What are you hoping for in Thursday's title update?

Shayne Hawke

Shayne Hawke

Departed from Tyria

Join Date: May 2007

Clan Dethryche [dth]

R/

Besides what we know about Treasure Hunter and Wisdom going account based, the Kurzick and Luxon titles being revamped in different ways, and any speculation one might make on this weekend being related to Vanquisher, I'd like to hear what everyone is interested in, hoping to, dreaming about, etc, seeing in Thursday's title revamp.

Here's my hopeful list, among others:
- Stealth update to make all Gamer events work under the consecutive point gain system seen in CB.
- Slight rework of Survivor and LDoA.
- Small scale systems for minimized grind on secondary characters after maxing "grind" titles on your first.
- Vanquisher Chests.
- Split title display and functionality (go2sardelac).
- Bigger point rewards for non-repeatable quests.

Discuss.

Hailey Anne

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2007

A/E

Getting rid of titles is what I wish for. I know thats not happening though so I just want less grind for the current ones I guess.

zelgadissan

zelgadissan

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2008

The Warrior Priests [WP]

Me/Rt

Pretty much Shayne's list, plus making the completely bought titles (aka Drunkard, Sweet Tooth, Party Animal) account-wide.

BlueNovember

BlueNovember

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2005

WTS GW2 items for Zkey

Mo/

I like most of those points. I don't see a problem with current Survivor/Ldoa/title function though. (Especially if the alternative to title effects is have my status bar permanently cluttered...)
The reduced rep-title grind given a previous char has already maxed is a very good idea.

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Bigger point rewards for non-repeatable quests.
+some incentive to actually do non-primary quests. They can be fun, it's a shame so much content is missed out on due to lack of reward. Add a quest title or something more imaginative

Yichi

Yichi

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Sep 2005

Guild Hall, Vent, Guesting, PvE, or the occasional HA match...

Dark Alley [dR]

I am hoping that in Thursday's supposed update (lord only knows these things have been delayed before...) that they make every title account based or they delete titles altogether.

JeniM

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2007

W/E

Anything that makes me want to play the game. I like chasing titles but I know I'm not going to max anymore than the ones I have now unless something is done to improve them.
I start to work at a title spend an hour, get some tiny fraction of a percentage of the way to the next level then get bored and don't play for another month.
Atleast this way everytime I log in I seem to have another bday present.

Jensy

Jensy

Site Contributor

Join Date: Apr 2007

Phoenix, Arizona

Blinkie Ponie Armie [bpa]

N/Mo

I think I'm just hoping for the update itself, heh.

If we DON'T get the big title update, I'm hoping for at least the handing out of tournament reward points from the last mAT.

ETA: Also, for the love of shit, TAKE DOWN THE HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS! (please)

ALF71BE

ALF71BE

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2008

In your fridge, stealing your pickles. for mah subway

R/

I'm hoping that ANet doesn't screws it over, again.

I'm also hoping to get my zkeys the first day.

slowerpoke

slowerpoke

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2007

Cuba

it would be a mistake to expect too much, it will only result in dissapointment

Voodoo Rage

Voodoo Rage

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2008

Sacramento, CA

Geezers

R/

Add 10 more into raptor cave...

Cale Roughstar

Cale Roughstar

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2007

Canada

Guy In Real Life [GIRL]

W/E

Pretty much Shayne's list tbh.

Anything that will make them more appealing/(easy?)/fun, because now for the most part I cant be bothered to spend the time working on them.


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Originally Posted by pansy malfoy View Post
ETA: Also, for the love of shit, TAKE DOWN THE HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS! (please)
QFT

Numa Pompilius

Numa Pompilius

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

At an Insit.. Intis... a house.

Live Forever Or Die Trying [GLHF]

W/Me

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Originally Posted by Voodoo Rage View Post
Add 10 more into raptor cave...
...and make them Marrow Scarabs with Well of the Profane.

BoredJoe

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2006

trader reset.

Unlimited opening of Zaishen Chest

Konig Des Todes

Konig Des Todes

Ooo, pretty flower

Join Date: Jan 2008

Citadel of the Decayed

The Archivists' Sanctum [Lore]

N/

Yay for more hype threads on this.


My hopes:

- Shayne's List
- Changes to Kurzick/Luxon Titles and Faction Cap
- Drunkard/Sweet Tooth/Party Animal getting rank 3 (20k) and become account based
- Fix to Unlucky (compared to Lucky, it's slightly more grindy)
- pentople the current rewards to Vanquishing (so that it gives 25x monsters killed, not 5x)
- Rework of the Legendary Titles as follows:

Legendary Savior
Legendary Master of Tyria
Protector, Guardian, Vanquisher, Cartographer, Skill Hunter of Tyria
Legendary Master of Cantha
Protector, Guardian, Vanquisher, Cartographer, Skill Hunter of Cantha
Legendary Master of Elona
Protector, Guardian, Vanquisher, Cartographer, Skill Hunter of Elona
Legendary Master of the North
(wouldn't mind the removal of protector/guardian/vanquisher/cartographer/skill hunter and make those titles with Master titles work like LMotN - skill hunter for EN would act similar to core elites now, they count to multiple titles.)

- Addition of "Adventurer" Title (Quest Title Track)
- Addition of rank 7 to KoaBD Title Track (The Legend of <Character Name>)
- And lastly, and most important, the update itself.


I think the best way to add the "Adventurer" title (due to some characters not getting quests, and some mutually exclusive quests) would be to put them under the above proposed Master titles, and increase the LMotN point req for max (so that it's not too easy to max, but yet easier). And for the three other newer LMo titles would just make max just under max quests done (so that you can leave say 5 quests undone if you're a foreign character) - so characters from that campaign can get the LMo title a lot easier, but it wouldn't need weird number changes for each place the character is made.

What I expect:
The update to come eventually.

t3dw4rd0

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2006

Liars Cheats and Thieves [Liar]

D/

Eblade from the zchest >.>

Marty Silverblade

Marty Silverblade

Administrator

Join Date: Jun 2006

Something to make vanquishing at least a little bit fun. Honestly, if you can kill one generic mob, you can kill them all. It just gets grindy after a while.

pumpkin pie

pumpkin pie

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jul 2006

behind you

bumble bee

E/

That it's going to be delay!

and they fix a certain problem that i dislike very much!

The Meth

The Meth

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2007

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Numa Pompilius View Post
...and make them Marrow Scarabs with Well of the Profane.
Thats a good idea. Have a relative of Kepkhet settle into eotn.

Red Sonya

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2005

More grindy things. I don't understand the few who don't like grind, if there wasn't grind in the game there would be nothing left to play for. Grind is the only thing left because they never put any phatt loot into the game. Paultry 20 levels hahaha no wonder WOW is so famous and has 11 million subscribers.

oeg82000

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2008

Mo/

make most of titles acc.based
let use 7 heros in 8 men party
let heros use pve skills

ajc2123

ajc2123

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2007

North of the wall

Me/

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Originally Posted by oeg82000 View Post
make most of titles acc.based
let use 7 heros in 8 men party
let heros use pve skills
Only areas i want more heros (and i still even dont) is the areas with no henchman such as DoA, UW, FoW....even then though..

I hope more titles become account wide because lets face it. If you did it once with one character, it should be enough. Like i hav protector of cantha and elona on one character, and prot of tyria on the other....realy dont feel like doing either again lol

Daisuko

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2007

California

[Vr]

E/Me

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Originally Posted by Red Sonya View Post
More grindy things. I don't understand the few who don't like grind, if there wasn't grind in the game there would be nothing left to play for. Grind is the only thing left because they never put any phatt loot into the game. Paultry 20 levels hahaha no wonder WOW is so famous and has 11 million subscribers.

11 million subscribers, eh?

If you take away the bots, the extra accounts (there are MANY people who own at least two, largest recorded I belive was something around 32 accounts at once) And you'd likely be down to around ~6 million players total.
Which, is roughly the same as Guild Wars :P

Dark Desicration

Dark Desicration

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2007

Southeast USA

West Kentshire Pony Club [Pony]

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by oeg82000 View Post
make most of titles acc.based
let use 7 heros in 8 men party
let heros use pve skills
So you just want to shit your way through PvE?

Dark Desicration

Dark Desicration

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2007

Southeast USA

West Kentshire Pony Club [Pony]

Me/

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Originally Posted by Daisuko View Post
11 million subscribers, eh?

If you take away the bots, the extra accounts (there are MANY people who own at least two, largest recorded I belive was something around 32 accounts at once) And you'd likely be down to around ~6 million players total.
Which, is roughly the same as Guild Wars :P
And if you subtract all of the 2nd and 3rd accounts and bot accounts Guild Wars has, the total would also be cut in half.

Kerwyn Nasilan

Kerwyn Nasilan

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2007

WHERE DO YOU THINK

W/

Gimme GWAMM kkthxbye

distilledwill

distilledwill

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2006

Blighty

The Legion of the Blue Blade

R/Mo

Account wide Party, drunkard and sweet tooth. Some kind of rethink of survivor, I dont know what... but something.

Offtopic: PvE skills on heroes?! are you f'ing kidding?!

Xx Da Best Xx

Xx Da Best Xx

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2008

LA

Suprised no one has said it yet...Id love for SF to get hit...There are other things that concern me, but this makes everything unfair. Then maybe all the farming-only sins will get deleted, and people will actually learn how to use them...

Other than that, Id like to see LDoA reworked as OP said.
AB rewards amped up a little, while HFFF rewards go down.
And yes, NO MOAR HALLOWEEN PLZ!

Yawgmoth

Yawgmoth

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

Honeslty I got no idea about what to expect from such a big update, when we actually know so much about it, some of what's going to be there and what's not.
It's going to be a Title Rebalance update but there are very few changes to titles

I had some big hopes but almost all got crushed during last couple weeks.
Hopes not yet crushed (or I missed something):

*Biggest hope is that the goals won't suddenly become too fast and easy and achievements wont devalue. That things wont become unnecessarily easier and that there won't be any mistakes of Shadow_Form_buff_epic_proportions.
*Improved ways of getting repeats of rep titles after maxing them once - I've been suggesting this for a very very long time, and there were some hints at something alike to happen.
*More vialbe ways for efficient Kurzick/Luxon titles, as efficient as pre-nerf hfff. It's a given?
*Improved AB rewards for those who have max'ed their Allegiance titles, so there's an incentive for both max'ing and keeping playing.
*A way to manage your titles window so it's not a complete mess with least relevant titles on the top and ones you actively work on buried deep and requiring lots of scrolling every time. Oh and an option to replace your useless XP bar with the progress bar of chosen title (or Balth faction).
*Wishful thinking - a fix of the Survivor title so old favorite pre-factions characters get their chance at it (if they left Pre and don't have LDoA)
*More wishful thinking - rework of LDoA title so it's not about hundreds of hours AFK but hundreds of hours of playing with only a little DL'ing required.
*And one more - a new title based on Total Gained Balthazar Faction, not maxable.
*At least 3 pleasant surprises I haven't thought of.

cosyfiep

cosyfiep

are we there yet?

Join Date: Dec 2005

in a land far far away

guild? I am supposed to have a guild?

Rt/

with more than one character looking at eye armor, some other ways than farming raptors, turning in book after book, etc of getting points. After doing these with 7 or so characters I am pretty tired of eye and am rethinking some of my armor choices!

unlucky is alot easier to get than lucky for me (but I guess I am the only one since my lockpicks break 99/100 times...)

same thing for the sunspear and lightbringer points---so far only 1 of my characters has maxed ss (and NONE have lb)....and no, I DONT vanquish--I dont like HM. so some more ways to get those other than that monolith temple area would be a nice change of scenery.

sthpaw

sthpaw

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2007

Australia, Sydney

Overclockers Australia [OCAU]

W/

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Originally Posted by Kerwyn Nasilan View Post
Gimme GWAMM kkthxbye
yeh baby!!! me too lol,
anyway its thursday 1:33pm here and still no update.........hurry up ANET!!!!

Shayne Hawke

Shayne Hawke

Departed from Tyria

Join Date: May 2007

Clan Dethryche [dth]

R/

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Originally Posted by Azazel The Assassin View Post
Legendary Savior
Legendary Master of Tyria
Protector, Guardian, Vanquisher, Cartographer, Skill Hunter of Tyria
Legendary Master of Cantha
Protector, Guardian, Vanquisher, Cartographer, Skill Hunter of Cantha
Legendary Master of Elona
Protector, Guardian, Vanquisher, Cartographer, Skill Hunter of Elona
Legendary Master of the North
I like that idea a lot. That allows people with single or specific campaigns to tap into "free" titles that show that they've completed most of the challenges their continent has to offer, as well as adding a way to display doing all of every continent. Legendary Savior would be a title worthy of display.

Quote:
- Addition of rank 7 to KoaBD Title Track (The Legend of <Character Name>
I sense a cultural reference, but I can't put my finger on it.

Konig Des Todes

Konig Des Todes

Ooo, pretty flower

Join Date: Jan 2008

Citadel of the Decayed

The Archivists' Sanctum [Lore]

N/

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Originally Posted by Red Sonya View Post
More grindy things. I don't understand the few who don't like grind, if there wasn't grind in the game there would be nothing left to play for. Grind is the only thing left because they never put any phatt loot into the game. Paultry 20 levels hahaha no wonder WOW is so famous and has 11 million subscribers.
>.> Guild Wars was meant to be grindless, and with it being no-subscription, there is a lack of funds, which means less content. You have the wrong mind-set for Guild Wars if you like grind.

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Originally Posted by The Meth View Post
Thats a good idea. Have a relative of Kepkhet settle into eotn.
Let's see, we got a Scarab Queen (Kepkhet), we got a Spider Queen (Arachnid), what can we have next?

Beetle Queen!

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Originally Posted by oeg82000 View Post
make most of titles acc.based
let use 7 heros in 8 men party
let heros use pve skills
As long as the "some" that don't become account based are the Achievement Titles (which is, in fact, most of the titles), I won't hate you.

7 heroes I support only because henchmen suck, I'd rather see Henchmen get more thought out builds.

Heroes use PvE skills as is, is just imba, however there is a way to make it non-imba. That is, NPCs (not just heroes) can use the non-elite PvE skills/Monster Skills of their reputation/enemy counterparts.

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Originally Posted by Dark Desicration View Post
And if you subtract all of the 2nd and 3rd accounts and bot accounts Guild Wars has, the total would also be cut in half.
Actually, I think WoW has more bots. Much more. So it would probably still be close, or closer then half (like a 25% difference)

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Originally Posted by Shayne Hawke View Post
I like that idea a lot. That allows people with single or specific campaigns to tap into "free" titles that show that they've completed most of the challenges their continent has to offer, as well as adding a way to display doing all of every continent. Legendary Savior would be a title worthy of display.
That is actually why I prefer the titles to be set up like that.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Shayne Hawke
I sense a cultural reference, but I can't put my finger on it.
The title of the movie the title track comes from.

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

germanturkey

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

[PoW]

E/

people outside the US have to realize that anet is an american based company and updates won't go live until the working hours of PST. which translates into probably noon PST, which, with this update, probably translates into friday afternoon sometime...

here to troll

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2008

Quote:
Originally Posted by Shayne Hawke View Post
I sense a cultural reference, but I can't put my finger on it.
The legend of Ron Burgandy(i think, someone else can clarify, im to tired atm)

blackknight1337

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

USA

Mo/

What I would like to see.....

Half of the posts on this thread ignored. Another 10k points onto money tracks in exchange for account wide...wtf is wrong with you?

Drunkard changed to the same as party + sweets. If not then I'll just spend another 2600 min finishing that.

Could use something to interest me in chest running and wisdom....spending craploads of money is not it.

Don't give a crap about lucky/unlucky.

Faction titles....buff the hell out of AB so its halfway worth the time. Don't really care what happens to HFF.

The rest of the maxable titles....don't really care much, I have all the ones I want/need. Ldoa could die for all i care.

New titles...../nopoint. If they do, lol free titles for me.

What I expect: Some pointless changes, and some more free money for me from my predictions.

I really don't care what happens tomorrow.

Taixen

Taixen

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2008

England

A/

I'll be happy with basically, whatever is changed - Is all a little less grind at the end of the day.

Although, when I said to myself, 'I hope decorations are up a bit longer so I don't miss them again' I really wasn't expecting them to still be up now ^^

bhavv

bhavv

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Sep 2006

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Originally Posted by Dark Desicration View Post
So you just want to shit your way through PvE?
Yup, just like you get to do with Ursan.

7 heroes please. That will make the whole game fun again for me.

Better then just playing Sabway or Imbagon all the time.

draxynnic

draxynnic

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Nov 2005

[CRFH]

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Originally Posted by Red Sonya View Post
More grindy things. I don't understand the few who don't like grind, if there wasn't grind in the game there would be nothing left to play for. Grind is the only thing left because they never put any phatt loot into the game. Paultry 20 levels hahaha no wonder WOW is so famous and has 11 million subscribers.
Phat loot just changes the objective of the grind and further raises the bar for casual players.

oracle.delphi

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2008

ontario, canada

Steel Beasts

E/

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Originally Posted by pansy malfoy View Post
I think I'm just hoping for the update itself, heh.

If we DON'T get the big title update, I'm hoping for at least the handing out of tournament reward points from the last mAT.

ETA: Also, for the love of sh*t, TAKE DOWN THE HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS! (please)
/signed

i keep thinking it's the wrong day and i thought the update was today (cause i thought it was thursday)

but seriously i'm kinda hoping something with drunkard/sweet/party...even if it's only adding in extra lvls before the 10k...but lowering that req, that would be nice too

and account wide so my sin can use the candy corn

Issac

Issac

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2006

Earthrealm

W/A

Auction house
emote for Kind of a big deal+

And some other stuff other people said lol.

I thought the update was today as well, at least I'm not the only one.