Guide to maxing titles

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This page is a simple guide showing tricks to make maxing titles more efficient, both in time and money.

Contents 1 Title requirements 2 Recommended order 2.1 For fastest KoaBD r6 2.2 For fastest KoaBD early progression 3 Title synergies

[edit] Title requirements

Title	Count	Cost	Duration	Difficulty	Other comments
Legendary Defender of Ascalon	1	N.A.	Long	Almost none	Exclusive to tyrian characters. Impossible to attain after leaving pre-searing. Mutually exclusive with Legendary Survivor.
Survivor	1	N.A.	Short	PvE Normal Mode	Impossible to attain after first death with your character. Mutually exclusive with Legendary Defender of Ascalon. Can be done quickly in Fronis Irontoe's Lair.
Protector	3	N.A.	Medium	PvE Normal Mode	Recommended to master the missions the first time you do them.
Guardian	3+1	N.A.	Medium	PvE Hard Mode	Recommended to study the missions, and bring the necessary skills and team.
Vanquisher	3+1	N.A.	Long	PvE Hard Mode	Recommended to Caravan vanquishing when possible.
Cartographer	3+1	N.A.	Medium	PvE Normal Mode	Faster if using Texmod. Recommended to complete explorables the first time you go through them.
Skill Hunter	3+1	~290 + 194 skill points	Short	PvE Normal Mode	Skill point cost takes into account exp gained from capturing skills.
Master of the North	1	N.A.	Long	PvE Hard Mode	Title includes cartography, mission completion and vanquishing.
Reputation ranks (Asura, Norn, Dwarf, and Ebon Vanguard)	4	N.A.	Short	PvE Hard Mode	Recommended to fill Hero's Handbooks (Only from rank 8, in hard mode).
Sunspear & Lightbringer	2	N.A.	Short	PvE Hard Mode	Very easy by properly farming in The Sulfurous Wastes. Can be combined with vanquishing.
Luxon/Kurzick	2	N.A.	Long	Almost none	By participating Alliance battles. Skill in PvP only effect efficiency.
Drunkard	1	~1000	Short	None	Reduce costs by buying from players. Reduce time by map travel, but this increases costs.
Sweet Tooth	1	~2000	N.A.	None	Reduce costs by buying from players.
Wisdom	1	N.A	N.A.	None	Costs and duration dependent on how the gold items were obtained.
Treasure Hunter	1	~4800	Medium	Almost none	Contributes to luck titles if using lockpicks.
Lucky/Unlucky: Nine rings method	2	2206	720 hours	None
Party Animal:	1	~1000	N.A.	None	Reduce costs by buying from players and events
Zaishen rank:	1	~100000	N.A.	None	Reduce costs by earning Balthazar faction in PvP.

[edit] Recommended order

Either way, make the best use of synergies as noted above.

[edit] For fastest KoaBD r6

If your goal is KoaBD (Kind of a Big Deal) rank 6, this order will save you lots of time in the long run

• Legendary Defender of Ascalon or Survivor (+1=1)
• Protector & Guardian (+7=8)
• Vanquishing, then complete Sunspear, Lightbringer, Cartography, Skill Hunter (+14=22)
• Master of the North, then complete Reputation ranks (+5=27)
• Then any 3 of the following 10: Luxon/Kurzick, Party Animal, Drunkard, Sweet Tooth, Treasure Hunter, Wisdom, Lucky/Unlucky, Zaishen (+3=30)

[edit] For fastest KoaBD early progression

If you are not sure how far you want to get in the KoaBD rank, this order will progress faster initially

• Legendary Defender of Ascalon or Survivor
• Protector
• Sunspear & Lightbringer
• Cartography
• Skill Hunter
• Guardian
• Reputation ranks
• Vanquishing
• Master of the North
• Drunkard
• Sweet Tooth
• Wisdom + Treasure Hunter
• Luxon/Kurzick
• Lucky/Unlucky

[edit] Title synergies

If you're going for a high KoaBD level, it is best to combine titles instead of doing them one at a time. Here's some ideas of synergies between titles:

Survivor + Skill hunter (early elites) + Protector (easier early missions)	A fun way towards survivor, and less to do later.
Vanquish + Cartography + Skill hunter (pick up as you go)	Scrape areas as you Vanquish them, and bring some cap sig's if your build permits it. Less to be done later.
Vanquish in Elona + Sunspear + Lightbringer	It should be enough to max Sunspear, and less to farm for Lightbringer.
Protector to access any later areas	Always try for Protector if you need to do a mission, unless it puts a risk on Survivor.
Allegiance + Treasure Hunter + Wisdom	Find a spot with bounties or repeatable quests that also have chests scattered along the way.
Allegiance or Vanquish to finance other titles	Farming and keyless chest runs may provide better income, but they don't contribute to titles.
Drunkard & Lucky/Unlucky	Get your tickets, stand in the circles, and drink!
Treasure Hunter + Wisdom + Lucky/Unlucky	Using lockpicks will give credit towards the lucky/unlucky tracks depending on whether they break or not.
Allegiance + Survivor	Use repeatable faction farming quests to gain experience for your survivor. In some cases, farming is more optimal with dying, in which case take the role of "The Doorman" (see fast faction farming).
Keyless chest runs + Wisdom	If doing keyless chest runs to finance other titles, make sure to transfer all of your gold items to your titles character before identifying them.
Treasure Hunter + Wisdom + Lucky/Unlucky + Drunkard	Repeat the Frontis Irontoe dungeon (HM), there alway's is a locked chest there so don't forget to bring a lockpick and you get 2 Ales from the dungoen chest: (Aged) Dwarven Ale.