Current, Points, and Stop at are shared. The resource and feeding checkboxes are always visible above the tabs so you can change which motes and inventory copies are used, or whether spare copies are raised first. Equipment-only controls are hidden in Spell mode. Feed copies with motes first is unchecked by default; enable it explicitly to spend motes on spare copies before merging them.
- Choose Equipment or Spell, then type a name in the text field. For equipment, typing filters the separate inventory dropdown below; clear the text to see all items from your last inventory export. Picking an item sets Current to your best exported copy's rank. Every exported item is selectable, including Equipment storage, other collections, installed augments/exaltations, and motes; selection does not verify that the game permits upgrading that item. Enter Points if it already has progress toward the next rank.
- Use owned motes spends the motes confirmed by your last inventory export. For equipment, each rank uses only its matching mote tier; higher tiers are reserved for later ranks rather than spent to reach a lower rank.
- Use inventory copies (equipment only) then merges spare copies of the same item from your inventory export, lowest first. A +N copy counts as exactly +N (2^N points), with no partial progress. One copy at the current rank is treated as the item being upgraded. Copies ranked above Current are never counted as spares (pick their rank as Current to plan from them). Equipment-storage copies are included alongside loose copies. Other collections and installed augments are selectable targets but are not counted as mergeable spare copies.
- What if: change spare copy ranks lets you choose a hypothetical rank for each inventory spare from +0 through +10, even above the main item's Current rank, without changing the main rank, actual inventory, or upgrade history. Stop at still caps the main plan. For example, two spares changed from +0 and +1 to +5 and +5 supply 64 merge points, enough to take a +6 main item to +7 without motes. Feeding remains available. Reset to inventory ranks restores the exported values; changing the item, character, current rank, or inventory export also resets the hypothetical ranks.
- Each step shows the points needed, the points carried in, what is used, any Missing motes (counted in the tier that matches the step, such as Major for +4 → +5) and the carry into the next step. Totals are listed underneath. When a merge alone finishes a step, the plan says so; any motes listed for that step only go in first because they stop working at the next rank, and their points carry over. A plain-language What to do list comes first, including why a tier is needed (for example, Infinite is the only mote that still works on a +9 item); open Math for the full tables of the actual-inventory plan.
- Feed copies with motes first (off by default) raises spare copies with motes before merging them. A lower-rank
copy may still take motes the main item can no longer use, and raising a copy to +N costs 2^N − 1 points while
merging it gives 2^N, so feeding can turn those motes into a more valuable copy. For example, with the main item
at +4, two +0 copies fed Infinitesimal ×1, Minor ×2 and Lesser ×2 each reach +3 and merge for the whole 16 points
of +4 → +5, saving three Majors. The overlay lists what to feed each copy, then the steps for the main item, plus
what feeding saves and what it spends instead.
- The lowest copy is always raised first, and each rank uses only its matching mote tier. A rank is only started if your motes can finish it. Points past a copy's last rank are shown as Wasted, because merging only passes on exactly 2^N.
- Include motes the item can still use (on by default) also feeds motes the main item could take now, which helps when you have more of a tier than the main item can use before it outgrows it.
- In Farm copies, set Copy level to farm and Extra copies already planned. Extra copies are counted whether they are fed or merged as-is, only in the farming scenario. The tab gives simple answers such as Reach +8: farm 1 more +4 copy. Each answer starts from Current and uses your selected motes, copies, progress and feeding. Pick ONE target; do not add the totals together. Open Upgrade for the mote-based plan, or expand Compare: copies only, one level at a time in Farm copies to ignore all resources and feeding. For +5 copies alone, +6 to +7 takes 2, +7 to +8 takes 4, and +8 to +9 takes 8.
- Feeding is only used when it leaves fewer points missing, or the same with smaller motes spent.
- In Spell mode the copy, feeding and farming options are hidden, the name list is empty (type the spell name) and an item name left over from Equipment mode is cleared.
- Condensing motes and Void-Touched motes aren't planned for.
Spell timers for a mob are removed when its death appears in the log, including kills by other players. Timers on other targets are kept. Unconfirmed casts do not recreate timers for the dead target; deaths outside your log's visibility cannot be detected.
The log doesn't say how long a spell lasts, so the app learns durations from the gap between an effect landing and its "worn off" message. Mez and charm often break early, so the estimate is the 80th percentile of the last 25 samples. Re-reading the same history doesn't count the same wear-off twice.
The Spell durations grid and the overlay's Known spells list show only the highest known rank of each spell. Older ranks' saved learning is kept, and active timers retain their actual rank. The grid shows learned durations and wiki estimates. Spells you cast are looked up in the background using the shared EQLWiki cache. Explicit wiki durations are a fallback when no learned value is available, including six-second ticks and "Up to" maximums (for example, Whirl Till You Hurl's "Up to 2 ticks" becomes a 12-second estimate). Instant, permanent and ambiguous durations are not guessed. Timers on later casts use the wiki duration once its lookup completes; a spell without a known duration does not start a normal countdown.
Enter a spell name and duration in seconds above the grid, then select Add / update to create a manual entry, even before the spell has appeared in the log. Type a number of seconds in Override to change a duration; clear it to use the learned value, then the wiki estimate. Other ranks can supply a duration when the current rank has none. Charm can still show an unknown-duration timer while learning.
Uncheck Track to hide a spell's timers (every rank of it); its duration is still learned. You can also toggle tracking directly in the Spell Timers overlay: uncheck an active timer or select a checkbox under Known spells. Use the Known spells checkbox in the overlay header to show or hide that list; active timers and tracking choices are unaffected, and the visibility choice is remembered. While the list is shown, type in the filter box above it to show only known spells whose names contain that text; active timers are never filtered. In hover-only title mode, hover over a floating overlay to reveal the checkbox. Enabling tracking waits for logged spell events; it does not create a countdown immediately. Unlock floating overlays with Ctrl+Shift+L to interact. Relearn forgets the selected spell/rank's learned samples and measures the duration again from your next casts, for example after gear or AAs changed it. Only wear-offs after the newest log line count, so history re-read at startup doesn't bring the old duration back. Override, wiki estimate and Track are kept. Remove deletes the selected spell/rank's saved samples, override, wiki estimate and timers. It stays removed across restarts and log replays until you manually add that exact name again.
Settings are stored in %AppData%\EqLogOverlay\:
settings.json: log path, overlay positions/visibility/docking, docked window layout, opacity, font, chat channels, alert triggersspell-durations.json: learned samples, overrides, wiki duration estimates, relearn start times, untracked spells and removed spell/rank namesspawn-timers.json: respawn samples, overrides, relearn start times, tracked mobs and the last kill/sighting per zone, so countdowns keep running across restarts and new log filesmotes.json: all-time mote totals per character and mote drops/kills per zone and mobmob-resistances.json: resistance observations by zone/mob, replay watermarks, and cached EQLWiki NPC dataspell-info.jsonl: cached EQLWiki spell resist types, appended one line per spell (latest wins); an oldermob-resistances.spells.jsonlis renamed to this on loadnpc-compendium\: NPC name/zone catalog, historical considers, active encounters and import watermarks inindex.json, with completed encounter summaries and per-spell damage/outcome counts appended to onenpcs\*.jsonlfile per NPC (no raw log lines). An older singlenpc-compendium.jsonis migrated automatically and renamed tonpc-compendium.json.migrated, which can be deleted afterwards.quest-inventory.json: non-zero quest inventory counts, completions and per-log loot watermarks per characterquest-lookups.jsonl: cached item quest references, appended one line per lookup (an olderquest-lookups.jsonis migrated and removed automatically)sky-quests.json: cached Plane of Sky quest catalogitem-effects.json: cached base-item effects and linked descriptions for the Exaltations overlay
Tracking data is saved periodically, on exit, and on Windows logoff/shutdown.
To back up your data, close the app and copy the entire %AppData%\EqLogOverlay folder.
To restore a backup, close the app before replacing the folder's contents.
Application updates do not remove this folder.