Hogwarts Legacy takes you to the 1800s where witches and wizards are fighting evildoers, set in the backdrop of a goblin rebellion. As you study each day in school, you’ll also discover more secrets and mysteries. Here’s our Hogwarts Legacy guides and features hub to help you out with basic mechanics, spells, and various collectibles.
Note: We’ll add more articles to our Hogwarts Legacy guides hub soon, so stay tuned.
Hogwarts Legacy guides hub
Features – We take a look at whether Hogwarts Legacy is good enough or if it’s not even worth your while.
FAQs – We answer some questions about playing the game and some lore-related stuff:
- Is the game canon?
- What’s the best platform to play on?
- What’s included in the Dark Arts Pack?
- How to make the camera more responsive
- How to fix low framerate and stuttering
- Is DualSense support available on PC?
- Does the game have multiple endings?
- Can you open the Chamber of Secrets?
- Can you get the Deathly Hallows in the game?
- How to get Merlin’s Cloak and other Twitch Drops
- How to install mods
Starter Guides: Sorting Ceremony and Wizarding World Quizzes – These Hogwarts Legacy guides deal with character creation, choosing your Hogwarts House, and linking your Wizarding World and WB Games accounts so you can see personalized quiz results when you play:
- Character creation
- Sorting Hat and choosing your House
- Wizarding World account linking and quizzes
- How to get into all Common Rooms
The Basics – These are some early-game mechanics you’ll experience soon enough:
- Floo Flames and fast travel
- Leveling and fastest ways to earn XP
- How to make more money/gold
- How to change the time of day
- How to change the camera angle
- How to dive underwater
- How to get more inventory space
- How to visit Hogsmeade
- Wand customization and wand cores
- Where is Brood and Peck?
- Transmogrification and cosmetic changes to gear
- How to wear gear from challenges
- How to identify items
- How to get different legendary items from chests
- How to prevent chests from getting deleted if inventory is full
- Where to find the Sleeping Dragon Statue
- Where to find the Dungeons
Class Is In Session – These are Hogwarts Legacy guides that focus more on your character’s growth and various classes you need to attend:
- How to unlock talents/perks
- The best talents for the campaign
- How to get a broom so you can fly
- Best brooms and upgrades
- How to get Quidditch gear
- Potion recipes and ingredients
- Herbology plants, seeds, and pot sizes
All About Spells – These articles discuss various magic spells that you can unlock during the campaign:
- How are spells unlocked/pattern tracing
- Protego and Stupefy (blocking, countering, and stunning)
- Accio (summoning)
- Levioso (object levitation)
- Reparo (object repair)
- Incendio (flame strike)
- Disillusionment (invisibility and stealth)
- Petrificus Totalus (stealth kill/petrify)
- Expelliarmus (wand/weapon disarming)
- Depulso (force push)
- Confringo (fire blast)
- Diffindo (rapid slash)
- Wingardium Leviosa (levitation and manipulation)
- Flipendo (knockback/upside down crash)
- Glacius (freezing spell)
- Arresto Momentum (stop movement)
- Alohomora (unlock doors and chests)
- Descendo (ground slam)
- Bombarda (explosive blast)
- Transformation (turn into inanimate object)
- Unforgivable Curse: Crucio (torture curse)
- Unforgivable Curse: Imperio (mind control)
- Unforgivable Curse: Avada Kedavra (killing curse)
Campaign Progession: Main Quests – These Hogwarts Legacy guides focus on quest objectives to advance the main story:
- Secrets of the Restricted Section/Athanaeum
- Ollivander’s Heirloom (Ravenclaw only)
- Jackdaw’s Rest
- Sebastian Sallow quest chain
- Percival Rackham’s Trial
- How to open the Falbarton Castle gate
- The Helm of Urtkot
- The Caretaker’s Lunar Lament
- Charles Rookwood’s Trial
- Dragon Egg: Fire and Vice/Poached Egg
- It’s All Gobbledegook
- Niamh Fitzgerald’s Trial
- How to reach the southern part of the world map
Sidequests – There are a lot of sidequests that you can tackle:
- Like a Moth to a Frame
- A Demanding Delivery
- Ghost of Our Love
- Gobs of Gobstones
- Cache in the Castle
- Dissending For Sweets
- Hall of Herodiana
- Sophronia Franklin Q&A Test
- Venomous Valor
Minigames, Puzzles, and Collectibles – We talk about minigames, puzzles, and stuff you can collect:
- Crossed Wands
- Dark Arts Battle Arena (Dark Arts Pack)
- Where to find all Battle Arenas
- Animal Symbol Door Puzzles
- Bridge/Viaduct Courtyard Puzzle
- Clock Tower Puzzle
- Hall of Herodiana Puzzle
- Merlin Trials
- Bell Tower Puzzle
- Key of Admittance/Headmaster’s Office Puzzle
- House Chest and Daedalian Keys
- All Demiguise locations
- All Astronomy Tables
- All Moth Mirror Puzzles
- Feldcroft Region Treasure Vaults
The Room of Requirement – This mysterious area changes based on the user’s need:
- How to unlock the Room of Requirement
- How to make the Room of Requirement bigger
- Customization and design spells
- How to identify items
- Where to find Moonstones
- How to upgrade gear and add traits
- Can you stack traits?
Magical Beasts and Monsters – Find and fight, tame and ride. There are many magical creatures that you can encounter in the game world:
- Vivarium upgrades and biomes
- Tameable: Unicorn
- Tameable: Hippogriff
- Tameable: Thestral
- Tameable: Kneazles
- Tameable: Fwoopers
- Tameable: Phoenix
- Tameable: Shiny Beasts
- Where to find all Beasts
- How to sell Beasts
- How to breed Beasts
- Enemy: Trolls and Troll Bogeys
Hogwarts Legacy is available via Steam.
