Hogwarts Legacy has no shortage of enemies to fight, and many enemy types drop important items and potion ingredients. As a result, players will want to know the best places to locate each of the enemy types the game has to offer.
In Hogwarts Legacy, some enemies that drop particularly useful items and ingredients are Dugbogs, Inferi, and Thornback Spiders. Additionally, there are a number of deadly foes that can be defeated as part of a Field Guide Challenge, and these are similarly spread out across the game's world. This guide will show some easy-to-reach areas where these enemy types can be found early in the game.
Enemies that Drop Potion Ingredients
Dugbog
Dugbogs are hostile magical beasts that strongly resemble toads, attacking with charging headbutts and their long tongues. They can tank a lot of damage in a fight unless players make good use of Levioso and Diffindo to exploit their biggest weakness.
Players can find Dugbogs in most bodies of shallow water. Dugbog tongues are used in the recipe for Focus Potions.
Dugbogs come in three main varieties, these being: Great Spined, Cottongrass, and Stoneback. An Infamous Foe variant called Rampant also exists. They all behave similarly and have the same item drops. The map above shows the location of an easily accessible Dugbog Den in the South Hogwarts Region, which can be found by heading south along the river from the Lower Hogsfield Hamlet.
Inferi
Inferi, servants created from corpses using dark magic, are another dangerous foe players can encounter in their adventures. They are often found guarding treasure vaults, or at various Inferi lairs like the one shown on the map below in the South Hogwarts Region. They drop the Stench of the Dead, which is an ingredient used when creating Thunderbrew.
Spiders
Another type of foe found in unsettlingly large numbers throughout the game is spiders. Found throughout the game's many caves and at spider lairs found all over the map, Spiders are worth fighting to acquire their fangs. Spider Fangs are used in the Maxima Potion recipe, making them invaluable to potion makers. The Map below shows a fairly easily reached lair near Forbidden Forest.
Trolls
Trolls are somewhat rarer, but tracking them down is essential for players wanting to acquire Troll Bogies and brew up Invisibility Potions. They can be found at Troll Lairs, or geared up with armor by Loyalists at some of their camps, and there are a number of useful strategies for quickly depleting their huge health bars.
Two Easily reached Troll Dens in the Feldcroft Region can be seen above.
Dark Mongrels
A favorite pet found at many Poacher Camps, along with Lairs found around the game world. Dark Mongrels are vicious but easy to deal with since their charging attacks can be blocked with Protego or interrupted to tremendous effect using Depulso. An easy-to-reach Lair can be found in the South Hogwarts Region, as shown on the map below.
Other Enemy Types
Ashwinders & Poachers
The Ashwinders can be found at various camps throughout the game world, along with appearing regularly as enemies in the main story. They make use of spells much like the player does, and can defend themselves with shields that require players to use the right category of spell to break them. Poachers are similar to Ashwinders, sharing many of the same enemy types and movesets. Stronger Ashwinder and Poacher variants use unblockable spells like Petrificus Totalus, which must be dodged instead of blocked, or charge up powerful lightning and firestorm spells.
Additionally, Poacher Animagi can sometimes be encountered, which are capable of transforming into dark mongrels and attacking with pouncing and charging attacks. When they are defeated while transformed they revert to human form with the same amount of health they had before changing, but their transformation can be ended instantly by using the Transformation spell on them. Poachers and Ashwinders can be found at Bandit Camps like the one on the map above, in the South Hogwarts Region.
Loyalists
Goblin Loyalists are another enemy type that has camps and hideouts all over the game world and show up regularly in the main story. With a variety of assassins, commanders, and marksmen that utilize goblin magic alongside melee and ranged weaponry, they can provide quite a challenge if players don't dodge and block as appropriate for the attack.
There's a Loyalist Camp in a narrow pass that connects the South Hogwarts Region to the Feldcroft Region, which can be reached easily as soon as players are able to explore outside the castle, as shown on the map above.
Hogwarts Legacy is available for PS5, PC, and Xbox Series X/S, and coming soon to PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.