How to upgrade gear in Hogwarts Legacy: Traits and upgrades explained

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We'd say that Hogwarts Legacy is an amazingly immersive take on the world of Harry Potter, allowing fans to learn spells, brew potions and even fly a broomstick all over the Hogwarts grounds.

However, Hogwarts Legacy is still a video game, and an RPG at that, so there are still plenty of the usual gaming tropes — including a gear/loot system that requires you to constantly change your outfit and upgrade it, especially if you want the best stats possible before your next battle.

Luckily, however, this gear system is linked to getting lots of snazzy new cosmetics such as robes, and also includes a unique trait system — so here's everything you need to know.

At the beginning of the game, upgrading your gear is as simple as finding and equipping equipment with better stats.

However, if you want to keep your favourite equipment throughout the game, you can start upgrading your existing gear once you unlock the Room of Requirement and the Enchanted Loom.

These will become available after completing 'The Helm of Urtkot' main quest near Hogsmeade, and then 'The Elf, the Nab-Sack, and the Loom' quest in the Room of Requirement.

You will then be able to conjure the Enchanted Loom and place it wherever you wish in the Room of Requirement. To upgrade gear, all you need to do is interact with the Enchanted Loom and select the gear to be upgraded — nice and simple.

Upgrading gear will enhance the stat that is not their original status — for example, gear that originally buffed Offence will now receive a Defence boost and vice versa.

However, you can only upgrade gear of superb (blue) rarity and above, so green and grey equipment may as well be destroyed at this point. You can only upgrade gear three times — and the higher the gear's