In Hogwarts Legacy, players can change their spells and charms by pressing the Right D-Pad (Consoles) or T (PC) to access all unlocked spells. To edit a spell or charm, hold RT/R2 (Xbox and PS) and use the D-Pads to choose which set to edit. Hover over the spell or charm you want to equip and press the corresponding slot button to activate it on your action bar. It is recommended to have one set specifically for spells used for puzzles and field guide objects around the castle and grounds.
There are three broad umbrellas for fitting Hogwarts legacy spells: regular combat spells (all red, yellow), and directional pad on controllers (F1, F2, F3, and F4). Players can switch between available spell sets by holding down the basic cast button and using the directional pad on controllers. Allocating spells to your spell sets is done on one page.
In Hogwarts Legacy, players can only have four magic spells on their action bar at a time, each corresponding to one of the face buttons. To equip a different set, one set is the unforgivables + one damage spell, two sets are 2 red, 1 purple, 1 yellow, and the fourth set is just random miscellaneous spells.
A solid Hogwarts Legacy build should include at least one Control, one Force, and one Damage Spell. This variety ensures players are ready to deal with various enemies. The editors have tips to help set up the best possible configuration and make life easier during battles against wizards, goblins, and trolls.
A good spell slot set-up to fall back on is the one that deals the highest damage spell combos in Hogwarts Legacy: Glacius, Accio, Diffindo, and Incendio.
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Lots of poor information here. For starters, there is no “worst” spell in any of the three color categories, as long as Talent points are involved. Levioso is capable of disabling 3 to 5 enemies at once as long as they’re close together. Arresto Momentum has an incredibly long effect that disables a single enemy even without using its Talent upgrade. Transformation is easily the best one, and Glacius is famously the first half of the Glacius/Diffindo power couple. But I noticed that you mentioned Glacius doing high damage with its Talent upgrade. That upgrade is a mistake. Glacius applies the freeze effect, which doubles whatever damage is done to the frozen target, even the damage from Basic Cast. The Glacius upgrade that causes an explosion of ice can only be triggered by a Basic Cast. What that means is, you can’t do Glacius > Diffindo to do high damage. You would only be able to get the effect of Glacius mastery by wasting it on the basic cast, which is significantly less damage than just detonating the frozen target with Diffindo and NOT wasting that talent point on Glacius mastery. You also mention having an entire loadout of spells for your Curse build, which is pointless as hell. You wasted Talent points by putting them onto Expelliarmus, Arresto Momentum, and Flipendo. Having one talent point spent on Crucio mastery will spread the Cursed status effect far easier than any other spell or combination of spells. Hit one enemy with Crucio, spam the basic cast on them, and boom.
I love how everyone is saying that their combination of spell loadout is the best – and not one is alike. Literally half the spells in this article are trashed in other articles. Just goes to show how good a job the devs did at making the spell system versatile/adaptable despite the limited number of options available.
The most damage you get in the game is from x6 ambush III or x6 unforgivable III. With the highest damage of all being petrificus totallus with just x4 ambush you one shot lvl 40 armored trolls on hard you can also do it with x3 ambush if you used aresto to apply a curse just before. The x6 ambush 3 strat is like a sneak archer from skyrim you are one shotting from stealth. The unforgivable strat you are applying curses using your 5 spells and either killing off of avadra or your own kit that’s super boosted. The unforgivable is easy apply curse use damage spells they get boosts off of the curse and enemies die don’t apply curse you don’t get bonus damage and they survive so instead i will focus on ambush build you got the aoe, quick trigger, sniper and nuker: For aoe you have 3 combos using the same spells and a juggle: first combo is leviosa + descendo with their talents each person levitated takes damage descendo and takes aoe damage from descendo of the targets with them you basically super punish grouped up enemies this how you insta kill 3 or 4 enemies from long range and in stealth the other two spells are acio and incendio so for the 2nd combo you pull them with acio and aoe incendio. For the 3rd combo it’s acio into descendo into incendio if you are on the high ground congratz they just die from being pulled and pushed down if you are below them or on the same level you’ll do massive damage then you have leviosa to be able to basic cast get your cooldowns from stealth their already dead.
Don’t the dark arts spells break all shield types? So you don’t necessarily need expeliarmus instead of imperio Also flipendo is useful because (I believe) it has the shortest cooldown among the others in its category, and is especially useful against trolls to smack their clubs back in their faces after they slam the ground
Sorry, hard disagree on your choices, you’re ignoring talents and various other things that influence the power of spells. I.e did you know depulso does more damage on burning targets? That flippendo has a 5 second cooldown meaning it’s the best way to spread curses? That any time enemies are off the ground from a spell they’re in a CC state that lets them take more damage? That large targets are pretty much unaffected by Control and Force spells (yellow and purp) so against trolls, giant spiders, executioners and (arguably) even dugbogs it’s worth just having 3 attack spells with glacius? That glacius and arresto momentum let you petrify the last enemy in a fight? That some spells don’t break stealth if used indirectly – eg. bombarda against a bombfire and depulso against random objects. It also depends enormously on what talents you use – transformation is amazing with depulso if you don’t talent for it, but if you can ancient magic throw they don’t need to be on the same bar.
1 set is exploration non-combat skills 1 set is room of requirement skills 2 sets remaining for combat: Glacius -> Diffendo Flipendo-> Depulso Accio -> Incendio The two spare slots get transmog to throw explosive barrels, and imperio to get a minion This also ensures yellow, purple, and red skills are available in each set for shield breaks. I keep Accio and Confringo with my exploring slots because they are used all the time in puzzles Expelliarmus sucks. Alternatively play dark arts spread curse and instakill groups… or just ignore all of this, throw cabbages and everything dies. How cheese do you want it
Don’t agree with some of this. Incendio is the highest damage spell. Combine it with Accio to fry enemies and large group of them. Accio can pull several and incendio upgraded burns anything in a radius around you. The only short coming it has is short range, which is handled by Accio. If you’re afraid of enemies near you that is what the dash ability is about. That said I would use confringo more often and combine that with other spells. Levioso and descendo for each yellow and purple. If not using glacius. I see you also do not have the glacius and diffendo/bombarda/confringo combo for very high damage. Levioso is good at control and then using another damage spell. An enemy under control takes more damage. Depulso is a totally useless spell. Decsendo is always better because it does damage. Accio and Decendo are the only proper purple force spells. Crucio is no useless because upgraded you can put curse on 2 more enemies for total of 3 in one hit. All cursed enemies die with Avarada. So Crucio, Experillamos, avarda, transformation. Is a combo as well.
Flipendo is actually pretty strong when paired with depulso or descendo. Capable of doing large amounts of damage. Also it only has a 5 second cooldown making it one of the best spells to curse lots of people quickly. Honestly surprised you didn’t mention crucio. It’s by far one of the most useful spells in the dark arts tree as it freezes enemies in place at times, does damage over time and has the potential to curse a lot of people when used correctly with the mastery perk. Not to mention that as an unforgiveable, crucio breaks any color shield which opens up your spell loadout for other ones to help you curse people (arresto and flipendo) as well as eliminates the need for a red spell. Crucio also buffs the basic cast quite a bit making it way more useful against low to mid level enemies (and even sometimes trolls and big ass spiders).
Interesting. I had a red-spell only run which I upgraded my protegos for perfect perry shockwave (you don’t need it to break shield by parry, it’s just a bit easier)and something else I forgot what, but basically, you just have to perfect parry to bring yellow and purple shield, it’s so much fun to limit yourself in this game since you can easily overpower and outlevel your enemy.
1st is nice 2nd is not my cup of tea … glacius and diffendo is one shot kill for anything small.. And for dark. Crucio with upgrade is so op that you do not need any other curse activator. (And there is probably a bug, if you have upgrade “deal dmg to all cured enemy” and tranfigure cursed enemy, all cursed enemy will die as soon as you pick up explosive barel. So you don’t even need avada)
lmfao crucio useless wtf man???, crucio talent spread to all enemies curse effect, if that’s not op spell i don’t know what is it lol, you can curse almost everyone in room with one crucio spell and few basic attacks on one enemy, with unforgivable 3 traits all six slotted(they stack) you can deal massive damage to everyone with just hitting one high hp enemy
If you’re not using Crucio w/ the Blood Curse upgrade with the Avada Kedavra upgrade you wasted the so called 100+ hours you put into this game. Also, Incendio is incredibly powerful when you pair with Accio and upgrade both. You can haul in multiple enemies then blast them away with that ring of fire. If you’re not using the curse upgrades on Expeliarmus, Flippendo and Arresto Momentum with Avada Kadavra you really don’t understand the mechanics of dueling in this game. If you’re not using Imperio on ranger enemies to help you clear the field….SMH.
My first playthrough is as a Slytherin where I’m leaning into the Dark Arts. Just wondering, is it worth it to do another playthrough as say a Gryffindor where you forgo Dark Arts? The ability to clear up to 7 enemies at one time with Avada Kedavra after spreading the curse effect with Crucio is pretty broken. Even on hard mode.
expelliarmus only works on goblins, other than that it’s not a very useful ability i fight multiple enemies sometimes i used expelliarmus on enemies the problem is it doesn’t work for many monsters as i said expelliarmus almost works but it’s situational so try it and determine the play style that appeals to you the most
Top Loadout: Accio, Incendio, Glacius and Diffindo. (First two and last two are insane combos together.) Right Loadout: Descendo, Confringo, Levioso, and Crucio. (Levioso and Descendo make a good combo, other two as needed). Bottom Loadout: Depulso, Bombarda, Transfiguration, and Imperio. (Transfiguration combos well with Delulso and later Bombarda with the Transfiguration perk.) Left Loadout: Flippendo, Expelliarmus, Arresto Momentum and Avada Kedavra. (Same reasons stated in the article.) I usually use Flippendo and Arresto at the start of a large fight to break shields, Imperio a weak target, Crucio a strong one, disarm a foe, cycle through Flippendo and Arresto once more if cooled-down, and finish with Avada Kedavra.
Incendio is the highest (red) dmg spell and it pairs brilliantly with accio, both of which you get very early. With a talent point into each and stacked concentration traits you can take out 3-4 enemies at a time. Glacius + diffindo is an awesome combo on anything. Flippendo has a 5s cd, the shortest of all, making it the most versatile force spell. Upgraded maxima potions make any spell break any colour of shield…
Meh. A lot of this just comes down to personal opinion and what feels best to you. Depulso is a good example. In this article, it’s supposedly one of the best spells, but in others I’ve seen its usefulness is downplayed. I wouldn’t say that flipendo is “useless.” It has a very short cooldown and you can use it to keep enemies in the air endlessly, which fills your magic meter (talented) and means they can’t cast at you. Also does bonus damage (I think). Sure, juggling is impossible when you’re being swarmed by enemies and need to block, but you can use a talented edurus potion to make yourself invulnerable for 20 seconds. Anyway, it all comes down to personal preference really.
Personally i feel like these mentioned combos weird and clunky. Accio incendio combo is super deadly especially if you are able to get 3 enemies at once. Theyre basically dead instantly. Crucio is also good upgraded because when you basic cast enemy with crucio, bolts fly away from the enemy cursing nearby targets and then into avada kadavra. Super deadly. Ice plus diffindo is also super deadly if not the highest single target damage for spells. Those are just 2 spell combos that are very easy to pull off. You also dont really need to break shields if you have unforgivable curses since they basically dont care about shields. And besides, you have ancient throw and ancient power which also ignore shields. Its still best if u have all colors for bigger boss fights tho. But for regular encounters, you can ignore trash spells like flipendo.
I’m having an issue I was doing side quests and filled my load outs before getting sneaky loadout or incendiary load outs and I have no way to change them being as I’ve not unlocked talents yet. Which I can only do by doing the main quests with I need to be able to sneak for. I do not know what to do apart from deleting game save and start over I’m a level 8. And have a houseguest coin already……..any advice?
My loadout 1) Accio, Glacio, Incendio, Arresto 2) Bombarda, Cruxio, Flipendo, Transformation 3) Expeliamus, Confringo, Imperio, Depulso 4) Levioso, Descendo, Diffindo, Avada Kedavra 1) shot gun 1 enemy 2) wipe all enemies (semi-patched) 3) disarm and create space 4) situationals (Dugbogs, big Spiders, etc)
my favorite combo is accio, glacius then confringo. it pulles people toward you, freezes one, then does big damage to the frozen enemy, and if you have the upgrade, the damage from the ice blast does a good amount paired with the fireballs from the confringo upgrade, and for higher single target damge, use diffindo instead of confringo
I’ve been playing for like 2 months and had no idea about that. Thanks for showing us! Also, I was expecting you to be using a PS5 controller or something because I’m on Xbox and it’s annoying when most tutorials like this for games I like to play is always someone on PS5. Nothing against them, I just don’t know which buttons they’re referring to 😂
Admittedly it’s kinda rough on console trying to switch between 3 or 4 different spell sets in combat if you unlock all 4 I highly suggest you run 2 combat set of spells to switch between a set of spells for capturing beasts like slow momentum levitate and the grab bag and youth fourth set can kinda be a mashup of whatever u think is useful but if u want smooth consistent combat definitely run 2 dedicated spell sets 🤘