WoW Midnight Renown Guide: All 5 Factions, Gear Ranks, Fast Rep

Quick summary

• Every Midnight faction uses the same scale: 2,500 reputation per Renown rank, a cap of 20, and progress shared across your Warband (Icy Veins, Wowhead).
• The gear ranks to aim for are Singularity 7, Hara'ti 8, and Silvermoon Court and Amani Tribe 9. Each gives a quest reward at item level 279 for Season 2 (Wowhead News). Zul'jarra's Forces adds Veteran bracers at Renown 2 and Champion bracers at 9 (Wowhead).
• Put each weekly choice you control into one faction. Halduron Brightwing's dungeon weekly gives 1,500 reputation and counts for one faction per week.
• Patch 12.1.5 doesn't change the five factions. Blizzard's notes add Prey Journey catch-up and make Legion and Battle for Azeroth reputations Warbound.
• Renown gear is a starting point, not progression. Hero and Myth gear never comes from a quartermaster (WGE).

Understand how Midnight Renown works

Renown is reputation divided into numbered ranks. Each rank unlocks something: a vendor item, a gear quest, a passive bonus, or currency. Icy Veins notes that Renown is account-wide from the start, "so there is no need for a catch-up system." Open your standings with Shift+J (Journeys, then the Midnight dropdown), or press U for the reputation pane.

Ranks usually unlock the right to buy a reward, not the reward itself. Wowhead says purchases cost Voidlight Marl or the matching Artisan's Moxie. Reaching a rank and paying for its reward are two separate steps.

Number	Value	Source
Reputation per rank	2,500	Icy Veins, Wowhead
Renown cap	20	Icy Veins
Reputation from Renown 1 to 20	47,500	WGE (19 × 2,500)
Sharing	Warband-wide	Icy Veins, Wowhead

Know the five factions and their quartermasters

Faction	Zone	Quartermaster	Gear rank	Source
Silvermoon Court	Eversong Woods	Caeris Fairdawn, Saltheril's Haven (43.4 47.4)	Renown 9: helm	Wowhead, Wowhead News
Amani Tribe	Zul'Aman	Magovu, Amani'Zar Village	Renown 9: neck	WGE, Wowhead News
Hara'ti	Harandar	Naynar, The Den	Renown 8: belt	WGE, Wowhead News
The Singularity	Voidstorm	Void Researcher Anomander, Howling Ridge	Renown 7: trinket (Crucible of Erratic Energies)	WGE, Wowhead News
Zul'jarra's Forces	The Coiled Isle	Jan'sari the Watchful, Tokka's Landing (58.8 46.0)	Renown 2: Veteran bracers; Renown 9: Champion bracers	Wowhead

Silvermoon Court has four sub-factions with separate standings: the Blood Knights, the Farstriders, the Magisters, and the Shades of the Row (Wowhead). Their quartermasters sell cosmetics for Brimming Arcana. The Amani Tribe and Zul'jarra's Forces are two different bars. WGE's advice is to "read the name before you celebrate."

Unlock each faction

Icy Veins says the four launch factions open one at a time as you finish each zone's leveling campaign. Zul'jarra's Forces opens through the 12.1 campaign.

Example: You boosted a character to 90 and skipped the story. WGE warns that boosted characters "who skipped the story get nothing until they go back and finish it." Run the zone campaigns before you expect any quartermaster to talk to you.

Rank your reputation sources

Here are the sources, ordered by reputation per completion. Each row shows its source.

Source	Reputation	Reset	Goes to	Source
The World Awaits (10 Quel'Thalas world quests, bonus-event weeks only)	2,500	Weekly when active	Your choice	Icy Veins
Zone event weekly (Saltheril's Soiree, Abundance, and others)	2,000	Weekly	That zone's faction	WGE; a Wowhead commenter reports 2,000 Court rep from Fortifying the Runestones
Halduron Brightwing dungeon weekly (any difficulty, Follower Dungeons count)	1,500	Weekly, one faction	Your choice	Icy Veins, Wowhead
Purging the Vaults	500	Weekly	Zul'jarra's Forces	WGE
Coiled Isle lore objects (10)	250 each, once	One-time	Zul'jarra's Forces	WGE
Rares	50 each	Weekly (launch zones) / first kill (Coiled Isle)	Zone faction	WGE, disputed, see below
Inscription Contract	+10 per world quest in any Midnight zone	Weekly, one contract active	Contract faction	WGE (amount); Wowhead (one at a time)
Bountiful Delves and Bountiful Caches	Varies	Weekly	Varies	Wowhead, WGE

Contract timing: sign the contract before your first world quest. WGE notes that signing it afterward gives up the reputation from quests you've already done. WGE also says an Oct 1 hotfix made the contract apply to your whole Warband. Blizzard's 12.1.5 notes don't mention this, so treat it as WGE's report.

Build a weekly reputation budget

Here's a sample week using only the fixed sources above, all aimed at Silvermoon Court:

Activity	Reputation
Halduron weekly → Silvermoon Court	1,500
Saltheril's Soiree weekly (zone event)	2,000 (WGE)
Fixed total	3,500, about 1.4 ranks
The World Awaits, bonus weeks only	+2,500

World quests, side-story finales (250 each per WGE), Delves, and a contract all add to that, but the amounts vary. Our weekly checklist shows how the dungeon and event weeklies fit with the rest of your week.

Example: Your Silvermoon Court is at Renown 7 and you want the Renown 9 helm. That's 5,000 reputation. At 3,500 a week from the two fixed weeklies, you get there early in your second week. Add one bonus-event World Awaits and it takes one week.

Plan your gear breakpoints

Faction	Rank	Reward	Season 2 item level	Source
Zul'jarra's Forces	2	Cursebreaker's Bracers I (Veteran wrists)	279	Wowhead (track); WGE (item level)
The Singularity	7	Crucible of Erratic Energies (trinket)	279	Wowhead News
Hara'ti	8	Belt	279	Wowhead News
Silvermoon Court	9	Helm	279	Wowhead News
Amani Tribe	9	Neck	279	Wowhead News
Zul'jarra's Forces	9	Cursebreaker's Bracers II (Champion wrists)	292	Wowhead (track); WGE (item level)

Wowhead News says the four launch-faction gear quests reset in 12.1, so you can do them again even if you finished them in Season 1. They are Veteran track now; in Season 1 they were Champion.

WGE puts Veteran at 279–295 and says a full upgrade costs 100 Veteran Mistcrests. Our Season 2 gearing guide covers upgrade tracks.

Order: Singularity first. It has the lowest gear rank, and Wowhead News calls the Crucible a "great starter trinket." Then Hara'ti, then Silvermoon Court and Amani Tribe. Claim the Zul'jarra Renown 2 bracers along the way.

Know what Zul'jarra's Forces gives beyond gear

All ranks below are from Wowhead's reward table. Marl costs are from WGE, because Wowhead's cost column didn't load when we checked.

Rank	Reward	Notes
4	Curse Surges I: your first Curse Surge boss has a daily chance to drop a Corrosive Soul
5	Coiled Isle crafting recipes, including Vantus Rune: Tides and Contract: Zul'jarra's Forces	Scribe recipes
6	Profession knowledge tomes; Zul'jarra's Bounty I (Marl)	WGE: 750 Marl plus Moxie for the tomes. Wowhead's table shows 5 Moxie
8	Spirit Corrosion I; Curse Surge bosses can drop Warbound Veteran gear
10	Spirit of Tok'jara mount questline (Du'gal, Vaults of Atal'Utek)	WGE: free
14	Spirit Corrosion II
17	Indigo Coiled Horror mount	WGE: 6,000 Marl
19	Violet-Backed Skyfang mount	WGE: 8,000 Marl
20	Hash'ura title, Mantle of Nalorakk, Axe of the Amani

WGE says Zul'jarra's Bounty pays 500, 1,000, and 2,000 Marl at ranks 6, 12, and 18. Wowhead lists Silvermoon Court's bounties as a flat 500 Marl at the same ranks.

For a geared player, WGE points to Renown 8 and 14 (Spirit Corrosion) as "the only rank rewards that still raise power." Ranks 4 and up feed Corrosive Powers, which work outdoors and in Delves.

Use 12.1.5's actual catch-up: Prey

Blizzard's 12.1.5 notes add catch-up to the Prey Journey, not to faction Renown:

• Below rank 4: each hunt gives 4,000 Journey progress, which is a full rank. This replaces the first-four-hunts bonus.
• Ranks 4–9: each of your first four hunts a week gives 2,000.
• Afflicted and Tormented Souls can no longer be used while a hunt is active.

The same notes say that from the week of October 6, Orin Straylight lets you trade gold, Voidlight Marl, or Veteran Mistcrests for one extra Nebulous Voidcore a week, once you finish his quests. This gives Marl a use besides buying cosmetics. See our Prey guide for the hunts.

Compare ways to raise Renown

Method	Rep per week	Control	Best for
Halduron weekly	1,500 fixed (Icy Veins)	Pick any faction	Reaching one breakpoint
Zone event weekly	2,000 (WGE)	Zone faction only	Steady progress on all four
World quests + contract	Varies	Contract faction	Players who already do world quests
Bonus-event World Awaits	2,500	Pick any faction	The fastest single rank, when active
Coiled Isle one-time objects	2,500 total (10 lore objects at 250)	Zul'jarra only	Fresh characters, once per Warband

Plan Renown on a fresh 90 or a returning character

• Fresh 90: finish the zone campaigns first. WGE says the story alone takes most tracks to about Renown 5 or 6. Then go for the Singularity 7 trinket.
• Returning for 12.1.5: your Warband's Renown is still there. Pick up the reset Season 2 gear quests even if you did them before (Wowhead News), run four Prey hunts for the catch-up, and check Orin for the Voidcore.
• Boosted character: a boost doesn't complete the zone stories. Run them to unlock the quartermasters (WGE).

Use Renown on alts

Renown is shared, so a new alt shows up at every quartermaster already at your main's rank. WGE notes that the Season 2 gear quests are claimed per character, so each alt can take the helm, neck, belt, trinket, and both bracers on its first day at 90.

Keep Marl pooled on one character. WGE says it's Warband-transferable. For spending ideas, see our housing guide for decor and professions guide for the knowledge tomes. Our gold farming routes cover gold, which is one of Orin's trade options.

Avoid the common mistakes

• Splitting the Halduron weekly across factions delays every breakpoint (WGE).
• Signing a contract after your world quests are done.
• Counting on rare kills for reputation.
• Assuming your Season 1 gear quests are used up. They reset (Wowhead News).
• Buying decor before mounts, if mounts are your goal. WGE says that leaves you 14,000 Marl short at Renown 17 and 19.

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FAQ

How much reputation is one Renown rank in Midnight? 2,500, with a cap of Renown 20. Progress is shared by your whole Warband (Icy Veins, Wowhead).

Which Renown ranks give gear in Season 2? Singularity 7 (trinket), Hara'ti 8 (belt), and Silvermoon Court and Amani Tribe 9 (helm and neck), all at item level 279 (Wowhead News). Zul'jarra's Forces gives Veteran bracers at 2 and Champion bracers at 9 (Wowhead).

Does 12.1.5 add Renown catch-up? Not for the five factions. Blizzard's notes add catch-up to the Prey Journey only, and make Legion and BfA reputations Warbound.

What's the fastest weekly Renown? Aim Halduron Brightwing's 1,500-reputation dungeon weekly at one faction, do that zone's event weekly, and do The World Awaits during bonus weeks for 2,500.

Can I redo the renown gear quests from Season 1? Yes. Wowhead News reports they reset in 12.1 at item level 279 Veteran.

Do rares give Renown reputation? Wowhead commenters report none.

Do alts need to grind Renown again? No. Ranks are Warband-wide, but each character claims its own gear quests (WGE).