Curse

josemonkey · Jun 23, 2006, 07:19 PM // 19:19

I like many of the existing titles, but I feel as if they are all "check 'em off" type titles. In other words, you need to open X number of chests, beat X missions, ID X items, etc. I'd like to see some titles that are more focused on gameplay. Here's what I mean:

As we all know, there are many specialty builds in the game -- MM, nuker, bonder, etc. Why not have some titles that measure how good someone is at a specific build? Here are some rough ideas off the top of my head:

Interrupter: Gain a point for each skill (or perhaps each elite skill?) that you interrupt
Minion Master: Gain a point each time you control 10 minions for X number of seconds.
Healer: Gain points for keeping people alive (haven't worked out an approach for this yet...)
Damage Dealer: Gain a point if you do more than X melee damage every Y seconds.
Nuker: Gain a point whenever you do elemental damage to X or more enemies simultaneously.
(variation on above -- specialize title tracks along elemental lines, i.e., fire nuker, etc.)

Now, I don't claim to have all the details worked out, so I'm sure there are flaws in some of these. Depending on how they were implemented, I'm sure you could find ways to farm some of these titles, too. One possible way to mitigate against this is to only make the kills/interrupts/whatever count in high level areas or against high-level enemies, or something like that. But I figure that people will *always* find a way to farm things, so I'm not going to focus on that too much.

Another downside I've considered is that this could lead to title snobbery -- i.e., people won't take a nuker unless they have level 3 title or better, etc. Like rank snobbery, I'm not sure how to avoid this. I suspect that people who do this can't be stopped from doing it -- it's just how they are. That alone doesn't seem like reason enough to rule this out, though.

Whaddya think? Wouldn't this be neat? Any ideas for title tracks?

(BTW, since I've already noted the farming problem and the title snobbery problem, I'd like to ask that we don't dwell on those.)

Priest Of Sin · Jun 23, 2006, 08:01 PM // 20:01

Tank Title: Block 400 Enemy attacks with stances.

Me likey...

Epinephrine · Jun 23, 2006, 08:07 PM // 20:07

Feels just as "check it off" as the other titles.

I don't think they're needed, nor would I want them.

Zui · Jun 23, 2006, 08:22 PM // 20:22

No, just no.

Arkantos · Jun 23, 2006, 08:44 PM // 20:44

Whats there to brag about for any of these?

Interrupter - Interrupting is easy if they interrupt 2s+ skills.
Minion Master - Make 10 minions and then just stand there spamming BotM and VS when recharged.
Healer - Should I even explain why this is easy?
Damage Dealer - In PvE, dealing damage is easy. In PvP, since lots of warriors use eviscrate, they'll own casters with dmg.
Nuker - They can just nuke the dummies in isle of the nameless

Malice Black · Jun 23, 2006, 10:44 PM // 22:44

i can see where you are going with this but more titles are not needed

things like better gameplay is needed..i can live without another title

bilateralrope · Jun 23, 2006, 10:59 PM // 22:59

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Originally Posted by Arkantos

Whats there to brag about for any of these?

Interrupter - Interrupting is easy if they interrupt 2s+ skills.
Minion Master - Make 10 minions and then just stand there spamming BotM and VS when recharged.
Healer - Should I even explain why this is easy?
Damage Dealer - In PvE, dealing damage is easy. In PvP, since lots of warriors use eviscrate, they'll own casters with dmg.
Nuker - They can just nuke the dummies in isle of the nameless

Easily earned but will lead to rank discrimation anyway

/unsigned

master_of_puppets · Jun 23, 2006, 10:59 PM // 22:59

Worth bragging about? I think you meant the title to be "More pointess titles"

/not signed

Arkantos · Jun 24, 2006, 12:20 AM // 00:20

only title worth bragging about is big deal.

Aki Soyokaze · Jun 24, 2006, 12:23 AM // 00:23

How are these anything to brag about?

You can easily just go to areas with really low lvl enemies and get these titles in no time at all.

/notsigned

Zui · Jun 24, 2006, 01:26 AM // 01:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arkantos

only title worth bragging about is big deal.

Don't forget Champion, so far that's the only title that actualy denotes any skill. All the rest can be farmed very easily(providing you have enough time).

art_ · Jun 24, 2006, 03:02 AM // 03:02

Zui, Not all players in good guilds are top players. Some of them are just extremely well connected.

fiery · Jun 24, 2006, 03:33 AM // 03:33

Whacker-How many times you wacked someone with an axe.

God Apprentice · Jun 24, 2006, 04:44 AM // 04:44

/notsigned
More or less those are just builds and really theres no need to display that as a title. Just imagine seeing a char with this:

Warierr Zxt[Gild]
(1)IWAY Warrior

Kijik Oni Hanryuu · Jun 24, 2006, 04:51 AM // 04:51

aww noone likes these titles, just make the interrupts have to interrupt a 1 sec cast or less make the MM one hmm for x amount of secs while under heavy fire. I do think this would be nice tho.

/signed because its a decent start

Terra Xin · Jun 24, 2006, 04:58 AM // 04:58

Titles should be achievable by 'all' classes, im not a fan of class-specific titles really...

shardfenix · Jun 24, 2006, 06:28 AM // 06:28

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