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Not A Fifty Five · Oct 30, 2006, 09:18 PM // 21:18

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except for sunspear ranks. Honestly how does killing 600 insects make you a general in the first place

Not A Fifty Five · Oct 30, 2006, 09:19 PM // 21:19

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except for sunspear titles. honestly how does killing 600 insects make you a general in the first place

n8dogg_u · Oct 30, 2006, 09:54 PM // 21:54

wisdom, treasure, and sunspear should be account wide

Rakeman · Oct 30, 2006, 10:50 PM // 22:50

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Originally Posted by n8dogg_u

wisdom, treasure, and sunspear should be account wide

quoted for truth

Mylon · Oct 31, 2006, 01:38 PM // 13:38

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Originally Posted by Dougal Kronik

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I think all PvE titles should be character based. Including Friend of the Luxon/Kurzick, and Lucky/Unlucky.

Mind explaining why? People might care what you think if you gave them a reason for your arguments.

The Silver Star · Oct 31, 2006, 02:11 PM // 14:11

Freind of the Luxons/Kurzicks sint really only a PvE title.

Cr4zyPl4yr · Oct 31, 2006, 03:24 PM // 15:24

Titles should be account based and not character based. Makes more sense since it is a progression of the game play for the person, not the character.

broodijzer · Oct 31, 2006, 03:35 PM // 15:35

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when I see someone with protector title, I'd think he knows how to play, and is pretty good at it.
Now, I (almost) have that title with my monk, and I'm pretty good at monking blah blah. But I completely suck with a warrior, assasin, whatever. Do those characters deserve that title too? no.

Xpl0iter · Oct 31, 2006, 03:40 PM // 15:40

There are various titles which should stay with one character, and others with entire account.
I definetly want my treasure hunter, wisdom and drunkard title to be account wide. I mean we do realize that they are expensive ones, right?

@To Sidra
Its 10,000 identifications to get your title ^_^

Dougal Kronik · Oct 31, 2006, 04:23 PM // 16:23

Titles were meant for those players that finished the full content of the game before the six month mark for another campaign release. This way it gave those players something to do with their characters other than farming for gold, most are actually gold sinks. Thus Anet introduces something to do to make and spend your gold.

To make some of these titles that are currently character based account based would ruin the method that Anet has instituted to remove gold from the game and make the acquisition of titles too easy or unmanageable.

Example: For Incorrigbile Alehound you are required to be Drunk for 10,000 minutes. If done in one sitting that is 10,003 Hunter's Ale (for arguments sake). 3 for the "buzz" and then the 10,000 for the title. At 200g each that equals 2,000,600g. That is for one character. If you want the title on multiple characters, then you must spend another 2 million gold. If you have 10 characters (one of each profession) that becomes 20 million gold removed from the game for the expendable use of Ale.

There are titles that do not require any investments: Protector, Cartographer, Sunspear, and Lightbringer. I am only dealing with the PvE titles because they are the gold sinks. These other titles are there for the title Kind of a Big Deal and People Know ME. There are 8 titles that are potentially able to be maxed (seems to be a problem with Sunspear and Lightbringer).

Additionally, if someone has the Protector/Grandmaster Cartographer titles it would be implied that they could go to any town and do any mission. If it was account based, this would not be true. A level 10 Protector of Cantha in Zen Daijin may not even be able to help you get Masters because he got it on another character with another Primary Profession.

The PvE titles should be for accomplishment of your character. One character Drunk for 1,000 minutes does not carry over to 10 characters Drunk for 1,000 minutes. And it isn't player accomplishment, because the player was not Drunk for 1,000 minutes while playing.

Keep the PvE titles character based and those that have the titles will proudly show them off, and maybe they will remain a goal you can set for yourself to acquire.

scrinner · Oct 31, 2006, 04:31 PM // 16:31

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Besides Alehound and Wisdom.. Everything else is perfect. I worked hard for my protector and carthogropher of Cantha and seeing level 2 characters with the same title would just scare me.

Two April Mornings · Oct 31, 2006, 04:33 PM // 16:33

/notsigned, PVP are account wide, which is how it should be.

tmarosi · Oct 31, 2006, 05:49 PM // 17:49

my opinion is that none of titles should be qccount based...all should be character based

hidden_agenda · Oct 31, 2006, 06:38 PM // 18:38

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Originally Posted by Not A Fifty Five

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except for sunspear ranks. Honestly how does killing 600 insects make you a general in the first place

have you never heard of this?
kill one you are an assassin
kill thousands you are a general
kill millions you are a despot
kill them all and you are a GOD!

(Seen on a Gamasutra Dev '99 t-shirt)

gamecube187 · Nov 01, 2006, 01:53 AM // 01:53

All titles that affect gameplay should be account based. That means wisdom and treasure should be account based, and any other titles that end up affecting gameplay should be too.

I would also say sunspear should be account based (seriously, who wants to grind sunspear points with all their chars?), but since certain primary quests require you to be a certain rank, it wouldn't work very well.

Diablo™ · Nov 01, 2006, 02:20 AM // 02:20

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Originally Posted by n8dogg_u

wisdom, treasure, and sunspear should be account wide

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Spader · Nov 01, 2006, 06:19 AM // 06:19

Maybe adding quests that are related the story line. a person would get the current points in there title thats highest in there account. So they do have to grind to get there.

Drunkard : run to 100 spots in a town getting more drunk and have a time limit and obbsitacals. must have rank 1
Sunspear. on the continet after becoming a general rank 7
Light bringer: last area in the game just a different challenge.rank 1
Wisdom: pay 30 plat to a guy per charictor rank 2
Treasure hunter give a guy 50 gold items pre charictor rank 2.

Each quest would be doable once per pve charicter.

Cybergasm · Nov 03, 2006, 12:39 PM // 12:39

You guys made some good points about the protector title, so I'm going to bump this once to get a bit more support for the Wisdom, Skill Hunter, Drinking, and the new Nightfall titles.

thezed · Nov 03, 2006, 01:33 PM // 13:33

I like the idea of the drunkard title being account wide. It really is no diffrent then the lucky titles.

The other titles should remain char specific. Esp the Sunspear title. It is used to unlock quests and the 30 extra att points. It would make no sense for a new Dervish recruite to already be a Sunspear General.

jjdefan · Nov 03, 2006, 02:10 PM // 14:10

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Very well said Dougal....