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Completing challenges rewards experience. The variety of tasks makes completing challenges slightly less repetitive and offers multiple means to gain levels.
The first case appears in the “Welcome to Hogwarts” quest when you are shown how to use Revelio for the first page you must find. Later, completing certain quests, defeating enemies, or discovering certain sites and other pages will also complete a challenge and add experience.
Challenges are separated into “Combat,” “Quests,” “Exploration,” “Field Guide Pages,” and “Room of Requirement.” Several other rewards, such as gear appearances and assorted buffs, get rewarded with challenge completion. These are also detailed below.
Character level is tied to experience. The maximum level of 40 requires completing every available experience event.
The article Experience List outlines the point values from all sources.
Each enemy is divided into a class, and there are several groups of enemies in each class. A “Combat Challenge” entails defeating one of the enemies in that class. Completing a combat group also rewards a Trait to enhance gear or a bonus Appearance. Once all groups of a class are completed, there are no more rewards for defeating enemies of that class.
The Combat section includes a class for dueling feats. Any successful feat accomplished by the end of a combat cycle will complete these challenges.
Defeat Dark Wizards: Dark wizards include any witch or wizard in the Ashwinder or Poacher cadres that is not also an Infamous Foe. Each defeat awards 20 experience points across a total of 240 enemies giving 4800 points.
Defeat Dugbogs: Stoneback, Great Spined, and Cottongrass dugbogs each provide 50 experience points for each of 35 beasts, awarding 1750 points.
Defeat Goblins: For any goblin loyalist besides an Infamous Foe, defeat awards 10 experience points for 190 enemies. A total of 1900 points can be awarded.
Defeat Inferi: Defeating an inferus that is not an Infamous Foe gives 20 experience points for the first 66 enemies. 1320 points are awarded for the lot.
Defeat Infamous Foes: These high-level or boss-class enemies are specially named cases of the other classes, have higher stats, and offer a more difficult fight. Each defeat applies 150 experience points for the first 21 cases totaling 3150 points.
Defeat Spiders: Venomous or Thornback magic spiders, including matriarchs and Acromantulas that are not also Infamous Foes, account for 10 experience points a piece. Hatchlings are not accounted for in the challenge. The first 240 beasts provide 2400 points.
Defeat Trolls: The first 30 defeated trolls that are not also Infamous Foes supply 50 experience points each, for a total of 1500 points.
Defeat Mongrels: Both Mongrels and Dark Mongrels award 20 experience points upon defeat. 60 of these account for 1200 total points.
Complete Dueling Feats: Every successful feat challenge gives 35 experience points. 3815 points are added for the first 109 feats.
Completing all Combat Challenges awards 21,835 experience points.
Every assignment quest and select main, side, and relationship quests are accounted for in challenges. Not every quest gives a reward.
Assignment: Every assignment quest unlocks a spell and awards 150 experience points. The twelve quests provide 1800 points.
Main Quest: 260 experience points are given for the accounted main quests. These 34 quests give a total of 8840 points.
Side/Relationship Quest: 69 relationship or side quests offer 180 experience points apiece as a reward. Completing all of them provides 12420 points.
Experience rewards from quests total 23060 points.
Several sites throughout the map provide unlocks and rewards. Most of the rewards provide Appearance unlocks. Ancient Magic trace discovery unlocks capacities in your ancient magic meter. Trials of Merlin increase your gear inventory capacity.
Collect Ancient Magic Traces: These are unlocked after completing the “Percival Rackham’s Trial” quest. I’ve noticed that, commonly, the Hogsmeade Valley ruins traces and, occasionally, a few other site traces will open before the quest-related unlock triggers. Collecting a site awards 100 experience points; all 20 sites account for 2000 points.
Pop Balloons: Besides enabling fast access to the farthest reaches of the highlands, buying a broom after the “Flight Class” quest unlocks challenges to unlock landing platforms and pop sets of anchored balloons. The 32 sets of balloons, including four sets from the two Madam Kogawa assignments, each provide 50 experience points and sum to 1600 points.
Landing Platforms: 20 platforms are spread throughout the highlands. Many of these are within sight of a sequence of balloons. Unlocking each one gives 80 experience points while triggering the whole set gives 1600 points.
Complete Merlin Trials: Unlocked by the “Trials of Merlin” quest, only 52 of the 95 trial sites will award 80 experience points and work toward increasing your gear carry slots. Completing the 52 trials provides 4160 points.
Find Astronomy Tables: During the “Astronomy Class” quest, Amit provides a telescope and directs you in its use with an Astronomy table. Viewing each constellation tallies 80 points at each of all 15 tables. 1200 total points are collected for this.
Solve Hogwarts Secrets: These three secrets require completing the main quest line to a certain point. They can be completed in any order. The minimum point to complete all of them occurs after the “Niamh Fitzgerald’s Trial” quest. Each secret gives 200 experience points for 600 points for all three.
The Exploration scores total 11160 experience points.
Professor Weasley shows how to collect a Revelio page during the “Welcome to Hogwarts” quest. There are five types of pages. Besides Revelio pages, Levioso pages are kept in navigator statues throughout the castle. Accio pages fly in static loops about Hogwarts and Hogsmeade. The castle and town also have Lumos moth mirrors containing a page each. Lastly, the Inflammare pages are bound in dragonet braziers, and freed by Incendio or Confringo. The braziers and mounted in wall sconces or floor pedestals around Hogwarts.
Hogsmeade Pages: 50 accounted for 80 experience points from 30 Revelio, 20 Accio, and 5 Lumos pages. The points for all total 4000 experience.
Hogwarts Pages: 100 accounted for 80 experience points from 89 Revelio, 21 Accio, 15 Lumos, 15 Levioso, and 15 Inflammare pages. Collecting all awards a total of 8000 experience.
Highlands Pages: 30 Revelio pages each account for 80 experience points. Their total is 2400 experience points.
Collecting all pages that reward experience provides 14400 points.
During “The Elf, the Nab-sack, and the Loom” quest, beast rescue and gear upgrades unlock to provide experience points. Later in the main quest line, Deek will start the “Foal of the Dead” quest, unlocking beast breeding and its point rewards.
Breed Beast: Use the breeding pen to start breeding an as-yet unbred mating pair of beasts. The first ten matings award 100 experience points and the total awards 1000 points.
Rescue Beast: Use the nab-sack to catch a free-roaming magical beast successfully. Each rescue adds 30 points of experience. Collecting the first 60 rescues provides 1800 experience points.
Upgrade Gear: Use collected beast by-products to enhance the quality of an upgradable piece of gear. An upgrade applies 25 experience points to the total. 30 upgrades together add 750 points.
The beast-related experience under the Room of Requirement totals 3550 experience points.
Reaching a new level gives a bonus of experience points. The points awarded at each level generally increase along with the level. The total amount of bonus experience sums up to 3800 experience points.
A table of level bonus experience is found in the experience outline article Experience List.
Experience points from all sources total 77805 points. This includes the level 40 bonus applied after completing the last experience event in the “Challenges” group.
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