Hogwarts Legacy Trophy Guide & Roadmap

February 6, 2023 by PowerPyx 163 Comments

Hogwarts Legacy Trophy Roadmap

Estimated trophy difficulty: 3/10
Approximate amount of time to platinum: 60-80 hours
Offline Trophies: 46 (1, 2, 15, 28)
Online Trophies: 0
Number of missable trophies: 4 – the trophies for reaching the Map Chamber with each of the four houses are mutually exclusive, can only get one per playthrough because the house can’t be changed, must do partial playthrough for each house (trophy unlocks ~2 hours into the game): The Toast of the Town, The Auror’s Apprentice, The Gryffindor in the Graveyard, The Wise Owl.
Glitched trophies: 2 trophies can have issues but are obtainable – Collector’s Edition still has reports of bugging despite Patch 1.04 supposedly fixing it (works for some people but not for others), also Conjurations and Traits required for this trophy can bug out. For Good Samaritan, it can happen that some side quests can bug out which makes it impossible to complete all side quests (this is rare, for majority of players all quests work fine).
Does difficulty affect trophies?: No, can do everything on the easiest difficulty “Story”
Minimum Playthroughs: 1 full 100% completion playthrough (~60-75 hours) + 3 partial playthroughs (~2 hours each) to get the trophies for reaching Map Chamber with each house
PS4/PS5 Autopop & Save Transfer: There is Save Transfer from PS4 to PS5, but not from PS5 to PS4. There is Autopop from PS4 to PS5 but not from PS5 to PS4.
PS4/PS5 Crossbuy: Yes with PS5 Deluxe Edition, No with PS5 Standard & PS4 Standard Edition
Free-Roam after Story?: Yes, can free roam everywhere after the story. All places containing collectibles can be revisited, Side Quests can still be done after the story.
Supports Manual Saves?: Yes, 10 Manual Save Slots and 5 Autosave Slots
Release Date: February 07, 2023 (Deluxe Edition) / February 10, 2023 (Standard Edition)

Introduction

Welcome to the Hogwarts Legacy Trophy Guide (aka Harry Potter Hogwarts Legacy). This is a huge open world RPG set in the world of Harry Potter. You create your own character and attend Hogwarts school as a 5th-year student while taking on many extracurricular adventures. There is free-roam after the story and you can finish up any Side Quests or Collectibles you have left. Your first priority should be beating the story so that you have access to all spells. Almost everything from collectibles to side quest puzzles is gated behind having the right spells. Until the story introduces you to those spells you would wonder how to solve certain puzzles when they actually cannot be solved yet. After the story clean up remaining side quests first, they reward you with collectibles. Then clean up the remaining collectibles after. As you go through the story you can already work on any side tasks and collectibles you come across. You need close to 100% completion anyway. Your gender, house, and wand can’t be changed. The trophies for reaching the Map Chamber with each house lock out each other, as you can only get one per playthrough, but the Map Chamber is relatively early in the game (2 hours if you skip everything). The only thing to remember is to use Ancient Magic on all enemy types you encounter. Other than that just have fun and enjoy the game as you see fit.

Step 1: Finish Story + Use Ancient Magic on Every Enemy Type

Focus on the story first. Most Collectibles and Side Quests are inaccessible until later in the game because they require specific spells. If you can’t solve a puzzle or reach a collectible it’s because you are missing the spell for it. After the story you will have access to everything. What gender and house you pick does not matter for your 100% completion playthrough. It only changes some dialogue and there’s one unique story quest per house but doesn’t impact the quest order or how the story plays out.

The only important thing to keep in mind is to always use Ancient Magic + on all new enemies you encounter (Ancient Magic is unlocked during Main Quest #7: Welcome to Hogsmeade). For Finishing Touches you must have used Ancient Magic on 34/69 enemy types. Even though the trophy description says “all” are required, the trophy tracker only requires 34 but there are really 69 enemies according to the in-game collection menu. Some count and some do not. Enemies that only appear once or exist only within one quest aren’t needed for it.

Other than that just have fun. You can spend talent points freely and do any side tasks you come across. You will need close to 100% completion for platinum anyway and must often gain level ups between main quests. Doing side quests will help you gain XP while also working towards completion.

If you would like to follow a story walkthrough or need help with certain puzzles, refer to Hogwarts Legacy Walkthrough. For a general overview of all puzzle types see Hogwarts Legacy All Puzzle Types Explained.

Step 2: Unlock All remaining Spells (Assignments), Level 3 Lockpicking, Do All Side Quests

If you are still missing any spells after the story, unlock them now. You need various spells for side quests and collectibles. Refer to How to Unlock All Spells. The Unforgivable Curses aren’t needed for trophies. You will also want to fully upgrade the Alohomora spell to open Level 3 locks, this is done by collecting the Demiguise Statues for Side Quest: The Man Behind the Moons. After this you will have full access to everything and can complete all other side quests that require the level 3 lockpicking.

Now focus on finishing all remaining Side Quests and Relationship Quests. See Hogwarts Legacy All Side Quests Guide. You can compare this list against your in-game list to figure out which quests you are missing (press > Quests > click bottom icon in left sidebar to view your Completed Quests). There are 57 Side Quests total. This will also take care of any side quest related trophies and opens up new side areas that also contain collectibles. Additionally, many Side Quests unlock Collection Items as rewards so you are indirectly working towards Collectibles here too.

Potential Bug Warning: There are reports that if you start Side Quest: Follow the Butterflies in Hogsmeade, but do not complete it and instead complete another butterfly, you permanently get bugged out of 1 conjuration. Complete this quest as soon as you accept it to avoid this.

Step 3: Collectibles

The biggest task for Platinum is completing all Collections and other Collectible-related Trophies. You basically need 100% completion including all Challenges. Each Challenge Tier unlocks Appearances and other items that count towards the Collections, and each Collectible Type either has Challenges associated with it or is otherwise needed for trophies. The only things you don’t need everything of are Field Guide Pages, you only need 180/236 of those to complete all challenges associated with them to get their collection rewards (you claim rewards by pressing on the completed Challenge Tiers). Of all other collectible types you need 100%.

There are 1,428 Collectibles but many count towards multiple categories or register automatically from Main- and Side Quests or just walking past fast travel points or encountering new enemy types. Even collectible types that don’t directly give a trophy are tied to challenges which then unlock a collectible. For example, you need the Balloons to finish the Balloon Exploration Challenge, which then unlocks Brooms. What you need:

» Hogwarts Legacy Collectible Guide – 100% Completion

603 Collections – Collector’s Edition
- 10 Tools
- 69 Enemies
- 89 Appearances
- 150 Revelio Pages
- 13 Beasts
- 75 Traits
- 42 Wand Handles
- 140 Conjurations
- 16 Ingredients
- 13 Brooms
- 168 Collection Chests – for Traits, Wand Handles, Conjurations
83 Floo Flames – Floo Around the World
95 Merlin Trials – Merlin’s Beard!
32 Balloon Sets – needed for Brooms (Collections)
33 Demiguise Statues – Demiguise Dread
2 Battle Arenas – Rise to the Challenges
5 Cairn Dungeons – The Intrepid Explorer
12 Breed Beasts – The Nature of the Beast
8 Grow Plants – Put Down Roots
6 Brew Potions – Going Through the Potions
236 Field Guide Pages – 180 needed for Collections (unlocks Appearances as challenge rewards)
15 Astronomy Tables – needed for Collections (challenge rewards)
20 Landing Platforms – needed for Collections (challenge rewards)
20 Ancient Magic Hotspots – needed for Collections (challenge rewards)
3 Hogwarts Secrets – needed for Collections (challenge rewards)
18 Infamous Foes – needed to unlock Enemies (Collections)
24 Challenges – needed for Collections (challenge rewards)
16 House Tokens – not directly a collectible but needed for The Daedalian Keys side quest
15 Butterflies – needed for Collections

Potential Bug Warning: There are reports that some players end up with 74/75 Traits. This happens if a Collection Chest from a Bandit Camp doesn’t reward you with a Trait (can happen randomly). You can prevent this by reloading last autosave if a collection chest from a bandit camp doesn’t give a Trait.

Step 4: Reach Map Chamber with Each House (3 Extra Partial Playthroughs)

After you are all done with the collectibles, the only thing left should be the 3 remaining trophies for reaching the Map Chamber with each House. Because your house can’t be changed you must start a completely new game, replay the prologue, at the end of the prologue pick your house, advance to Main Quest #18: Jackdaw’s Rest, the Map Chamber trophy unlocks after this. Repeat for the next houses until you have them all done. Luckily this is quite early in the game and only requires partial playthroughs. If you skip all dialogue/cutscenes you can reach the Map Chamber within ~2 hours playtime. You can’t manually save at any point before the Sorting Ceremony but the game does keep an Autosave, so if you want to save time quit out during the Sorting Ceremony and upload your save to PS+ Cloud, after you popped the trophy redownload that autosave and it will place you right back at the sorting ceremony without redoing the whole prologue each time.

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