Hunter's Guild¶

The Hunter's Guild is a passive reputation system layered on top of every NM-killing track on Legendary. Killing NMs earns reputation in the matching guild; rep-rank-ups boost the marks you earn from that same guild for the rest of your character's life.

Summary

Kill NMs → earn rep in the matching guild → rep ranks up → earned marks get +10% / +25% / +50% / +100% more. Hit Grandmaster across multiple guilds for Trinity Hunter (+25%) or Apex Hunter (+50%) stacked on top. Use !huntrank to see your status anywhere.

The four guilds¶

Each guild parallels one NM-kill source on the server. Reputation in guild X amplifies marks earned in guild X's currency only.

Guild	NM source	Currency it amplifies
AF Hunters' Guild	Reforge AF (Sky Gods) NMs	AF Marks
Relic Hunters' Guild	Reforge Relic (Unity) NMs	Relic Marks
Empyrean Hunters' Guild	Reforge Empy (Abyssea) NMs	Empyrean Marks
League Hunters' Guild	Hunting League NMs	Hunt Marks

Reputation is the kill's base mark value — i.e. the marks you'd earn before the amplifier. That keeps the rep ladder a fixed grind regardless of which rank you're currently at; you don't move up faster just because your amplifier is higher.

Rank ladder¶

The same five ranks apply to all four guilds. Thresholds and amplifier values:

Rank	Rep needed	Amplifier	What it means
Apprentice	0	+0%	Entry rank — granted on your first kill.
Journeyman	500	+10%	Roughly 3 apex kills in.
Veteran	5,000	+25%	Roughly 35 apex kills in.
Master	25,000	+50%	Roughly 170 apex kills in.
Grandmaster	100,000	+100%	Roughly 670 apex kills in — unlocks capstone eligibility.

Apex Reforge NMs award 150 marks per kill; League Tier V (Rank V) hunts award 65. Grandmaster on a Reforge guild is therefore ~670 apex kills, while on the League it's ~1,540 Tier V kills — the League is naturally slower to max because the base mark value is smaller.

Capstones¶

Reaching Grandmaster on multiple guilds at the same time unlocks a permanent meta-bonus that stacks on top of each individual guild's +100%.

Capstone	Requires	Bonus	Applies to
Trinity Hunter	Grandmaster in AF + Relic + Empy	+25%	All Reforge marks (AF/Relic/Empy)
Apex Hunter	Grandmaster in all four guilds	+50%	All marks, supersedes Trinity

Apex supersedes Trinity at the math level — once you flip the Apex flag, the system stops applying Trinity's +25% on Reforge marks (no double-dipping). Net effect for an Apex Hunter is 2.5× base marks on every kill (1.0 base × 2.0 from Grandmaster × 1.5 from Apex with the multiplicative cap normalised at award time).

Capstone roll calls live on the Leaderboards page — Trinity and Apex Hunters get their own sections.

Where to check your rank¶

In-game: !huntrank shows your current rank, rep, amplifier, and progress to the next rank for all four guilds — plus your Trinity / Apex flags.

Backfill for existing players¶

When the guild system shipped, existing players were not stranded at zero rep. On first interaction the system reads each lifetime mark CharVar (RF_AF_Marks_Lifetime, RF_Relic_Marks_Lifetime, RF_Empy_Marks_Lifetime, HL_Points_Lifetime) and grants that many rep points retroactively. A per-character Guild_Backfilled = 1 flag prevents it from running twice.

If you want to disable retroactive grants for future server installs, set catalog.backfillFromLifetime = false in modules/custom/lua/hunters_guild_catalog.lua.

How to tune¶

All numbers live in modules/custom/lua/hunters_guild_catalog.lua:

catalog.ranks — change thresholds or amplifiers (per-rank).
catalog.guilds — add/remove guilds, retarget the CharVars they read/write.
catalog.capstones — adjust capstone composition or bonus values.

Rep is awarded from the spawn-side modules:

AF / Relic / Empy: Reforge_System.lua → awardCurrency() bumps the rep CharVar by md.marks.
League: HuntingLeague.lua → onMobDeath bumps by md.points.

If you add a new NM-killing source and want it to feed a guild, fire the same rep-bump from that source and add a guild entry pointing at a new repCv CharVar.

Last updated: 2026-05-30 05:04 UTC