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Koyote · Jun 13, 2011, 09:56 AM // 09:56

Cartography, luckily I only need to get Canthan Grandmaster Cartographer to get to 45 HoM points. I also hate the Gamer title because it doesn't increase my Balthazar faction cap.

TheRaven · Jun 13, 2011, 10:17 AM // 10:17

Well, we can all argue that some titles are too much of a grind and that some are just boring. We all have our favorites and those that we hate to work on.

However, in my opinion, the one that is simply the most unfair to players would have to be the unlucky title. I've leveled both Lucky and Unlucky up to rank 6. Lucky is maxed, unlucky isn't. Why have the extra rank on unlucky?

cataphract · Jun 13, 2011, 11:36 AM // 11:36

I never liked the Skill Hunter title. Just thinking about capping in Tyria makes me shiver.

LifeInfusion · Jun 13, 2011, 12:15 PM // 12:15

Anything that gives stat bonuses, which discourages alts and rewards grind.

Lightbringer, Norn, asura, Deldrimor (not so much with the dungeons but it still takes time), Vanguard (not so much with Keiran /Hearts of the North quests in place but you still need to grind it). Sunspear is easy in comparison: I did a scratch character to rank 7 just doing the storyline; it doesn't have many skills linked to it, just sunspear rebirth signet.

Lucky/Unlucky, Luxon/Kurzick, Vanquisher, Wisdom and treasurehunter may be grindy, but they don't give stat bonuses that matter in combat (i.e. skills).

Doing explorer without texmod is a pain too, since after 95% it's all scraping.

And PvP titles + Skillz are more or less unmaxable without insane amounts of time. But most people don't consider them titles to max anyway, you don't need to do so for HoM.

Tyrian skillhunter is a pain sometimes, but there's tomes.

LDOA is another time waster.

Stimm · Jun 13, 2011, 12:15 PM // 12:15

Before the change I hated the drunkard title, now thats it is spammable its fine. I ll always hate the Unlucky and Lucky titles.

Abedeus · Jun 13, 2011, 12:27 PM // 12:27

Every one of them. Especially the Allegiance titles, because they are purely about grinding - at least Protectors show some kind of skill required. I remember I especially despised Ursan, since you had to max it to go to DoA with dumb pugs who couldn't run anything but Ursan.

Mokeiro · Jun 13, 2011, 12:58 PM // 12:58

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Originally Posted by Wannagotoheaven

All the titles that affect your gameplay: rep titles. Without them you're left at a disadvantage for some things. And not making them account wide discourages rerolling

This post wins thread, rep titles should be account wide, every title should be account wide cause im the only playing my account and im the one killing useless mobs to raise asuran to max, but guess what? if i change my char then my asuran is 0, it's this fair? Have Anet some kind of twisted pleasure in annoy their best costumers? why i am at disadvantage playing with 14 chars from someone who played 5000 hours with only 1 char? and have all his rep titles maxed?

Titles are a pain, titles affecting gameplay its an excrement.

Swingline · Jun 13, 2011, 01:31 PM // 13:31

All the titles are pointless. Titles are usually implemented to increase grind time with keeping you on their game longer and that's exactly what happened with this game. Where oh where did my grind free game go.

macke · Jun 13, 2011, 03:14 PM // 15:14

Cartography!!! Hug every single wall in the game to gain this everlasting title of stupidity and boredom!!!

gremlin · Jun 13, 2011, 03:51 PM // 15:51

Where do I start.

A title should be something the character you are playing in the game earns.

So in order of annoyance.

Account wide titles
Titles obtainable only by stupidly repetitive actions ldoa is fixed hurrah
Those obtained by going afk and or dying a million times.
Ones you can buy easily.
Silly ones like Party animal and drunkard
Cartographer a title that invites you to climb every tree look behind every bush and stick your head down every rabbit hole, by that criteria this entire planet is unexplored.

There are probably more but these are the main ones.

for me the rot set in when players started moaning that they were gaining the titles not their "toons" hate that word so any title gained should be account wide.

darktyco · Jun 13, 2011, 04:19 PM // 16:19

1) Rep titles (grind = benefits)
2) Rep titles that aren't account wide (repeat grind for the same benefits)
3) Any title that has my character in the original Prophecies game, other than LDoA (Tyria seems the dryest of all the content).

Edit: 4) Any title that requires grinding or other sleep inducing boredom. I believe this is 90% of them.

Dot Rotten · Jun 13, 2011, 04:33 PM // 16:33

Gamer for sure. I've only ever seen one guy with it maxed in my 5 years of playing.
It's too much of a grind, and comes about rarely.

Also, Cartographer, Eww.. Who actually wants to wall hug, seriously? It's a horrible grind, and I respect people that actually maxed it ^^, Canthan was enough for me..

Missing HB · Jun 13, 2011, 04:33 PM // 16:33

I don't really hate title , i would just say i more likely hate the way they have to be earned and problems they probably didn't think about....
- Luck/Unluck : they probably didn't expect players to just sit and afk whole events to get it
- Lightbringer/Sunspear : probably there should have been more quests and hard ones so you can get more points before having to farm it..... Anyone will say that they get those titles by farming elona desert over and over....

Generally like gremlin and darktyco said , titles where you simply have to farm a place over and over or by just not doing anything....
I would also add cartographer too , which isn't something easy to get without Texmod , especially for Prophecies.... You can do all corners , hug every wall and still get 99.x % there , because of mountains , little corners , having to insist on a place to get 0.01% , etc....

the one you love to hate · Jun 13, 2011, 04:49 PM // 16:49

i only dislike HA... fame is such a drag. if you aren't r9 then you dont get in a group... but guess what... all you people who are r9+... here is a good eye opener... YOU WERE ALL AT 0 FAME ONCE... so you had to grind to get to your rank. give me a chance too.

the rest of the titles are just a cake walk. i currently am at 26 max titles with only vanquishers to finish. i dont dislike those titles... just dread having to do them is all. i put it off as i did all the others.

also i would say that i dont agree with the majority of you for your thoughts on all titles being account wide. i was happy when they made wisdom account wide. now i am at 6k finished. but i will knock that one out with some vaettir grinding. if i ever find time to do so...

vader · Jun 13, 2011, 04:56 PM // 16:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by LifeInfusion

Anything that gives stat bonuses, which discourages alts and rewards grind.

Lightbringer, Norn, asura, Deldrimor (not so much with the dungeons but it still takes time), Vanguard (not so much with Keiran /Hearts of the North quests in place but you still need to grind it). Sunspear is easy in comparison: I did a scratch character to rank 7 just doing the storyline; it doesn't have many skills linked to it, just sunspear rebirth signet.

Just Sunspear Rebirth Signet? You're missing something:

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Sunsp...unspear_skills

Lord Natural · Jun 13, 2011, 05:49 PM // 17:49

Any title that's a pure money sink. I have no interest in standing on rings for hours at a time or playing with a "drunk" screen for weeks. I can respect any title that requires actual game play to acquire.

neighto · Jun 13, 2011, 06:05 PM // 18:05

out of all the titles I have for GWMM, the only one that I really didnt enjoy doing was the skill capping in Tyria. That was such a pain

Ximvotn · Jun 13, 2011, 06:07 PM // 18:07

Anything but Guardian, Cartographer, Skill Hunter, and Vanquisher.

MithranArkanere · Jun 13, 2011, 06:14 PM // 18:14

It's not that I hate any, but I don't like the ones that force you to stop playing to get them.

For example, without farming, trading, chest running and standing AFK for hours in the rings, it's impossible to get Lucky/Unlucky, Wisdom and Treasure Hunter in less than one year.

I got all the other non-PvP titles just by playing normally through the game, without detours or stopping to farm anything. Some dungeons here, some vanquishes there, some Zaishen quests, and you get the reputation titles without farming the points.

And for the festival titles, you can just get the booze slowly while playing with the cash you get from the normal drops along the way, and make some quests during festivals to get some extra.

thedeadlyassassin · Jun 13, 2011, 06:55 PM // 18:55

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Originally Posted by MithranArkanere

It's not that I hate any, but I don't like the ones that force you to stop playing to get them.

For example, without farming, trading, chest running and standing AFK for hours in the rings, it's impossible to get Lucky/Unlucky, Wisdom and Treasure Hunter in less than one year.

I got all the other non-PvP titles just by playing normally through the game, without detours or stopping to farm anything. Some dungeons here, some vanquishes there, some Zaishen quests, and you get the reputation titles without farming the points.

And for the festival titles, you can just get the booze slowly while playing with the cash you get from the normal drops along the way, and make some quests during festivals to get some extra.

I got LMOTN, Guardian, Vanquisher/Cartographer, Survivor, Lightbringer, Asuran, Norn, and Vanguard while still not having enough money from drops to max 1 consumable title. So, the advice of "pick up everything" is helpful to player that basically wants to go through a campaign. I've done that. It's going to require a lot more farming to get the consumable titles.