Hogwarts Legacy Guide

🎮 Getting Started

House Selection

• Gryffindor: Brave, daring — common room near Great Hall
• Slytherin: Ambitious, cunning — common room in dungeon
• Ravenclaw: Wise, creative — common room in tower
• Hufflepuff: Loyal, hardworking — common room near kitchen

🪄 Essential Spells

• Combat: Expelliarmus (disarm), Incendio (fire), Diffindo (cut), Confringo (blast)
• Utility: Lumos (light), Alohomora (unlock), Wingardium Leviosa (levitate)
• Control: Levioso (levitate enemy), Arresto Momentum (slow), Glacius (freeze)
• Unforgivable Curses: Crucio, Imperio, Avada Kedavra — learn from Sebastian questline

⚔️ Combat Tips

• Use combos: Levioso → basic attacks → Incendio for big damage
• Dodge: Purple flash = unblockable, dodge it
• Ancient Magic: Build meter by hitting enemies, use for massive damage
• Talents: Invest in Core first (spell slots, dodging), then your preferred style

🪄 Spell Combos That Chain

• Levioso into Descendo: lift, then slam - the second hit lands as a bonus and breaks shields
• Accio into Incendio: pull the target close, then burn it while it is still staggered
• Glacius into Diffindo: freeze, then cut - frozen enemies take full damage from the slash
• Keep one yellow, one purple and one red spell on each bar so you always have a shield-breaker

⚔️ Combat Habits

• Ancient Magic charges only from combos and perfect blocks - stop spamming basic casts and let the meter fill
• Perfect Protego reflects projectiles back; the timing window is earlier than the visual impact
• Talent priority: spell cooldown reduction, then basic cast damage, then the dodge extension

🔑 Exploration Checklist

• Demiguise statues need Alohomora level 2 and 3 - collect them as soon as the quest opens, they gate every locked door
• Field guide pages come from Revelio casts in the castle, not from chests
• Grow Chinese Chomping Cabbages in the Room of Requirement; they tank and damage for you in camps