Renown Heart

This article is about the renown heart game mechanic. For the NPC service, see Renown heart NPC.

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Renown Hearts also called renown regions, tasks, or simply hearts, are fixed areas within an explorable zone that give a set of tasks for a player to assist with and provide a reward upon completion. A description of the tasks is listed under the heart name in the interface. Each renown heart area is anchored by renown heart NPC with supporting lore and local goals that need to be accomplished. Most zones having a few hearts scattered throughout and are required for map completion. Players do not have to talk with the NPC to start a renown heart. Hearts are reminiscent of traditional quests in other MMORPGs. Rather than being given as a checklist of tasks a player needs to do in sequence, players simply follow a list of possible actions or activities that contribute to the progress of an area's renown heart. Renown hearts provide static content in the absence of events. Much of the design of areas will have events and renown hearts overlap on contributing actions and lore. In most cases, there are a couple events in the vicinity of a renown heart which involve killing enemies that contribute to the renown heart. Hearts reflect regional, broadly accomplished, finite objectives for content, while events are dynamic, specific directives that may be encountered and consequently won or lost multiple times.

Certain zones do not have renown hearts. All cities lack renown hearts as well as skill challenges. Zones in the Ruins of Orr region and Southsun Cove do not have renown hearts; instead they have large meta event chains encompassing the entirety of the zone.

Map icons

- Task incomplete

- Task complete

Completing renown hearts

When a player moves within range of a renown heart, the heart icon along with its description and progress meter all appear as an entry among other listings in the event assist column. Talking to a scout will mark one or more empty hearts on the map. Players have many ways to contribute to renown hearts. Unlike events themselves, hearts are constant on the map once discovered, and will not vanish from the map when a character travels elsewhere. Progress on the heart can be started or stopped at any time. Hearts fill as the player assists in the area; no NPC interaction is required to begin progress on a heart. Progress can come from a wide variety of player actions, from simply killing foes to performing other tasks like watering plants or feeding cattle. With the numerous ways to contribute to a heart, there is no need to follow through every event in an area in order to attain completion.

Rewards

Once a heart is completed, players are rewarded with experience, karma, and receive mail from an NPC expressing gratitude and containing money. Additionally, the renown heart NPCs will begin selling karma goods. These goods will vary by NPC, with rewards including consumables, recipes, weapons, armor, etc. These goods may be purchased at any time afterwards as long as players have sufficient karma for the purchase. Completing a heart will also contribute to both area-wide and total percentages of map completion.

Karma

The karma reward starts at 90 karma at level 2 and increases an average of 7.5 per level. The reward increases by 8 for level 1 and 2, then increases by 7 for level 3 and 4, repeating this pattern every 4 levels.

Level		Level		Level		Level		Level		Level		Level		Level
1	82	11	158	21	232	31	308	41	382	51	458	61	532	71	608
2	90	12	165	22	240	32	315	42	390	52	465	62	540	72	615
3	98	13	172	23	248	33	322	43	398	53	472	63	548	73	622
4	105	14	180	24	255	34	330	44	405	54	480	64	555	74	630
5	112	15	188	25	262	35	338	45	412	55	488	65	562	75	638
6	120	16	195	26	270	36	345	46	420	56	495	66	570	76	645
7	128	17	202	27	278	37	352	47	428	57	502	67	578	77	652
8	135	18	210	28	285	38	360	48	435	58	510	68	585	78	660
9	142	19	218	29	292	39	368	49	442	59	518	69	592	79	668
10	150	20	225	30	300	40	375	50	450	60	525	70	600	80	675

Trivia

• The number of hearts shown on map varied during beta:
  • Beta Weekend Event 1 — 232 renown hearts
  • Beta Weekend Event 2 — 265 renown hearts
  • Beta Weekend Event 3 — 300 renown hearts
  • August 2nd stress test — 301 renown hearts
  • August 9th stress test — 302 renown hearts
  • August 15th stress test — 301 renown hearts