Prestige items and titles.

[Veprovina.4876]

What do you think the most prestige item/title/thing to get is in every game mode that's NOT a legendary item and is account bound (meaning you can't just buy it)? 🙂

 

I can only guess, but here's my guesses:

Open world/general:

- Birthday titles

- i'm out of ideas. 😄

 

Fractals:

- Fractal god title

- Simon the cat

- Abyssal fractal skins

- Fractal Reliquary

 

Raids:

- no idea actually, don't even know what you can get there. 

- probably kill proof?

 

Strikes:

- no idea

 

DRM:

-no idea

 

WvW:

- God of WvW

- Mini Catmanders (those JPs are HARD lol)

- Catmander home unlocks

 

PvP:

- God of PvP

- having a statue made of your character (are those still a thing?)

 

What's your top picks?

Edited October 15, 2021 by Veprovina.4876

[Danikat.8537]

I always find the concept of prestigious items in a game difficult because to me it's a very personal thing, the items I think of as important and special and which I'm proud of having obtained may not mean anything to anyone else, and ones which are supposed to be important according to other people may be irrelevant to me.

I mean one obvious choice could be the celebration hat which was only available from the start of the head start period until the end of the first week of the game's release. It shows you were there right at the start...but so what? You bought a game before some other people. Well done?

Someone could have bought the game on release just because they buy every new MMO and never log in after the headstart period and they'd have it. Someone else could have bought the game the day after the hat was removed from the store, played every day since, run a successful guild which helped a lot of other people get into the game and they wouldn't have it. A 3rd person could have been playing since day 1 of the headstart period but they didn't know to pick the hat up from the gem store, or accidentally deleted it. Is the first person somehow a better or more impressive GW2 player than the other two? If not then what does it say that they've got an extra hat?

 

13 minutes ago, Veprovina.4876 said:

What do you think the most prestige item/title/thing to get is in every game mode that's NOT a legendary item and is account bound (meaning you can't just buy it)? 🙂

There are some account bound items which can be bought. The Halloween mini pets from the candy corn vendor for example, they're account bound on acquire but you could just buy gems, convert them to gold and use the gold to buy candy corn to get the mini.

Having said all that here's some items I know of which have/had very limited availability or are difficult to get and which couldn't simply be bought directly:

• The aforementioned celebration hat, and the Hero's Band pre-purchase item (which all my characters use from level 1-80 and then keep in their inventory).
• The pre-purchase items and titles from HoT and PoF (and I suppose EoD).
• Mini Clockheart - from completing all the achievements in the Aetherpath in Twilight Arbor.
• The various Mini Llamas which come from completing the PvP league reward track and in some cases from winning automated tournaments.
• Some of the raid minis which require you to beat their bosses, but I couldn't say which are especially hard.

Mini Liadri and the Blazing Light title from beating the Queen's Gauntlet.

There's a lot more of course, a lot of titles for a start, but I'm not going to try to list them all.

[kharmin.7683]

I still want a title for Giant Slayer, especially since I did it the hard way.  😞

[HnRkLnXqZ.1870]

The highest prestige you can achieve is getting an NPC named after you. Siegemaster Dulfy in the Urban Battlegrounds Fractal, probably the fractal-boss most players know.

The second highest I consider is when the developers listen to you and grant your wish/suggestion. 

Stuff from discontinued and non-replayable content is a bit weird. If you happened to play during that certain time-period, lucky you. But I would not consider those achievements of prestige. 

[Fueki.4753]

It's the invisible shoe skins, obviously.

There is no way to get more prestige than getting the literally rarest items in the game as a drop, or buy it for over 2000 gold on the trading post, just to have literally nothing to show for it.

Edited October 15, 2021 by Fueki.4753

[Rasimir.6239]

I always have a hard time associating prestige with game cosmetics. I've actually got a few of the things you mention, but don't find any of them prestigious. I simply got them because getting them entertained me.

[Astralporing.1957]

It's still the God Walking Among Mere Mortals title.

[The Fear.3865]

Imo something like 

 

Open world : 

Furious achiever 

Long-term commitment 

Meta event infusions (khan hur, tarir, chak, pinata, queen bee, shatty...) 

Legendary weapons

Black lion permanent contacts

GWAMM

 

Fractals / Raids / DRM :

Community hero

Fractal titles

Envoy's herald 

 

PvP : 

Best of the best / Gizmos

Community conqueror

Top 1,2,3,10,25,100,250 titles

Rank 100 mistforged armor

 

WvW :

God of wvw / Ultimate dominator

Rank 500 mistforged armor 

[Veprovina.4876]

3 hours ago, Danikat.8537 said:

I always find the concept of prestigious items in a game difficult because to me it's a very personal thing, the items I think of as important and special and which I'm proud of having obtained may not mean anything to anyone else, and ones which are supposed to be important according to other people may be irrelevant to me.

Of course, that's what i mean, what do you consider a prestige item. 

3 hours ago, Danikat.8537 said:

I mean one obvious choice could be the celebration hat which was only available from the start of the head start period until the end of the first week of the game's release. It shows you were there right at the start...but so what? You bought a game before some other people. Well done?

 

3 hours ago, Danikat.8537 said:

Someone could have bought the game on release just because they buy every new MMO and never log in after the headstart period and they'd have it. Someone else could have bought the game the day after the hat was removed from the store, played every day since, run a successful guild which helped a lot of other people get into the game and they wouldn't have it. A 3rd person could have been playing since day 1 of the headstart period but they didn't know to pick the hat up from the gem store, or accidentally deleted it. Is the first person somehow a better or more impressive GW2 player than the other two? If not then what does it say that they've got an extra hat?

 

3 hours ago, Danikat.8537 said:

There are some account bound items which can be bought. The Halloween mini pets from the candy corn vendor for example, they're account bound on acquire but you could just buy gems, convert them to gold and use the gold to buy candy corn to get the mini.

Yeah, exactly my point, like, for me, something prestige would be something you had to kind of "work for it", but then there's items in the game you can "work for" via luck, and "work for" via skill, and the skill based ones often can come down to buy enough gold with gems. That's why i wanted to see what people think. 

 

I don't know why i've split those into 3...

3 hours ago, Danikat.8537 said:

Having said all that here's some items I know of which have/had very limited availability or are difficult to get and which couldn't simply be bought directly:

• The aforementioned celebration hat, and the Hero's Band pre-purchase item (which all my characters use from level 1-80 and then keep in their inventory).
• The pre-purchase items and titles from HoT and PoF (and I suppose EoD).
• Mini Clockheart - from completing all the achievements in the Aetherpath in Twilight Arbor.
• The various Mini Llamas which come from completing the PvP league reward track and in some cases from winning automated tournaments.
• Some of the raid minis which require you to beat their bosses, but I couldn't say which are especially hard.

Are items that are no longer available considered prestige anymore? I wonder...

3 hours ago, Danikat.8537 said:

Mini Liadri and the Blazing Light title from beating the Queen's Gauntlet.

There's a lot more of course, a lot of titles for a start, but I'm not going to try to list them all.

Hey, i have both of those and Kinglsayer for beating Turai Ossa! 😄

I guess i then have some prestige items! 😛 

 

3 hours ago, kharmin.7683 said:

I still want a title for Giant Slayer, especially since I did it the hard way.  😞

You mean, core tyria way? 😮

And i'm confused, you did it and have the title or want the title?

 

2 hours ago, HnRkLnXqZ.1870 said:

The highest prestige you can achieve is getting an NPC named after you. Siegemaster Dulfy in the Urban Battlegrounds Fractal, probably the fractal-boss most players know.

True, but, some people have had that done post mortem so it's probably not relevant to them anymore, depending on what you believe.

2 hours ago, HnRkLnXqZ.1870 said:

The second highest I consider is when the developers listen to you and grant your wish/suggestion. 

I guess haha, not many people could say they achieved that! 🙂

2 hours ago, HnRkLnXqZ.1870 said:

Stuff from discontinued and non-replayable content is a bit weird. If you happened to play during that certain time-period, lucky you. But I would not consider those achievements of prestige. 

Yeah, luck and "right timing or never again available" based items do seem to walk the fine line, are they prestige or not?

 

2 hours ago, Fueki.4753 said:

It's the invisible shoe skins, obviously.

There is no way to get more prestige than getting the literally rarest items in the game as a drop, or buy it for over 2000 gold on the trading post, just to have literally nothing to show for it.

Lol, when you put it like that, that IS funny! 😄

 

Also, you can kinda fake those with Tribal Walkers skin haha, just need to find the pants that cover up the ring parts. 😄

 

2 hours ago, Rasimir.6239 said:

I always have a hard time associating prestige with game cosmetics. I've actually got a few of the things you mention, but don't find any of them prestigious. I simply got them because getting them entertained me.

Nice! But isn't the work you had to do (and i don't mean "work" work), like, the sheer fact that you had to invest time in those prestige enough? There is definitely some skill involved in those as well.

I mean, you have something some other players don't. 😛

 

2 hours ago, Astralporing.1957 said:

It's still the God Walking Among Mere Mortals title.

Is that still obtainable?

 

1 hour ago, The Fear.3865 said:

Imo something like 

 

Open world : 

Furious achiever 

Long-term commitment 

Meta event infusions (khan hur, tarir, chak, pinata, queen bee, shatty...) 

Legendary weapons

Black lion permanent contacts

GWAMM

 

Fractals / Raids / DRM :

Community hero

Fractal titles

Envoy's herald 

 

PvP : 

Best of the best / Gizmos

Community conqueror

Top 1,2,3,10,25,100,250 titles

Rank 100 mistforged armor

 

WvW :

God of wvw / Ultimate dominator

Rank 500 mistforged armor 

Agree with most of them. 🙂

Maybe not infusions since you can just buy them with real money off TP.

Yay, you achieved having a job...

 

Oother than that, yeah, nice list!:) 

[kharmin.7683]

2 minutes ago, Veprovina.4876 said:

You mean, core tyria way? 😮

And i'm confused, you did it and have the title or want the title?

 

Yes, core Tyria.  And there is an achievement, but no title.  I want a title.  🙂

[Veprovina.4876]

20 minutes ago, kharmin.7683 said:

Yes, core Tyria.  And there is an achievement, but no title.  I want a title.  🙂

Ah that's right! Those don't get titles!

Well, if any "slayer" achievement deserves a title it's this one. 😄

[kharmin.7683]

Just now, Veprovina.4876 said:

Ah that's right! Those don't get titles!

Well, if any "slayer" achievement deserves a title it's this one. 😄

I know, right?

[Veprovina.4876]

Just now, kharmin.7683 said:

I know, right?

Exactly! 🙂

I mean, even if you go to Elona to do it, it still takes forever! 😄 

[Fueki.4753]

33 minutes ago, Veprovina.4876 said:

Also, you can kinda fake those with Tribal Walkers skin haha, just need to find the pants that cover up the ring parts.

That only kind of works on bright skin colours though.

The white mold can't be dyed, so it looks off on darker skin colours. And Even if you could dye it, it would still look different.

Unlike other games, the foot undersides (and hand insides) of darker skinned characters are pinker and brighter than the rest of the skin in GW2, just like it is in real life. At least that's the case for my female humans.

Edited October 15, 2021 by Fueki.4753

[Infusion.7149]

TITLES
Probably  GWAMM (GW1 , 8,120 on gw2efficiency) , God of WVW (338  on gw2efficiency), Ultimate Dominator (1,661  on gw2efficiency) --- it's a huge grind

PVP: Champion Brawler --- it's a huge grind (only 31 people have it on gw2efficiency)

PVE:  Envoy's Herald (3 sets of legendary armor / 750 LI , 5,438 on gw2efficiency) , Community Hero? (25 people on gw2efficiency) , Fractal god (3,422 on gw2efficiency)

You would think King Slayer or The Blazing Light would be rarer but it's 25K people and 9K respectively.

No prestige for PVP mAT / ranked because some people wintraded/bought there way and play offhours...

ITEMS
Moto Infusion (SAB tribulation mode) , Realm portal spike finisher (<2K people have in gw2efficiency)

Not a legendary item ... that cuts Mistforged out . There's items that are rare such as the Khan-Ur helm but that's more RNG/money than prestige.

Edited October 15, 2021 by Infusion.7149

[Veprovina.4876]

18 minutes ago, Fueki.4753 said:

That only kind of works on bright skin colours though.

The white mold can't be dyed, so it looks off on darker skin colours. And Even if you could dye it, it would still look different.

Unlike other games, the foot undersides (and hand insides) of darker skinned characters are pinker and brighter than the rest of the skin in GW2, just like it is in real life. At least that's the case for my female humans.

Oh yeah, there's paint on them, forgot. 😛

Yeah, darker skinned characters can't fake it then. 😄

But i doubt anyone would notice the undersides of feet much. 

 

Still, that's what the invisible shoes are for. 🙂

2000 gold to walk barefoot! 😄 

[Veprovina.4876]

13 minutes ago, Infusion.7149 said:

TITLES
Probably  GWAMM (GW1 , 8,120 on gw2efficiency) , God of WVW (338  on gw2efficiency), Ultimate Dominator (1,661  on gw2efficiency) --- it's a huge grind

PVP: Champion Brawler --- it's a huge grind (only 31 people have it on gw2efficiency)

PVE:  Envoy's Herald (3 sets of legendary armor / 750 LI , 5,438 on gw2efficiency) , Community Hero? (25 people on gw2efficiency) , Fractal god (3,422 on gw2efficiency)

You would think King Slayer or The Blazing Light would be rarer but it's 25K people and 9K respectively.

No prestige for PVP mAT / ranked because some people wintraded/bought there way and play offhours...

ITEMS
Moto Infusion (SAB tribulation mode) , Realm portal spike finisher (<2K people have in gw2efficiency)

Not a legendary item ... that cuts Mistforged out . There's items that are rare such as the Khan-Ur helm but that's more RNG/money than prestige.

kitten, those ARE presitgious titles for real! 😮

And yeah, any RNG i don't consider prestigious, though, you do need to invest time in getting it if you're serious about geting a drop. 

And i said no legendaries cause they're a bit too obviously prestigious items cause they're designed to be that. 

I wanted to see what people consider really impressive and rare without them.

Edited October 15, 2021 by Veprovina.4876

[Astralporing.1957]

1 hour ago, Veprovina.4876 said:

Is that still obtainable?

Yes. It's not easy, mind you, but you can still get it.

[Veprovina.4876]

2 minutes ago, Astralporing.1957 said:

Yes. It's not easy, mind you, but you can still get it.

Cool! It's probably mostly meant for people that played GW1 though haha, but i guess it could also be an incentive for people to go check out GW1 if they didn't. 🙂 

[Inculpatus cedo.9234]

GWAMM

[mythical.6315]

59 minutes ago, Infusion.7149 said:

You would think King Slayer or The Blazing Light would be rarer but it's 25K people and 9K respectively.

It’s because a lot of people cheesed them when they had the chance. 

[Tyncale.1629]

4 hours ago, HnRkLnXqZ.1870 said:

 

The second highest I consider is when the developers listen to you and grant your wish/suggestion. 

 

I am down with that.  Here is my QoL request in that  [Suggestions]QoL (Quality of Life) Ideas [Merged]  thread where I ask for the Rollerbeetle to have a full or at least half full Endurance bar when you mount up, instead of your Endurance always starting at zero. 🙂  

Here is the same request from me a few weeks later in another post.  I nagged about it a third time somewhere but can not find that post anymore. 

 

And then 7 months later this  Game Update. 

 

/pats himself on the back 💪

Edited October 15, 2021 by Tyncale.1629

[kharmin.7683]

@Tyncale.1629 stop making sensible suggestions! 😆  That's not how these forums work.

[Blockhead Magee.3092]

Kegmaster  -  might be the rarest title in PVE that isn't special event driven  (like boss rush)   250 of 330,865 (0.076%)  - from the efficiency site

 

Goddess or God of WvW    341 of 330,865 (0.103%)

 

Duo of Destiny    PVP   3 of 330,865 (0.001%)

 

 

[The Fear.3865]

2 hours ago, Infusion.7149 said:

PVP: Champion Brawler --- it's a huge grind (only 31 people have it on gw2efficiency)

True I forgot that one ! 

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No prestige for PVP mAT / ranked because some people wintraded/bought there way and play offhours...

I disagree, pvp has the most pretigious titles by far IMO. 

Im almost certain there's way more people buying titles like Envoy herald or even accounts with god of Fractals... Simply because there is way more of these titles, and people are capable of buyin anything for less efforts. 

Sab infusions runs or account sharing is baseline for bad AP hunters.

It doesnt make these titles or achievements less prestigious if people really deserved it.

Edited October 15, 2021 by The Fear.3865