Title

A Title is a text string that can be displayed under the name of a player's character in staging areas. Titles represent achievements that you have made in the game. The titles that are available to your character and their progress are shown in the "Titles" tab on the Hero Panel.

Title basics
There are two types of titles: character-based and account-based. Character-based titles are tied to one character only, while account-based titles can be seen on the lists of all characters in that account. Each character progresses towards character-based titles separately, but progress on account-based titles are shared amongst all characters.

Initially, a character's list of titles on the Hero Panel consists of only a small number of entries, because the tracks appear only after earning points towards the title. For instance, the Sweet Tooth appears after you consume at least one Sweet. There are two exceptions: the Legendary Defender of Ascalon track only appears after attaining level 12 and Survivor after attaining level 5.

The titles shown on the Hero Panel are grouped into three groupings: maxed titles, non-maxed titles that can be displayed (the first two ranks of the hero title are shown here even though they cannot be displayed), and titles that cannot yet be displayed. Each grouping is sorted by tier or rank, then by percentage of completion to the next tier or rank.

Acquiring titles
Title progress is recorded automatically; the player is not required to manually acknowledge or accept the progress. Progress is accumulated simultaneously for all applicable titles. There is no restriction on how many titles can be worked on any one time. Title progress is not generally retroactive; that is, newly introduced titles do not take past achievements into consideration.

A title is divided into tiers or ranks (although some titles have only a single tier). Each tier represents a milestone and is given a specific name that differs from the rest of the tiers. The actual number or rank of a title's name can be seen in parentheses next to the name of the title on the Hero Panel.

Displaying a title
Titles can be displayed by a character once a certain tier is reached. The minimum tier for this differs depending on the title. When a title is eligible for display, a checkbox appears to the left of the title progress bar on the Hero Panel. Checking it will display the name of the title's tier below the name of the character. Anyone who hovers the mouse cursor over the character or selects the character will see the title. Only one title can be displayed at any one time.

Aside from bragging rights, some titles also confer in-game effects or bonuses, either passively (the bonus is effective whether or not the title is displayed) or actively (i.e. it has to be displayed for the bonus to take effect).

With the release of Guild Wars Eye of the North, titles can also be displayed at the "Honor" monument in a character's Hall of Monuments. The rank at which a title can be exhibited at the monument is usually greater than the rank required for a character to display it.

List of titles

 * 1 There is a separate title track for each campaign (Prophecies, Factions, and Nightfall).
 * 2 For Eye of the North, the equivalents of Protector, Guardian, Cartographer and Vanquisher are all merged in this single title.
 * 3 The account must have access to Prophecies, Factions and Nightfall to be able to acquire these titles.
 * 4 Account titles except for 5 can be shown in the monument of "Honor" before being maxed.
 * 5 Treasure Hunter and Wisdom title tracks were changed to account-wide titles in the 13 November 2008 update.
 * 6 Progress on this title is no longer possible.