Hogwarts Legacy: How to pop floating balloons

Hogwarts Legacyhas a sprawling open world full of interesting challenges, one of which is popping balloons for exciting rewards. Here’s how to pop floating balloons in Hogwarts Legacy.

Besides the main story quests, the action-adventuregamehas several side quests to keep you engaged, providing a rich and fulfilling gaming experience for completionists.

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Fromfinding Demiguise Statues in townsto discovering constellations at Astronomy Tables, Hogwarts Legacy has plenty of tasks to check off in each area.

One of those open-world challenges is popping balloons hovering above the vast Scottish Highlands. Here’s everything players need to know about completing these balloon-popping challenges and what you get for doing them.

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How to complete balloon popping challenges in Hogwarts Legacy

During the early hours of the game, students will likely seered and yellow balloons dotting the skiesabove Hogwarts. These balloons are part of the Exploration Challenges found in the game’s pause menu.

The ‘Pop Balloon’ challenges are fairly easy to complete, but they will take some time to start as players must haveaccess to broom flightor mounted flying to get started.

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Broom flight becomes availableafter completing Jackdaw’s Rest and taking your first flying lesson in the ‘Flying Class’ quest. Once completed, students can finally visit Sprintwitches Sporting Needs in Hogsmeade and buy a broom for 600 Galleons.

From here, it’s just a matter of finding these balloons out in the world and flying through them all to complete each area’s challenge.

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As mentioned above, all you need to do to complete the ‘Pop Balloon’ challenges isfly through every floating balloonin a specific region. If one balloon is missed and left behind,the challenge will not be complete and they will all eventually respawn.

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Here is a breakdown of each region’s balloon challenges:

Completing ‘Pop Balloon’ challenges will reward players with new cosmetic brooms. Completing 2 sets will unlock the Night Dancer broom, 5 sets unlock the Lickety Swift Broom, 10 sets unlock the Wild Fire Broom, and 15 sets unlock the Bright Spark Broom.

And that’s everything players need to know about Hogwarts Legacy’s floating balloon challenges. For more Hogwarts Legacy guides, check out the articles listed below:

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