Hogwarts Legacy Best Talent Trees: Which Ones Should You Prioritize First?

hogwarts legacy best talent trees

Hogwarts Legacy’s Talent system offers a fun way to slowly upgrade your character’s spells, potions, and other abilities over time. The Talents are subdivided into five different categories: Spells, Dark Arts, Core, Stealth, and Room of Requirement. Hogwarts Legacy’s best Talent trees, however, can impact your gameplay in surprising ways both in and out of combat.

If you’re not sure which Talent trees are worth picking out, here are the best Talent trees to focus on as soon as you unlock the feature.

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Core

The Core tree is arguably the best Talent tree to level up, and for multiple reasons. As the name suggests, the Core tree has Talents that relate to some of your core abilities, spells, and more. For example, you get to unlock Swift, a Talent that turns your Dodge into a quick vanishing maneuver when holding down the Dodge action. There’s also Spell Knowledge I, II, and III, which offer a convenient way to save multiple Spell Sets for combat and the like.

Because virtually all of the Core tree Talents significantly affect your gameplay in one way or another, it’s the best Talent tree among the five. You’ll want to unlock as many of the Core tree Talents as possible, especially if you still aren’t sure what sort of build you want to go for in Hogwarts Legacy.

Spells

The Spells tree offers upgrades for many of the spells you’ll unlock throughout Hogwarts Legacy. These upgrades range from giving spells an AoE range to direct upgrades, such as Transformation Mastery, which turns enemies into explosive objects for Ancient Magic throwing. 

While the upgrades here are all great, they’re mainly useful for when you want to deal with multiple enemies at once, which can be tricky at times. Often, it’s easier to single out one enemy at a time, so you won’t be missing out as much as you’d think by not prioritizing this Talent tree. Still, upgrades are upgrades, and whenever you do make use of the upgraded AoE effects, you can clean up fights a whole lot quicker.

Room of Requirement

Don’t let this Talent tree name deceive you—the Room of Requirement Talent tree offers combat buffs that will aid you in fights. For example, you can unlock the Edurus Potion Potency Talent at Level 5, which makes you invincible and causes projectiles to bounce back to enemies while the effect of the potion is active. This is great for when you’re in a pinch and need to buy yourself some time. There’s also Focus Potion Potency, which lets you extend the duration of the potion’s effects whenever you cast a spell from the Spell Set. 

The only downside to these Talents is that they’re tied to consumable items. In other words, you’ll need to farm the items in order to make use of the Talents. Still, the effects are extremely beneficial and can turn the tide of battle, so they’re worth getting when you’re preparing for difficult encounters down the road.

What About Stealth or Dark Arts?

The Stealth and Dark Arts trees both have their own merits, but they’re not as effective or reliable as other trees for a few reasons. Stealth is only something that you’d want to spec into if you prefer that playstyle, but as Hogwarts Legacy isn’t a stealth-oriented game, not everyone is keen on doing that when you could just be blasting spells in front of enemies’ faces.

The Dark Arts tree is great if you want lots and lots of damage, but you can only turn certain spells into curses, and Avada Kedravra, is only unlockable via a side quest, so it’s possible to miss it unless you comb over every side quest in the game or look up a guide. This means that if you miss the side quest or accidentally turn down the quest (which is possible), you won’t be able to make use of Avada Kedravra Mastery, a powerful Talent in the Dark Arts tree.

While each of the Talent trees in Hogwarts Legacy has its own quirks and benefits, for the average player, there are some that simply offer more. If you want more Hogwarts Legacy content, check out our game hub right here.

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Acealon
1 year ago

Technically you can pick your house. The person in the article obviously doesn’t know a thing about Hogwarts. In a later book they say the sorting hat is influenced by your thoughts during the sorting hat ceremony.

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