re: Hogwarts legacy early access members thread

I thought they would explain it in game but I don’t remember hearing or seeing a clear answer. The devs talked about it only a little before the game came out and apparently some witches and wizards are homeschooled instead of going to Hogwarts or some of the other wizarding schools. It’s rare but it happens.


ETA: apparently they left it intentionally ambiguous so you could guess and come up with your own reasons why you don’t start until 5th year. Some popular ones I’ve seen are: being homeschooled, transferring from another magical school, being an orphan and your magical abilities not showing up until later in life, which apparently is canon and can happen.

I still haven’t done the first trial, but it’s clear to me that this should’ve been the movies they made instead of Fantastic Beasts.

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I still haven’t done the first trial

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For those playing through, I suggest getting through the first trial relatively quickly. Lot of basic gameplay mechanics locked behind it, which is going to cause a significant amount of backtracking. And to my knowledge, there isn't a single quest that disappears/fails/etc because of time or main quest progression.

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I looked it up and it’s called the rugged overcoat.

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I have a huge amount of gear and somehow not that one.

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So what are yall assigning talent points to?

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I grabbed the first three Stealth, and focused the rest on Core, Dark Arts and Spells with a build centered around curse spreading and amplified/shared curse damage.

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For those playing through, I suggest getting through the first trial relatively quickly. Lot of basic gameplay mechanics locked behind it, which is going to cause a significant amount of backtracking. And to my knowledge, there isn't a single quest that disappears/fails/etc because of time or main quest progression

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if I could go back I'd have done all the classes and gotten all my spells ASAP before I actually explored. So much stuff I couldn't do at the time.

I wound up trying the final boss with only 4 health pots.

Couldnt seem to get his pattern down as to which attacks were throwable. Wound up abandoning and now I have max pots and am working on ancient magic meter before I go back.

Exploring without Alohomora II is frustrating I need to find those moon statues

I’m working on A3 and it’s so damn tedious

Just use the Fextralife Wiki to find the statues.

Some stuff is just too damn tedious and boring to do w/o a guide.