Status points

Status points are a kind of currency that you can earn in various ways, and they can be used to purchase 'special' items that would otherwise be unavailable to you. If you visit a merchant and some of the price of the item is displayed in light blue, then you will need to use status points to pay that cost.

You can earn status points in a number of ways, as indicated below, and these will be visible in your Persona menu, alongside your normal adventure stats. If you're a guild member then a bonus of 10% of any status you earn also gets credited to the guild, which in turn enables the guild to level up and gain access to particular equipment, quests etc. Note that although your personal status will reduce when you spend it, your contribution to your guild 'score' is not affected.

Typical items requiring Status to purchase

- Mounts

- Housing and upkeep

- Items from City Merchants (Such as crafting stations, titles and rare artwork)

- Items from Faction Merchants (eg tradeskill instances)

Note that some of these items also require that you are a member of a guild of a minimum level. Some items are available in two versions; one with a pure coin cost and one with a mixed coin/status cost. If you take a two room apartment in Irontoes East (North Queynos) as an example, the normal cost would be about 24 Gold to buy and just under 1 Gold a week in rent. If you elected to buy the 'status' version instead though it would cost about 14 Gold and 22,000 status points to buy, then about 60 Silver and 3,000 status points a week in rent. This weekly status cost can also be reduced further if you buy particular furniture, and house items such as pets (shown as 'status reduction' in their description).

Some ways to earn Status Points

- Performing Rush Orders or Work Orders (both types of crafting Writ Quests), available from NPC's in the tradeskill instances.

- Completing Heritage Quests from various NPC's in the world.

- Completing City Writ Quests, available from the class Guilds (Fighter, Priest, Mage, Scout) in each city.

- Status loot items dropped by sentient enemies such as gnolls, orcs, undead etc, these are the items where the description reads similar to 'You will receive a large amount of status if you give this item to a powerful guild of priests'. These can be sold to members of the class guilds (above), where the price in status will be displayed alongside the coin cost. Be careful to sell the correct items to the correct guild though or you won't receive any status points:

Fighters Guild - Will buy relics (eg Blackened Steel, Indicote etc)

Priests Guild - Will buy amulets (eg Coral, Star Sapphire etc)

Scouts Guild - Will buy sealed documents (eg Parafiin, Bayberry etc)

Mages Guild - Will buy scrying stones (eg Ruby; Coral etc)

With all of the above quests, the amount of status reward is progressively higher depending on the quest level, and many of the writ quests are repeatable if you so desire.