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sonofthort · Jul 19, 2008, 12:34 AM // 00:34

I saw the thread on the suggestion for an emote system based on total character experience, I was hoping for some support in trying to get a simple title system going for players with high experience. I feel that my 7.2 mil xp monk deserves something to show for it.

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BlackSephir · Jul 19, 2008, 12:41 AM // 00:41

No, your monk doesn't deserve anything.

Tearz1993 · Jul 19, 2008, 12:44 AM // 00:44

Because you should get an emote for solo farming?

Molock · Jul 19, 2008, 12:44 AM // 00:44

Bad idea... getting several million exp is far to easy with methods like HFF so basically the title would be pointless.

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glacialphoenix · Jul 19, 2008, 12:46 AM // 00:46

No. Why reward more grind? If you've been farming on your 7.2mil xp monk, you've already found something that benefited you (whatever you made off farming, etc.) If you've been playing through the campaigns, etc, there are other titles to show what you have achieved.

sonofthort · Jul 19, 2008, 12:46 AM // 00:46

there are titles for farming other kind of experience why not experience in general, and i know for a fact that it is not that easy to get 5mil+ xp

sonofthort · Jul 19, 2008, 12:49 AM // 00:49

no tearz, not an emote, a title

farmerfez · Jul 19, 2008, 12:49 AM // 00:49

lolz im sensing a failed attempt at making his e penis huger

glacialphoenix · Jul 19, 2008, 12:52 AM // 00:52

The thing is, when you farm stuff - HFFF, Norn, Asura, Vanguard - for those titles, you also get exp from killing all the stuff. If you farm for drops, you're getting the benefits from that. Maybe you did play through the games without doing things like farming Norn, Asura, SS, LB... fair enough, you've got 7.2mil xp to show what you did.

On the other hand, if you've spent this long on your monk, I should think you'd have more to show for what you did than need a generic experience title. My monk has 6.5mil xp - fairly significantly less than yours - but I've done enough stuff on her that I have other things to show besides an xp title.

The other thing, of course, is that once you start a title track, where would it end? All our GW titles so far have caps. R10 Norn. R10 Asura. R8 Lightbringer. Protector of Tyria/Cantha/Elona. How do you cap off an experience title?

sonofthort · Jul 19, 2008, 12:55 AM // 00:55

Actually i could list a lot of titles that alot of people would feel are completely pointless. Your players total xp shows how experienced your character is, hence it being called experience points, and with the smorgasbord of other titles available, why not have one that players can display which actually pertains to how experienced the player is overall?

sonofthort · Jul 19, 2008, 12:58 AM // 00:58

Well glacial the point of the title would not simply be a personal reward as much as proof that your player is experienced in the game, and as you said about your 6.5mil xp monk, you have done plenty of stuff on her, so that goes to show that ppl with high experience have done quite alot with there characters and are probably quite good at the game, why not give them a title to prove that they have done alot?

glacialphoenix · Jul 19, 2008, 01:06 AM // 01:06

Because there are already titles for that. I've gone doing HM missions with my guild, and as a result I have the Guardian titles to show. I've done a lot of things in GWEN - vanquishing, HM dungeons, HM quests, etc. - and as a result I've got the Master of the North title to display.

I'm not slamming your monk or your playstyle or anything, because you definitely need to have spent quite some time on your character to get him/her over 7mil xp. In general, if you have done a lot on your character, you'll have stuff to show for it. This may not necessarily be a title - if you've farmed ectos on your character, you'll have plenty of ectos (or whatever you've got off selling said ectos) to show for it. If you're good at the game (which, by the way, increasingly doesn't correlate to exp, courtesy of certain titles), then you should be able to prove - without the need for a title - that you're good at the game.

EDIT: Sorry, I just noticed your previous post up there - I was looking at your last one. The other issue is, of course, that people delete and remake characters - and thus the characters' xp would not be indicative of how experienced the player is. Say I create an ele, and I finished three campaigns on her - then I decided that the slot could be better used for something else, or I simply don't like the look of my ele anymore. I delete the ele, and I create a new one, possibly in a different campaign. This ele is not going to have anything near the xp of the old ele, but it doesn't make me any less experienced at playing an ele.

sonofthort · Jul 19, 2008, 01:13 AM // 01:13

Well the end logic to your response glacial can be used against all titles in general. Why have titles? What is the point of a title? It's to show off, its to have something to work for. True, I did say such a title could prove to people that your character is good, well, ur right that is not neccasarly proof, but for most people, 7 mil xp is a sign that your are good with your character. You could use that logic against any title as well, your vanquishing title, maybe you just had people do most of the work for you as you sat back and let them do the work, its a long shot, but im just trying to prove a point. Whats the point of having 7mil xp besides skill points which by now have become basically useless on my character? I dont think asking for a title is really that outlandish.

sonofthort · Jul 19, 2008, 01:18 AM // 01:18

True, but that is your personal loss in deleting the character. Also, if you delete your monk who has the vanquishing titles, and create a new monk and lose the title, that doesn't mean you are any less capable of vanquishing with a monk...

sonofthort · Jul 19, 2008, 01:30 AM // 01:30

Looking at some of the other titles out there like sweet tooth, a title for total experience points seems pretty fair game. And for all the people using the solo farmer arguement, there are alot of other ways to gain large amounts of xp, and regardless of how you do it, 7mil xp takes quite alot of work.

Div · Jul 19, 2008, 01:36 AM // 01:36

Posting 10x in your own thread isn't going to make people agree more. Plus, there are countless other threads about the experience title. A simple search will do.

theonetheonlybruce · Jul 19, 2008, 01:38 AM // 01:38

lol i have like 15 million exp so i dont see how it hard to get to 5 million

SmokingHotImolation · Jul 19, 2008, 01:47 AM // 01:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by sonofthort

there are titles for farming other kind of experience why not experience in general, and i know for a fact that it is not that easy to get 5mil+ xp

You are wrong. Its actually very, very easy to achieve 5mil+. Ive played casual on my ele for half a year now, and she has 6mil+.

sonofthort · Jul 19, 2008, 01:48 AM // 01:48

Holymasamume i'm simply replying to posts and trying to generate interest in the topic. Also, a simple search only revealed the experience emote suggestion thread. But you dont really care what i have to say u just felt like burning someone.

sonofthort · Jul 19, 2008, 01:53 AM // 01:53

SmokingHotImolation: I dont know what your definition of casually is, but if you feel that 5mil+ is easy to earn, then maybe the title system should go well into the 20mil xp+ realm, or whatever you feel is a "hard" amount of xp to earn. Also i could make a list of titles which are very "easy" to achieve a few ranks in, but just because they are "easy" does not mean they shouldn't be titles.