Where to find all of the Ancient Magic Hotspots in Hogwarts Legacy
Increase your ancient magic meter by completing ancient magic hotspots.
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Hogwarts Legacy’s combat system offers plenty of different ways to take down your enemies, but one of the most powerful and satisfying options available to you is your ancient magic attacks. When your ancient magic meter gauge gets full, you can unleash a strong attack that can defeat most enemies or at least whittle their health down significantly.
You can add even more ancient magic gauges to your skill base inHogwarts Legacyif you take the time to go around the map and complete the ancient magic hotspot challenges. Here’s where to find them all and how to complete them.
Hogwarts Legacy: Why you want to complete Ancient Magic Hotspots
Ancient magic hotspots are dotted all over the Hogwarts Legacy World Map and are denoted by an ancient magic symbol. When you get to one of these spots, you first need to initiate the hotspot and then search for the three ancient magic traces hiding nearby. There are 20 of these ancient magic hotspots overall and you’ll want to take the time to complete them all since the reward for doing so is adding additional ancient magic meters to your combat skills.
This means you’ll be able to gather up more ancient magic in battle and can use more of these powerful attacks in one go if the gauge is full. When all ancient magic hotspots are completed, you can have five ancient magic meters total to use in battle, which will make you a very powerful force, indeed. The robust combat system is just one thing that makes Hogwarts Legacy one of thebest PC gamesandbest Xbox gamesout there.
How to redeem Ancient Magic Hotspot rewards
To redeem these Hogwarts Legacy rewards, go to the Menu → Challenges → Exploration and the section called Collect Ancient Magic Traces will be at the top. Click on these rewards as they are completed to redeem them. Additional gauges for your Ancient Magic Meter will not show up unless you redeem them.
This is how many Ancient Magic Hotspots you need to complete to redeem these rewards:
All Ancient Magic Hotspot locations and solutions
Pro Tip:CastReveliofrequently after activating an ancient magic hotspot and it will make the floating ancient magic traces glow blue so you can find them easier. Also, note that after you Investigate a hotspot the glowing lines emanating from the ground below you point to the three ancient magic traces hiding nearby.
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Without further ado, here’s where to find the ancient magic hotspots and how to collect all of the ancient magic traces.
Magic the gathering
It will take some work to gather up all of the floating magic from each of the 20 ancient magic hotspots around the Hogwarts Legacy World Map. However, the process will be made easier if you frequently use Revelio and look for the glowing blue ancient magic traces in each area.
It is definitely worth completing these ancient magic hotspots as doing this unlocks additional ancient magic meters which you can use to cast your most powerful spells on enemies. Just remember that you must actually take the time to go into your challenges menu and redeem your magic meter rewards or else they will not be available.
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