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Hogwarts Legacy Upgrading Gear
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How To Upgrade Gear In Hogwarts Legacy

In this guide, you can learn how to upgrade Gear in Hogwarts Legacy, as well as what it means to upgrade and the requirements to do so.
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Published: Feb 12, 2023 01:29 pm

Upgrading Gear and applying Traits is an essential feature in Hogwarts Legacy that helps make your character more powerful, allowing you to take down enemies faster while increasing your overall defense, which also increases your survival chance. 

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While you don’t get access to Gear upgrades and Traits from the get-go, you can see upgrade and Trait slots whenever you equip a new piece of Gear, making players question how to upgrade Gear in Hogwarts Legacy.

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How to upgrade Gear in Hogwarts Legacy

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To upgrade Gear in Hogwarts Legacy, you must complete the story quests “The Room of Requirement and The Elf”, “The Nab-Sack”, and “The Loom”. 

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Once you do that, you can conjure an Enchanted Loom using the Conjuring Spell that Professor Weasley teaches you during The Room of Requirement quest, granted you have eight Moonstones. 

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After you have conjured and placed the Enchanted Loom in the Room of Requirement, you can use it to upgrade Gear and apply unique Traits. That said, Gear pieces in Hogwarts Legacy offer three upgrade slots and a Trait slot. 

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You can apply Traits to get a damage buff with certain spells, reduce the damage taken from specific enemies, and so on. At the same time, you can upgrade the Gear to increase its efficacy. 

Whether it is Traits or resources required to upgrade your Gear in Hogwarts Legacy, you can acquire them from the open world by engaging in different activities, including opening chests. 

That concludes our guide on how to upgrade Gear in Hogwarts Legacy. 

Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive open-world role-playing game coming to PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC. For more news, guides, and features, check out our dedicated section. 

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Hritwik Raj
Hritwik is a guides writer who has been writing about video games for almost a decade. He is a Computer Science graduate who has always been into gaming. Most of the time, you will find him covering News and Guides for various publications. And when he is not working, you will find him fighting with his friends about how good of a gamer he is. His favorite games include Fallout 76, Borderlands 2, Call of Duty, Apex Legends, Destiny 2, Souls series, Genshin Impact, and The Last of Us.
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