Titles!

Something that has come around very often, but still deserves to be talked about, is titles! There is a lack of titles in this game, which could greatly help customization of characters. These titles do not need to be super special, super basic ones can come in as well, but it would be very fun to actually get some new titles, even from quest rewards.

These titles could be a first step towards achievements, as an example, killing dragons could net you the dragon slayer. Kill every type of dragon, and you get another Dragon Slayer title, this time maybe a bit more fancy. This could be done with most of the boss type mobs, and could also be given as quest rewards (Looking at you guys, @Elgarion and @Sannio). Give us titles for reaching certain levels in a skill tree, that you can obtain after a short quest when speaking with the master trainer (Just like how you can unlock summons for some magic trees). The possibilities are endless, and you have so many easy ones at the tip of your fingers!

Give us more titles, find simple ways to add them into the game, and let us gather titles! My favorite game for the past 5 years+ has been Rocket League, and one of the main things people like to collect is titles, you get them from levelling up, from gaining levels in the rocket pass (aka battle pass like fortnite or all those other games), you also get a title when you participate in official tournaments, or when you reach a certain point in those said tournaments, You also get them from achievements such as reaching the highest rank possible in the ranked playlist. Players in Rocket League LOVE to collect and show off those titles, and in a game like shroud where your title is shown so very often, it is possibly one of the best games to have a title collection aspect!

 

I agree about getting titles for progress we make. I've even thought some could give a buff so you have to choose. For example you earn a cooking master title by progressing in cooking and perhaps a cooking quest appears to let you earn a chefs hat too. Well either the title or hat would give the buff . But just some thoughts.

 

I have suggested titles for each GM multiple times. We could, as a community, help come up with them

 

How about a title called Millionaire. You donate a million gold to some NPC lords to get it. That'll be a nice gold sink.

Next we can have a billionaire title......

 

Hey that is actually nice! Runescape did something like that, you can earn Skill Capes, capes that represent the skill you mastered, and by wearing each different Cape you could have a benefit (example the mining skill Cape gave you a small chance at mining double ores). This gets a bit more complicated than just titles, but it is some sort of achievement system that does not require new engines work, just new items!

 

Bumping titles wishlist with a few suggestions.

Beast Master - tame more than X different mobs or mob types.
Virtue titles - have titles you earn / display based on your current virtue level. Honorable, Cowardly, etc..
Avatar - for completing EP 1 and earning Shroud.
Merchant - achieved by transacting X amount of goods sold via vendors.
Killer - for X pvp kills (distinct count!)
Master of Music - perform in front of more than X Outlanders


Can have tiers for higher values. Ideally players wouldn’t need to choose up like some existing ones.., just chose the title and it adapts based on their current level.

like a PVPer would chose “pvp title” and based on number of distinct kills, they might be “thug” or “killer”, “merchant of death”, “angel of death” etc..

 

And based on the number of distinct deaths they might be called "dead body" "corpse" "body bag"