You can complete Exploration Challenges and gain Rewards in Hogwarts Legacy. Read on to learn how to complete Exploration Challenges, how to start locked Exploration challenges, what rewards you can obtain, and more!
All Exploration Challenges | ||
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Ancient Magic Traces | Pop Balloons | Landing Platform |
Merlin Trials | Astronomy Tables | Hogwarts Secrets |
Ancient Magic Traces Completed | 2 | Additional Capacity Added to Your Ancient Magic Meter |
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6 | Additional Capacity Added to Your Ancient Magic Meter |
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12 | Additional Capacity Added to Your Ancient Magic Meter |
Ancient Magic Traces Challenges require you to collect all the Ancient Magic orbs located within hotspots in the overworld. There are usually 3 traces in each hotspot that you need to collect, and you must complete a hotspot for it to register in your Challenges.
Ancient Magic Hotspot Locations and Map
Pop Balloons Completed | 2 | Night Dancer Broom |
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5 | Lickety Swift Broom |
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10 | Wild Fire Broom |
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15 | Bright Spark Broom |
To complete this challenge, you must pop the balloons found all over the overworld while riding on a broom or a flying mount by passing through them.
You must pop a group of 5 balloons for it to register as one completed challenge.
How to Pop Balloons: All Balloon Locations and Map
Landing Platform Completed | 2 | Quidditch Captain's Uniform |
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4 | Quidditch Captain's Helmet |
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6 | Quidditch Captain's Gloves |
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8 | Quidditch Captain's Cape |
Landing Platforms can be completed by finding the platforms located all around the overworld. You must then dismount your broom while on the platform.
Merlin Trials Completed | 2 | Increased Storage for Gear |
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6 | Increased Storage for Gear |
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10 | Increased Storage for Gear II |
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14 | Increased Storage for Gear |
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20 | Increased Storage for Gear |
Merlin Trials are a series of different puzzles created by Merlin himself! Completing them will reward you with increased storage space.
All Merlin Trial Locations and Solutions
Astronomy Tables Completed | 5 | Starry-Eyed Seer's Scarf |
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5 | Starry-Eyed Seer's Ensemble |
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5 | Starry-Eyed Seer's Cape |
Astronomy Tables can be completed by matching your telescope template to the constellations that you see in the sky.
Astronomy Table Locations and Map
Hogwarts Secrets Completed | 1 | Secret Solver’s Bathing Costume |
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1 | Tailored Tailcoat |
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1 | Fashionable Dress Robes |
Hogwarts Secrets are each unique puzzles found in the Clock Tower, Viaduct Bridge, and at the Headmaster's Office in Hogwarts.
3 Hogwarts Secrets: Locations and Solutions
Exploration Challenges are a type of Challenge that is meant to track your progress in exploring the overworld of Hogwarts Legacy by completing puzzles scattered throughout the map. Specific rewards will be granted for each kind of Exploration Challenge as listed above.
To unlock Exploration Challenges, you must simply find their specific locations and solve a challenge in the overworld. Once you encounter and solve them, you will automatically open the locked challenges in the Challenges Menu.
Find the remaining challenges and solve them to complete them and obtain all the rewards. Note that after completing a tier, the number of challenges you finished will not carry over and you will have to start from 0 in the next tier. If you finished two Merlin Trials in the first tier, you will go back to zero out of six in the next tier.
List of Challenges and Rewards
Exploration Challenges and Rewards
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