some Things Hogwarts Legacy Doesn’t Tell You So Let’s Find It
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it number 10 how to learn the dark arts one of the big selling points pre-released was that you can take a dark path and learn the dark arts something only normally used by the bad guys eventually you get the chance to learn these Sinister spells but they’re not part of the main story and so it’s possible to just miss them or if you’re not interested in becoming a gray Jedi uh wizard you can just choose not to learn them plug those ears and do the Jim Carrey GIF ah there it is good stuff if you do want to take a trip on the dark side play through any Sebastian sallow side quest when they pop up um like they start appearing after the main story mission in the shadow of the estate which you get around the midpoint to fall after the quest Sebastian eventually contacts you with a follow-up called in the shadow of the bloodline uh you complete that one and you’re on your way to learning the dark Hearts remember the dark arts stuff is all side quests it is not main quests if Sebastian wants to do something as part of the main story it probably has nothing to do with dark art spells we’ll give you the option to not learn the spell that’s not a bluff you can pick the dialogue option where a character says I don’t want to learn that and you don’t learn it so you can do these side quests and still walk out like a good and pure wizard boy but if you’re doing these quests to learn this stuff uh pay attention cause your dialogue choice is actually really matter if you can make a save before any dialogue options come up that’s good I would do that and be careful how you respond so there’s no mechanical consequences for using the dark side of the force as a pathway to many abilities some consider unnatural but there are actually some uh story repercussions especially in Sebastian’s questline so keep that in mind if you want to role play a goody two shoes probably don’t want to learn these spells but if you want to be a huge awesome badass like if you want to play Harry Potter Unleashed sorry about all the Star Wars jokes but man they work well here then completing Sebastian side quests is how you get those spells .
at number nine crafting healing potions Hogwarts Legacy is actually kind of surprisingly challenging on normal like the enemy’s can and will mess you up and when the game starts the money is pretty tight so the fact that you’re going to want to go through healing potions pretty quick and the fact that you get missions and assignments where they’re telling you go spend money somewhere makes it quite convenient that you can actually craft your own healing potions so the ingredients you need for healing potions are ditney leaves and Clump juice the ditney leaves are easy to get you get the seeds form right at the start and you can grow them at any potting station or Clump juice doesn’t roll off the tongue quite as well nor is it is easy to come by you primarily find it in caves dungeons you can probably find two or three in any given cave but with how many potions you may be going through that’s probably not enough to keep you stocked up so if you really want to load up on Clump juice let me tell you how to do it there’s a cave north of Hogwarts near the upper Hogs field fast travel Point called clump Hollow there’s 11 pieces of horror Clump in this relatively short dungeon
certainly what we would consider decentv Hall compared to most other dungeons but if you wait around for three in-game days all the resources respawn so you just run through the same cave again get another 11 hore clumps also you can wait by opening up the map press the right stick down on our three for our PlayStation controller and you wait from day to night so you do six or seven times resources are all back go get clumped up so you max out the amount of potion in plant crafting stations that you can build in the room of requirement and you’ll max out on healing potions in no time flat well sometime but not the amount of time that it would take for you to earn money and buy them
at number eight if money is your thing there’s a trick to making it much faster and it’s called poaching so you’ll find that some parts of this game are pretty anti-poaching but if you want to make a bunch of money sure you can get some gold from opening chess you can sell gear you’ll occasionally get money from quests it’s not what I would call significant amounts of money uh that is reserved for these white chest things with a big eyeball on top once you have the disillusionment spell super easy you get 500 gold great stuff that’s way more than you get from pretty much any other activity in the game but even though once you get the invisibility cloak and the disillusionment spell this is a nice little windfall of cash for you they are finite if you really want a nice consistent money making option what you gotta do is go full poacher okay you eventually unlock the ability to rescue creatures in this game and they’re the only truly farmable resource in the game this game yes is always going to keep telling you that poaching is bad and that you should rescue animal poaching makes you some sweet coin okay it’s simple you go to a B Spot on the map grab every Beast you can catch now you just take those animals you quote unquote rescued from their natural habitat and sell them on the open market that’s the basic trick you catch a lot of animals and you sell them and you know what they all sell for the same amount 120 gold so it does not matter what Beast you poach so stick to the easy ones don’t bother with the difficult ones find a bunch of Pop skins and purple toads and steal them from their homes there are beast hunting spots all over the place and they all respawn eventually so you can capture dozens of these things in a couple of minutes once you got all you’re gonna get sell them at the B Store in hogsmead and wow are you gonna be loaded with cash depending on how tied to the game’s morality you are you might feel dirty doing it but I feel no guilt these are not real animals Checkmate morality.
and number seven do not underestimate stealth right so they did not emphasize stealth pre-release they told us it existed and that’s pretty much it so you might think ah it’s going to be situational at best but that’s not the case Hogwarts Legacy actually has great stealth maybe even a little overpowered you can use it pretty much everywhere and as long as you’re fighting dark Wizards or goblins is pretty damn effective the main thing you need to do to get the most out of it is to invest to Talent points in the stealth tree and make it so enemies no longer detect you with those two talents enemies barely notice until you’re standing right in front of them and even then a lot of the time you’re able to take them out before they’re able to do anything once you get used to how detection works you’ll be clearing out groups of enemies in no time and even better stealth works even against named boss types so you can kill these guys instantly like any other enemy as long as you’re able to get close enough to them like look at this footage seriously in a lot of situations it’s actually faster to clear out a game using stealth than it is to fight directly even in Parts where it seems like the game wants you to get caught most the time stealth still works it does kind of neuter the challenge of certain parts of the game but if you’re getting sick of fighting or just want to speed things along sneaking is your tool it’s it’s also never not funny saying a petrified I may just flop on the ground like look at this that’s funny plop oops guess you should have been more aware of your surroundings .
and number six you can actually access the southern part of the map right from the beginning I don’t know if I’m just clueless or if other people thought this too but I just assume the bottom part of the map was locked until you like finished a quest or something the thing is you can’t just fly there if you try to jump on a broomstick and go over the mountains you’ll hit an invisible wall and at a certain point in the game you do have to go down there to do some quests and that’s when people will probably find that there is an underground passage you can go through in this big mining camp you do not have to wait until winter to access this passage it’s just it’s there once you get the open world you can go back there and access all the towns and challenges down there I started up a new game just to check and even though it takes a while to get down there the doors are open it’s interesting that they don’t really make it clear how to get to the southern section of the map they just kind of Leave It to the players to figure out a passage by themselves uh there’s a few enemies that block the way but you can pretty easily stealth buy them they’re about as aware as every other enemy in the game so you know sneak .
and number five the fastest way to the Demi guys statues um alohomora is an important spell you’ll learn at the start of fall it is an unlocking spell which is used to open up numerous locked doors and chests you find in the game you learn it from Mr moon in the quest the caretaker’s lunar lament which is also where you learn about one of the major collectibles in the game the demigod statues these things probably wouldn’t be uh too big of a deal but here’s the problem you have to collect them if you want to upgrade the unlocking spell alohomora to level two and three you eventually have to unlock it to at least level two so even if you don’t care about unlocking every door in the game you still need Allah more of that great joke good job Falcon so for level two you gotta collect nine moons costs another 13 for level 3 which means you gotta find 22 of these 30 Demi guys statues in order to get the most use out of them for the unlocking spell unfortunately there’s no Cannon to unlock in the Hogwarts Courtyard for getting all 30 of them and I’m pretty sure Yoshi’s not walking around on the top of Hogwarts to talk to and get 100 lives but hey the better unlocking spells good stuff right actual easiest way to get all these statues is you go to random towns in the open world pretty much every one of them has a demi guy statue and if you have the upgraded version of revelio they become quite the Cinch to find uh there’s a total of 11 in these Villages so if all you want to get is the rank 2 for unlocking you can just go around and collect them from The Villages and thank you very much for to playing my game .
and number four is a little trick to speed up lock picking uh lock picking minigames can be quite the drag especially in this game where there’s locks all over the place so once you get the unlocking spell you’re probably gonna be staring at the lock picking screen a lot at first try to unlock things takes forever because every Lock’s basically two Fallout locks in one which is very very tedious but I noticed after dozens of them the sweet spots are almost always in the same spots it’s not like Skyrim or Fallout where The Sweet Spot can be anywhere in this game it’s always in one of the eighth cardinal directions so up down left right and then the diagonals basically your d-pad and these locks once you notice that wow does it become way easier because you can just basically cycle between those eight directions on each thumbstick and you’ll open the lock pretty quick another nice thing about these locks is they don’t get harder level one locks are as easy as level three locks so you never have to mix up your strategy you just stick to the eight Direction thing and that’s .
and number three is how to solve riddle doors in Hogwarts they’re these weird doors covered in symbols all over the place in Hogwarts and uh they can be pretty baffling until you figure out what you’re supposed to do once you figure out the trick they’re pretty easy to solve but until you do they can be quite frustrating so if you don’t care about figuring this stuff out for yourself I’ll just tell you that’s right game bird to the rescue you’re welcome all right when you go up to these things there’s two simple math problems usually a number a symbol then a question mark riddle is to solve for x basically you need to put the correct number so that the numbers on the puzzle add up to the big number the part that makes these puzzles hard is figuring out what numbers the symbols represent so and once you realize that the first symbol is meant to be a zero instead of a one it’s actually pretty easy so the first otter looking thing on this door it’s a zero next one up one and so on some are more obvious than others like the spider is pretty obviously eight the three had snake is three but others aren’t so obvious like the piece of cheese which is it’s correlated to no numbers it’s just a piece of cheese no there’s no piece of cheese I’m sorry I’m just keeping it light guys this puzzle solving stuff is pretty heavy you know gotta keep our wits about us yeah but just knowing that they all appear in order makes it easy to just count up the sides and figure out the solution fromthere you select the right symbol on the question mark blocks and the door opens there’s always a gear reward and a collection reward inside these things so they’re worth opening you might be a little slow putting things together first but once you learn the symbols they’re less than a minute they never change the only thing that changes the math problem again I made up the cheese thing that’s not real so it’s pretty straight for ward .
at number two there are three big Hogwarts secrets in other words the Hogwarts Secrets would be one of the less recognizable ones from the previous point because it’s number two so much humor in this one right anyway hidden in Hogwarts Castle there’s three secret puzzle that are kind of just there they’re not part of a quest they’re not required for anything to just around and if you solve them you can earn some pretty nice rewards first one that’s possible to be solved as a bridge puzzle this one you’ve probably noticed crossing the big bridge outside the Great Hall to solve this one you need to be able to light the Brazier with the fire spell then you turn this mechanism to the correct number each pillar the braziers are uh on has a specific symbol so how do you get that well there’s the plate on the bridge that shows you what number you need for each symbol okay once you know where the key is it’s not that hard to solve next Hogwarts secret found in the clock tower there’s four doors with four different symbols on them they all correspond to the four symbols in front of the clock tower pendulum when the pendulum passes one of these symbols the door with the same symbol on it starts to open the trick here is you need to cast The Slowdown spell when it’s over one of these symbols which stops the clock long enough for one of the doors to open you you open all four doors with this method and you’ll have completed the second Hogwarts secret the final one is both the easiest and hardest to get this one you need to gain access to the headmaster’s office which only opens up after completing the Quest for the third keeper trial once you get into the headmaster’s office open up the level 2 lock which leads to a Stairway that leads to a level three lock so yeah you are required to have the level 3 log picking spell which yeah bit of a pain but we did cover it you know what to do for that but you unlock that you get in a room with a special key take the key to the big lock in the hallway the headmaster’s chamber unlock it you got all three Hogwarts Secrets why would you do this great Treasures great rewards that’s all I’m gonna say the rest is up to you .
and at number one had a grind experience fast very basic sounding point but very necessary point if you’re at some spot in the story and it requires a certain level but you’re not there what are you gonna do well you could do side quests and Hunt around for Field Guide page ages but that’s not the most fun thing in the entire world fighting actually is pretty good in this game to the point where grinding is actually enjoyable like Jake said before you buy it’s very much like a Warner Brothers open world game here and combat in in open world Warner Brothers games other than Gotham Knights is pretty awesome and guess what this battle arena Northwest of Hogwarts you unlock it by completing a simple puzzle and you can fieght a series of battles that’s going to earn you a ton of experience very quickly to be frank especially if you crank down the difficulty to story mode the game doesn’t penalize you at all for doing this and it makes the battle arena incredibly easy you feel like a total badass who can magic the ever loving crap out of people and you get a bunch of experience so yeah go ahead go to the battle arena act like a being of ultimate power for 10-15 minutes and you’re gonna walk away with a few levels if you have the dark arts pre-order pack which I think was a PlayStation exclusive it’s even easier just find the dark arts Arena and the Forbidden Forest which is actually right near the entrance of the forest if you’re entering from the road to Hogwarts it’s in the southern part um you can grind out in an arena challenge where they just give you all the dark arts powers for free that includes the instant kill spell which makes the whole thing pretty easy even on normal and all the battle arenas are completely repeatable so you don’t have to care about hunting around for Field Guide pages to level up and by the way doing that’s probably the easiest way to level up if you’re playing the game normally and that’s much more tedious than the battle arenas even if you’re cheesing them haha cheese second mention of right at the end here though right so uh leave us a comment what’s your favorite kind of cheese no preferably talk about the game um if you like this article .
