STAGE · Finding your feet
Renown
Draft — Draft: checked against the game source, not yet read through end to endAvailable from the startOnline's own ladder from 1 to 50: what earns it, its caps, and what it unlocks.
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A second level
Renown runs from level 1 to 50. It does not replace character level: your Daggerfall skills still determine character-level progress, while Renown tracks online progression. The account service keeps one Renown track per character and supplies the authoritative level. Offline play does not earn or apply Renown.
What earns Renown
You earn XP when you defeat eligible foes or finish quests. Your foe or quest level is read no more than three levels above your current Renown, so high-level content cannot skip the early curve. The kill reward is shared with players who struck the foe recently. A party adds a bonus per eligible member present; each player earns XP rather than sharing a single pool.
The service also credits certain witnessed activities: defending a town raid, defeating the Sea Serpent, winning Arena bouts, holding Starfall stars, and filling court writs. These awards follow their own event rules and are subject to the same account-wide hourly cap.
What Renown changes
Each Renown level after the first adds 3 maximum Health and 2 maximum Spell Points while you play online. The bonus adjusts with the level and disappears offline; the underlying character save remains separate.
Renown also opens later systems. Your own-world elite spawns begin at Renown 5. Revenants are held until Renown 10. The Firmament grants stars as your Renown rises, and other later systems have their own gates.
Common mistakes
Counting the hourly cap per character. It belongs to the account and is shared across its characters.
Assuming the cap stores overflow. XP beyond the limit in that clock hour is not banked.
Reading Renown as character level. The two tracks advance for different reasons.
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Sources & checked facts
src/systems/online/onlineLane.js: online mod policy; neither Renown nor the Firmament is a vendored mod overridesrc/net/renown.js:RENOWN_MAX,renownRate,renownCeiling,renownKillXp,renownQuestXp,renownPartyXp,RENOWN_XP_HOUR_MAX,renownBonussrc/net/renownTracker.js:RENOWN_ASSIST_MS,neverPaysserver-account/src/renownTracks.js:reportRenownXpsrc/systems/eliteFoes.js:ELITE_FOE_MIN_RENOWN,eliteRenownOpensrc/systems/revenant/revenant.js:REVENANT_MIN_RENOWN,revenantHeldResearch note:
handbook/research/P2.md; online-lane check:handbook/research/M.md
Facts used on this page
- Renown XP per real hour: 15000 XP
src/net/renown.js·RENOWN_XP_HOUR_MAX - Maximum Renown: 50 Renown
src/net/renown.js·RENOWN_MAX