Find out which wood, core, flexibility, and length will make for the best Hogwarts Legacy wand at Ollivanders below.
Which type of wand is the best to use in Hogwarts Legacy?
The best Hogwarts Legacy wand is the one you choose, since your decisions here do not affect the wand’s power. It’s purely aesthetic, but there are plenty of ways to customize your wand.
Wand length
You can customize the length of your wand from 9.5 to 14.5 inches, in.25-inch increments. This again has no bearing on the wand’s power, so choose whichever length appeals to you.
Wand style
There are eight unique designs available, and you can pick from three color schemes for each. You can choose the form of your wand from a variety of options, such as a spiral, ring, crooked, or stalk.
Wand flexibility
There are 19 levels of flexibility for your wand to choose from, as shown below.
- Quite Bendy
- Fairly Bendy
- Very Flexible
- Quite Flexible
- Surprisingly Swishy
- Swishy
- Slightly Springy
- Supple
- Reasonably Supple
- Pliant
- Brittle
- Hard
- Solid
- Stiff
- Rigid
- Unbending
- Slightly Yielding
- Unyielding
Wand core
You must select one of the following wand core options:
- Dragon Heartstring
- Unicorn Hair
- Phoenix Feather
The descriptions imply that the type of magic produced by the core you choose differs, but this is just flavor text and has no effect on the game.
Wand wood
There are 36 different types of wood to choose from, as detailed below:
- Ash
- Hazel
- Walnut
- Cedar
- Apple
- Fir
- Cypress
- Blackthorn
- Ebony
- Alder
- Aspen
- Acacia
- Beech
- Poplar
- Chestnut
- Vine
- Larch
- Pine
- Redwood
- Holly
- Spruce
- Sycamore
- English Oak
- Elm
- Cherry
- Pear
- Maple
- Dogwood
- Hawthorn
- Silver Lime
- Willow
- Black Walnut
- Laurel
- Red Oak
- Rowan
- Hornbeam
- Yew
- Elder
That brings us to the end of our guide. We hope this gives you some inspiration for your wand.
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