This is a guide to the best builds you can make for your Hogwarts Legacy character. Read on to learn which gear, talent builds, spells, and items are the best to make each build effective as well as the necessary cosmetic for each build.
| Best Build Guides | |
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| Best Character Builds | Best Talents |
| Best Potions | Best Gear |
| Best Traits | Best Recipes and Conjurations |
| Jump Table | ||
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| Level 5 Talents | Level 16 Talents | Level 22 Talents |
| Talents | Explanation |
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| Accio Mastery | An easy way to disrupt enemy formation, especially groups of enemies. |
| Confringo Mastery | Covers the only weakness of Confringo being a single target spell by being able to home to multiple enemies. Perfect especially against Inferis. |
| Diffindo Mastery | Diffindo becomes more efficient by being able to damage multiple foes. |
| Stunning Curse | Higher dps after a good stun against the enemies means a higher dps rate for your character. |
| Disarming Curse | Great for defeating solo enemies and bosses. |
| Basic Cast Mastery | Makes chaining spell combos much faster and easier. |
| Wiggenweld Potency I | Allows you to survive several tough battles like battle arenas. |
| Sense of Secrecy I | Easier sneaking means easier time to clear dungeons and camps. |
| Human Demiguise | Makes sneaking on dungeons and fortresses much easier. |
| Spell Knowledge (I and II) | Easier time swapping spells means a more fluid gameplay and combat. |
| Edurus Potion Potency | Eliminates the risk of taking damage for a short period. |
| Talents | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Depulso Mastery | Easily disperses enemies with one cast. |
| Glacius Mastery | One of the greatest stall spells and can even be comboed with petrificus totalus. |
| Crucio Mastery | Great at taking down single targets as it inflicts curse and increased damage output for the rest of your spells. |
| Imperio Mastery | One of the easiest way to spread curses while also taking out one enemy with a single cast. |
| Revelio Mastery | Easier time in exploring all secrets at Hogwarts. |
| Protego Expertise | Protego becomes an offensive tool if used correctly with this talent which greatly increases your damage output. |
| Stupefy Mastery | Takes out one enemy for a longer duration. |
| Sense of Secrecy II | Easier sneaking means easier time to pick out enemies ony by one. |
| Maxima Potion Potency | Huge DPS increase for basic casts. |
Spells in red involve using unforgivable curses and may not be ideal for everyone's playthrough.
| Talents | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Transformation Mastery | Combos perfectly with ancient magic throw as it allows you to create high damaging objects to fling at enemies while eliminating one enemy with a single cast as well. |
| Protego Mastery | Allows you to easily create distance between you and the opponents by repelling them. |
| Petrificus Totalus Mastery | Easily eliminate groups of enemies while in stealth. |
| Thunderbrew Potency | Allows you to easily clear groups of enemies with a single potion. Perfect for raiding large bandit camps |
| Jump to a Build | |
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| Stealth Wizard Build | Alchemist Build |
| Pyromancer | Psychic |
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House | Slytherin | |
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| Wand Core | Phoenix Feather | ||
| Potions/Plants | Focus Potion | ||
| Gear Appearance (Transmog) | Silver Rimmed Circular Glasses Traditional School Robe Prefect Vest Uniform |
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| Spells | |||
| Talents | |||
| Petrificus Totalus Mastery | Invisibility Potion Potency | ||
| Blood Curse | Human Demiguise | ||
| Sense of Secrecy I | Sense of Secrecy II | ||
| Spell Knowledge I | Revelio Mastery | ||
| Traits | |||
| Ambush III | Binding III | ||
| Protego Shielding III | Necromantic Protection III | ||
| Goblin-Silver Resistance III | Ancient Magic III | ||
The stealth wizard focuses on being a sneaky wizard that assassinates enemies with Petrificus Totalus. Arguably the easiest way to clear enemy camps since you can instantly kill enemies without engaging in battle.
 Alchemist Gear |
House | Hufflepuff | |
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| Wand Core | Phoenix Feather | ||
| Potions/Plants |
Chinese Chomping Cabbage Thunderbrew Venomous Tentacula Mandrake |
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| Gear Appearance (Transmog) | Silver Rimmed Circular Glasses Traditional School Robe Prefect Vest Uniform |
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| Spells | |||
| Talents | |||
| Fertiliser | Thunderbrew Potency | ||
| Headache | Noxious | ||
| Ancient Magic Throw Expertise | - | ||
| Traits | |||
| Deafening III | Fangs III | ||
| Herbology III | Venom III | ||
| Ancient Magic Focus III | Ancient Magic III | ||
A build that focuses on item usage. With enough supplies to craft items non-stop in the room of requirements, you can keep on crafting plants for battle and unleash vegetations (and thunder) to your enemies!
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House | Gryffindor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wand Core | Phoenix Feather | ||
| Potions/Plants | N/A | ||
| Gear Appearance (Transmog) |
Royal Maroon Cloak Bloodred Fedora |
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| Spells | |||
| Talents | |||
| Incendio Mastery | Confringo Mastery | ||
| Bombarda Mastery | Transformation Mastery | ||
| Basic Cast Mastery | - | ||
| Traits | |||
| Control III | Scorching III | ||
| Destruction III | Explosive III | ||
| Ancient Magic Focus III | Concentration III | ||
A build that inferis and undead will fear. This is a flavor build that focuses on using explosives and fire spells to demolish enemies. Most of these spells are also AoE (Area of Effect) which makes defeating groups of enemies easy.
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House | Ravenclaw | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wand Core | Unicorn Hair | ||
| Potions/Plants | N/A | ||
| Gear Appearance (Transmog) | Curious Silver Spectacles | ||
| Spells | |||
| Talents | |||
| Accio Mastery | Levioso Mastery | ||
| Depulso Mastery | Descendo Mastery | ||
| Transformation Mastery | Knockback Curse | ||
| Disarming Curse | Blood Curse | ||
| Slowing Curse | Curse Sapper | ||
| Ancient Magic Throw Expertise | Spell Knowledge I | ||
| Traits | |||
| Ancient Magic Focus III | Ancient Magic III | ||
| Control III | Disarming III | ||
| Unforgivable III | Concentration III | ||
A build that focuses on item slinging. Use spells to control enemy position. Group them up and even throw them to far away places to inflict lethal fall damage to them or just disable groups of enemies while defeating them one by one with basic casts and ancient magic!
| Jump to a Build | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Harry Potter Build | Dark Arts Build | Knight Build | Death Eater Build |
 Harry Potter |
House | Gryffindor | |
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| Wand Core | Phoenix Feather | ||
| Potions/Plants | Focus Potion | ||
| Gear Appearance (Transmog) | Silver Rimmed Circular Glasses Traditional School Robe Prefect Vest Uniform |
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| Spells | |||
| - | |||
| Talents | |||
| Disarming Curse | Stunning Curse | ||
| Blood Curse | Human Demiguise | ||
| Sense of Secrecy II | - | ||
| Traits | |||
| Disarming III | Ambush III | ||
| Protego Shielding III | - | ||
A role-play build centered around Harry Potter from the original IP. Harry Potter is the main character of the series who is known as the boy who lived
. This build is centered around spells that Harry has used all throughout the movies and books with a particular expertise on Expelliarmus, Harry's signature spell.Unfortunately, there are no patronus charm to accompany this build.
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House | Slytherin | |
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| Wand Core | Dragon Heartstring | ||
| Potions/Plants | Maxima Potion Venomous Tentacula Thunderbrew Potion |
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| Gear Appearance (Transmog) | Black Leather Gloves Beaked Skull Mask Potioneer's Cap Dusky Wool Scarf Legendary Cape Legendary Armored Attire |
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| Spells | |||
| - | |||
| Talents | |||
| Crucio Mastery | Imperio Mastery | ||
| Blood Curse | Stunning Curse | ||
| Curse Sapper | - | ||
A Wizard build that focuses on using dark art spells. Inflict curses on enemies and be the most evil wizard you can be!
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House | Slytherin | |
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| Wand Core | Dragon Heartstring | ||
| Potions/Plants | Edurus Potion | ||
| Gear Appearance (Transmog) | Spider Slayer Set | ||
| Spells | |||
| - | |||
| Talents | |||
| Edurus Potion Potency | Wiggenweld Potency I | ||
| Wiggenweld Potency II | Diffindo Mastery | ||
A cosplay build centered around the spider slayer armor build. Stop looking like a wizard and be a knight in shining armor, standing on the frontline and slicing enemy up with your sword spells!
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House | Slytherin | |
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| Wand Core | Dragon Heartstring | ||
| Potions/Plants | Maxima Potion Focus Potion |
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| Gear Appearance (Transmog) | Dark Arts Set (DLC) | ||
| Spells | |||
| - | |||
| Talents | |||
| Avada Kedavra Mastery | Curse Sapper | ||
| Crucio Mastery | Imperio Mastery | ||
| Enduring Curse | Blood Curse | ||
| Maxima Potion Potency | Focus Potion Potency | ||
A roleplay build highly similar to the dark arts build. The Death Eater build is centered around using unforgivable curses while maximizing the potency of these spells and ensuring suffering and death to all enemies.
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