While spellcasting is usually at the forefront of fans’ minds when they think of Harry Potter and the wizarding world, potions are also quite potent and are immensely important for gameplay in Hogwarts Legacy. The magical open-world RPG Hogwarts Legacy comes packed with an array of potions for players to choose from, all of which grant unique benefits.
The magical game allows players to customize their own combat style which means that potions aren’t exactly necessary, but they are immensely powerful and versatile tools.
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If you’re looking to be the most well-rounded player possible, you’ll want to ensure you know how to obtain or brew all of the available potions and the unique effects they come in Hogwarts Legacy.
How to get potions in Hogwarts Legacy
There are three different ways that players can obtain potions in Hogwarts Legacy.
- Players can buy them from vendors around the open world
- Players can brew potions themselves.
- Players can sometimes find potions scattered around the world as they explore or successfully vanquish enemies.
Where to purchase potions in Hogwarts Legacy
Players can purchase six of the seven available potions in Hogwarts Legacy at J. Pippins Potions in Hogsmeade. Players can both purchase a selection that includes six of the available potions already-made and ready to go. J. Pippins also has four potion recipes for sale so that players can purchase the recipe and brew the potions themselves.
Outside of J. Pippins, players will also come across vendors around the open world that have a few potions for sale. Their stocks never seem to have all of the potions available like J. Pippins does, but purchasing from them can be handy if you’re already in the area. These vendors are marked by a stacked coin icon on the map and include:
- Leopold Babcocke
- Priya Treadwell
- Rohan Prakash
How to brew potions in Hogwarts Legacy
While purchasing potions is a great option for those in immediate need of them, it will quickly become a costly task that causes players to consistently spend a hefty amount of Galleons. The absolute best way to go about obtaining potions in Hogwarts Legacy is to purchase or learn the recipes and brew them for yourself.
To brew your own potions, you’ll need to first unlock the Room of Requirement so that you can utilize a potion station and grow your own ingredients. After you have, you’ll then need to purchase an array of pots to grow ingredients and ensure that you have all of the required resources before then visiting the brewing station to cook up whichever potion you need.
All potions in Hogwarts Legacy
There are seven different potions that are available to players in Hogwarts Legacy.
- Edurus potion
- Wiggenweld potion
- Invisibility potion
- Maxima potion
- Focus potion
- Thunderbrew potion
- Felix Felicis potion
All potion effects in Hogwarts Legacy
Depending on which potion players utilize, they will gain drastically different buffs or special powers. All effects that the potions in Hogwarts Legacy will cause are as follows.
- Edurus potion: Drinking this potion grants the player increased defense by covering them with a durable rocky skin.
- Wiggenweld potion: This potion helps to heal the player by restoring some of their health.
- Invisibility potion: The drinker of this potion will turn invisible which causes all enemies that previously noticed them to now lose sight of them. The player will then be imperceptible to enemies for a period of time while the effects of this potion are active.
- Maxima potion: This potion increases the damage that the player deals through casting spells for a period of time.
- Focus potion: Drinking this will reduce the cooldown period for the player’s spells. This will thus allow them to perform spells more quickly and efficiently.
- Thunderbrew potion: Players can summon a powerful storm that surrounds their character to both stun and deal damage against enemies by drinking this potion.
- Felix Felicis potion: This potion can be utilized to grant the player luck in the form of revealing all gear chests on their mini-map for an entire in-game day to make exploring in Hogwarts Legacy especially rewarding for that day.
All potion ingredients in Hogwarts Legacy
There is some overlap with the ingredients that players will need to brew the various potions in Hogwarts Legacy. This means that players will want to ensure that they are regularly growing the required ingredients or scouring the vast open world to obtain them.
- Edurus potion
- One Ashwinder Eggs
- One Mongrel Fur
- Wiggenweld potion
- One Horklump Juice
- One Dittany Leaves
- Invisibility potion
- One Leaping Toadstool Caps
- One Knotgrass Sprig
- One Troll Bogeys
- Maxima potion
- One Leech Juice
- One Spider Fang
- Focus potion
- One Lacewing Flies
- One Fluxweed Stem
- One Dugbog Tongue
- Thunderbrew potion
- One Leech Juice
- One Shrivelfig Fruit
- One Stench of the Dead
- Felix Felicis potion
- One Lacewing Flies
- One Fluxweed Stem
All potion prices in Hogwarts Legacy
Players can choose to either purchase a potion recipe that allows them to brew the potion as frequently as they like with the right ingredients, or can instead purchase a potion that has already been made by a few different vendors.
- Edurus potion
- Recipe cost: This potion will be automatically obtained by all players after they have completed their first Potions class.
- Potion cost: 300 Galleons.
- Wiggenweld potion
- Recipe cost: This recipe is automatically obtained after completing your first Potions class.
- Potion cost: 100 Galleons
- Invisibility potion
- Recipe cost: 800 Galleons
- Potion cost: 500 Galleons
- Maxima potion
- Recipe cost: 500 Galleons
- Potion cost: 300 Galleons
- Focus potion
- Recipe cost: 1,200 Galleons
- Potion cost: 500 Galleons
- Thunderbrew potion
- Recipe cost: 1,200 Galleons
- Potion cost: 1,000 Galleons
- Felix Felicis potion
- Recipe cost: This recipe is free for PlayStation players.
- Potion cost: This potion is a PlayStation pre-order exclusive and seems to be unobtainable for players on all other platforms.
Players don’t have to utilize potions for combat in Hogwarts Legacy, but they are available as immensely powerful tools that will enhance players’ versatility while in battle. Certain side quests may also ask players to brew and utilize potions, so players will certainly need to purchase or brew potions at some point throughout the magical witchcraft and wizarding game.
