Every student in Hogwarts needs a wand that suits them, and while you begin Hogwarts Legacy with a premade wand, you’ll end up getting another one that’s far more customizable as you continue the main story. You can design your wand in various different ways, making it pretty easy to get one that’s unique.
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This Hogwarts Legacy Wand customization guide will help you customize the perfect wand to carry with you throughout the rest of Hogwarts Legacy.
Hogwarts Legacy: Wand Customization Guide
How Do You Customize Your Wand?
At the start of the game, you’ll already have a wand to cast spells with, but it’s not one that you can customize the looks of. To actually unlock a custom wand in Hogwarts Legacy, you’ll need to play through the main quests until you reach a point in the story where you’ll have to visit Ollivanders, the local wand shop in Hogsmeade.
Once there, you’ll talk to Gerbold Ollivander, who helps you pick out a wand. After a couple of tries, he’ll present you with one inside a box, and this will then open up the wand customization menu.
How Does Wand Customization Work?
Wand customization is completely cosmetic. In other words, no matter what type of core, wood, or design you choose, the wand will work just like any other you customize. As such, you’re free to pick whatever designs you fancy. Some elements of the customization menu, such as the length or wood type, don’t actually affect the wand’s visual appearance, and are merely for added flavor.
Wand Style
You are able to choose between eight different wand styles, with ribbed, natural, and other styles as options. Adding even more customization, each wand style has three different variations, offering a total of 24 combinations right from the get-go. Note that the available variations differ between styles, which means that you may not find a style and variation combo you particularly like.
Wood Type
This section of the menu focuses on the details surrounding the wand’s wood. You can choose the wand’s wood type, length, and flexibility. The length ranges from nine and a half inches to fourteen and a half inches, whereas flexibility ranges from “quite bendy to “unyielding.” Keep in mind that all of these options are purely cosmetic, and they don’t actually change the look of your wand either. They’re purely there to add flavor for fans who really want to stick to the details.
Wand Core Options
Finally, you get to choose your wand’s core, which is said to affect how your magic works when casting through it. Like all the other options in wand customization, this is purely cosmetic, though you may not initially think so based on the cores’ descriptions. Dragon Heartstring produces “powerful magic,” for example, whereas Pheonix Feather produces “a great range of magic.” Again, these don’t affect actual combat or gameplay, so pick a core that you prefer the most.
Once you’re done finalizing your wand, that’s it! You’ve got your very own, Hogwarts-approved magic wand. Keep in mind that after you’ve finalized your wand, you can’t actually change it again, so be sure to go through everything once more just to ensure that everything’s to your liking.
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