Title

Titles are an in-game representation of the achievements of your character or account. Some titles are earned per account while some are per character. You can display only one title at a time, although you can have several titles that you are working towards concurrently.

Each title has its own title progression bar that is displayed in the Hero Window.

In-game Effect
Guild Wars Nightfall introduced effects for some titles. For example, the Wisdom Title track (see below) will give your character the ability to salvage a weapon upgrade off a weapon without destroying the weapon. (See here for more details.) Effects added as of 10/25/06, added to wisdom and treasure titles.

Account-based Titles
These titles are given to all characters on the same account.

Gladiator title track
These titles are granted to an account with a number of streaks of consecutive wins in the Random and Team Arenas. You gain one point every time you get a consecutive win of ten or more.

! Title !! Winning Streaks needed ! Gladiator || 25 ! Fierce Gladiator || 50 ! Mighty Gladiator || 100 ! Deadly Gladiator || 168 ! Terrifying Gladiator || 280 ! Conquering Gladiator || 466 ! Subjugating Gladiator (Max level) || 755
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 * Notes: These titles are not retroactive; that is, the streaks must have been won after the release of Guild Wars Factions.

Hero title track


! Title !! Rank !! Fame Needed ! Hero || 1 || 25 ! Fierce Hero || 2 || 75 ! Mighty Hero || 3 || 180 ! Deadly Hero || 4 || 360 ! Terrifying Hero || 5 || 600 ! Conquering Hero || 6 || 1,000 ! Subjugating Hero || 7 || 1,680 ! Vanquishing Hero || 8 || 2,800 ! Renowned Hero || 9 || 4,665 ! Illustrious Hero || 10 || 7,750 ! Eminent Hero || 11 || 12,960 ! King's Hero || 12 || 21,600 ! Emperor's Hero || 13 ||36,000 ! Balthazar's Hero || 14 ||60,000
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 * Note: You must be at least a Mighty Hero to wear the title.

The Hero, Gladiator, and Champion titles now confer a benefit to players who earn them. Gaining ranks in these titles increases the maximum cap of unspent Balthazar’s faction. The cap increases by 2,000 faction points for each of the first five ranks of the Hero title and 5,000 faction points for each subsequent rank, and the cap increases by 5,000 faction points for each rank of the Gladiator and Champion titles earned.

Allegiance title track
These titles are granted to an account for transferring faction to an alliance:



! Title || Faction transferred
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 * Friend of the Kurzicks/Luxons || 250,000
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 * Ally of the Kurzicks/Luxons || 550,000
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 * Steward of the Kurzicks/Luxons || 1,200,000
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 * Defender of the Kurzicks/Luxons || 2,500,000
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 * Champion of the Kurzicks/Luxons || 5,000,000
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 * Savior of the Kurzicks/Luxons (Max level) || 10,000,000
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Lucky
These titles are granted to an account for winning tickets in games of chance.



! Title || Tickets won (Max level) || 1,000,000
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 * Charmed || 50,000
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 * Lucky || 100,000
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 * Favored || 250,000
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 * Prosperous || 500,000
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 * Golden
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 * See Also: Luck titles guide
 * ''Notes: Statistically, it would take on average about 17 days to win 1.0 million tickets.

Unlucky
These titles are granted to an account for losing games of chance.



! Title || Games lost (Max level) || 100,000
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 * Hapless || 5,000
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 * Unlucky || 10,000
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 * Unfavored || 25,000
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 * Tragic || 50,000
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 * Hated
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Character-based titles
These titles are given to a single specific (PvE) character.

Skill Hunter title track
These titles are granted to a character for acquiring elite skills:



! Title || Elite skills captured:
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 * Skill Hunter || 90
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 * Adept Skill Hunter || 135
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 * Advanced Skill Hunter || 180
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 * Expert Skill Hunter || 235
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 * Elite Skill Hunter || 290
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 * Master Skill Hunter || 380
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Exploration title track

 * Exploration of Tyria/Cantha/Elona : Character-specific, based on how much of the Tyrian/Canthan/Elonian map is explored.



! Title !! % of Tyria/Cantha/Elona explored ! Explorer || 60% ! Pathfinder || 70% ! Trailblazer || 80% ! Cartographer || 90% ! Master Cartographer || 95%
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 * Grandmaster Cartographer (Max level) || 100%
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 * Notes: Areas that count for this title are only the ones which show up on the main map of Tyria/Cantha/Elona. This excludes Realms of the Gods, Pre-Searing, and of course, the Battle Isles. Old Tyrian arenas, that are no longer reachable do count. However, there is a little leeway granted for reaching these titles. Players do not have to actually uncover every last corner of the map to reach 100%. See Grandmaster cartography guide for more information.

Mission completion title track
These titles are granted to a character for completing all missions of a campaign at the highest possible reward level



! Title1 || Campaign || Missions completed: || Req. Reward Level
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 * Protector of Tyria || Prophecies || 252 || Completed primary objectives and acquired Bonus
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 * Protector of Cantha || Factions || 13 || Master's Reward
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 * Protector of Elona || Nightfall || 20 || Master's Reward
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 * 1 The titles listed above are all individual and independent title tracks, with only one level each. Each of them counts towards the "Kind Of A Big Deal" title track.
 * 2 Inclusive of the Doppelganger battle.

Drunkard title track
These titles are granted to a character for spending time drunk:



! Title || Minutes spent drunk:
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 * Drunkard || 1,000
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 * Incorrigible Ale-Hound (Max level) || 10,000
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Treasure Hunting title track
These titles are granted to a character for opening "high-end" chests:



! Title || High-end Chests opened: || Salvage Bonus increase
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 * Treasure Hunter || 100 || 3%
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 * Adept Treasure Hunter || 250 || 6%
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 * Advanced Treasure Hunter || 550 || 9%
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 * Expert Treasure Hunter || 1,200 || 12%
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 * Elite Treasure Hunter || 2,500 || 15%
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 * Master Treasure Hunter || 5,000 || 18%
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 * Grandmaster Treasure Hunter (Max level) || 10,000 || 21%


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The Treasure Hunter title now confers a benefit to players who earn them. For each rank of either title earned, the chance of an item not being destroyed when salvaging a magical upgrade component is increased by 3 percent from a base of 50 percent.


 * Note: A "high-end" chest can be identified by the cost of the key to open that chest type. If the key normally costs 600 or more from a merchant, then the types of chest that key opens would be classified as high-end and count towards this title. Also, assuming you bought all the keys from merchants at 600g, you would be paying 6,000,000g for all 10,000 chests you need for the Grandmaster Treasure Hunter title.

Wisdom title track
These titles are granted to a character for identifying rare items:



! Title || Rare items identified: || Salvage Bonus increase
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 * Seeker of Wisdom || 100 || 3%
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 * Collector of Wisdom || 250 || 6%
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 * Devotee of Wisdom || 550 || 9%
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 * Devourer of Wisdom || 1,200 || 12%
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 * Font of Wisdom || 2,500 || 15%
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 * Oracle of Wisdom || 5,000 || 18%
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 * Source of Wisdom (Max level) || 10,000 || 21%
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The Seeker of Wisdom title now confers a benefit to players who earn them. For each rank of either title earned, the chance of an item not being destroyed when salvaging a magical upgrade component is increased by 3 percent from a base of 50 percent.

Survivor title track
To gain the following titles, you must obtain the experience required and the command  must return a zero. Once the title is earned, it will not be lost upon death. However, your progression towards the next title halts once you die.



! Title || Experience gained without dying: Note: Deaths caused by failing a mission, resigning, and being killed in a mission by a forced event (such as the tutorial death on the Shing Jea Island or in tutorial on island in Nightfall) do not count towards this.
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 * Survivor || 140,600
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 * Indomitable Survivor || 587,500
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 * Legendary Survivor (Max level) || 1,337,500
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The Survivor title is achieved at level 20. The higher titles are to be gained between just before "levels" 50 and 100, however, the Legendary survivor title is skewed a bit to reflect the "1337-ness" of whoever gets it.

The Survivor title track will show up at level 5, with 0 deaths.

See also: Survivor title guide

Maxed title track

 * Kind Of A Big Deal (1)
 * Granted to characters who have earned 5 titles at the highest tier.


 * People Know Me (2)
 * Granted to characters who have earned 10 titles at the highest tier.

Trivia: These are references to lines Will Ferrell says in the movie "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy". (Movie quotes here. Video.)

Defender of Ascalon title track
You will earn the "Legendary Defender of Ascalon" title if you reach level 20 prior to the Searing.

Progress for this title is not shown until the character reaches level 12.

The most common method of reaching level 20 is by not completing any quests until you are level 16. (You will have to venture into the Northlands to kill level 10 Charr bosses.) Once you are level 16, complete all quests which will boost your level to 18. At level 18 the only way to get higher is by so-called "death leveling". Death leveling involves leveling an opponent monster past or near your current level by allowing it to kill your character over and over (remember there is no death penalty in Pre-Searing). Once the monster reaches an appropriate level (preferably one higher than yours) it can be killed for experience.

Sunspear Title Track
In Guild Wars Nightfall a character gains rank in the Order of the Sunspears by collecting Sunspear Promotion Points.

This rank is also used to unlock certain quests and complete the quests to gain the missing 2 x 15 AP for the max 200 attribute points.

Increasing in Sunspear rank improves the effectiveness of the PvE-only skill Sunspear Rebirth Signet.



! Title || Sunspear Promotion Points: Note#1: You must be at least a Sunspear Commander to wear the title.
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 * Sunspear Sergeant || 50
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 * Sunspear Master Sergeant || 100
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 * '''Second Spear || 175
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 * '''First Spear || 300
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 * '''Sunspear Captain || 500
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 * '''Sunspear Commander || 1,000
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 * '''Sunspear General || 2,500
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 * '''Sunspear Castellan || 7,500
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 * Spearmarshal (Max level) || 15,000
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''Note#2: Once a character hits the Castellan title, priests will not give that player blessings anymore. One way to achieve Spearmashall is to enter an area just before 7500 points and keep killing foes that can be resurrected by their monks. Another way is to complete quests. That will give you promotion points too, but slower.''

Lightbringer title track
The Lightbringer title is awarded by collecting Lightbringer promotional points. You must have the designated Blessing on you and you gain a varied amount of points depending on where you receive the blessing.

In return, when displayed, this title gives you 1 point of damage reduction and 5% extra damage against demons per rank in the title. Note that the damage reduction applies to all damage, not just physical.

Furthermore, you can earn the PvE-only skills Lightbringer's Gaze and Lightbringer Signet, which can be used to fight demons. These skills also increase in effectiveness as you gain more ranks in this title.



! Title || Lightbringer Promotion Points:
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 * Lightbringer || 100
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 * Adept Lightbringer || 300
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 * Brave Lightbringer || 1,000
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 * Mighty Lightbringer || 2,500
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 * Vanquishing Lightbringer || 7,500
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 * Conquering Commander || 15,000
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 * Revered Lightbringer || 25,000
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 * Holy Lightbringer || 50,000
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