Bounty

Bounty could also refer to any of these bounties:
 * Sunspear/Lightbringer bounty
 * Kurzick/Luxon bounty
 * Eye of the North reputation bounties

General Description
Bounties (also known as "conscription orders" or "hunts") are blessings offered by NPC's next to a resurrection shrine that allow you to collect Sunspear Promotion Points, Lightbringer Points, or Reputation points.


 * In Nightfall each bounty is for a certain species of foe that currently poses a threat to the area.
 * In Eye of the North each bounty is for all creatures slain in an area.

A bounty blessing lasts until you leave the current zone. A bounty blessing will not cost anything. The bounty will only benefit players who take it, however, it will count any kills made by the party, even those by members who are outside of the danger zone radius. As such, multiple players can take on a blessing and then spread out in different directions to kill the designated monsters with each kill gaining promotion points for all players no matter how far apart.

Resurrected monsters and monsters summoned with Call to the Torment are not counted by bounties.

Any number of different bounties can be active at the same time.

Cut-off
As a character increases in level and Sunspear/Lightbringer rank and Reputation rank, bounty-givers eventually stop offering bounties in order to prevent easy farming for promotion points. The exact rules seem to be complex and are not known in detail. It is believed that the cut-off point is determined by either the average level of foes of the designated species in the area relative to the character level and rank. Another theory is that there are two independent caps, a rank-based cap based on region, and a level-based cap which is applied when all non-boss foes of the appropriate type are too low in level to yield experience. To see and discuss the research of the bounty cutoffs, go to the discussion page.
 * The same bounty may no longer be available in one place, but may still be available at another shrine.
 * Within the same area, one bounty may no longer be available, but another bounty still is.
 * In normal mode, characters are unable to receive any bounties in Istan after reaching Sunspear Commander (rank 6).
 * Once you reach Sunspear Castellan (rank 8), you won't be able to receive any Sunspear bounties in normal mode.
 * Sunspear and Lightbringer Bounties are always available in Hard Mode, even after reaching the maximum rank.

Trivia

 * The writing on the bounty icons bears a superficial resemblance to the Runic Alphabet.