What it is
Patrons of Nox is a ranking like Nobility. Characters are ranked by Renown, and the top 50 get a rank with Battle Power, a badge and a title.
Renown has three parts: silver you donate, Star Stones you temper, and what you do in the game. Money alone can't take the top: the best places need all three.
Ranks and rewards
| Rank | Board places | Battle Power | Also |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nox Grand | 1-3 | +3 | a world message when you log in, and +1 Incubator slot at the Star Keeper |
| Nox Patron | 4-15 | +2 | a system message when you log in |
| Nox Benefactor | 16-50 | +1 | - |
- Every rank shows its own badge and its title word above your character, like King, Prince and Duke.
- The BP adds to your Nobility BP. On alternate-equipment maps, Nobility and Patrons BP together stay at most 5.
- The board and the ranks refresh every 10 minutes and at every cut.
- A rank holder keeps the rank until someone passes them by more than 1% of their Renown.
- Only characters seen in the last 30 days are on the board.
How Renown is earned
Renown = Treasury + Mastery + Deeds. Points belong to one character and never move to another.
Treasury: donated silver
| Rule | Number |
|---|---|
| Silver for 1 point | 1,000,000 (whole millions only) |
| Most points a period, per character | 2,000 (2 billion silver) |
| Most points a period, per account | 2,000, all characters together |
| Cut on the 1st and 16th | yes, keeps 80% |
A donation over the cap is refused, not taken. Donate in the Patrons of Nox window: open it with the Patrons button beside the Nobility icon.
Mastery: Perfection
| Rule | Number |
|---|---|
| Star Stone exp for 1 point | 1,000 |
| What counts | Star Stone exp you tempered into items you still own (worn, in your bag or in your warehouse), counted from launch |
| Cut on the 1st and 16th | never |
Sell or drop the item and its Mastery goes with it. A bought item doesn't bring the seller's exp.
Deeds: playing
| Deed | Points |
|---|---|
| A boss kill (island bosses, world bosses, the Epic Dragon) with at least 1% of the damage | 5 |
| Top 3 damage on that boss (in place of the 5) | 10 / 7 / 5 |
| Killing the last guard of a Starfall star | 3 |
| A sign-in day (once per account a day) | 2 |
| A filled Weekly Constellation where you tempered 100+ Star Stone exp (given when the week closes, Monday 00:00) | 10 |
| A square event won (the winners, a tiered event's first tier, or the whole winning team) | 5 |
Deeds give at most 1,000 points a period per character. They are cut like Treasury: keeps 80%.
The period and the cut
A period runs from the 1st to the 16th of the month, and from the 16th to the next 1st, at 00:00 server time.
At each new period:
- Treasury and Deeds keep 80% (rounded down). Mastery is never cut.
- The per-period Treasury and Deeds caps start again from 0.
Prosperity Blessing
Donations help everyone. For every 1,000,000,000 silver the whole server donates in a period, everyone gets +5% hunting EXP in the next period, up to +15%.
Only a finished period counts, so a late donation can't switch it on at once. A world message tells the blessing when the period starts.
The window and the badge
Open Patrons of Nox with its button right beside the Nobility icon in the icon bar.
- The top 50: place, title, name, Renown and BP.
- Your Renown split into Treasury, Mastery and Deeds, your place, and the time to the next cut.
- The Donate box: 1,000,000 silver = 1 Treasury point.
Your rank badge sits above your guild flag, and the rank word shows over your character for everyone to see, no hover needed.
Tips
- Sign in every day: 2 points a day, for free.
- Fight bosses for the top 3. A place is worth up to twice the plain 5.
- Mastery is the only part that is never cut. Temper your Star Stones into the gear you keep. See Star Observatory.
- Donate a little every period: each period allows only 2,000 Treasury points.
