The Scaredy-Cat's Guide to Plunderstorm - Reaching 40 Renown Even If You're Bad At PVP

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The fastest way to get Renown in Plunderstorm is to kill other players, and win. But what if you're like me: A big scaredy cat who's terrible at PVP? I maxed out my Keg Leg's Crew Renown days after Plunderstorm was released without winning once. More importantly, I enjoyed myself while I did it. So here are some of the best strategies to earn Renown even if you can't survive most fights to save, well, your life.

On average, I make 400-800 Renown a match. Sometimes if I'm lucky, I make over 1000. On more than one occasion, I've even reached level 9 and made over 1000 Renown — once even making it all the way to second place — without defeating another player in the entire match. Obviously this is nowhere close to the 3000+ Renown you can make from winning a match, but if you don't enjoy, or aren't good at, PVP, that doesn't mean you have to slowly chip away at 40 levels a tiny bit at a time.

First Things First: Understanding the Basics

Plunderstorm is extremely simple compared to the rest of WoW, but it's important to know the basics, and not everything is immediately apparent in-game.

For example, while there are no addons in Plunderstorm, you can still change your keybindings. Setting the interact binding to a button on my mouse immediately made it a lot easier for me to pick up spells quickly. The lobby before the match starts is also a good place to test your keybindings and get comfortable with them.

During a Plunderstorm match, Renown comes from Plunder. The more you pick up, the more Renown you earn. This means you want to pick up all Plunder that you can grab, and take every opportunity that you have to safely pick up more. This might sound obvious, but you'd be surprised at how many people ignore small piles of Plunder or other Plunder sources, and how much you can earn if you're more thorough.

In Plunderstorm, you always start out at Level 1, and can reach a maximum level of 10. Even if you have no intention of fighting other players, it's