Please, before starting flames, bear in mind that this thread is a result of a mere 10 minutes of speculation and brainstorming over ventrilo.
POINT 1: What is the new Zaishen Title Track?
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When you use a Zaishen Key on a Zaishen Chest, you get 5 Zaishen Reputation Points. The Zaishen Reputation points are applied to a brand new account-based title track, the Zaishen Title. You can buy a Zaishen Key from Tolkano for either 5000 Balthazar Faction or 5 Tournament Reward Points
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For each Rank you have on the Zaishen Title track, you will get a special emote that shows off your Title. To display your emote, just type /zaishen or /zrank. When you type in the emote command, the weapons listed below will dramatically fall from the sky and embed themselves into the ground in front of you. The Zaishen Rank emotes were created to be very interactive. For example, if you position yourself correctly, you can use it as a finishing move after you defeat someone!
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POINT 2: The Track is a result of a one-days job and is totally unoriginal
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Rank Reputation Points Needed Title Name
1: 250 Zaishen Supporter
2: 500 Friend of the Zaishen
3: 1000 Companion of the Zaishen
4: 1680 Ally of the Zaishen
5: 2800 Sentinel of the Zaishen
6: 4660 Steward of the Zaishen
7: 7750 Defender of the Zaishen
8: 12960 Warden of the Zaishen
9: 21600 Bastion of the Zaishen
10: 36000 Champion of the Zaishen
11: 60000 Hero of the Zaishen
12: 100000 Legendary Hero of the Zaishen (personally i would change this to "pro armbrace duper")
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For example, let's take a look here. The title names and number of ranks are directly taken from the Alliance battle titles, with exception of the 12th title (Legendary Hero of the Zaishen instead of Saviour of the Kurzicks/Luxons). Futhermore, from Rank 3-Rank 12 on the amount of zaishen reputation points is exactly the same as the amount of fame needed from R6-R15 hero.
POINT 3: The Emote
This is quoted from another thread by "Rafal"
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Originally Posted by Rafal
Quote from http://www.guildwars.com/competitive...ds/default.php
Now, I remember times when someone could get reported then de-ranked and/or temp banned for making rank emote over enemy's dead body in HA because of unsportsmanlike behaviour.
How come, now ANet encourages players to do such things?
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This is a very valid point and proves ArenaNet's promotion of bad behaviour by encorporating an emote like this. You see, when you position yourselves in front of a dead body it seems as if the spear/hammer/axe cleave the opponent's body, while he is helplessly lying on the ground. Oh and while your at it, ArenaNet, can you make my tiger eat the person's corpse please? Would be pretty cool kthnx. And the wolf emote should be able to poo on the corpse, yeah that sounds good.
POINT 4: Why an emote for this title?
The emote shows a spear (and later an axe and a hammer) cleave the ground in front of the user.
In my view, this has little to do with a chest run title, but I won't start on this.
The point is, why does ArenaNet make an emote for a chest-run title, while players have been asking for gladiator and champion rank emotes for quite some time now. This emote could have been used for gladiator or champion, since it looks like it has more to do with combat than it has with chest running...moreover, this might give players an impulse to participate in RA/TA/GvG more often.
I'm out of time for now, I'll continue later today.
(STILL WORKING ON THE THREAD)