Hogwarts Legacy Challenges Explained

Want to know more about Hogwarts Legacy challenges? As if there wasn’t enough to do in your first year as a student at the famed school for Witchcraft and Wizardry, you also have a whole bunch of tasks you can complete. The challenges menu is where you can find all of the side quests, as well as field pages, exploration and combat tasks, and quests that need the Room of Requirement to finish.

These Hogwarts Legacy challenges will likely make up a significant part of the RPG game’s completion criteria. If you’re wondering how long Hogwarts Legacy is and how close you are to finishing everything, this menu will be a good indicator of how far you have to go. There are five different challenge types throughout Hogwarts Legacy, each requiring you to specialise in various activities. Some are combat-focused, while others ask you to travel across the Scottish highlands.

Hogwarts Legacy challenge types Here’s a brief summary of all five Hogwarts Legacy challenge types, as well as all of the challenges available and how to complete them:

Combat These challenges require you to master the art of duelling by requiring you to break enemy shields, land a particular incantation a certain number of times, or execute a combination of Hogwarts Legacy spells.

Defeat Dark Wizards

Dragonhide Protector’s Cloak (10) Protector’s Ensemble (20) Protego Shielding I gear trait recipe (40) Protego Shielding II gear trait recipe (70) Protego Shielding III gear trait recipe (100)

Defeat Dugbogs

Amphibial Protection I gear trait recipe (5) Amphibial Protection II gear trait recipe (?) Amphibial Protection III gear trait recipe (?)

Defeat goblins

Goblin-Silver Resistance I gear trait recipe (30) Goblin-Silver Resistance II gear trait recipe (60) Goblin-Silver Resistance III gear trait recipe (?)

Defeat Inferi

Necromatic Protection I gear trait recipe (10) Necromatic Protection II gear trait recipe (20)

Defeat Infamous foes

Avenging Wolf mask (3) Avenging Owl mask (6) ? (?)

Defeat spiders

Spider Slayer armour (10) Spider Slayer helmet (20) Anti-Venom I gear trait recipe (40) Anti-Venom II gear trait recipe (70) Anti-Venom III gear trait recipe (100)

Defeat trolls

Cushioning I gear trait recipe (5) ? (?) ? (?)

Defeat mongrels

Lupus Protection I gear trait recipe (10) Lupus Protection II gear trait recipe (20) Lupus Protection III gear trait recipe (30)

Complete duelling feats

Officer’s Uniform (5) Officer’s Hat (10) Halloween Pumpkin Mask (20) Autumn Festival Coat (32) ? (?)

Enemies are pretty common around the outskirts of Hogwarts. You’ll find Dugbogs near water, goblins near forts, Inferi in graveyards and caves, spiders in forests, mongrels on mountain slopes and forests, and trolls in caves. For the Duelling Feats, it’s best to get into random encounters and complete the duelling feats there as the enemies are easier to fight than in set sequences.

Quests Challenges in this category will ask you to finish quests in the main story, as well as side quests. Side quests can range from playing a minigame such as Summoner’s Court, or fetching items for another student or a teacher. You also get items for completing assignments from your professors.

Complete assignments

Top of the Class scarf (2) Top of the Class ensemble (4) Top of the Class cloak (6)

Complete main quests

Legendary gloves (2) Legendary cape (4) Legendary armoured attire (6) Legendary mask (8) Stone necklace (14)

Complete side/relationship quests

Bookish half-rim spectacles (3) Lucky Leprechaun gloves (6) Lucky Leprechaun hat (10) Lucky Leprechaun ensemble (18) ? (?)

Exploration This is more of a catch-all collection of challenges that require you to explore much of the Hogwarts Legacy map. These include finding traces of Ancient Magic, popping balloons, and completing Merlin trials, among many others. The exploration challenges will ask you to go far and wide, and you’ll be rewarded for delving into every corner of each region. You can unlock additional styles for your Hogwarts broom by finishing the balloon challenges.

Collect Ancient Magic traces

Additional capacity added to your Ancient Magic meter (2) Additional capacity added to your Ancient Magic meter (?) Additional capacity added to your Ancient Magic meter (?)

Pop balloons

Night Dancer broom (two sets) Lickety Swift broom (five sets) Wild Fire broom (ten sets) ? (?)

Landing platforms

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Complete Merlin trials

Increased storage for gear (2) Increased storage for gear (6) Increased storage for gear (?) Increased storage for gear (?) Increased storage for gear (?)

Find Astronomy tables

Starry-Eyed Seer’s scarf (5) ? (?) ? (?)

Solve Hogwarts secrets

Secret Solver’s bathing costume (1) Tailored Tailcoat (2) ? (3)

Field Guide Pages The Hogwarts Legacy Field Guide pages challenge section lets you keep tabs on how many pages you’ve picked up on your travels and where. While a lot of them are flying pages you can use Accio to retrieve, you also have Revelio pages and empty paintings that also hide these valuable documents.

Collect Field Guide Pages in Hogsmeade

Zonko’s Chief Prankster spectacles (2) Zonko’s Chief Prankster hat (8) Zonko’s Chief Prankster coat (15) Zonko’s Chief Prankster ensemble (25)

Collect Field Guide Pages in Hogwarts

Hogwarts Regalia spectacles (2) Hogwarts Regalia gloves (8) Hogwarts Regalia hat (15) Hogwarts Regalia coat (25) Hogwarts Regalia ensemble (50)

Collect Field Guide Pages in the Highlands

Highland Explorer cap (2) Highland Explorer garb (4) Highland Explorer cloak (6) ? (?)

Room of Requirement These challenges revolve around things you can do within the Hogwarts Legacy Room of Requirement, such as upgrading gear and rescuing beasts. It doesn’t matter if you catch the same beast types, as they all count towards this challenge. As for upgrading gear, try to have a few surplus items that you can improve with fewer beast materials to speed through those challenges. You can always sell them to any vendor afterwards.

Rescue beasts

Billywig Hive spellcraft (10) Magic Chime spellcraft (20) ? (?)

Unknown Room of Requirement challenge

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Upgrade your gear

Ancient Magic I gear trait recipe (5) Ancient Magic II gear trait recipe (10) Ancient Magic III gear trait recipe (?)

That’s everything we know about Hogwarts Legacy challenges. We’re still working on discovering the remaining challenges and the rewards you get for finishing their tasks in the open-world game. Until then, here’s everything we know about Hogwarts Legacy potions and the Hogwarts Legacy beasts so you can get a bit of a head-start. If you can’t wait that long and want something else to play, check out some of the best PC games for magical and non-magical adventures that are available right now.

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Here’s a brief summary of all five Hogwarts Legacy challenge types, as well as all of the challenges available and how to complete them:

These challenges require you to master the art of duelling by requiring you to break enemy shields, land a particular incantation a certain number of times, or execute a combination of Hogwarts Legacy spells.

Defeat Dugbogs

Defeat goblins

Defeat Inferi

Defeat Infamous foes

Defeat spiders

Defeat trolls

Defeat mongrels

Complete duelling feats

Challenges in this category will ask you to finish quests in the main story, as well as side quests. Side quests can range from playing a minigame such as Summoner’s Court, or fetching items for another student or a teacher. You also get items for completing assignments from your professors.

Complete main quests

Complete side/relationship quests

This is more of a catch-all collection of challenges that require you to explore much of the Hogwarts Legacy map. These include finding traces of Ancient Magic, popping balloons, and completing Merlin trials, among many others. The exploration challenges will ask you to go far and wide, and you’ll be rewarded for delving into every corner of each region. You can unlock additional styles for your Hogwarts broom by finishing the balloon challenges.

Pop balloons

Landing platforms

Complete Merlin trials

Find Astronomy tables

Solve Hogwarts secrets

The Hogwarts Legacy Field Guide pages challenge section lets you keep tabs on how many pages you’ve picked up on your travels and where. While a lot of them are flying pages you can use Accio to retrieve, you also have Revelio pages and empty paintings that also hide these valuable documents.

Collect Field Guide Pages in Hogwarts

Collect Field Guide Pages in the Highlands

These challenges revolve around things you can do within the Hogwarts Legacy Room of Requirement, such as upgrading gear and rescuing beasts. It doesn’t matter if you catch the same beast types, as they all count towards this challenge. As for upgrading gear, try to have a few surplus items that you can improve with fewer beast materials to speed through those challenges. You can always sell them to any vendor afterwards.

Unknown Room of Requirement challenge

Upgrade your gear