User blog comment:Jimeee/Skyrim 1.9 beta update adds Legendary difficulty and raises level cap (Updated Apr 8th)/@comment-86.11.26.233-20130307175720/@comment-99.23.163.116-20130307202215

pretty sure it removes your perks,you get the points back but you have to earn the perk again, but i think you get extra perks for lv 82 and up so more total perks then before the patch