What the achievement asks
Reach Renown 20 with the Loamm Niffen. 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.
Where its renown comes from
The Loamm Niffen live in Zaralek Cavern, and their renown comes from the cavern's world quests, its public objectives, the Researchers Under Fire event, and sniffenseeking digs.
That overlaps neatly with two achievements you need anyway: The Smell of Money wants 200 coins from the same public objectives, and Nothing Stops the Research wants one kill at the same event.
| Renown | What opens |
|---|---|
| 9 | Special items start appearing in sniffenseeking digs, which is the hidden gate on Sniffen Around |
Renown 9 is worth reaching quickly. Below it you can run dig after dig and find nothing, the game never explains why, and the digs themselves are limited to three maps a week. Every week spent below 9 is a week of maps that could not have produced anything.
Twenty is the lowest of the six renown requirements, which makes this the one to finish first and stop thinking about.
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.