Guild Wars 2

Aside of skins (and dyes?), titles are the only reward left for PvPing. Too bad lots of them are kinda broken. What’s the deal?

Let’s start with an issue that appeals to be a bug.

• Rank points gained from winning a tournament match (200 points at the moment) do not count towards main PvP progression achievement – like Gladiator, Mercenary, Avenger etc.

It’s also weird that you earn these titles at different moments than you earn your new ‘animal’ rank, be it 10, 20, 30 etc. With majority of my matches being tournaments I have 400k towards Marauder (requires 723,500) and I’m almost rank 50. Why am I punished for playing tournaments? If I decide to play 100% hotjoins I’ll get my title after a bit more than “just” 4 more ranks. If I keep on playing tournaments by the time I get I’ll be rank 60.

Speaking of tournaments:

• Champion Brawler.

Sounds bad, doesn’t it? It requires 10,000 tournament wins and is pitiful compared to Champion Slayer you get for 200 kills in tournaments (like 20 matches). Perhaps go for Ultimate Brawler (WvW style)?

• Avenger and Avenger of the Dispossessed.

Has been mentioned somewhere on forums already but it sure is lame to introduce a title that you can earn in 1 hour and sounds better.

• Ascendant and Legend of the Mists.

Really, how long has it been? Both above mentioned titles are HoM titles you get for having played GW1. Ascendant is also the highest PvP title you get for getting millions of rank points even after rank 80. I know it’s still years before someone gets it but in its current form it doesn’t encourage going for it in any way.
Legend of the Mists also sounds like it should have been some prestigious PvP title. There is Legend of the Arena for rank 1 QP. One devaluates another.

Liking some titles depends on your taste (yummy or mommy) but PvP titles in their current form are unappealing and confusing (Ransacker, Ravager, Reaper – which is which?!). Some look obvious to need a fix but this matter has been left untouched for over 9 months now. I don’t even think we got a single dev response regarding it. It just calls for an overhaul.

The question isn’t if you like/care about titles or not but why hasn’t anything been addressed? If you made it to this point, I have a smiley for you, dear reader!

Most people who pvp, like those who lived in Random Arenas in GW1 (since everyone brings up the predecessor) play because they enjoy it, the titles, rewards, etc are just icing.

You clearly play for the rewards.

Why complain about titles? Avenger is far more concise and elegant than " Avenger of the Dispossessed", because that is what real pvpers want if anything, short-simple-and to the point.

This thread is directed at Anet because you feel the need for compensation, but its a complete waste of time considering how desperately we need them to focus their attention span on balance rather than this crap.

Imo they need to work on both things balance and proper rewards for participating in tpvp and that includes titles. For exaple why is there only 1 title for class profession tournament wins. I’m using the same title from 200 tournament wins and I have well over 500 now. Little things like this matter. People want lots of little things to chase. How difficult can it be really. The easier things should be done first because duh there easy! How long can it possibly take to add/tweak titles.