What the achievement asks
Reach Renown 30 with the Valdrakken Accord. 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.
The faction that opens the most content
Thirty is the joint-highest requirement of the six, and the Valdrakken Accord unlocks more of the expansion than any other faction.
| Renown | What opens |
|---|---|
| 5 | The Siege on Dragonbane Keep, which is three achievements at 30.51 77.91 in The Waking Shores |
| 7 | The dragon races, by way of the Aerial Challenges quest. Every race achievement in the meta waits on this |
| 12 | The questline The Silver Purpose, which also gates Of the Tyr's Guard in another branch |
| 19 | The questline Garden of Secrets, and The Dreamer follows straight on from it |
Renown 7 is the one that matters most for the calendar. Until you have it the race masters have nothing to say to you, and the racing achievements are among the longest lists in the meta. Push this faction first if you are starting the expansion now.
Three of the six questlines in Friend of the Dragon Isles come from this faction alone.
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.