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How to Increase Stats in Hogwarts Legacy

As players gain EXP by engaging in combat and level-up in the game, stats will naturally be increased. Health,  Defense, and Offense Max levels will be increased with your overall level. Offense and Defense stats can be increased by keeping your equipped gear updated. As players explore and progress through different areas and missions, Gear will be earned as rewards or obtained from chests. As players increase their levels, higher-level gear will be encountered more often. Different Gear can increase Offense and Defense Stats. Players can pull up the Gear stats to see if it increases their overall stat abilities. An increase in stats will highlight the item stats in green.

Ancient Magic in Hogwarts Legacy

Ancient Magic is not an official stat. However, there is a visible meter that can be replenished, upgraded, and used to deal Ancient Magic which are powerful offensive spells that can turn the tide of battle when used. The Ancient Magic meter is split up into  sections and is located just above the player's health bar. Your Ancient Magic Meter can be increased by locating and collecting the Ancient Magic Traces at the Ancient Magic Hotspots and completing the Exploration Challenge. Players will want to maximize their Ancient Magic output by filling up the bar in order to cast an Ancient Magic Spell.

All Stats Explained in Hogwarts Legacy

A player's main stats comprise of Health, Offense, and Defense. These stats scale up as players level up by gaining EXP through combat encounters and Quest. Other individual features in the game may also be improved, upgraded or temporarily enhanced. 

• Character Stats: Overall Level, Offense, Defense, Health
• Gear Stats: Each gear will display any stats for Offense or Defense if any and can be enhanced with Traits.
• Spells Stats: Spells each have a damage output, cooldown, duration, and range, but these stats are not displayed in the menu. 
• Broom Stats: Brooms and broom upgrades can increase a broom's speed, acceleration, and handling. 
• Stealth: Stealth is not an official stat, but a gauge above enemies' heads can appear that can fill up to indicate the players detection while invisible. This can also be enhanced and improved with Items and features. 

Features that can affect Stats in Hogwarts Legacy 

There are Items and features in the game that can improve certain stats and enhance an items effectiveness either when equipped, through upgrades or temporarily with a consumable item. Talents

• Traits: Traits can be obtained as recipes than crafted with Materials before they are equipped on to a specific equipment piece via a Loom in the Room of Requirement. 
• Talents: Talent Points can be earned by leveling up and then spent to unlock Talents. These talents can be unlocked ot make improvements in one of the following categories- Spells, Dark Arts, Core, Stealth or Room of Requirement. 
• Gear: Each gear piece's stats can be viewed from the many. The stats will be displayed in green if it improves your current stats.

Health

Defence

Offence

Improving Health Hogwarts Legacy

Potions

• Wiggenweld Potion: Immediately replenishes health.

Talents

• Cursed Sapper: Defeating a cursed enemy restores some of your health.
• Wiggenweld Potency I: Wiggenweld heals you to a greater effect.
• Wiggenweld Potency II: Wiggenweld heals you to a greater effect.

Improving Offense Hogwarts Legacy

Potions

• Maxima Potion: Increases spell damage for a duration

Traits

• Unforgivable I-III: Increased damage dealt to cursed targets
• Concentration I-III: Increased damage of all Damage spells
• Control I-III: Increased damage with Ancient Magic Throw
• Ambush I-III: Increased spell damage while concealed by Disillusionment
• Destruction I-III: Increased damage with Confringo
• Cruelty I-III: Increased damage with Crucio
• Laceration I-III: Increased damage with Diffindo
• Disarming I-III: Increased damage with Expelliarmus
• Manipulation I-III: Imperio target does extra damage
• Explosive I-III: Increased damage with Bombarda
• Scorching I-III: Increased damage with Incendio
• Binding I-III: Increased damage with Petrificus Totalus
• Herbology I-III: Increased damage by all plants
• Venom I-III: Increased Venomous Tentacula damage
• Deafening I-III: Increased damage with a Mandrake

Talents

• Maxima Potion Potency: Maxima Potion causes attacks to have additional increased damage and break enemy shields. (Must use with Maxima Potion)
• Thunderbrew Potency: Thunderbrew Potency 
• Headache: The damage and duration of the incapacitating effect of Mandrakes are increased.
• Noxious: Venomous Tentacula attacks deal additional damage and break shields. 

Improving Ancient Magic Hogwarts Legacy

Challenges

• Ancient Magic Hotspots Challenge 1: Additional Capacity Added to your Ancient Magic Meter
• Ancient Magic Hotspots Challenge 2: Additional Capacity Added to your Ancient Magic Meter
• Ancient Magic Hotspots Challenge 3: Additional Capacity Added to your Ancient Magic Meter

Traits

• Ancient Magic I-III: Increased damage from Ancient Magic
• Ancient Magic Focus I-III: Increased Ancient Magic Meter fill rate
• Control I-III: Increased damage with Ancient Magic Throw

Talents

• Ancient Magic Throw Expertise: Ancient Magic Throw catches and throws disarmed enemy weapons.
• Evasion Absorption: Successfully evading an unblockable attack with Dodge contributes to the Ancient Magic Meter.
• Basic Cast Airborne Absorption: Basic Cast impacts on airborne enemies contribute more to the Ancient Magic Meter.
• Protego Absorption: Successful Protego blocks will contribute to the Ancient Magic Meter. Perfect Protego blocks contribute even more.

Improving Defense Hogwarts Legacy

Potions

• Edurus Potion: Enhances defense for a short duration

Traits

• Protego Shielding I-III: Decreased damage taken from Dark wizards
• Amphibial Protection I-III: Decreased damage taken from Dugbogs
• Goblin-Silver Resistance I-III: Decreased damage taken from goblins
• Necromantic Protection I-III: Decreased damage taken from Inferi
• Anti-Venom I-III: Decreased damage taken from spiders
• Cushioning I-III:  Decreased damage taken from trolls
• Lupus Protection I-III: Decreased damage taken from Dark Mongrels

Broom Upgrades in Hogwarts Legacy

Broom stats have only 3 levels. All obtainable brooms will have the same stats until upgraded. You can upgrade your broom to level 1, 2, or 3 which will improve your broom's speed, acceleration, and handling. You can view the current status of your Broom from the Gear menu. It will be indicated by the three segments that will be filled after every upgrade. These upgrades will only affect your Brooms and will have no effects on other Mounts. To upgrade your broom, you may need to progress through the Main Storyline until you have access to Brooms first then proceed to unlock Albie Weekes until these upgrades become available at his shop, Spin******es Sporting Needs in Hogsmeade. Regardless of which broom you choose to fly with, these upgrades will apply. 

Albie Weekes Quests:

• Flying Class
• Flight Test
• Sweeping the Competition
• The Sky is the Limit

Improving Gear in Hogwarts Legacy

Equipping higher-level gear is the main method of improving your Core Stats in Hogwarts Legacy. Each equipment piece will have a level and may have a level requirement. You can view each piece's Stats from the Gear menu. Selecting a piece will highlight the increasing or decreasing stat in a specific color if it provides an improvement from your current equipment. Higher-level gear is encountered naturally with progress. In addition to obtaining higher-level gear, players can further enhance each Gear with Traits. Access to the Room of Requirement and the Loom must be unlocked before Traits can be equipped onto gear. 

Increasing Consumable Potency Hogwarts Legacy

Certain Items, Talents, or Traits can be equipped to gear or unlocked to improve the effects of Potions or Items when used. 

Potions

• Wiggenweld Potency I: Wiggenweld heals you to a greater effect.
• Wiggenweld Potency II: Wiggenweld heals you to a greater effect.
• Maxima Potion Potency: Maxima Potion causes attacks to have additional increased damage and break enemy shields. (Must use with Maxima Potion)
• Thunderbrew Potency: Thunderbrew Potency (Must use with Thunderbrew Potion)

Items

• Noxious: Venomous Tentacula attacks deal additional damage and break shields. 
• Herbology: Increased damage by all plants
• Venom: Increased Venomous Tentacula damage
• Deafening: Increased damage with a Mandrake

Improving Spells in Hogwarts Legacy

Equipped spells can also be improved with specific Traits that can increase the damage to specific spells when casted. Other spells with different purposes such as stealth can also be improved with Talents in the Stealth category.

• Unforgivable I-III: Increased damage dealt to cursed targets
• Concentration I-III: Increased damage of all Damage spells
• Control I-III: Increased damage with Ancient Magic Throw
• Ambush I-III: Increased spell damage while concealed by Disillusionment
• Destruction I-III: Increased damage with Confringo
• Cruelty I-III: Increased damage with Crucio
• Laceration I-III: Increased damage with Diffindo
• Disarming I-III: Increased damage with Expelliarmus
• Manipulation I-III: Imperio target does extra damage
• Explosive I-III: Increased damage with Bombarda
• Scorching I-III: Increased damage with Incendio
• Binding I-III: Increased damage with Petrificus Totalus