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 Talents to Learn

Level 5 Talents

Best Talents

Level 16 Talents

Spells in red involve using unforgivable curses and may not be ideal for everyone's playthrough.

Best Talents

Level 22 Talents

Talent Builds

Stealth Wizard Build

Stealth Wizard	House	Slytherin
	Wand Core	Phoenix Feather
	Potions/Plants	Focus Potion
	Gear Appearance (Transmog)	Silver Rimmed Circular Glasses Traditional School Robe Prefect Vest Uniform
Spells
Disillusionment		Nab-Sack
Accio		Alohomora
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.

Stealth Wizard Build

Alchemist Build

Alchemist Gear	House	Hufflepuff
	Wand Core	Phoenix Feather
	Potions/Plants	Chinese Chomping Cabbage Thunderbrew Venomous Tentacula Mandrake
	Gear Appearance (Transmog)	Silver Rimmed Circular Glasses Traditional School Robe Prefect Vest Uniform
Spells
Basic Cast		Beast Feed
Beast Petting Brush		Nab-Sack
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!

Alchemist Build Guide

Pyromancer Build

Pyromancer	House	Gryffindor
	Wand Core	Phoenix Feather
	Potions/Plants	N/A
	Gear Appearance (Transmog)	Royal Maroon Cloak Bloodred Fedora
Spells
Confringo		Incendio
Transformation		Bombarda
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.

Pyromancer Build Guide

Psychic Build

Psychic Profile

Psychic	House	Ravenclaw
	Wand Core	Unicorn Hair
	Potions/Plants	N/A
	Gear Appearance (Transmog)	Curious Silver Spectacles
Spells
Accio		Depulso
Descendo		Flipendo
Levioso		Transformation
Arresto Momentum		Expelliarmus
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!

Psychic Build Guide

Character Builds

Harry Potter Build

Harry Potter	House	Gryffindor
	Wand Core	Phoenix Feather
	Potions/Plants	Focus Potion
	Gear Appearance (Transmog)	Silver Rimmed Circular Glasses Traditional School Robe Prefect Vest Uniform
Spells
Stupefy		Expelliarmus
Disillusionment		-
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.

Harry Potter Build Guide

Dark Arts Build

Dark Arts Build	House	Slytherin
	Wand Core	Dragon Heartstring
	Potions/Plants	Maxima Potion Venomous Tentacula Thunderbrew Potion
	Gear Appearance (Transmog)	Black Leather Gloves Beaked Skull Mask Potioneer's Cap Dusky Wool Scarf Legendary Cape Legendary Armored Attire
Spells
Confringo		Diffindo
Avada Kedavra		Crucio
Imperio		-
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!

Dark Arts Build Guide

Knight Build

Knight Build	House	Slytherin
	Wand Core	Dragon Heartstring
	Potions/Plants	Edurus Potion
	Gear Appearance (Transmog)	Spider Slayer Set
Spells
Diffindo		-
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!

Knight Build Guide

Death Eater Build

Death Eater Build	House	Slytherin
	Wand Core	Dragon Heartstring
	Potions/Plants	Maxima Potion Focus Potion
	Gear Appearance (Transmog)	Dark Arts Set (DLC)
Spells
Avada Kedavra		Imperio
Crucio		-
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.

Death Eater Build Guide

Hogwarts Legacy Related Guides

Hogwarts Legacy Guide & Walkthrough

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