Alexis Kestler
Are you struggling to gather up all of Cressida‘s pesky flying books in Hogwarts Legacy? As a fellow wizarding world fanatic, let me walk you through how to complete this tricky Hogwarts quest. In this guide, we‘ll dive deep into the best tips and strategies to collect those evasive enchanted textbooks.
Backstory on Cressida‘s Quest
Before we delve into the step-by-step details, let‘s briefly cover some key backstory on Cressida and her quest that is helpful to know. Cressida is a Ravenclaw prefect at Hogwarts school during the 1800s setting of Hogwarts Legacy. She is known for being studious and talented with charms.
Cressida devised an experiment to enchant books to fly around the Library Annex area to see if she could control their flight patterns. However, the enchantment worked a bit too well, and now Cressida is unable to get the flying books to come down from their zooming about.
That‘s where your character comes in. Cressida asks you to kindly help collect the five flying textbooks she has lost control of, and return them to her in the Central Hall. While it may seem like a mundane chore at first, succeeding at this challenge opens up some nice rewards.
Completing Cressida‘s quest grants experience points to boost your wizarding levels. It also unlocks access to buying rare books from Cressida that expand your spells. Most importantly, returning the flying books progresses her side quest line involving the haunted Cursed Vaults hidden at Hogwarts. So it‘s worth taking the time to master gathering up those books.
Locating the Library Annex
Let‘s start by highlighting how to actually find the Library Annex where you‘ll be collecting the flying books. The Library Annex is located on the fourth floor of the main Hogwarts castle area.
Reaching it takes a bit of traversing the iconic Hogwarts shifting staircases:
- Enter the Grand Staircase from the Central Hall on the ground floor
- Ride the stairs upwards to the fourth floor
- Exit onto the fourth floor and turn left to go through the door into the Library Tower
- Once inside the Library Tower, head upstairs to the door into the Library Annex
Note the Library Annex is distinct from the Restricted Section that is used for detention – Cressida‘s books will be in the main Annex rooms, not Restricted.
The Annex itself is a large two-floor chamber with tall bookshelves, wooden balconies, railings, and sliding ladders. The flying enchanted books will be zipping all about through the air around the lower and upper levels.
Now let‘s go over how to actually catch those pesky flying textbooks using the Accio charm!
Casting Accio to Collect the Flying Books
The key spell for gathering the flying books is Accio. This summoning charm causes an object to zoom over to your location. Here are some Accio casting tips to help you wrangle those books successfully:
- Equip your wand and enter aim mode with L2 (LT)
- Observe a book‘s path for a bit to predict its movements
- Aim at the book and cast Accio when it flies near you
- The book will whiz over to you once Accio connects
- You may need to chase books or position yourself in their flight paths
Each book glows with a distinct colored aura so you can distinguish the five needed. I recommend starting on one floor at a time and collecting all the books there before moving upstairs/downstairs.
Accio has a short cooldown if you miss, so just keep trying until your aim improves. Moving closer to flying books can make landing Accio easier while they zoom around. Upgrading Accio‘s distance and power via the skills menu will help snag books more easily too.
If you are having trouble with a particular book, try leaving the Annex and re-entering to reset their positions.
Managing Mana Consumption
One challenge when collecting the flying books is mana drainage. Casting Accio repeatedly can quickly deplete your mana reserves needed for casting spells. Here are some tips to keep your mana consumption under control:
- Drink Focus Potions to temporarily increase mana regeneration
- Use the Revelio spell to track books through walls before entering a room
- Upgrade max mana capacity via the talents tree
- Equip gear with mana efficiency bonuses to reduce usage
- Take breaks between casts to allow natural mana regen
Balancing your mana usage is key to having enough left to catch all 5 books. Upgrade your gear over time to make consuming less mana for spellcasting easier.
Returning the Books to Cressida
Once you finally manage to summon all five of Cressida‘s flying books, it‘s time to return them to her. You‘ll need to fast travel or hoof it back to the Central Hall and talk to Cressida to officially complete the quest.
Cressida will thank you and provide some XP rewards plus unlocking a new Transfiguration spell lesson. This allows you to learn Depulso for offensive combat magic!
More importantly, finishing Cressida‘s book quest will also open up her next major questline to explore the Cursed Vaults. These Vaults are hidden rooms around Hogwarts that contain powerful secrets and magical items.
Investigating the Cursed Vaults involves piecing together clues and overcoming dangerous traps and enemies. It‘s one of the main in-depth quest chains in Hogwarts Legacy, so completing Cressida‘s initial book retrieval paves the way for much more adventure.
Cressida‘s Shop Unlocks
In addition to sparking the Cursed Vaults questline, returning the flying books also unlocks Cressida as a vendor you can purchase from. This opens up access to her stock of rare books that each teach unique spells.
Here‘s a quick overview of the handy new spells you can acquire for your repertoire by buying books from Cressida after her flying book quest:
- Glacius – Fires an ice projectile to damage enemies
- Incendio – Shoots a burst of flame that causes burning damage
- Wingardium Leviosa – Levitates objects and can move them through the air
- Arresto Momentum – Slows down falling objects and enemies
- Descendo – Slams levitated objects down forcefully
As you can see, completing Cressida‘s quest gives you access to some powerful new combat spells via her shop. So it‘s very worthwhile to add her books to your collection.
Advanced Flying Book Collection Tips
Let‘s go over some more advanced tips and strategies to help you efficiently collect all of the elusive flying books for Cressida:
- Use Revelio often to see books through walls and floors before entering an area
- Lead your Accio cast slightly ahead of a book‘s path to intercept it
- Try casting from different heights – the 2nd floor rails help catch flying books below
- Equip gear to boost Accio power like Talisman of Evasion for more reliable summoning
- Drink Focus potions to get easy slow motion spell shots on the books
- Use Wingardium Leviosa to manually move books that get stuck
- If a book spawns out of reach, levitate objects to create stairs to climb up
- Come back later if having difficulty as higher levels make this quest much easier
With these tips, you should be able to master summoning all of Cressida‘s textbooks. But don‘t worry if it takes a few tries – collecting these flying books takes patience and practice.
Troubleshooting Issues
Let‘s briefly go over solutions for some common issues that can pop up with this flying book quest:
- If books get stuck above shelves, exit and re-enter the Annex to reset positions
- Check if you already collected a book but its icon failed to disappear
- Books can spawn inside walls/objects – try Revelio to uncover them
- Reloading from the last save can fix quest progress bugs
- Return to Cressida if books collected don‘t seem to count
- Books are designed to be challenging to catch – upgrades over time help
So try not to get too frustrated if the flying books prove tricky at first. Reloading or returning another time often resolves any quest issues.
In Summary
That covers all the tips and details you need to successfully gather up Cressida‘s flying books in Hogwarts Legacy! Here‘s a quick recap:
- Find the Library Annex on the 4th castle floor
- Cast Accio on flying books to summon them over to you
- Manage mana consumption so you can keep spellcasting
- Return all 5 books to Cressida in the Central Hall
- Unlocks special rewards like new spells and her Cursed Vaults quest
- Use advanced strategies like Revelio to efficiently locate books
- Don‘t worry if it takes a few tries – it‘s meant to be a challenge
Capturing charmed flying books might seem mundane, but it opens up exciting new secrets and adventures across your Hogwarts Journey. Hopefully this guide has equipped you to master this memorable Hogwarts Legacy quest. Now get out there and let none of Cressida‘s textbooks evade your summoning skills! Your journey into the wizarding world has only just begun.
