You are a wizard - Game overhaul (v2.5) - Major updates

A complete game overhaul mod. Spell balancing, potion making overhaul (changes required materials).

Stable changes (increasing the number and types of beasts in them).

Inventory, experience, combat and more.

New! Contains 0 cooling options.

You are a wizard - Game overhaul

✨ **Welcome to the ultimate game balancing and experience enhancing mod for Hogwarts Legacy! ** This mod is designed to make the game more interactive and fun, with a primary focus on combat balance, but also includes a number of quality of life improvements.

🎯Mod Target

My goal is to make the game more balanced later on and in new saves. All changes are subject to adjustment at any time, and I will seriously consider your opinions. Please read each change description carefully.

📜 Full update log

All detailed changes are documented in the ** Articles page **.

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🚀 Breaking changes (v2.5)

**Difficulty Adjustment - Major Changes**

• **Normal Difficulty** Now on Balanced Difficulty.
• **Hard Difficulty** is designed as **End Game Difficulty**.

**Other core changes**

• **Potions and Materials**: Adjusted potion effects and required materials.
• **Experience System**: Modified experience acquisition and upgrade requirements.
• **Enemy Refresh**: Increased enemy spawn frequency (requires feedback).

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⚔️ Combat and Characters

• **Character Damage Scaling**: As the character level increases, the damage increase decreases (about 15%).
• **Experience required for upgrade**: The experience required for each level has been increased by approximately 12%.

**Difficulty specific value (v2.0)**

• **Easy**: Enemy damage 0.65 → 0.75
• **Normal**: Enemy damage 1 → 1.2 / Enemy HP +25%
• **Hard**: Enemy damage 1.3 → 1.6 / Enemy HP +35%

**Note**: The above (damage/health) refers to the enemy's attributes.

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🪄 Spell

The **duration, damage, and cooldown** of spells have been adjusted to create a more balanced and strategic combat experience.

🧪 Magic Potion

• Adjusted the **duration and effects** of potions.
• **Increased the amount of materials required to brew potions**.
• **Increased the maximum number of potions that can be crafted**.

🌿 Plants

• Adjusted plant yield** and reduced growth time by 10%**.
• **Increased the maximum number of combat plants that can be crafted**.

🦉 Beast (Beast Pen)

• Adjusted the beast's **appearance location, birth, pregnancy and cub growth time (reduced by about 15%)**.
• **Significantly increased the maximum number of species and beasts that can be accommodated in a stable**.

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❓ FAQ

**🔧 Compatibility**

**Question: "Is this mod compatible with XXX?"**

Probably incompatible. You need to use the **ModMerger** tool, or just choose to use a mod.

**📂 Individual function version**

**Question: "Will a version containing only XXX functions be produced?"**

**No. ** This is a game overhaul mod designed to change everything. I won't make optional files. If you only want to change one thing, you're on the wrong page.

**💾 Installation halfway**

**Q: "Can I install it mid-game?"**

**Yes. ** It is safe to install or uninstall during gameplay. But since the experience system is part of the overhaul, your character level may be reduced after installation.

**🛠️ Installation method**

**Ask: "How to install????"**

Drag and drop the main `.pak` file into the `~mods` folder.

Path example: `C:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Hogwarts Legacy\Phoenix\Content\Paks\~mods`

**⏱️ 0 cool down version**

**Question: "Can you make a 0-cooling version???"**

**It can, and has been done. **0 cooldown optional files** will only** be synchronized when there are major updates to the main file.

**🧩 Only experience modified version**

**Question: "It would be great if there was a version that only changed experience"**

I will **probably never** make separate optional files for core overhaul mechanics like experience/combat/potions. The maintenance workl …