Skill Hunter

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Skill Hunter
Campaign	Prophecies Factions Nightfall
Title type	Character

The Skill Hunter title track is a character-based, campaign-specific title earned by acquiring all elite skills found in that campaign. The Legendary Skill Hunter title track is completed by completing all the Skill Hunter title tracks. These titles can be displayed in the "Honor" monument.

[edit] Skill Hunter title track

Title1	Campaign	Elite skills2
Tyrian Elite Skill Hunter	Prophecies	90
Canthan Elite Skill Hunter	Factions	120
Elonian Elite Skill Hunter	Nightfall	140

¹ Each of the title tracks in the rows above are separate titles.

² There are 30 core elite skills which will count towards all three title tracks when captured.

[edit] Legendary Skill Hunter title track

Title	Total maxed skill hunter
Legendary Skill Hunter	3

[edit] Acquisition

Simply acquiring an elite skill will contribute to the appropriate title track. Prior to the Nightfall campaign and later, the hard mode update, the only way to acquire an elite skill was to capture it using a Signet of Capture. The introduction of elite skill tomes now allows characters to acquire elite skills that have already been unlocked.

[edit] Notes

• Currently, there are 294 elite skills in the game. Excluding the 4 PvE-only skills which do not count for the title, there is a total of 290 elite skills required to be captured.
• Campaign-specific elites count towards that continent's title only. There are 60 Prophecies-only elites to be captured in Tyria, 90 Factions-only elites in Cantha, and 110 Nightfall-only elites in Elona.
• You must have Ascended, become Weh no Su, or have completed the quest Hunted! to capture elites from other secondary professions, because you need to switch secondary professions before you can capture their respective skills.
• A great way to start is by capturing all the core skills, which count 30 points for every title.
• Hunting monsters and capturing their skills also gets you a good amount of Cartographer points, since many monsters are 'hidden' in places that are hard to find or get to.

Anomaly.

The Elonian Skill Hunter title is not truly campaign-specific, since it's impossible to capture ritualist and assassin skills without Factions.

Anomaly.

Although after the August 7, 2008 update, as the Lightbringer Signet no longer counts as an Elite Skill in the Nightfall campaign, it is still displayed in the "Titles" tab as one for those who achieved the rank before the update, making it look like: "Elonian Elite Skill Hunter (141/140)".

[edit] Trivia

• Before the hard mode update, there was only one Skill Hunter title track, progressing from Skill Hunter → Adept Skill Hunter → Advanced Skill Hunter → Elite Skill Hunter → Expert Skill Hunter → Master Skill Hunter. Master Skill Hunter was never achievable as there was an insufficient amount of elite skills in the game at that time.
• Prior to the game August 7, 2008 update, the Lightbringer Signet counted towards the Elonian Skill Hunter track, even though it is not obtained through the use of a Signet of Capture. It is the reward for obtaining the Brave Lightbringer title.