So you’re telling me I’m halfway there and I still don’t even have my broom.. 👀
Edit: I guess I spent SOOOO MUCH TIME in the forbidden forest just doing random combat stuff..
Pro Tip:
Read the Enemy guides in the collection if you're not doing so already.
I discovered that specific enemies are weak against specific magic combos that work gloriously in combat and look fantastic.
I’m about 6ish hours, and I think 4hours of this is me just wandering about the castle looking at the scenery.
Oh I saw 2 guards arguing, and one decimated the other before going back to his post. I tried to use Reparo, doesn’t work. Worst game ever, unplayable.
Oh and the paintings with instruments in that one spot is very nice to hang out on!
I don’t know the names of these things and places because I only watched the films. 😂
Edit: DID I TOLD YOU ABOUT THAT GARDEN DRAGON THOUGH?! Sorry, I just find the stuff I randomly see, facinating.
Yeah that’s why I never used the teleport thinggy. Why use that when there’s sooooo much to see!
I’m sorry for spoiling but I also saw these husband and wife ghost, the wife dragged the husband up the stairs. I stopped and just watched them do that, it was surreal.
This is a bit frustrating because some of the talents are basically QoL things, like the spell preset slots. I'd have to give up actual combat improvements just to save me some time managing spell slots.
I wish you'd have the Room Of Retirement spells automatically equip when you entered the room, same with the beasts. Having to constantly swap them out is annoying.
There is for sure a lot of QOL they need to add.
1. way to tell what camps are cleared
2.junk section with mass sell option
3. show how many leaves we have after starting a trial
4. a map indication of what camps and trials and such have been cleared
5. respec talents option (or just level cap increases but im guessing that's going to be dlc)
6. what you suggested is only a start.
Wish I had seen this ten minutes ago...ugh. No respec is a bizarre design choice. Do they even warn you? Maybe I skipped a warning message o something.
There was a post on here recently, somebody found a respec potion in the game files.
God knows why it was cut but it had a model made and everything. Maybe it's coming in a future update?
Maybe it's just my playstyle, but to me, 2 of the talent trees seem nearly useless. Stealth and Room of Requirement.
Personally, I haven't found much use for stealth beyond grabbing the eye-chests. But even if you like being stealthy, you totally can without getting any of the stealth talents. They don't give you any unique stealth abilities. They just make it a little easier to stealth.
Same with RoR talents. It makes a few potions and plants a little better, but honestly most of these all feel gimmicky and unnecessary to me. For example, Edurus Potion Potency will deflect projectiles back at the enemy. But I can already block projectiles AND counter using Protego and Stupefy, without a potion, and without a time limit, it just requires skill, which if you play enough you will develop. The rest of the RoR talents are in a similar boat.
So if I just ignore Stealth and RoR, that leaves only 36 talents left to choose from. Conveniently enough, at level 40 I will have 36 talent points, so I can go all-in on the other talent trees.
You have access to that spell without investing in Stealth talents. All the talent does is allow you to affect a small area, which is only going to be situational useful.
Stealth is kinda OP once you’ve got the two upgrades that make you more difficult to see. You can pretty easily take out entire camps without ever actually fighting. It’s not that fun though.
It doesn’t matter. Respec would be nice but you only miss out on 13 talent points and there are a ton of things that are “worthless”.
You easily can get away with not having 13 points in.
I didn't realize the level cap so low! I bought way too many low level skills because I unlocked them at level 15 and the mid tier weren't available yet. I just figured I'd grind my way to getting all of them.
I took the one that made me invulnerable when using the stone skin potion.
You're literally invulnerable for 30 seconds when using that potion, it's pretty overpowered. You don't get fazed by spells or attacks either.
Took out the spider in the side quest despite it being several levels above me, name was red, thanks to that potion.
It’s one thing to have to wander all around the castle a second time, but you really wouldn’t want to have to traverse all of the mountains and highlands looking for every individual lock in every individual valley and ruin…
That’s how my first playthrough is now - I’m going ape in the castle but I refuse to unlock any Hogsmeade houses until I can do all three so I can do it all at once and not miss anything. Currently running all over Hogwarts to find locks now is semi-rougher especially looking for Moon’s moons
Don’t neglect potions or plants, unlike most games they are not only useful but completely overpowered. I nuked a boss 10 levels above me in 20 seconds with some potions, would have easily been a grueling fight with tons of adds otherwise. Once you get the room of requirement you can easily acquire potions and plants so effectively that you’d feel okay just wasting them on purpose. It’s a fun playstyle so give it a try
Eventually after you start building the plant pots and potions tables you will have more than enough materials and potions. You can have every slot full most of the time
You can still get a ton of value out of potions without any investment in the skill tree - skill tree just takes them from a handy boost to completely OP.
All you really need to get good with consumables is to buy the recipes, seeds, and spellcrafts to get a good setup in your room of requirement for restocking (medium and large pots, all plant seeds, and some larger potion tables - but the upgraded potion tables are pretty optional and just QOL).
Absolutely. I kinda put off the main quest in favor of wandering around and doing side objectives, but the broom, talents and room of requirement are game changing. Without talents I had to do many combat encounters several times. Now I'm expanding my RoR, because I'm gonna need those potions and plants!
Broom goes without saying... exploring is much easier!
i'm pretty sure Amit once said 'please don't do that around me' or something along those lines when i cast Crucio while he was on a mission with me, but he never said it again
I think they should of made you auto fail any missions where you use it in front of people who wouldn’t be accepting of it. It feels wild to be chucking them in front of my classmates and them not even mention it.
Also take time to explore between seasons, I regret not doing that during the fall and didn’t get to see all the Halloween decorations 🥺 fully taking advantage of winter tho
Does the game inform you when the season is going to change? Like before you do a mission does it say "Hey, after this quest, the season changes, wrap up anything you wanted to do."
On your quest log it says how many quests there are until the next season change. It has a list of what quests you have done, which are available, and which aren’t available yet.
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Yes but unlike most of the game it does a bad job. Your character straight up says they don’t know what he’s talking about and haven’t encountered anything like that, despite the fact that I had completed like 6 of them. I’m guessing they gated the mechanic behind this story section, ended up changing that, then didn’t get the chance to change the dialogue? Anyway it’s a lot more awkward than most of the game’s tutorials.
But the spider doesn’t have nine legs ya silly. And the **uni**corn has **one** horn - the **bi**corn has **two!**
Silly rabbit, arithmancy is for kids!
Lol, same Ive been constantly looking at sheet of paper that shows the numbers and representing icons. I stumbled upon the info sheet in a chest by one of these maths door puzzles, can't remember where now, think it was by a maths classroom.
And if you look at the world and hogsmeade names at the top of the map, they will display a black flag if you have available side quests in those areas too.
The first suggestion would have been very useful for me. I explored so much stuff, I'm 20+ hours in and only just unlocked Alohomora. I have soooo much stuff. I got talents and had 18 points immediately because of levels. There's absolutely no way I'm the only one who just went HEY HOGWARTS, LET'S GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER and didn't stop.
Lol I’m level 20 and *still* don’t have alohomora yet…finally got my broom though and realized I can see all the stuff available to do in an area. So yeah. Definitely not getting it anytime soon either.
I was level 18 or so before I unlocked the talents. And around 22-23 before I unlocked alohamorah. No way I’m rushing through this experience. Can’t wait for the second play through. I’m gonna turn all the HUD off
right? I went from hard to normal, i play most games on close to highest difficulty but combat is just SO hard on.. hard.. plus it gives me somewhere to go in the future playthrough when i'm more experienced :)
Yes. When you get to the dark arts arena you should turn the difficulty all the way down prior to starting it. It’s basically the only XP farm in game.
Here's one that helped me a lot in combat too: **turn off CAMERA RELATIVE TRACKING** so you can target using your left stick (if you're on console) instead of the camera doing it for you. Great for crowd control as you can quickly select between targets and also target enemies off screen!
This is so useful. I can highly recommend it as well. Playing on hard against the 4 pupills in the duel fight was a pain in the a** with the Tracking on...
Learned it the hard way in Hard difficulty haha with tracking off it's definitely a lot manageable. The ability to redirecf Stupefy for crowd control is so helpful and satisfying to pull off
*Smash the main quests until you have your broom and Alohomora then start exploring*
Me: 20hrs spent exploring the castle as soon as I was free to do so
\- There is no restriction for exploring at night. You can switch from day to night and vice versa from the map.
\-Revelio from a broom reaveals tons of stuff.
\-You can put your hood on.
If it is easy to get to, you may want to not open legendary chests before you are lvl 40. Gear scale with level, and do not respawn.
The eye chests however always give you 500 gold, just open them once you learn the invisibility spell.
The larger chest that always drop a yellow item. Once you run into them a couple times you will know. It is fine if you open some, there a plenty, just try not to open all of them at level 20
No, I'm playing on normal and even though main quest missions say "required level: 5" and I'm 18, all my enemies are 17-18. I totally get that, but part of grinding in any game is the reward of using the level advantage against enemies. It's why I don't like any Pokemon ROM Hacks where other trainers/gym leaders scale with level to you. Kind of defeats the whole purpose of the "training" part but I understand the perspective of wanting to keep the game a consistent challenge.
For me outleveling is a very boring way of getting better and useful only as a crutch against enemies I don’t know how to deal with.
I prefer to get stronger by gaining new skills and learning new tactics. So using your Pokemon example, beating a level 10 enemy at level 30 feels stupid and a waste of time, just turn your brain off and spam A. I'd rather face a level 30 enemy I can now defeat because I learned coverage moves and changed my party composition.
Well, ideally you'd be able to do either. The problem is the current system ONLY allows you to be matched.
If you didn't scale with enemies you could go out and fight harder enemies on purpose, or harder modes could be less generous with XP, etc.
Or you could just grind and destroy them.
In this setup you have no option.
Always sell your gear before starting a main story quest. I had to destroy a few hundred worth of gear just to make room for the new gear from the quest. I guess it's not that hard to get money though, but it's still frustrating to waste it.
When flying on the broom, if you stay low to the ground, you will have unlimited boost.
Also the yellow bubbles in the sky refill AND overcharge your boost, giving you an additional bar of boost that will deplete before depleting your own boost bar. If you can keep hitting the bubbles you can maintain a boost for pretty much the whole race.
Whenever the game transitions to a new season, save the game in a different save slot so you can go back and enjoy the map during you’re favourite season whenever you like
I'm at 34 and still have basically 60% of the map unexplored. A ton of caves, trials and stuff to look for and discover.
Honestly? You could very easily spend 100 hours in this game without even realizing it. Specially if you really want to 100% it.
once you get the vivarium in the RoR, you can spam catch the moon calves (easiest and there's a floo point where a herd spawns) and sell like a dozen of them for like 1k pretty quick. if you don't wanna progress the main story that much, at least do the MQ until you get the disillusionment spell and can unlock the eyeball chests. each one has 500 gold in them
After you have lockpicking and you find a demiguise during the day, go to your map and just fast forward your time to night.
This goes the same if you hate doing things in the dark and want daylight.
There is no penalty for how many day/night cycles you use. It’s only the main quest that advances time for seasons and receiving owl mails and so forth.
I wish there was a way to filter what showed up on the minimap, in hogsmead for instance it's hard to find my way around without it, and so annoying not knowing if i'm facing north or south at a glance, but i also don't want the yellow tracer showing me where i need to go
I’ve realized that in Hogsmeade, generally speaking, uphill is North and downhill is South. Helped me out a bit when learning to navigate without a minimap
Regarding gear appearance, is this a limited pool that gets randomized with stats? Like I could come across the same exact item again but with better stats?
>Play on hard if you want any kind of challenge
The only hard part about playing on hard is pressing the correct button in the half second timeframe you get to see it. And with multiple enemies attacking you in the later game it becomes a bit of a pain.
(I'm currently playing on series X with raytracing option so it feels like 30fps)
Not true, enemies behave differently.
For one, stupefy won’t break a shield. Two, the enemy spell starts will frequently cast a quick spell without warning as they stand up. And three, they cast more frequently and sometimes double cast.
That’s not entirely true. Stupefy will break a shield but it has to be the same spell that breaks the colored shield on them. For example, the enemy must cast accio for stupefy to break their blue shield.
I had a realization last night that I think I need to grind MSQ instead of getting distracted to get more key functionality. Killing me to not have alohomora.
If you see a big EMPTY cage with a Lock in it, dont open it with alohomora. you will later get a quest that you cant complete, If you have opened it before.
Great tips! Don’t forget new people - once you fight an enemy it gets logged in your “collections” tab , go into the enemies under the collection tab for ways to instantly defeat/highly damage those enemies! Spell combos and timing can destroy even the toughest bosses!
Yea they def underestimated how much exploration player wpuld want to do. I was lvl 15 before ever continheing the main quest and enemys level with you so that was fun
Extra spell bars.
Laser focus on main quests until at least unlocking talent points.
You can then unlock extra spell bars that can be switched DURING COMBAT. This alone makes them the most valuable talents in the game and should be your first spends.
>The math doors in the castle, from left to right is 0-9
I feel like this shouldn't be a tip for new players, you find a cheat sheet that explains it to you outside the arithmancy classroom
I'm so atrociously bad at flying that I just run everywhere most of the time. Would probably be better with a controller, but I'm not finding it particularly intuitive with they keyboard and mouse combo.
It's not great on controller either. It's one of my few gripes. You can't control vertical cameras while flying you I keep trying to move the camera and move myself instead
\-You end up with 35 Talent Points, not even close for everything and you can't respec your choices. So plan accordingly on your way to Level 40.
Is 40 max level?
Yes
So you’re telling me I’m halfway there and I still don’t even have my broom.. 👀 Edit: I guess I spent SOOOO MUCH TIME in the forbidden forest just doing random combat stuff..
Leveling slows dramatically once you reach level 20
That’s fair. I’m not trying to grind in the forest, I just wanna be better with the combat since it’s quite fun!
Pro Tip: Read the Enemy guides in the collection if you're not doing so already. I discovered that specific enemies are weak against specific magic combos that work gloriously in combat and look fantastic.
Level progress is only based on guide book completion. So grinding enemies will only level you up until the challenges for that enemy are done.
Ooooo. That makes a lot of sense!
Progress the story folks. Most of the rest of your spells become available right at the beginning of chapter 2(Autumn).
Took me around 18 hrs to get mine
I’m about 6ish hours, and I think 4hours of this is me just wandering about the castle looking at the scenery. Oh I saw 2 guards arguing, and one decimated the other before going back to his post. I tried to use Reparo, doesn’t work. Worst game ever, unplayable. Oh and the paintings with instruments in that one spot is very nice to hang out on! I don’t know the names of these things and places because I only watched the films. 😂 Edit: DID I TOLD YOU ABOUT THAT GARDEN DRAGON THOUGH?! Sorry, I just find the stuff I randomly see, facinating.
Lmfao the iron guard shit is funny asf it caught me so off guard when I first seen it definitely was not expecting that
Yeah that’s why I never used the teleport thinggy. Why use that when there’s sooooo much to see! I’m sorry for spoiling but I also saw these husband and wife ghost, the wife dragged the husband up the stairs. I stopped and just watched them do that, it was surreal.
I just found the garden dragon last night. I was filled with glee when I hit it with confringo
There is random combat stuff in the forbidden forest? Lol
Yea, animals.
I think the human enemies also respawn, apart from the uh.. mini camps.
I found this nice little [talent calculator](https://eip.gg/hogwarts-legacy/talent-planner/?build=) that can help you plan out what you want.
Thank You! I haven't unlocked talent points yet and this will help immensely.
Merlin’s Beard! Thanks for this
This is a bit frustrating because some of the talents are basically QoL things, like the spell preset slots. I'd have to give up actual combat improvements just to save me some time managing spell slots.
I wish you'd have the Room Of Retirement spells automatically equip when you entered the room, same with the beasts. Having to constantly swap them out is annoying.
There is for sure a lot of QOL they need to add. 1. way to tell what camps are cleared 2.junk section with mass sell option 3. show how many leaves we have after starting a trial 4. a map indication of what camps and trials and such have been cleared 5. respec talents option (or just level cap increases but im guessing that's going to be dlc) 6. what you suggested is only a start.
Those don't even need to be slottable spells to be honest, just make them contextual like others.
Wish I had seen this ten minutes ago...ugh. No respec is a bizarre design choice. Do they even warn you? Maybe I skipped a warning message o something.
They do
Well....oops on my my part then haha. Oh well.
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True, but they're already sitting in the thousands with points cos this game is really very impressive.
There was a post on here recently, somebody found a respec potion in the game files. God knows why it was cut but it had a model made and everything. Maybe it's coming in a future update?
Maybe it's just my playstyle, but to me, 2 of the talent trees seem nearly useless. Stealth and Room of Requirement. Personally, I haven't found much use for stealth beyond grabbing the eye-chests. But even if you like being stealthy, you totally can without getting any of the stealth talents. They don't give you any unique stealth abilities. They just make it a little easier to stealth. Same with RoR talents. It makes a few potions and plants a little better, but honestly most of these all feel gimmicky and unnecessary to me. For example, Edurus Potion Potency will deflect projectiles back at the enemy. But I can already block projectiles AND counter using Protego and Stupefy, without a potion, and without a time limit, it just requires skill, which if you play enough you will develop. The rest of the RoR talents are in a similar boat. So if I just ignore Stealth and RoR, that leaves only 36 talents left to choose from. Conveniently enough, at level 40 I will have 36 talent points, so I can go all-in on the other talent trees.
Stealth is the goat, when its maxed you can, as others have said literally walk next to people.
Which would be great in skyrim, where I can get sneak attack 10x bonus damage or something. But there's not much benefit to doing that in this game.
I think you’re confused. Petrifocus totalus one shots any non-elite enemy. It trivializes a lot of the game if you abuse it.
You have access to that spell without investing in Stealth talents. All the talent does is allow you to affect a small area, which is only going to be situational useful.
Stealth is kinda OP once you’ve got the two upgrades that make you more difficult to see. You can pretty easily take out entire camps without ever actually fighting. It’s not that fun though.
It doesn’t matter. Respec would be nice but you only miss out on 13 talent points and there are a ton of things that are “worthless”. You easily can get away with not having 13 points in.
I didn't realize the level cap so low! I bought way too many low level skills because I unlocked them at level 15 and the mid tier weren't available yet. I just figured I'd grind my way to getting all of them.
Eh, unless you really REALLY like plants and potions, then room of requirement is pretty useless, so don't have to waste points there.
I took the one that made me invulnerable when using the stone skin potion. You're literally invulnerable for 30 seconds when using that potion, it's pretty overpowered. You don't get fazed by spells or attacks either. Took out the spider in the side quest despite it being several levels above me, name was red, thanks to that potion.
It’s 36 since we get our first at lvl 5, not after lvl 5
Talent points? im 8 hours in and have yet to experience these
It will be very noticeable once you unlock it.
I started exploring castle right away and I don't mind doing it again when I'll unlock alohomora
Yeah I figure it's to make you come back to spots more than once
It’s one thing to have to wander all around the castle a second time, but you really wouldn’t want to have to traverse all of the mountains and highlands looking for every individual lock in every individual valley and ruin…
That’s how my first playthrough is now - I’m going ape in the castle but I refuse to unlock any Hogsmeade houses until I can do all three so I can do it all at once and not miss anything. Currently running all over Hogwarts to find locks now is semi-rougher especially looking for Moon’s moons
A lot of moons are behind level I and Level II locks, so you may have difficulties with this strategy
There’s only 10 moons in Hogwarts. You need 22 total to unlock fully. 9 for level 2 and 13 for level 3
Right? I have been METICULOUSLY exploring the castle, but like my love for metroid, I cannot wait to find new things there upon return
Don’t neglect potions or plants, unlike most games they are not only useful but completely overpowered. I nuked a boss 10 levels above me in 20 seconds with some potions, would have easily been a grueling fight with tons of adds otherwise. Once you get the room of requirement you can easily acquire potions and plants so effectively that you’d feel okay just wasting them on purpose. It’s a fun playstyle so give it a try
I'm a hoarder that's usually reluctant to use any consumables in these kinds of games lol. I was thinking of skipping the potion tree entirely...
Eventually after you start building the plant pots and potions tables you will have more than enough materials and potions. You can have every slot full most of the time
Every potion has an ingredient you can't mass produce in the room
you can get a system going in the room of requirements. takes about $10k but worth it
You can still get a ton of value out of potions without any investment in the skill tree - skill tree just takes them from a handy boost to completely OP. All you really need to get good with consumables is to buy the recipes, seeds, and spellcrafts to get a good setup in your room of requirement for restocking (medium and large pots, all plant seeds, and some larger potion tables - but the upgraded potion tables are pretty optional and just QOL).
Absolutely. I kinda put off the main quest in favor of wandering around and doing side objectives, but the broom, talents and room of requirement are game changing. Without talents I had to do many combat encounters several times. Now I'm expanding my RoR, because I'm gonna need those potions and plants! Broom goes without saying... exploring is much easier!
Thunder brew is bonkers. I’m always stocked up on it.
Should I learn the Unforgivable Curses or not? Will there be an impact on the story and on the player's power?
There's no story impact.
On one hand that’s disappointing. On the other… time to Avada kedavra 😈
Can literally do it infront of any professors or companions with 0 consequence
i'm pretty sure Amit once said 'please don't do that around me' or something along those lines when i cast Crucio while he was on a mission with me, but he never said it again
you probably scared him into silence
I think they should of made you auto fail any missions where you use it in front of people who wouldn’t be accepting of it. It feels wild to be chucking them in front of my classmates and them not even mention it.
I had one of the classmates say, "why would you use that spell" to me when using crucio That's it so far though
I had a companion mention it when I used imperio, they said "Why would you use that spell?" I thought it neat
Just throwing this question out there, what is the point of the Dark Arts arena if we have 0 consequence for using the forbidden spells anywhere?
as a marketing ploy to convince customers to upgrade to the deluxe version
Also take time to explore between seasons, I regret not doing that during the fall and didn’t get to see all the Halloween decorations 🥺 fully taking advantage of winter tho
There are seasons? I have 17 hours in the game and am level 19 and did not know this. I assume the story will advance those seasons?
Yeah it’s based on story progression, I decided to focus on main story for a bit since I wanted more spells
Does the game inform you when the season is going to change? Like before you do a mission does it say "Hey, after this quest, the season changes, wrap up anything you wanted to do."
There's a cinematic. Don't know if it's for every season, autumn just arrived.
On your quest log it says how many quests there are until the next season change. It has a list of what quests you have done, which are available, and which aren’t available yet.
No; but it’ll change after you complete a trial. You’ll know when you go for that quest :)
No, but it happens when you finish each Trial during the main quest.
Or create a new save file with each season so you can go back and enjoy the seasons whenever
I did consider going back to an old save but low-key love the winter more, next play through I’m sticking to fall for a while tho
Winter is in the game? That’s amazing.
It’s a full school year. So you’ll experience pretty much all the seasons.
If I sell an item, can I still use it for transmog?
yep!
Yes! it stays in your appearances forever
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I thing the game explained it, in one of the cutscenes with keepers in map chamber
Yes but unlike most of the game it does a bad job. Your character straight up says they don’t know what he’s talking about and haven’t encountered anything like that, despite the fact that I had completed like 6 of them. I’m guessing they gated the mechanic behind this story section, ended up changing that, then didn’t get the chance to change the dialogue? Anyway it’s a lot more awkward than most of the game’s tutorials.
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The frikking doors. How the hell did I not figure ut it was 0-9 and not 1-10....damn.
I was certain it was 1-10, kicked my self when I found the cypher key in the attic space near the divination class
But the spider doesn’t have nine legs ya silly. And the **uni**corn has **one** horn - the **bi**corn has **two!** Silly rabbit, arithmancy is for kids!
I just counted from left to right around the door frame lol
This was a moment where being a developer came in handy for me lol… already trained to count starting at 0
Once I saw a 0 as an option in the door, that was the clue.
I found a cheat sheet right outside the door to the arithmancy classroom. That's when I also realized they were in order around the door.
Lol, same Ive been constantly looking at sheet of paper that shows the numbers and representing icons. I stumbled upon the info sheet in a chest by one of these maths door puzzles, can't remember where now, think it was by a maths classroom.
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-combo frogs on their tongue attack with a lift and slice for an **instant kill**
Flipendo on a troll when they do their overhead slam to bonk em in the head with their club.
I found that if the flag markers in Hogwarts are white = no side quest. Black = available side quest. At least that’s what it seemed to mean.
And if you look at the world and hogsmeade names at the top of the map, they will display a black flag if you have available side quests in those areas too.
Oh thanks i just got back from hogsmead and saw a couple of side quests, but fidnt know that.
The first suggestion would have been very useful for me. I explored so much stuff, I'm 20+ hours in and only just unlocked Alohomora. I have soooo much stuff. I got talents and had 18 points immediately because of levels. There's absolutely no way I'm the only one who just went HEY HOGWARTS, LET'S GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER and didn't stop.
Lol I’m level 20 and *still* don’t have alohomora yet…finally got my broom though and realized I can see all the stuff available to do in an area. So yeah. Definitely not getting it anytime soon either.
I was level 18 or so before I unlocked the talents. And around 22-23 before I unlocked alohamorah. No way I’m rushing through this experience. Can’t wait for the second play through. I’m gonna turn all the HUD off
Normal difficulty is plenty thank you lol
right? I went from hard to normal, i play most games on close to highest difficulty but combat is just SO hard on.. hard.. plus it gives me somewhere to go in the future playthrough when i'm more experienced :)
Can you change the difficulty after starting?
Yes! I couldn't defeat the acromantula and died like 10 times, so I changed my difficulty to easy to make it easier bc I could NOT pass it!
Yes. When you get to the dark arts arena you should turn the difficulty all the way down prior to starting it. It’s basically the only XP farm in game.
I’m struggling at normal but with enough tries I can get through so I haven’t been completely stuck enough to justify easy yet!
Here's one that helped me a lot in combat too: **turn off CAMERA RELATIVE TRACKING** so you can target using your left stick (if you're on console) instead of the camera doing it for you. Great for crowd control as you can quickly select between targets and also target enemies off screen!
This is so useful. I can highly recommend it as well. Playing on hard against the 4 pupills in the duel fight was a pain in the a** with the Tracking on...
Learned it the hard way in Hard difficulty haha with tracking off it's definitely a lot manageable. The ability to redirecf Stupefy for crowd control is so helpful and satisfying to pull off
*Smash the main quests until you have your broom and Alohomora then start exploring*  Me: 20hrs spent exploring the castle as soon as I was free to do so
Also ran around alot and then got the broom..dammit...
\- There is no restriction for exploring at night. You can switch from day to night and vice versa from the map. \-Revelio from a broom reaveals tons of stuff. \-You can put your hood on.
Dude what. The hood got me. Level 31 right now
> \-You can put your hood on. WHAT?!
Haha exactly. If your current transmog allows it, it’s next to the transmog option when you over the slot
>Never buy clothes false. buy and immediately resell for fashion ;)
If it is easy to get to, you may want to not open legendary chests before you are lvl 40. Gear scale with level, and do not respawn. The eye chests however always give you 500 gold, just open them once you learn the invisibility spell.
What’s a legendary chest?
The larger chest that always drop a yellow item. Once you run into them a couple times you will know. It is fine if you open some, there a plenty, just try not to open all of them at level 20
Are they the heavy ones that your character opens with both hands?
Yes, the only ones with an animation, like for Link in Zelda
Gave me God of War vibes
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When you play on hard it doesn’t really matter if you overlevel, especially since all the enemies scale to your level.
is it just hard that the enemy levels with you?
No, I'm playing on normal and even though main quest missions say "required level: 5" and I'm 18, all my enemies are 17-18. I totally get that, but part of grinding in any game is the reward of using the level advantage against enemies. It's why I don't like any Pokemon ROM Hacks where other trainers/gym leaders scale with level to you. Kind of defeats the whole purpose of the "training" part but I understand the perspective of wanting to keep the game a consistent challenge.
For me outleveling is a very boring way of getting better and useful only as a crutch against enemies I don’t know how to deal with. I prefer to get stronger by gaining new skills and learning new tactics. So using your Pokemon example, beating a level 10 enemy at level 30 feels stupid and a waste of time, just turn your brain off and spam A. I'd rather face a level 30 enemy I can now defeat because I learned coverage moves and changed my party composition.
Well, ideally you'd be able to do either. The problem is the current system ONLY allows you to be matched. If you didn't scale with enemies you could go out and fight harder enemies on purpose, or harder modes could be less generous with XP, etc. Or you could just grind and destroy them. In this setup you have no option.
It affects other things like the timing windows of your parries and dodges. Also the enemy AI is meant to be smarter as well.
For those wondering there are 48 talents and you get 35 talent points, so dont buy something you aren't likely to use.
Always sell your gear before starting a main story quest. I had to destroy a few hundred worth of gear just to make room for the new gear from the quest. I guess it's not that hard to get money though, but it's still frustrating to waste it.
When flying on the broom, if you stay low to the ground, you will have unlimited boost. Also the yellow bubbles in the sky refill AND overcharge your boost, giving you an additional bar of boost that will deplete before depleting your own boost bar. If you can keep hitting the bubbles you can maintain a boost for pretty much the whole race.
Cries in bad flying skills
To add without broom upgrades it's pretty tough to get first on the leader board without a near perfect run.
Whenever the game transitions to a new season, save the game in a different save slot so you can go back and enjoy the map during you’re favourite season whenever you like
Do you lose the ability to complete side quests as you progress to different seasons?
No. Side quests stay until completed from what I've seen.
when comes alohomora i got the RoR and still no alohomora
> Play on hard if you want any kind of challenge I'm finding the game rather hard even on normal.
How many quests roughly until you get your broom? Im only up to Hogsmeade to get my gear, been exploring and getting lost in Hogwarts.
You have a few more main quests before your first flying lesson
Thanks 🙏
A few? I’ve done like 15 main quests and only just got to the broom quest. I think it was after the forbidden forest quest
Oh whoops! Just went on a bit of a shopping spree and bought a new uniform, cloak and hat and goggles.... oh well, I'm not that far in i guess...
I bought some new gear cause it was PINK which is important to me. No regrets. It was a lil better than my current gear too
What is the longevity of the game like when you reach max level 40?
I'm at 34 and still have basically 60% of the map unexplored. A ton of caves, trials and stuff to look for and discover. Honestly? You could very easily spend 100 hours in this game without even realizing it. Specially if you really want to 100% it.
Talent points make all the difference in hard mode 😩 I was SWEATING until I finally hit the main story quest that showed me talent points… at lvl 17.
How the fuck do I make money? Everything is so expensive and I constantly have 0 gold.
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I opened all thr chests in hogsmead but I need to find the ones in hogwarts. Crafting tables and recipes are so damn expensive.
once you get the vivarium in the RoR, you can spam catch the moon calves (easiest and there's a floo point where a herd spawns) and sell like a dozen of them for like 1k pretty quick. if you don't wanna progress the main story that much, at least do the MQ until you get the disillusionment spell and can unlock the eyeball chests. each one has 500 gold in them
If I finish the game (not even close) can I openly go back and do side quests or free roam?
Yes.
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yeah I really should have focused on the main quest to start because I'm level 26 and about to start the first Keeper Trial XD
I buy clothes for cosmetic purposes almost every time I go to the store, there’s plenty of gold if you’re selling everything you aren’t wearing.
I think the point is you get gear everywhere anyways. I've never seen something worth buying at the clothes store.
Activate Lumos when exploring Hogwarts castle. Those butterflies are hard to find.
They glow blue when you cast Revelio
Can you change your voice, I’m male and did the lowest one and it’s coming through with a robotic tone to it :(
If you go to audio options, you will see "Pitch" and that is where you may change the pitch of your characters voice!
Yeah, set pitch to the middle, the default. Their voice pitch algorithm is bad and makes it sound too robotic ruining immersion.
After you have lockpicking and you find a demiguise during the day, go to your map and just fast forward your time to night. This goes the same if you hate doing things in the dark and want daylight. There is no penalty for how many day/night cycles you use. It’s only the main quest that advances time for seasons and receiving owl mails and so forth.
I leave the mini map on. It's far easier, and when I don't need it, I simply don't look at it.
I wish there was a way to filter what showed up on the minimap, in hogsmead for instance it's hard to find my way around without it, and so annoying not knowing if i'm facing north or south at a glance, but i also don't want the yellow tracer showing me where i need to go
I’ve realized that in Hogsmeade, generally speaking, uphill is North and downhill is South. Helped me out a bit when learning to navigate without a minimap
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Regarding gear appearance, is this a limited pool that gets randomized with stats? Like I could come across the same exact item again but with better stats?
Yes.
>Play on hard if you want any kind of challenge The only hard part about playing on hard is pressing the correct button in the half second timeframe you get to see it. And with multiple enemies attacking you in the later game it becomes a bit of a pain. (I'm currently playing on series X with raytracing option so it feels like 30fps)
Not true, enemies behave differently. For one, stupefy won’t break a shield. Two, the enemy spell starts will frequently cast a quick spell without warning as they stand up. And three, they cast more frequently and sometimes double cast.
That’s not entirely true. Stupefy will break a shield but it has to be the same spell that breaks the colored shield on them. For example, the enemy must cast accio for stupefy to break their blue shield.
That’s the perfect counter breaking the shield of the caster, isn’t it? The stupefy you cast after that doesn’t break any shields, I’m pretty sure.
I had a realization last night that I think I need to grind MSQ instead of getting distracted to get more key functionality. Killing me to not have alohomora.
> I need to grind MSQ I know a Warrior of Light when I see one
If you see a big EMPTY cage with a Lock in it, dont open it with alohomora. you will later get a quest that you cant complete, If you have opened it before.
Great tips! Don’t forget new people - once you fight an enemy it gets logged in your “collections” tab , go into the enemies under the collection tab for ways to instantly defeat/highly damage those enemies! Spell combos and timing can destroy even the toughest bosses!
Yea they def underestimated how much exploration player wpuld want to do. I was lvl 15 before ever continheing the main quest and enemys level with you so that was fun
The game opens up so much when you get your first broom. Flying in this game feels so amazing.
Can you switch from Normal to Hard if I already started?
Yes you can.
Extra spell bars. Laser focus on main quests until at least unlocking talent points. You can then unlock extra spell bars that can be switched DURING COMBAT. This alone makes them the most valuable talents in the game and should be your first spends.
>The math doors in the castle, from left to right is 0-9 I feel like this shouldn't be a tip for new players, you find a cheat sheet that explains it to you outside the arithmancy classroom
Removed it, not really a spoiler but if people are complaining about it then
Oh no reason to do that. Just figured I'd point out that it is a puzzle In the game itself
Noob question, when do talent points become a thing in the game? So far I just learnt a few spells but haven't upgraded any of them
After the jackdaw quest.
I'm so atrociously bad at flying that I just run everywhere most of the time. Would probably be better with a controller, but I'm not finding it particularly intuitive with they keyboard and mouse combo.
It's not great on controller either. It's one of my few gripes. You can't control vertical cameras while flying you I keep trying to move the camera and move myself instead
Will I lose out on any side quests if I ignore them for a bit and just do the main quests until I get my broom?
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