diff --git a/examples/react/src/examples/Edges/index.tsx b/examples/react/src/examples/Edges/index.tsx
index d6870621..bbba30fb 100644
--- a/examples/react/src/examples/Edges/index.tsx
+++ b/examples/react/src/examples/Edges/index.tsx
@@ -175,6 +175,15 @@ const edgeTypes: EdgeTypes = {
   custom2: CustomEdge2,
 };
 
+const defaultEdgeOptions = {
+  markerEnd: {
+    type: MarkerType.ArrowClosed,
+    color: 'red',
+    width: 20,
+    height: 20,
+  },
+};
+
 const EdgesFlow = () => {
   const [nodes, , onNodesChange] = useNodesState(initialNodes);
   const [edges, setEdges, onEdgesChange] = useEdgesState(initialEdges);
@@ -197,6 +206,7 @@ const EdgesFlow = () => {
       onEdgeMouseMove={onEdgeMouseMove}
       onEdgeMouseLeave={onEdgeMouseLeave}
       onDelete={console.log}
+      defaultEdgeOptions={defaultEdgeOptions}
     >
       <MiniMap />
       <Controls />
diff --git a/packages/react/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/react/CHANGELOG.md
index f47f7ef4..9b83293c 100644
--- a/packages/react/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/packages/react/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@
 
 - selection box is not interrupted by selectionKey being let go
 - fix `OnNodeDrag` type
-- refactor(handles): do not use fallback handle if an id is being used #3409
+- do not use fallback handle if a specific id is being used
+- fix `defaultEdgeOptions` markers not being applied
 
 ## 12.0.0-next.7
 
diff --git a/packages/react/src/container/EdgeRenderer/MarkerDefinitions.tsx b/packages/react/src/container/EdgeRenderer/MarkerDefinitions.tsx
index a4696e5b..5b6194c5 100644
--- a/packages/react/src/container/EdgeRenderer/MarkerDefinitions.tsx
+++ b/packages/react/src/container/EdgeRenderer/MarkerDefinitions.tsx
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
-import { memo, useCallback } from 'react';
+import { memo, useMemo } from 'react';
 import { type MarkerProps, createMarkerIds } from '@xyflow/system';
 
 import { useStore } from '../../hooks/useStore';
 import { useMarkerSymbol } from './MarkerSymbols';
-import type { ReactFlowState } from '../../types';
 
 type MarkerDefinitionsProps = {
   defaultColor: string;
@@ -43,23 +42,23 @@ const Marker = ({
   );
 };
 
-const markerSelector =
-  ({ defaultColor, rfId }: { defaultColor: string; rfId?: string }) =>
-  (s: ReactFlowState) => {
-    const markers = createMarkerIds(s.edges, { id: rfId, defaultColor });
-
-    return markers;
-  };
-
-const markersEqual = (a: MarkerProps[], b: MarkerProps[]) =>
-  // the id includes all marker options, so we just need to look at that part of the marker
-  !(a.length !== b.length || a.some((m, i) => m.id !== b[i].id));
-
 // when you have multiple flows on a page and you hide the first one, the other ones have no markers anymore
 // when they do have markers with the same ids. To prevent this the user can pass a unique id to the react flow wrapper
 // that we can then use for creating our unique marker ids
 const MarkerDefinitions = ({ defaultColor, rfId }: MarkerDefinitionsProps) => {
-  const markers = useStore(useCallback(markerSelector({ defaultColor, rfId }), [defaultColor, rfId]), markersEqual);
+  const edges = useStore((s) => s.edges);
+  const defaultEdgeOptions = useStore((s) => s.defaultEdgeOptions);
+
+  const markers = useMemo(() => {
+    const markers = createMarkerIds(edges, {
+      id: rfId,
+      defaultColor,
+      defaultMarkerStart: defaultEdgeOptions?.markerStart,
+      defaultMarkerEnd: defaultEdgeOptions?.markerEnd,
+    });
+
+    return markers;
+  }, [edges, defaultEdgeOptions, rfId, defaultColor]);
 
   if (!markers.length) {
     return null;
diff --git a/packages/svelte/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/svelte/CHANGELOG.md
index 6ca5483e..4bdc8461 100644
--- a/packages/svelte/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/packages/svelte/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@
 
 - selection box is not interrupted by selectionKey being let go
 - Edge label has a default background and is clickable
-- refactor(handles): do not use fallback handle if an id is being used #3409
+- do not use fallback handle if a specific id is being used
+- use correct id for `<Handle />` data-id attribute
 
 ## 0.0.34
 
diff --git a/packages/system/src/utils/marker.ts b/packages/system/src/utils/marker.ts
index 0a191276..834f17ef 100644
--- a/packages/system/src/utils/marker.ts
+++ b/packages/system/src/utils/marker.ts
@@ -19,21 +19,32 @@ export function getMarkerId(marker: EdgeMarkerType | undefined, id?: string | nu
 
 export function createMarkerIds(
   edges: EdgeBase[],
-  { id, defaultColor }: { id?: string | null; defaultColor?: string }
+  {
+    id,
+    defaultColor,
+    defaultMarkerStart,
+    defaultMarkerEnd,
+  }: {
+    id?: string | null;
+    defaultColor?: string;
+    defaultMarkerStart?: EdgeMarkerType;
+    defaultMarkerEnd?: EdgeMarkerType;
+  }
 ) {
-  const ids: string[] = [];
+  const ids = new Set<string>();
 
   return edges
     .reduce<MarkerProps[]>((markers, edge) => {
-      [edge.markerStart, edge.markerEnd].forEach((marker) => {
+      [edge.markerStart || defaultMarkerStart, edge.markerEnd || defaultMarkerEnd].forEach((marker) => {
         if (marker && typeof marker === 'object') {
           const markerId = getMarkerId(marker, id);
-          if (!ids.includes(markerId)) {
+          if (!ids.has(markerId)) {
             markers.push({ id: markerId, color: marker.color || defaultColor, ...marker });
-            ids.push(markerId);
+            ids.add(markerId);
           }
         }
       });
+
       return markers;
     }, [])
     .sort((a, b) => a.id.localeCompare(b.id));