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The Best Build in Hogwarts Legacy, the Herbologist, is designed for massive damage and simplistic gameplay, using a combination of powerful potions and plants to aid you.
This Hogwarts Legacy Guide was updated for the June 2024 Summer update.
The Best Build in Hogwarts Legacy the Herbologist Build Basics
In Hogwarts Legacy, plants and potions are extraordinarily strong, providing some of the best damage in the game and 100% damage reduction. Moreover, this build has completed all the Arenas in the game on the hardest difficulty. Whether you’re a role player who loves Professor Garlick or are looking for something simple and effective, this build is for you! Below, we will explain some basics about builds in Hogwarts Legacy and how to put it all together depending on your level and progress in the game.
The following list presents all the essential Dark Arts Build Features and Mechanics in Hogwarts Legacy:
- Preferred House: Hufflepuff
- Spell Combinations: Glacius + Diffindo and Levioso + Descendo
- Important Talents: Fertiliser, Edurus Potion Potency, Noxious, Swift, Evasion Absorption
- Key Consumables: Chinese Chomping Cabbage, Venomous Tentacula, Edurus Potion
- Optimal Armor Traits: 1st Herbology III (use I or II if needed), 2nd Fangs III, 3rd Venom III
Builds in Hogwarts Legacy follow a general formula to get more powerful: Spells, Consumables (Potions/Plants), Armor, Armor Traits, and Talents. Below, we will detail various parts of your build and why they are essential.
Best House for the Herbologist Build
Houses are primarily relevant for the story and role play. Consider picking a house, wand, or playstyle that fits your character’s story. This will not increase or decrease the performance of your build.
If you want to know how House and Wand influence a Hogwarts Legacy gameplay, consider checking out:
- Which house should I choose? Guide
- How to pick a Wand? Guide
Spell Combinations Explained
Glacius acts as a massive damage amplifier, and cast with Diffindo; you’ll get the most single-target damage in the game. You can take both spell masters later in the game and make it even nastier of a combination.
Levioso acts as a crowd control mechanism and a shield breaker, while Descendo slams down targets and breaks shields. Take the master talents to make this AoE and do damage as a great form of crowd control.
Important Talents Explained
- Fertiliser talent (required level 5) – for each Chinese Chomping Cabbage thrown, a second chomping cabbage is generated and released at no cost.
- Why? It allows for twice the effectiveness of the cabbage doing damage, which is unreal damage.
- Edurus Potion Potency talent (required level 5) – Edurus Potion makes you invulnerable and deflects projectile attacks back to enemies.
- Why? It makes you invoiceable for 20 seconds.
- Noxious talent (required level 22)– venomous tentacula attacks deal additional damage and break shields.
- Why? It does require quick reflexes or spell swapping to break enemy shields.
- Swift talent (required level 5)– Holding down dodge allows you to vanish quickly and reappear nearby.
- Why? It allows great mobility in the game, plus you can rely on dodge vs having super high reflexes with Protego on the highest difficulty.
- Evasion Absorption (required level 16)– successfully evading an unlockable attack with dodge contributes to the ancient magic meter).
- Why? Again, optimizing for massive dodge rolls with no stamina for best defensive vs high reflexes.
Leveling Progression for The Hogwarts Legacy the Herbologist Build
The following list includes all talents and levels for The Hogwarts Legacy Herbologist Build. Remember that you may not have all the spells at the listed level, so be flexible with your selection. This level selection will optimize the type of build we are going for, but feel free to swap around as you see fit.
- Talents Level 5: Fertiliser (Room of Requirement)
- Talents Level 6: Edurus Potion Potency (Room of Requirement)
- Talents Level 7: Swift (Core)
- Talents Level 8: Wiggenweld Potency I (Core)
- Talents Level 9: Incendio Mastery (Spell)
- Talents Level 10: Accio Mastery (Spell)
- Talents Level 11: Spell Knowledge I (Core)
- Talents Level 12: Diffindo Mastery (Spell)
- Talents Level 13: Basic Cast Mastery (Core)
- Talents Level 14: Spell Knowledge II (Core)
- Talents Level 15: Save for level 16
- Talents Level 16: Headache (Room of Requirement)
- Talents Level 17: Descendo Mastery (Spell)
- Talents Level 18: Glacius Mastery (Spell)
- Talents Level 19: Wiggenweld Potency II (Core)
- Talents Level 20: Evasion Absorption (Core)
- Talents Level 21: Spell Knowledge III (Core)
- Talents Level 22: Noxious (Room of Requirement)
- Talents Level 23: Thunderbrew Potency(Room of Requirement)
- Talents Level 24: Levioso Mastery (Spell)
- Talents Level 25: Maxima Potion Potency (Room of Requirements
- Talents Level 25-40: fill in the gaps for spells, consumables, and core combat you use.
Consumables Explained
- Chinese Chomping Cabbage = is the best damage-producing plant in the game, which will rip through targets like butter. Take the talent to get 2x the damage and effect. You can get these at the start of the game and focus on the room of requirement and herbology for endless materials.
- Venomous Tentacula = is a really good single-target damage dealer that is even better later in the game. Take the talent that breaks shields and throw both Cabbage and Tentacula to chew through any enemy in the game.
- Edurus Potion = is the single best damage reduction item in the game. With a level 5 perk, you will not die for 20 seconds. Pop, throw plants, sit back, and watch everything melt!
Armor Traits Explained
An important thing to note about Armor traits is that they are multiplicative. This means they get stronger the more you equip your armor. You have 6 slots and generally want all 6 to be uniform for maximum results. So don’t be shy in stacking the same one, assuming you have the material. Hogwsmead Brood and Peck has materials for sale if your beast taming isn’t up to a high enough level.
- Herbology significantly increased damage by all plants = this is ideal if you plan on using a variety of plants over just the cabbage. Since we are herbologists, we love all plants!
- Fangs increased chinses chomping cabbages damage = ideal trait if you want to focus on cabbage damage.
- Venom significantly increased venomous Tentacula damage = great alternative if you like single target pressure or shield break option.
Combat & Rotation
Now that you have a general idea of the build, it will look like this.
- Drink an Edurus potion so you become invincible at the start of the fight.
- Throw cabbage and Tentcula, and throw multiple if in a really hard fight.
- Use your combination of single target and area damage on mobs at range while your plants do the rest
- At the 20-second mark, decide to drink another potion or finish the remaining targets
- When in critically low health, constantly dodge and hold to create space, then drink a healing potion
Rinse and repeat!
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