How to get more gear slots in Hogwarts Legacy

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

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, as well as to customize the character’s look.

Even though the inventory space for gear is limited to 20 slots at the start of the game, there are ways for students to increase the amount of gear they can carry, but it takes some work to achieve. So let’s dive in and check how to expand your 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 and it is by completing Merlin Trials.

These are 95 small challenges out in the open world that were left behind by the famous wizard Merlin. By completing them, players will make progress in the ‘Challenges’ menu under the ‘Exploration’ tab.

Players can claim extra gear slots in the Challenges menu in Hogwarts Legacy.

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 95 Merlin Trials in total, meaning players can earn an additional 20 gear slots by completing these 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.

These mossy stone circles mark the location of Merlin Trials in Hogwarts Legacy.

After you’ve completed ‘Trials of Merlin,’ you can begin your search for the rest of the 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.

That’s how you can increase your gear slots in Hogwarts Legacy. 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.