Renown Stuck at Level 79

You might have ended up on this page because you ran into the same issue in World of Warcraft Shadowlands, patch 9.1.5. I was attempting to catch up on my renown and was hitting a brick wall. I’m disappointed that they didn’t just include either a renown experience bar or a check list of things to reach the next renown and instead leave it up to a guessing game.

I did my Maw and Korthia dailies. I capped on my honor running battlegrounds. I went from 1400 to 1600 in arenas. I did chapters 4-7 of the new campaign quests. Yet I was still stuck at level 79 and the indicator was saying that there is Renown Available.

I read on some of the wow forums that you might need to do Korthia specific dailies/quests. So, I set out and did all of them, still no dice. However, this is somewhat misleading because the trick for me was hidden inside of the campaign/daily quest grind.

After completing all the Maw and Korthia dailies and questlines available, I also killed a few rare units in those zones and collected some of the “purple boxes” that generate on the map. It helped me complete a quest called “Shaping Fate”. It is a long grind to emulate “stopping the Jailer’s forces”. This quest is only available after you complete the “Focusing the Eye” or the third chapter of the Chains of Domination Campaign story line. This wowpedia link has a nice breakdown of which tasks help you complete this quest and what each task contributes percentage wise to the completion of the weekly quest.

My theory is that because this quest will give you 1 renown, it will bug out the other factors that will give you your last renown if you end up on it at level 79 renown. This may be applicable to other questlines that also give an [Emblem of Renown] as a reward. The bug may be consistent and reproducible if you’re one away from max renown and seemingly stuck as I was.

Hope this was helpful in you achieving your max renown of 80. Happy Gaming. 🙂