Hogwarts Legacy gradually introduces plant-growing and potion-brewing in the main narrative, and once they are embedded in fans’ playstyles they can be incredibly overpowered tools. The Edurus Potion will completely negate damage and even reflect it back at enemies once fully upgraded, for example, and the Focus Potion significantly reduces spell cooldowns. Plants also offer a massive offensive advantage, with Chinese Chomping Cabbages, Venomous Tentacula, and Mandrakes being used as helpful aids on the battlefield that do not require a wand.
Like many other features in Hogwarts Legacy, players will not see the fullest scope of what they can achieve until much later. The game truly opens up after players receive a broomstick and learn Alohomora, but overlooking the Room of Requirement is perhaps the biggest mistake players could make. The Room of Requirement’s Vivariums are exclusively oriented around upgrades and traits players can ascribe to their gear, but the Room of Requirement itself is a blank canvas with which players can craft the most overpowered tools Hogwarts Legacy has to offer.
Hogwarts Legacy’s Room of Requirement is Worth Investing in
Hogwarts Legacy’s Room of Requirement is a fully customizable space where players can lay out the most organized workstation or the most unorganized assortment of tables imaginable, but as long as it is made functional players will get the most out of it either way.
This environment is intended for players to put down tables that allow them to brew potions with ingredients they have harvested from plants they have grown, and both potions and plants have their own tables and unique items respective to them. Players purchase and discover spellcrafts that let them decorate and furnish the room however they please, with tables being a considered part of that customization.
There are different kinds of tables that will reap more rewards, such as tables with more pot inductions or larger tables that can hold larger plants. This creates a bounteous amount of content in the Room of Requirement alone, where the micromanagement of every new furnishing can become players’ new gameplay loop—and that is all before Vivariums are ever considered.
Hogwarts Legacy’s Potions Are OP in Any Encounter
If players are having a difficult time with Hogwarts Legacy’s combat, they may need to reevaluate what their strategies have been lately. It is easy to get swept up in wand-dueling combat because players need to frequently stare at their character in order to be mindful of parries or unblockable attacks.
Likewise, seeing multiple bubble shields on-screen that are all a different color can be a sensory overload while also having to look to the bottom-right corner of the screen to see if spells are still on cooldown. In these moments it is also easy to forget about the incredible items players have hoarded in their tool wheel, and these items include all the potions and plants players have.
Each potion has a great use or exploitation for players to consider; for example, Hogwarts Legacy’s Disillusionment spell is actually fairly underwhelming as enemies can see players from a distance as long as they are facing them, while the Invisibility Potion renders them completely invisible. But it is through the use of Hogwarts Legacy’s Thunderbrew and Maxima potions that combat encounters will never be the same.
Thunderbrew creates an AoE of lightning strikes that fatally damage nearby enemies, while Maxima buffs players’ spell damage exponentially. Once upgraded through the Room of Requirement’s Talent tree, these two potions and a few basic attack casts are all players need to wipe out entire bandit camps in mere seconds.
Hogwarts Legacy is available now on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S. PS4 and Xbox One ports are scheduled to release on April 4, and the Nintendo Switch version arrives July 25, 2023.
