Gamer title Track
Gamer is earned by winning points in Festival Games, like the Snowball Arena. It is tied to your account, not any particular character. This title can be displayed in the "Honor" monument from tier 3 onwards.
Rank Title Gamer Points needed 1 Skillz 1,000 2 Pro Skillz 2,000 3 Numchuck Skillz 4,000 4 Mad Skillz 7,000 5 Über Micro Skillz 12,000 6 Gosu Skillz 20,000 7 1337 Skillz 32,500 8 iddqd Skillz 50,000 9 T3h Haxz0rz Skillz 70,000 10 Pure Pwnage Skillz 90,000 11 These Skillz go to 110,000 12 ? ?
Gamer Points Awarded for different festival games
- Snowball fights (Wintersday): 10 points per win
- Rollerbeetle Racing (Canthan New Year, Gamer Weekend, Second Birthday Celebration, Dragon Festival 2007): First place receives 7 points, second place receives 5 points, third place receives 3 points, and fourth place receives 2 points. Fifth and sixth positions receive 1 point if they finish within 30 seconds of the first place finisher.
- Dragon Arena (Gamer Weekend, Second Birthday Celebration, Dragon Festival 2007): 5 points per win
- Shing Jea Boardwalk (Gamer Weekend, Second Birthday Celebration, Dragon Festival 2007, Dragon Festival Redux): one point for each opponent you outscore in the Dragon Nest competition.
- Costume Brawl (Halloween 2007): 7 points per win.
- Costume Brawl (Halloween 2008): 9 points plus one more for each consecutive win, max 50.
Trivia
- The third rank of the title, Numchuck Skillz, appears to be a reference to Napoleon Dynamite. Nunchaku, Anglicized as Nunchucks and sometimes mispronounced as Numchucks, are martial arts weapons.
- Used in the fifth rank of the title, Über is a German word actually meaning "above/over" well known in the online gaming industry, commonly translated in the gamer community as "super" when attached to an attribute such as "skillz." Thus, this roughly translates into English as "Super Micro Skillz." "Micro," among elite groups of gamers, refers to the ability to do many things in a game very quickly (typically a real-time strategy (RTS) or a first-person shooter (FPS) title) in a short period of time using keyboard shortcuts. This could also be a reference to the online series "Pure Pwnage" in which the main character is famous for his Über Micro.
- In the sixth rank, the word Gosu is Korean. It is a common word in Asian languages and literally means "a high hand". The term is often used to describe a person with great skill in martial arts or in Go. It has now been adopted into English because it became highly used in multiplayer games due to Korea's influence in online gaming. Also, the publisher of Guild Wars, NCSoft, is based in Korea, which could be another influential factor.
- The titles for ranks 7 and 9 are leetspeak, and mean "Elite Skills" and "The Hackers' Skills", respectively.
- Iddqd comes from the code entered to enable degreelessness (god) mode in the popular video game DOOM.