How to Upgrade Gear in Hogwarts Legacy

In Hogwarts Legacy, you will collect new gear that provides both offensive and defensive benefits in combat. Moving up to a higher piece of gear gives you a step up in stats, and you can also upgrade your gear to gain extra benefits. Hogwarts Legacy starts showing prompts about upgrading your gear early in the game, but you need to progress a little before you can access the system. Here we explain how you can upgrade your gear in Hogwarts Legacy.

How Do You Upgrade Gear in Hogwarts Legacy?

You upgrade gear by first unlocking the Loom in the Room of Requirement. Shortly after you attend your first Care of Magical Creatures class in the fall and finish all the story quests available at that time, Professor Weasley will send you an owl letter telling you there is something new in the Room of Requirement. This quest is given by Deek, the house-elf who lives in the Room of Requirement. During this quest you will receive training on how to collect beasts in the wild and how to care for them once they are kept in the Room of Requirement.

You will collect a Puffskein, a Jobberknoll and a Mooncalf, which will provide the materials needed to upgrade the first tier of your gear. When you complete this quest, Deek will give you a loom to add to the Room of Requirement, which can be used to upgrade your gear.

When it comes to collecting materials from the animals, you can collect materials every 25-30 minutes as long as the animals are tamed and fed. To save yourself some time, go to Tomes and Scrolls in Hogsmeade and buy a beast feeder, which lets your beasts feed themselves and saves you a magic slot and time.

Each piece of gear you own will require a different amount and combination of beast materials, depending on several factors. The rarity of the gear affects this. If a piece of gear mainly provides defense, offensive stats are added when it is upgraded, and the reverse can also apply. Each piece of gear can be upgraded three times, but to do so you need to earn various materials from some of the rare beasts in the game.

You can also add traits to gear or, if a trait already exists, change it. This also requires materials, but they are not rare. The quality of the trait you can place on a piece of gear depends on the gear's rarity, and the most powerful traits are found on legendary pieces of gear.

If you are looking for materials without having to find a specific beast, you can buy various materials from Brood and Peck in Hogsmeade.