Renown Hearts also called renown regions

Certain zones do not have renown hearts. All cities lack renown hearts as well as skill challenges. Zones in the Ruins of Orr region and Southsun Cove do not have renown hearts; instead they have large meta event chains encompassing the entirety of the zone.

Renown Hearts also called renown regions, tasks, or simply hearts, are fixed areas within an explorable zone that give a set of tasks for a player to assist with and provide a reward upon completion. A description of the tasks is listed under the heart name in the interface. Each renown heart area is anchored by renown heart NPC with supporting lore and local goals that need to be accomplished. Most zones having a few hearts scattered throughout and are required for map completion. Players do not have to talk with the NPC to start a renown heart. Hearts are reminiscent of traditional quests in other MMORPGs.Guild Wars 2 Gold. Rather than being given as a checklist of tasks a player needs to do in sequence, players simply follow a list of possible actions or activities that contribute to the progress of an area's renown heart. Renown hearts provide static content in the absence of events. Much of the design of areas will have events and renown hearts overlap on contributing actions and lore. In most cases, there are a couple events in the vicinity of a renown heart which involve killing enemies that contribute to the renown heart. Hearts reflect regional, broadly accomplished, finite objectives for content, while events are dynamic, specific directives that may be encountered and consequently won or lost multiple times.