Prestige Titles - Opinions Wanted

Just out of curiosity, I'd like to know which titles you consider to be prestigious. Many of the titles nowadays can be bought or afk'ed. I know legendary survivor used to be respected until so many players started paying runners to get them the title. Now when I see a Legendary Survivor my first thought is "hmm, how much did you pay someone to get that for you?" instead of "Wow! he's a great player!"

So, are there any titles left that make you sit up and take notice? Ones that automatically cause you to respect the title holder rather than thinking "ahh, just another rich kid".

For me, I guess it's the new Guardian and Vanquisher titles. I've been trying to Vanquish areas and it's HARD! I rarely have guildies online to team up with, so I've been forced to hench the areas. It's slow going, especially in the 4-man areas and I don't often see someone wearing a Vanquisher title so to me it's prestigious.

Personally, I'm working on the Elite Skill Hunter. I don't consider it especially prestigious. It's not difficult to get, only time consuming.

How about you?

Besides the very high tiers of the PvP ones, um .... Legendary Vanquisher, and to a lesser extent, Guardian.

Very few titles require notable "skill" - and this is coming from a huge title nut. Most of the rare ones are only notable due to the excessive time requirement, not skill involved.

i think these are the most prestigious...

Legendary Vanquisher
Legendary Guardian
Legendary Cartographer

and Legendary Skill Hunter since i own it

the first two are equally matched... since i think Tasca's Demise and Gate of Pain/Raisu Palace should be equivalent in their category

Personally, I feel that if the person thinks his title is noteworthy, than it is indeed noteworthy. I've been playing the game for 13, 14 months, and my crowning achievement has been to get Kind of a Big Deal. It's a lot more common to see this title nowadays, but I still feel proud of my achievement, so because of that, I view my title with respect.

I personally despise people who call other people noobs because of their armor or title. It's ridiculous.

When Anet finally get their act together and implement the fourth and fifth levels of the KOABD title track this will be a title worth showing.



Been waiting months for this to change.

It's funny... when I see a KoaBD, I wonder what the titles are behind it to get it. If it's drunkard, sweet tooth, etc. then KoaBD means something different to me than if it's made up from Vanquishers, Protectors, Guardians, etc. So I'd say for Prestige, the titles that require you to truly work for as opposed to afk or double-click to get.

Of course, then there's titles like the Wisdom ones... did you earn that or buy unidentified golds from someone? Sadly for the people that actually earned those titles the meaning is devalued by those that buy and cheat their way to achieving them.

Legendary Vanquisher.
After spending nearly 200 hours for it i can say it's the one i respect the most. not just because i have it myself lol, but because after u do it u understand the dedication and the ability to react to situations creating different builds to solve problems and using the enviroment.

grandmaster treasure hunter is another decent one, tho wont ever achieve it

whenever i see the following titles...

rank 9+ hero
legendary vanquisher
rank 6+ gladiator
rank 10+ faction allegiance

i think... "jeez, it must be nice to have tons of free time and absolutely no real-ife responsiblities."


all other titles that dont require money except for protector, i think

"if u like all that grind, youd love wow"


money sink titles i could care less about cause

#1. u either farmed the money for it
#2. power traded the money for it
#3. ebayed the money for it

if you fall under categories 1 & 2, plz refer back to what i think about people who have rank9+ hero, vanquisher etc. titles.

if you ebayed the gold for it, good for u! way to use that brain of yours.

How can the Vanquisher even be compared with the Guardian? For the Guardian, if the whole party dies you have to start all over and you have specific requiremenets to complete (sometimes under a time constraint). The Vanguisher will only kick you to the nearest outpsot when all party members have 60% DP (easy to avoid with CC's) and you have complete control of the battlefield, unlike the restricted environment in missions.

In conclusion, the only prestigious titles should be the Protector and Guardian ones. Vanquisher does not require so much skill but a lot more dedication than the Guardian. Cartographer is stupidly easy to do, all you really need is time. Oh, of course the other pretigious titles would be the ones tied to your PvP-ing; I don't do that part of the game (except the occasional Aspenwood) so I won't comment on that.

Even the Survival title (no matter how you got it), all it really says to me is "That player is good at avoiding combat and using others to do his work for him." It also says that he/she might be the first one to flee if things turn bad, instead of helping his team-mates when they need him/her the most. Where's the pride in that?

Survivor really isn't all that impressive since people began to figure out XP farming techniques... Legendary Defender has always amused me, and I see it as pretty cool. Obviously, Legendary Guardian, Vanquisher, and Cartographers all take a lot of work. Hero and Gladiator titles are also impressive at higher ranks, despite what some may say about getting there easily due to gimmicks.

Champ title is probably the most prestigious pvp title. Higher level hero, gladiator, and commander titles are also indicative of experience I guess. Faction titles are about as prestigious as sunspear titles.

Because so much of PvE is easy, most titles are just a representation of time spent rather than skill. If there were any to take more seriously than others, it would probably be guardian and vanquisher titles, just because some areas are tough enough to weed out weaker players.

Titles mean nothing anymore, except for the ones that provide some kind of benefit to gameplay, such as Lightbringer or Wisdom. Either you have them or you don't.

In other words, if you have Gladiator maxed I don't care, and if you don't, then I still don't care.

Prestige? ...Please, titles cheapen the very word.

I'd say only the champ titles. You actually have to have some skill to get that. Its not easy to beat a top 100 guild, unless your exploiting bugs or way imba skills. Most other titles can be obtained easily with enough time and/or money invested.

Vanquisher is pretty tough for pve. But that can be obtained with the right cookie cutter builds and enough time.

Champion. That is all.

All pvp titles are worthless.
Champion wasn't for a while, but then bad players whined that they couldnt grind it so anet changed it.
Hero is a measure of how well you can c-space(IWAY), 321Blood/Ranger/Rt spike
Glad is purely about farming. Roll a monk, spend lots of hours in RA, win lots of glad points.
Commander. "Player X rolls 25 on a 100 sided dice". GG

Guardian -> Vanquisher -> Cartographer -> Champion.

All grindable, but all requiring at least some skill at the game.

Oh, and I believe an account with 24 maxed titles was recently e-bayed. Real life cash >> grind >> skill.

My gameplaying has been focused on PVE so PVP titles doesn't do much to me. (But I kinda like the PVP emotes though.)
"Title" is in the eye of the beholder (a variation on the saying). It only matters to the player itself. I have maxed a few titles because I wanted them . Because I finished the game quite a few times already and there was nothing left to do so I thought, and because I "might" be able to unlock stuff in GW2.

(Legendary) Survivor title has got a bad name atm I see judging on what you guys say, but I am pretty proud of mine. When I came to play this game. I saw that you can do get that title and finally I conquered it. So I might as well show it.
But IMO it doesn't really matter what others think. I have fond memories during that journey.

Skill over time makes the title more prestigious seems to be what many think. A title is a title. It only matters to you.

You're the first person I've known to say grind is over skill, and that PvE shows more "skill" than PvP.

I guess it's all opinional.

Congratz on getting survivor. I too have a legendary survivor title and I got there pretty much all by myself thank you very much. I did try going out with PUGs but quickly abandoned that idea and thereafter only went out with friends or hench/heroes. A lot of skill capping was involved which means I have a new title to work towards

I don't do PvP so those titles don't really mean anything to me. The only PvE titles that I don't respect are the lucky/unlucky ones - where's the hard work/grind in standing in a ring?

I don't value many PvE titles, though Legendary Carto looks nice on my mesmer.
It's just a lot of time and some gold invested in a certain goal, as will be the case with my max skill hunter title (only Elona to go).
The same goes for PvP skills, but those require teamplay, which is a 'skill' I do value.

Your post is 100% correct.

There's not really a title I respect alot, except for the Vanquisher title, because I've tried and found it extremely difficult. With hench/heroes that is, because my current guild isn't that dedicated to titles.

If I know someone have worked hard for a title, then I respect their effort. If they suddenly go and think they're better than me, because their title is higher, then they deserve "On Cyan's Ignore List".

"what's your glad rank?"
"None"
"then shut up"