The latest open-world game from the Harry Potter universe, Hogwarts Legacy, trumps with demanding gameplay, especially on the higher levels of difficulty and towards the end of the story – your various opponents have higher and higher levels in the later areas. At the same time, the game gives you a method to gain an advantage over your enemies. At a certain point in the story, you’ll have the opportunity to capture beasts and get materials from them that you can use to upgrade your gear, changing health, defense, and offense stats. We’ll show you exactly how this works here.
Upgrade clothes – requirements
In order to upgrade your clothing, you first need access to the Room of Requirement. You unlock it in the main quest of the same name, which Professor Weasley imposes on you at the end of the third story chapter. There she also introduces you to house elf Deek, who introduces you to the basics of upgrading in the later main quest “The Elf, the Snapsack and the Loom”.
He will give you a loom that you can set up in the Room of Requirement for eight moonstones. You can obtain the required resource either in the game world by destroying blue crystals, or by making objects in the Room of Requirement disappear. Once you have collected 15 moonstones, you can also acquire the Scientific Material Refiner, which generates ten moonstones every ten minutes.
Assign Properties – Basics
The loom gives you two options. On the one hand, you assign different attributes to your items, each of which exists in three stages. You either unlock them by completing challenges or find them in the chests of enemy bandit camps. Only when these boxes are opened will the respective locations be marked as complete.
Each attribute either increases a specific property or reduces the damage of a specific enemy type. But be careful: Not every piece of equipment is powerful enough to absorb attributes of every level. Because of this, the trait slot level is listed with each garment.
Upgrade Equipment – Basics
In addition, you improve your equipment with the loom in three stages, either in the offense or defense category. That depends on the area in which the respective piece of clothing already has a value. The ‘Sky Blue Studded Gloves’, for example, have an offensive value of 95, which means a defense of 0. You can increase the latter three times using the loom.
Existing Offense stat -> upgradeable Defense stat
- Coats & Capes
- neckwear
- handwear
Existing defense stat -> upgradeable offensive stat
- headgear
- outfit
- facewear
The upgradeable value is initially 0 by default. The extent of each upgrade, as well as the number of materials required for it, is individual. The stats of all six gear types add up to your total offense and defense at the end. The base value in both categories – assuming that you are not wearing any clothing at all – is also 0.
Hogwarts Legacy: Catch Beasts and Upgrade Clothes to Get Stronger – Tips (2)
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Materials required for upgrading – overview
To perform both actions – improve equipment and assign properties – you need certain materials. You can either buy them (in Hogsmeade from Beak & Brood or from some traders in the game world) after the already mentioned main quest “The Elf, the Snapsack and the Loom” or have them provided by your own animal beings. Specifically, you need the following materials:
Assign properties:
- Attribute Level I: Muffy Muff Hair
- Attribute Tier II: Feather of a Diricawl
- Attribute Tier III: Kneelfur
Improve equipment:
- Improve equipment defense value:
- 0 -> 1: Feather of a Jobberknoll
- 1 -> 2: Feather of a Jobberknoll & Fur of a Niffler & Toad Warts
- 2 -> 3: Jobberknoll Feather & Niffler Fur & Toad Warts & Graphorn Horn & Hippogriff Feather
- Improve offensive stat of equipment:
- 0 -> 1: Fur of a moon calf
- 1 -> 2: Mooncalf Fur & Fwuuper Feather & Thestral Hair
- 2 -> 3: Mooncalf Fur & Fwuuper Feather & Thestral Hair & Unicorn Hair & Phoenix Feather
Vendors outside of Hogsmeade that sell the items you’re looking for can be found in Feldcroft, Irondale, and Pitt-Upon-Ford. However, of all the vendors (including the one in Hogsmeade), only the last two serve the full range of all 13 materials. In addition, all traders only carry the required utensils once in their inventory.
However, it is enough to wait four times (you select the option to switch from day to night and from night to day when you call up the map) and the merchant inventory is fully stocked again. If you want to buy the materials, you should consider that they are not cheap. We have therefore summarized here how you can get money quickly.
- Jobberknoll Feather: 150 gold
- Moon Calf Pelt: 150 gold
- Muffy Muff Hair: 150 gold
- Diricawl Feather: 250 gold
- Feather of a Fwuuper: 250 gold
- Niffler’s Hide: 250 gold
- Kneelfur: 400 gold
- Hair of a Thestral: 400 gold
- Toad Warts: 400 gold
- Unicorn Hair: 700 gold
- Hippogriff Feather: 700 gold
- Horn of a Graphorn: 700 gold
- Phoenix Feather: 700 gold
Finding All Beasts – Guide
Otherwise, you can also choose to capture the corresponding beasts and keep them in the Room of Requirement. If you brush and feed them, they’ll provide you with the materials you need – completely free of charge. They also give you at least three utensils at once, but you have to wait 25 real-time minutes after each gift. In order to at least save you the manual feeding, you place an animal feeder in each enclosure for eight moonstones.
For the most part, finding the 13 required animal creatures is quite easy, as 12 of them have at least one den on the map – and all of them, with the exception of the Graphorn, are also in the upper part of the game world. So you should only have progressed and leveled up for the last level of gear upgrades in the game.
Hogwarts Legacy: Catch beasts and upgrade clothes to get stronger – tips (3)
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- Jobberknoll: Building in the upper part of the game world
- Moon Calf: Den in the upper part of the game world
- Muffy Muff: Building in the upper area of the game world
- Diricawl: Construction in the upper part of the game world
- Fwuuper: Building in the upper part of the game world
- Niffler: Building in the upper part of the game world
- Kniesel: Building in the upper part of the game world
- Thestral: Building in the upper part of the game world
- Big Purple Toad: Construction in the upper part of the game world
- Unicorn: Building in the upper part of the game world
- Hippogriff: Building in the upper part of the game world
- Graphorn: building in the lower part of the game world (animals must first be defeated in battle)
- Phoenix: no den, only one animal available after side quest “Phoenix Departure”
So go to the respective building and collect the animal using the snap sack. There are several spells that will make these endeavors easier for you by making it harder for the creature of your choice to flee from you when you collect them:
- Arresto Momentum
- Glacius
- Levioso
- Wingardium Leviosa
It is also important to mention that you can only settle 12 animals and only four different species in each biotope compartment of the Room of Requirement. So you have to wait until you have unlocked all four available compartments in order to keep all 13 necessary beasts at the same time. This is the case after the side quest “Phoenix Departure”.
However, you have enough space in your inventory for captured animals. Right at the beginning there are 20 slots, which are expanded several times over the course of the side quests with house elf Deek and also over the course of the main story, to a total of 55 slots. You can read here how to expand the rest of your inventory so that you don’t have to constantly sell or destroy items.
Upgrade clothes – more rewards
Once you have all the materials you need, you can get started and earn even more rewards along the way. First off, there are various challenges for the Room of Requirement. When you have collected a certain number of animals, you will receive certain decorations for your enclosures as a reward.
- Collected 10 Beasts -> Billywig Stick
- Collected 20 more beasts (30 total) -> Magic Chime
- Collected 30 more beasts (60 total) -> Phoenix statue
For improving a piece of equipment once, you will receive the “Room for Improvement” achievement, for improving an item three times – i.e. fully – the achievement “All good things come in threes”. If you continue with this, you will receive further rewards via the Challenges menu.
- Improve 5 items -> Increased damage from Ancient Magic (Trait Level I)
- Improved 10 items -> Significantly increased damage from ancient magic (property level II)
- Improved 15 items -> Significantly increased damage from Ancient Magic (Tier III)
If you already have all 13 animals in your enclosures, you can breed them right away. For this you need a breeding enclosure, which you acquire as part of the side quest “The Foal of Death” from Tomes and Scrolls in Hogsmeade and with which you breed a Thestral right away. As you did with the black-winged mounts in the quest, you can also do it with the other 11 beasts – not so with the phoenix.
Since there is only one specimen of him in the whole game, he cannot be bred. This isn’t necessary for the achievement “The Nature of the Beast” either, you ‘only’ have to breed each of the other 11 animal creatures once. If you have already bred 10 beasts, you will receive the Legendary Masquerade Mask in the Challenges menu.
