Guild Wars 2

Tyler Bearce.3427:

For Heart of Thorns, we are rebalancing the WvW Lifetime achievement requirements to much more reasonable numbers. At the same time we’ll also be updating many of their associated titles.

• We are not changing the Realm Avenger (“Ultimate Dominator”) achievement requirements or title, as some players have actually obtained it and it’s a bit of a status symbol.
• The “Yakslapper” title will remain, but the requirement is being reduced to 2500 yaks.
• As an example title change: “Ultimate Liberator” will become “Kingmaker”

So does the ‘Yakslapper’ title being lowered to 2500 make about the same percentage of active players able to qualify for it as have the ‘Ultimate Dominator’ then?

That’s my thought, UD shows the level that dedication can reach. Compare that to the levels actually reached in the other trees across the entire game dataset, round down to the next lowest round number so a few extra people get it, and do that.

At this point ANet has 3 years of data they can mine for how far can people take the titles, for most of them keep them as status symbols, or at least add a comparable standalone item showing the levels a small dedicated percentage have gotten in 3 years of gameplay, titled and themed appropriately, and make the existing achievement-series have an ‘infinite progression’ available.