How to get more gear slots in Hogwarts Legacy

Navigating the limited inventory space in Hogwarts Legacy can be challenging, particularly when faced with a plethora of chests containing valuable rewards. Here’s a detailed overview of leveraging The Merlin Trials to get more gear slots in Hogwarts Legacy.

Staying true to the essence of an action role-playing game, Hogwarts Legacy revolves around discovering various gear pieces to enhance combat and other abilities.

Players can collect a total of six different kinds of gear: Headwear, gloves, neckwear, facewear, robes, and outfits to customize their character’s look and increase their stats. Unfortunately, inventory space for gear is limited to 20 slots at the start of the game. Thankfully, there are ways for students to increase the amount of gear they can carry — but it takes some work to achieve.

Alternatively, be sure to check out our guide content, covering all you need to know about learning Unforgivable Curses in Hogwarts Legacy, advancing time, or changing your equipped spells. That being said, let’s dive in and check out everything that you need to know about expanding gear slots in Hogwarts Legacy.

How to increase gear slots in Hogwarts Legacy

There is only one way to expand the number of gear slots you have in Hogwarts Legacy: by completing Merlin Trials. These are small challenges out in the open world that were left behind by the famous wizard Merlin.

By completing these Merlin Trials, players will make progress in the ‘Challenges’ menu under the ‘Exploration’ tab.

For example, the first challenge tasks players with completing two Merlin Trials to increase inventory slots by four, while the next challenge asks players to complete six Trials.

There are five Merlin Trial challenges in total, meaning players can earn an additional 20 gear slots by completing these challenges over the course of the game.

Where to find Merlin Trials in Hogwarts Legacy

Students can find Merlin Trials in the open world anytime they explore, but they will not be able to solve them until they complete the main story quest ‘Trials of Merlin.’

This quest will become available after completing ‘The Girl from Uagadou’ main quest, where the explorer Nora Treadwell will help players solve their first Merlin Trial.

After you’ve completed ‘Trials of Merlin,’ you can begin Merlin Trials out in the open world as long as you have Mallowseet leaves in your inventory.

Merlin Trials offer a variety of different challenges, such as lighting torches quickly with the Incindio spell, guiding moths to lanterns with Lumos, or moving boulders into divets with Wingardium Leviosa. So, if players want to hang onto rare gear, they will need to complete many Merlin Trials across Scotland.

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