Title Importance

To me titles aren't very important besides the PvE-skill only effectiveness though I do like Legendary Guardian. I honestly roll to many characters and get bored with them too quick to be concerned with anything but PvP titles and account wide. How about you? Are you a get them all person, come as they are, or I can do without. Personally, most feel very tedious or completely money driven and I'm sure this has been discussed into the ground, I'd like to here current feedback. I'm sure most people care only for their HoM accomplishments now.

On a scale from 1-10, rate how important you feel they are:
I give them a 4 because many people rely on them on an experience indicator even if the player is new to the game or they were bought, as I said before PvE-only skills are somewhat important when it comes to speed clears.

there are a very few titles that have some pve related-ness (lightbringer, sunspear, eye-norn, asuran, ebon, dwarven) and are useful. lucky and chestrunner also have a bit of usefulness. The rest--for some of us goal orientated people, it gives us something to obtain (not for the epeen, but for the 'I was able to do this'), its a gold sink for others.


For me, I like to have goals. so getting legendary cartographer was more for me to say to MYSELF I was able to finish this (kinda like when I graduated hs--)...completing master of the north--was more like college graduation (still meaningless to everyone but me).
so overall. pve related ones-6
non-pveskill related- 4
(I dont pvp so I wont give those a number)

Well, Pvp skill related are like a 3-4 to me, passive lockpick retention titles are a 7, pvp titles are 6.

I completely forgot about lockpick retention those are important in the long run because high lockpick retention in hard mode will net you a bit of cash.

PvP titles, when not purchased, are a byproduct of competence.

Don't care about sweet tooth,drunkard or lucky/unlucky titles, as in the games and consumable ones, the lockpick one I like but, but it's kind of weird, almost feel like they should be two different titles/achievements.

I like item id one, can't remember it's name atm.Like the skill (capture) titles and the guardian titles (though I'm in no rush to finish them)

I guess I like the ones you start working on by just playing the game, but for some reason I don't like carto,especially when I think to when I'm at 97.8% and no matter what I do I can't max it.I like the pvp ones too but my guild has been out of battles for too long to be really excited about it, people have been coming back so who knows maybe I'll get to work on them.

I give the Sunspear and luxon titles a 5/10. They are important for their skills, but these titles are really easy to get up to a level where the skills are worth taking, so i don't really value them past rank 8 or so. I don't use eotn PvE skills because I think that they are stupid, so I don't put any value on the Eotn titles.

Lucky and Treasure hunter are the other two titles that I value and I put them at a 7/10 because I use lockpicks so often.

The rest are a 0/10. Seriously.. I have my 30/50 so I couldn't care less about them.

/Agree

Even though many will argue that Hero title is based heavily on time spent in HA, you still probably won't get r9+ if you aren't at least competent at the game.

Overall, I don't think titles have much importance. It's just an e-peen stroking for the most part.

Two great philosophers that grace my thread disagree with you. It's all about the e-peen.

the difference is I dont show these titles to anyone---I completed these for my OWN pleasure not to show off to anyone. Others do it to show off "gee how great am I" ....I really dont give my rats behind about epeen--I am not great, I am a NOOB and I really dont care what anyone else thinks. I play the game for ME and no one else. I choose to finish titles for ME and not even for the stupid gw2 (since I have no gumption to even want to play it), not even for the Hom (though the HoM showed me a few more goals that I want to finish). I was finishing titles BEFORE they even WERE titles---I LIKED to roam the maps and find new places...I liked the challenge of finishing all the missions with the bonuses....waaaaay long before Hom even was a thought, before the titles came around---I did them for myself and no one else.

so your 'philosophers' can have a field day with that.

Titles are, or rather, WERE, the least important thing for me in GW. However, I've done everything else, and when you've run out of things to do, you go for titles.

That's essentially why they were implemented. Anet meant for us to play the game, finish and then stop playing it. That people would keep playing even after they'd run out of content was unexpected. People had nothing to do, but still wanted to play GW instead of moving to a new game. So Anet gave them something to do for a long time - titles.

Really, I never thought I'd want to go for titles in my first 2-3 years of play. But then, I just started doing them, for lack of a better thing to do, and, well, GWAMM now, plus a survivor I technically don't need...

I have fun getting my titles, apart from Cartographer, but I still go for it because of GWAMM. I really couldn't care less if someone knows that I mapped all of Elona, doesn't affect me or them.

From a scale from 1-10, all of them are 0.
Yup.

and of the time invested into playing in a specific pvp arena along with the type of builds (ab)used.

you're wrong.

I got my gwamm and 50/50 in HoM. After that I only put a bit of effort in a few pve titles when I need a skill on a char for this or that build. The rest of the titles are less important now since I have been there, got the T.shirt already

This is me too, I used to think titles were a dull idea. Then I run out of things to do and titles have led my GW life since. Now on 36 PvE titles (never done much PvP) and still going for them on a 2nd and 3rd character... probably pure insanity.

It gives me something to do, and something to spend cash on, not into fancy weapons etc, but may end up getting all the destroyer, WiK and tormented weapons before the end. Just to see them in my HoM.

I get titles as a side effect of playing, seldom do I actively try for them.
So I rate titles generally quite low maybe 3 unless they have a game effect then I rate them higher.

When I find I am reasonably close to a title I put in a little effort to complete them.
Zaishen quests gained me a few and large stores of alcohol and fireworks etc gained me 2 more when the hom came online.

Important to me not really I guess I would be quite unbearable if I gained them all.
the pve titles are useful but not the grind needed to get past mid level in them.

I quite like the titles as something to aim for, but I don't attach more importance to them than that. This is a game and an enjoyable hobby for me, like most people I expect, so I prefer to keep it relaxing.

Having said that, I'm working towards GWAMM because it gives me something to aim for in the game, and when I do get the titles I have a pleasant sense of accomplishment. Like people have said before, though - this is just for my own satisfaction rather than because I am concerned about what others will think - just the same as achieving a goal in any hobby. I expect my guildies and I will have a glass of something bubbly the night we turn GWAMM though, but that's about it :-)

EotN, Luxon/Kurz, and SS/LB are 8/10. PvE skills are too powerful to pass up on. I'm an altoholic, so I generally concentrate on those. I'd rather have 10 KOABDs that have access to all parts of the game, than one GWAMM.

The rest is just for fun if you have the time. Except for a few PvP titles, no title is an indication of player skill or knowledge and thats debatable. I have met too many GWAMMs that dont have a clue.

sometimes, perhaps often, but time also means experience, but as said by Urania it's by no means always true. there are good reason people say "don't ball" in high ranked teams, there are good reasons that lower ranked teams beat higher ranked teams, and there is a good reason bad players play op'd team builds, at a certain level, you get past rank, and play with people who you trust and who are prepared to communicate on VoIPs

sorry OP, got a feeling i'm off topic