wow How to Not Get Stuck Behind Weekly Renown Cap

[Stan 5,018]

You can get stuck behind the current Renown cap if you recently switched Covenants.

The Renown catch-up mechanic has its own cap and caps at last week's cap, which means if you are behind and finish your weeklies first, you can no longer gain Renown from catch-up mechanics.

To avoid that, you must first max out your Renown using catch-up mechanics by completing dungeons, killing world bosses, and so forth. Also, make sure to complete chapters of the Covenant story, as they can also mess with your Renown cap.

Always turn in weeklies only after you have reached last week's Renown cap. Otherwise, the system will only give you last week's cap, and you will be stuck with it for a week.

Source: Reddit

[Slam 40]

Not a big deal but good to know!

[Mishmish 65]

Sounds like it could cause some unneccesary frustration. I hope they'll patch it so you keep getting catchup until you "should", as in, always givr you catchup as long as you have no other way to catch up, even if you did the regular weekly renown quests first. 

[Yuggles 0]

so like I just changed covenant on Tuesday to kyrian from venthyr and I did my weeklies first yet still get catch up mechanics. I don't think this is really correct.

[Ain 20]

This is not accurate, I have many alts getting renown from mythics or any other capped content is random but still obtainable regardless of having done the weekly quests.

Edited January 10, 2021 by Ain

[NDiggy 0]

On 1/10/2021 at 3:03 PM, Ain said:

This is not accurate, I have many alts getting renown from mythics or any other capped content is random but still obtainable regardless of having done the weekly quests.

It may just be bugged for certain accounts.  I did all 3 weekly quests and could no longer advance my Renown beyond 15.  Everyone I talked to said to just keep doing content, but I've done several normal mythics as well as heroics, cleared 8 levels of Torghast, done 4 Epic BGs, and hit 2500 Honor in ranked pvp through 3s since I hit Renown 15 and haven't been able to advance at all.  It might be better simply to be safe rather than sorry and just don't turn in the quests until your caught up.