Guide to maxing titles
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This page is a simple guide showing tricks to make maxing titles more efficient, both in time and money.
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[edit] Title requirements
| Title | Count | Cost | Duration | Difficulty | Other comments |
| Legendary Defender of Ascalon | 1 | N.A. | Long | Almost none | Exclusive to Tyrian characters. Impossible to attain after leaving Pre-Searing. Mutually exclusive with Legendary Survivor. |
| Survivor | 1 | N.A. | Short | PvE Normal Mode | Impossible to attain after first death with your character. Mutually exclusive with Legendary Defender of Ascalon. Can be done quickly in Fronis Irontoe's Lair. |
| Protector | 3 | N.A. | Medium | PvE Normal Mode | Recommended to master the missions the first time you do them. |
| Guardian | 3+1 | N.A. | Medium | PvE Hard Mode | Recommended to study the missions, and bring the necessary skills and party. |
| Vanquisher | 3+1 | N.A. | Long | PvE Hard Mode | Recommended to Caravan vanquish when possible. |
| Cartographer | 3+1 | N.A. | Medium | PvE Normal Mode | Faster if using Texmod. Recommended to complete explorable areas the first time you go through them. |
| Skill Hunter | 3+1 | ~290 + 194 skill points(290 Signets of Capture) | Short | PvE Normal Mode | Skill point cost takes into account experience gained from capturing skills for a level 20 character. Reduce costs by completing the quest that rewards 2 Signets of Capture. |
| Master of the North | 1 | N.A. | Long | PvE Hard Mode | Title includes cartography, mission completion and vanquishing. |
| Reputation ranks (Asura, Norn, Deldrimor, and Ebon Vanguard) | 4 | N.A. | Short | PvE Hard Mode | Recommended to fill Hero's Handbooks (Only from rank 8, in hard mode). |
| Sunspear & Lightbringer | 2 | N.A. | Medium | PvE Hard Mode | Very easy by properly farming in The Sulfurous Wastes. Can be combined with vanquishing. Excellent idea to wait for special Nightfall weekends to grant double points. |
| Luxon/Kurzick | 2 | N.A. | Long | Almost none | By participating in Alliance battles, doing a fast faction farm, and/or doing factions quests. Skill in PvP only affects efficiency. |
| Drunkard | 1 | 2,000 (10,000 Dwarven Ales) | 166 hours 40 minutes | None | Reduce costs by buying from players. Reduce duration by map travel. |
| Sweet Tooth | 1 | 2,000 (5000 Red Bean Cakes) | N.A. | None | Reduce costs by buying from players or farm Mandragor Roots for Mandragor Root Cakes. |
| Wisdom | 1 | N.A | N.A. | None | Costs and duration dependent on how the gold items were obtained. |
| Treasure Hunter | 1 | ~4,800 | 220 hours | Almost none | Contributes to lucky/unlucky titles if using lockpicks. |
| Lucky/Unlucky | 2 | ~2,206 (by playing Nine Rings) | 724 hours AFK | None | Play Nine Rings or open chests using lockpicks. Cost and duration figures are from the Nine Rings article. |
| Party Animal | 1 | ~33 + 300,060 (3,334 Crate of Fireworks) | N.A. | None | Reduce costs by buying from players and events |
| Zaishen rank | 1 | 100,000,000 Balthazar Faction or 100,000 Tournament Reward Points (20,000 Zaishen Keys) | Unknown | None | Reduce duration by earning Balthazar faction in Zaishen Elite or make predictions for Xunlai Tournament House. Duration can also be reduced by buying Zaishen Keys or Flame of Balthazars from players. |
[edit] Recommended order
Either way, make the best use of synergies as noted above.
[edit] For fastest Kind Of A Big Deal r6
If your goal is Kind Of A Big Deal rank 6, this order will save you lots of time in the long run:
- Legendary Defender of Ascalon or Survivor (+1=1)
- Protector & Guardian (+7=8)
- Complete Vanquisher, Cartography, Skill Hunter, then Sunspear & Lightbringer. (+14=22)
- Master of the North, then complete Reputation ranks (+5=27). Note, it might be useful to build ranks earlier to access useful PvE skills like Pain Inverter.
- Then any 3 of the following 9: Luxon/Kurzick, Party Animal, Drunkard, Sweet Tooth, Treasure Hunter, Wisdom, Lucky/Unlucky (+3=30)
Note: rather than doing these in that strict order, think of this list as a priority.
- Survivor can be done at the same time as protector or skill hunter to take advantage of synergies.
- All reputation titles are best farmed after titles that contribute to them are done, to avoid over-farming.
- Avoid forced completion of a title. You'd better delay completion of a title to take advantage of special weekends or to coordinate with other players.
[edit] For fastest Kind Of A Big Deal early progression
If you are not sure how far you want to get in the Kind Of A Big Deal rank, this order will progress faster initially:
- Legendary Defender of Ascalon or Survivor
- Protector
- Sunspear & Lightbringer
- Cartography
- Skill Hunter
- Guardian
- Reputation ranks
- Vanquishing
- Master of the North
- Drunkard
- Sweet Tooth
- Party Animal
- Wisdom + Treasure Hunter
- Luxon/Kurzick
- Lucky/Unlucky
[edit] Title synergies
If you're going for a high Kind Of A Big Deal level, it is best to combine titles instead of doing them one at a time. Here's some ideas of synergies between titles:
| Survivor + Skill hunter (early elites) + Protector (easier early missions) | A fun way towards Survivor, and less to do later. |
| Vanquish + Cartography + Skill hunter (pick up as you go) | Scrape areas as you Vanquish them, and bring some cap sig's if your build permits it. Less to be done later. |
| Vanquish in Elona + Sunspear + Lightbringer | It should be enough to max Sunspear, and less to farm for Lightbringer. |
| Protector to access any later areas | Always try for Protector if you need to do a mission, unless it puts a risk on Survivor. |
| Allegiance + Treasure Hunter + Wisdom | Find a spot with bounties or repeatable quests that also have chests scattered along the way. |
| Allegiance or Vanquish to finance other titles | Farming and keyless chest runs may provide better income, but they don't contribute to titles. |
| Drunkard & Lucky/Unlucky | Get your tickets, stand in the circles, and drink! |
| Treasure Hunter + Wisdom + Lucky/Unlucky | Using lockpicks will give credit towards the lucky/unlucky tracks depending on whether they break or not. |
| Keyless chest runs + Wisdom | If doing keyless chest runs to finance other titles. |
| Treasure Hunter + Wisdom + Lucky/Unlucky + Drunkard + Survivor | Repeat the Fronis Irontoe dungeon (HM) - there's always a locked chest there so don't forget to bring a lockpick and you get 2 Ales from the dungeon chest. (KO's don't count as deaths, that's where the Survivor title fits in) |
| Sweet Tooth + Party + Wisdom + Treasure Hunter + Lucky/Unlucky + Deldrimor | Farm Snowmans Dungeon in HM to yield around 3k deldrimor points and sweet tooth/party points from the end chest. There are also 4-5 locked chests, which often contain golds. |
