What the achievement asks
Reach Renown 25 with the Dragonscale Expedition. Five points, account-wide, both factions.
What renown actually costs
Renown with a Dragonflight faction comes from almost everything you do in its zone: world quests, dailies and weeklies, rares, events, and the faction's own questlines. There is no single fast route and nothing you can buy to skip it.
What there is, is a floor. Renown never resets and it is account-wide, so every character you play feeds the same bar, and a faction you start late pays more per activity than one you have been grinding since launch. Coming to this now is considerably faster than it was at the time.
Do the weekly Aiding the Accord every week without fail. It asks you for 4,000 reputation from whatever you were doing anyway, and it pays out a chest that gives 500 renown reputation to every main faction at once. Nothing else in the expansion moves six bars with one turn-in.
What its levels unlock elsewhere
The Dragonscale Expedition is the faction that gates the most other achievements, so its levels are worth watching.
| Renown | What opens |
|---|---|
| 13 | The questline A Mystery, Sealed, one of the six in Friend of the Dragon Isles |
| 24 | The questline In the Halls of Titans, another of the six |
Its renown also feeds the Expedition Supplies talent tree that Pathfinder Jeb opens at 47.2 83.4 in The Waking Shores. That tree is Well Supplied, and one of its talents, Lucky Rock, is the hidden requirement for A Legendary Album.
Take Lucky Rock as early as the tree allows. Legendary characters do not appear during the cataloguing world quests without it, and those quests run on a rotation you cannot hurry.
Where it fits
One of twelve under Oh My God, They Were Clutchmates, a piece of A World Awoken. Renown is the slowest currency in the meta and the one with the least to do with skill, so start every faction early and let the weeklies carry them.