DO THIS FIRST in Hogwarts Legacy | 5 Beginner Tips and Tricks 

Did you get to start your magical journey early already? Are you enjoying your time in Hogwarts?

I tend to play differently. I will do story quests until i can do the puzzles and side missions, and don't advance the main story until there are no side missions left(except the key quests and other gather quests). I was 15 or 16 when i unlocked talents. I like walking, and delay the broom as long as i can, because as soon as i get it, the map "shrinks" and you can avoid almost all the dangers in the forbidden forest. But i play the game because i enjoy playing it. Not to "beat" it. But that is just me. To each their own :)

Disagree on the broom. Running on the ground showed me a lot more such as gathering ingredients, coming across enemies and animals, etc. when you fly too early as well as fast travel too much you miss a lot.

I think one of the more clever features the Devs put into this game is the ability to change the appearance of your good armor/clothes/etc. based on anything you've had in your inventory at one time. This way, you can make your best offense/defense gear look like that look you like with lesser items. It figures into the tip about selling your gear frequently. Don't be afraid to get rid of that cool-looking piece that doesn't have the best stats. Just turn the corresponding better piece into that other look.

While I agree with most of these, don't under estimate the power of going by foot. Not only do you get a more atmospheric perspective but there is so much hidden on the ground that simply flying everywhere you would miss most of it. Plus at some point you will unlock the ability to press down your dodge button for a burst which covers more distance than when you run so you can keep pressing this button to dash along . Once you have cleared an area out by all means then use your broomstick.

I do the lumos paintings, flying books and gobstones side quests before I go to Hogsmeade. These open up a lot of useful floo points as well as providing a ton of XP from guide pages picked up along the way. I also collect all the guide pages in Hogsmeade before fighting the troll. That puts me at around lvl 12-13 for the troll fight. After that my priority is main quests, assignments, relationship quests, then other side quests, and I never come up against a lvl-locked quest. Confringo is learned from Sebastian (it's a curse) the 1st time you visit the Undercroft, not from an assignment.

Here are my 10 tips: 1. First do the assignments to get the room of requirements and attend the beast class. Once you attend that class you can capture beasts and means you can now do the money making method of capturing beasts and selling them at hogsmead, you should capture a pair of every single animal you need the resources of all of them to max out your gear. thankfully there are the eye chest which when you go invis you can grab 500 gold from and these will fund your quests for starters. Grab the moonstone generator and the largest of plant pots and grab seeds and potion recipes. 2. Next thing you do is do the races for weekes and buy the broom upgrade it makes your broom faster and that's always useful. Third thing you do is learn to use the loom and get ambush or unforgivable by grinding chests of camps. 3. upgrade your gear asap, Ambush trait lets you play like a skyrim sneak archer one shotting stuff it works with everything including plants unforgivable is the same damage but you need to apply curses and is only with the dlc if you dont have it get ambush it's the most damage invis potions with maxima you're easily killing spreeing on hard dozens of enemies. 4. Then grab all the hogsmead and hogwarts demiguise to unlock alhamora rank 2 and then visit every town to get the rest of the demiguise to unlock alhomara rank 3 you want this because many legendary chests and behind this. 5. READ. A bunch of secret is in notes laying around that either give you goodies you won't see with revelio which you should grab the upgrade of btw. 6. Breeding animals gives a bunch of passive xp and gold so you can have 4 breeders active a dozen more hours into the game if you are keeping up with the breeders and you'll go from lvl 30 to 40 easily. 7. There are two gear sellers one in hogsmead and edgar adley in aranshire who you have to finish his quest for in order for his shop to be available. The thing is adley will consistently keep spawning new gear every day and he is special his legendary gear at lvl 40 is the highest stat gear you can get letting you break 700 offensive rating if you don't know what this means it means a sneak attack troll dies to diffindo in one hit without a maxima potion. 8. You many easily kill enemies by disabling them before, see you got glacius and aresto momentum both of these stun enemies and you can walk to them and petrificus if no one sees your whoever is left is disabled. This means with 4 enemies you can transform 1 into a barelly throw him into another 1 killing 2 and then stun the other two with glacius and aresto and just use petrificus. 9. Fall damage works in the game try to find a high ground and acio at an edge lets you kill people with ease to fall damage. 10. Lord of the shore is great in combat just running behind them and spaming the button you have for petrificus lets you petrify enemies before they react and who is left can be charged to die. He lets you cheese trolls, groups of spiders and most of ranrocks loyalists or poachers.

You’ve said it! I did the same, I tried to explore and did all the quest like a routine. This will impact the way you play and enjoy the game. When in doubt, go for classes and story related quest that gives you access and new spells.

a big tip: do as many Merlins Trial as possible as soon you can to get more slots of gear

Also note that there is a softcap on the level determined by the progress in the main missions. Another thing is: up your lockpicking (aloho mora) spell quickly, as there are many locations where your progress is blocked by locks and one has to return there later.

I used the broom to unlock every fast travel green glo. I realize the game is so easy, you don't need to loot every chests or plants. After unlocking Room of requirement, I enjoy organizing how my pot is place. It's relaxing and rewarding to look at your own finished setup with green plants everywhere.

Don't explore, when you first start the game you should focus on questing. while doing that you will open the world up, make money, unlock the game, get your broom, revealing and exploring the world it's a byproduct of playing the game. You would be wasting your time if you just flew around revealing the map when you're going to do that anyway by questing. I mean you do you you bought the game but that's just how I like to play

Thanks for this! Very helpful. Back to the classrooms, it is.

I would personally say that in my experience, exploring earlier is a good thing. While you do fine a lot of puzzles you can’t complete yet, they get marked down in your map so there is not nearly as much backtracking as you’d think. The field guide pages themselves are also easier to find when traveling on foot (at least in my experience) and so I found a lot of them earlier, and now, maybe mid way through the game, I only have another thirty to find with the vast majority of them at hogwarts. Traveling around and exploring will also allow you to level up more, and get a better feel for combat, so personally, I’d suggest exploration earlier, rather than later, but it comes down to how you like to play your games. Being something of a completionist, but not like to backtrack a whole lot, I enjoy the fact that I had a chance early on to begin collecting things like the pages, which are certainly the most numerous of the collectibles, and begin completing a lot of the challenges

Just got the game and I'm about to dive in, thanks for the tip's I'll be using some of them along my journey.

I 100% this game today and I'm wearing my lucky leprechaun suit....happy St. Patricks day!!!

Agreed on the "stick to the main story" suggestion. If there was a reputation mechanic or the loot was a bit more enticing, I might say otherwise. The lack of those would be my 2 biggest criticisms of the game. If you're not so much into the "Barbie" aspect of the game, just roll through those main quests.

It’s important to do the side quests as you go to progress into the main story smoothly. if you don’t you will need to complete certain ones all at once. Plus it helps to level you up for when you unlock traits.

good vid. I'm on my fourth run. I concentrate on unlocking spells and features which advanced my player. Room of requirement is great for upgrading abilities and making potions etc

You won't be able to open the treasure chest with the big eyeball and big loot until you become invisible approach the chess with the invisibility spell.

If your gear slots are full on the biggest chests, you need to weight pros and cons of destroying a piece of gear and lose out on the money for said gear vs what you *could* be getting in that chest - which could suck as gear but be more valuable when sold than what you just destroyed.

Interesting. I’m 5hr in and just got room of requirements and the broom back to back.

explore early as well as quests.. you need to get to the merlin trials asap.. after that dont skip anything.. you may miss a quest if you do.. also stay on foot unless your in a hurry.. you will get far better game experience fighting the enemy and unlocking the various challenges associated with it..

Completed rdr2 and can't find anything open world wise to even peak my interest now, hopefully this can somewhat.

Don't get broom early, but do upgrade it ASAP once you have it. Also, learn all three levels of Alohomora ASAP.

Make sure you have any empty inventory slot before opening a legionary chest. If you go sell some things and come back the chest is open and item gone.

the first time i encountered the chest bug was when I was doing the hidden herbology lab(or whatever its called) side quest for Duncan. There was a chest in the greenhouse right after getting out of the tunnel system. After seeing I couldn't get the loot I restarted to an autosave and when I did, it spawned me inside a building and the floor was gone. I couldn't do anything and then suddenly my character started falling under the world. Ended up having to go two autosaves back to be able to play the game again.

Totally agree my highest character basically got flying when she at level 17. She explored everywhere and did several side quests. So as this points out stick to the main quest line until you get flying and finishing up the initial Room of Requirement. Also by sticking to the main quest line you will be able to unlock those Talents. My above character had 12 Talents built up by the time I was able to place them. Now I do recommend that you do the first two Trials to Merlin since that will unlock 4 more inventory slots. As from the above video you only start out with 20 inventory slots and that includes what ever you are wearing (I.E. 6 slots) so actually you only have 14 slots. So sell that gear since getting that message does suck. Also I recommend putting off the Arthmancy doors since it is very possible that gear found in them will be base on your level. So putting these off until mid game or after you gotten far along with the Main Questline. But I am loving this game but with my above character certain fights would have gone better if she had done more of the Main Questline. Those side quests will always be there but having certain Talents and Spells at level 5-7 will make life easier than getting them at level 15-18. I just might restart several of my other characters (have one for each House) since they are still low enough. But my Gryffindor character (I.E. above character) and Hufflepuff character are at or above level 10. So when I do get back on with my Hufflepuff she will only do Main Quests until she gets those Spells and Talents they are so important.

5:33 actually you unlock Confringo during the main quest "In the Shadow of the Undercroft" not from a professor assignment.

This helped

Your English is phenomenal! Your accent is lovely to listen to as well. ❤

If u decide you want to 100% the game use ancient magic on everything, but it only counts for non quest related enemies but the animagus enemies do count in both their human and wolf forms. I got the trophy after using it on the wolf when i had killed many wizards with it

In order to reopen the large chests, trash something from your inventory, save and return to title. When you reload it's openable again.

Think I’m doing it right then I do lowest level quests and travel based on distance so feel I’m In good spot. But the game obviously scales a level 2 quest I did had lvl 17 enemies , so lot of fun like Skyrim

Easy fix legend chest situation is load autosave. Game saves like every 5 min or less.

Nö, Confringo you acquire through Sebastian, I know that because I've just had that side quest with him and the undercroft and there I just learned confringo.

We need the extendable charm for our gear slots

Wow, only twenty items! Thanks for the tip, I need to get selling already!

Confringo is unlocked by completing a Sebastion quest, not from the teachers.

I did the exact same thing as u played 8 or 9 hours til I got flight and r o r

That thing where you lose loot seems like a bug, hopefully they will fix it quickly. Hope the also fix the thing where everyone just disappears at night, just makes the game seem unfinished. I’m loving it though!

On my third character I created, I left the 3rd crossed wands dueling quest alone until I unlocked Crucio. I was disappointed that the game wouldn't let me use Crucio in the duel.

ha - I just got my broom after 9 hours, I was wondering when I would get it.

By hr 10 I was almost lvl 20 from doing side quests and other stuff

I was level 30 before I unlocked broom an walked 90% of map. I enjoyed it way more then flying

I ran around so much i was lvl 18 before i learned how to be invisible xD n thek when i unlocked talents hoo boy so many to slot in beginning

I have 30h of gametime and about 50% in the menu. I agree that this is all good tips 😀

This is the only tips and tricks for an early start that is fully valid on RU-vid. Each other one is confused.

I really suck at flying, I can't do the races, I can't control the broom when I push the boost button.

I think Stupefy should have been a stand alone spell, not one linked to Protego.

Great explanation got yourself a new sub ✅

Merlin trials open more loot slots.

If anyone wants a broken OP dark wizard build let me know I play on hard and even bosses feel like I'm on easy mode with my build.

You learn confringo from Sébastien when he shows you the undercroft for the first time. Not from any teacher or extra assignments

Those broom controls are just wrong on PC. The races are sooo frustrating.

Did you get disc or digital?

Besides tip 4 and 5 the other tips are opion based and not relevent to everyone imo ;)

Edit: Found out that the quests don't vanish with season changes. Doing the activities and side quests before the main missions is normal. I've done it too many times, hahaha. I read that the only way you can miss out on a side quest is when the in-game season changes. So, just keep a heads up. 😆

I just made this same mistake, I’m level 16 and only just got the broom and the RoR. However this my not be a bad thing, level 28 you get the spell that makes end game a lot more fun.

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You can do that if you can stand Professor Weasley‘s disappointment when she sees how pathetic your field guide is. And my second game, I plan on handing her a field guide with every single page in it. This means taking my time on the main quests. Yes, it takes a bit longer to get your broom in the room of requirement, etc., but for me, it just feels better to time the main quests out with the school year.

IMO for your first play through explore asap....like as soon as you reach Hogsmeade go explore and practice combat. I was around lvl 17-20 before I even got the broom and was pretty comfortable fighting multiple enemies. At this rate, it makes combat much more enjoyable. The main quest becomes more fluid that way too

You learn confringo from a side quest with Sebastian

kinda awaiting for the new game plus or a DLC to get out to get back for a second run...

Great tips! A lot of fans are playing HOGWARTS LEGACY! That tell me that we want more of Harry Potter movies! Indeed!

something that i dont like is the scaling on enemies, make you feel leveling up useless

Correction: Confringo is not taught by the faculty.

You say in the intro "If I had the chance to start the game over again" You do, just delete your saves and have at it

whats the haircut in the thumbnail lol

Bro question? Are you German? I listen a small accent😅 anyways, your video helped a lot thank you

You get confringo from doing a quest with Sebastian

I found the room of requirement within the first hour... Bahah😂

Sebastian teaches confringo

Confringo is not learned by you professors. It’s worth by helping Sebastian.

Catch beasts and sell them to the beast lady for $120 a pop

Turn off the mini map for a more immersive experience

They have fixed the looting glitch.

Yeah duh and the relationship ones

My thing is what’s with the outfits? You can sell in your inventory just to go into your other selection of inventory.

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I get why you did it ur way but most people want to explore the map ect

Sounds weird but I learned Confringo from Sebastian and not from a professor.

Tip 1 is just the wrong way to play this game. You’re not getting another Harry Potter game next year. Slow down. Don’t take on the next main story mission until you’re bored or finished with the current stuff.

Yeah... no... you don't learn Confringo from ANY teacher. But actually from a student. Just thought I'd say that you don't need any assignments for that one.

Honestly, DON'T do anything this guy says. It's a single player game worth about 30 hours of gameplay and this guy wants to speed run it.

so basically you want everything unlocked after 5 min of gameplay

dont be a fool stay in school!

I definitely disagree. You do every side quest no matter what because you want your experience to go up.

So...don't be ignorant. Got it lol.

Man merkt sofort das du deutsch bist an dem Englisch is nix auszusetzen

TLDR: Stay in school kids!

go to classes at a school, what madness is this?

digga so deutsch

I learned nothing watching this smh

Game was disappointing. Main mission doesn't even reach the level 40 mark highest was 24. Wont find any mobs being level 40. It's like they couldn't flesh out the story and side missions to go up to 40.

Bruh just get into the video, one minute in and you’re still blah blah blah…skip

These videos are pointless. Theres no reason you should need pointers for this game lol

How can I complete the ogre in hogsmead quest? He keeps cornering me and beating me senseless.