How long has it been since “The Bloodthirsty” was added? 10 years? I think it’s time for a new hk title. While you’re at it, maybe a 1 mill hk title should be added as well.
Commando
Eradicator
Bane of the opposite faction
Warblade
Desolator (this probably for 1 mill)
Probably around the time they put more than 5 seconds of effort into the Honor Level reward track instead of just reskinning the same mount 5x with 100s of levels between rewards…
Never. Blizzard was not happy about the resulting degenerate behavior.
Players were forming full premades to farm HKs as quickly as possible for the HK titles. Many bgs were ruined by full premades’ gy farming. And HK trading in wPvP.
There’s always “degenerate” behavior in all aspects of the game and there will always be people whining just about everything.
There are groups gy camping bgs w/o the titles, this really isn’t an argument against a modest reward for people who have spent quite a bit of time killing stuff.
It would exacerbate that problem. It would become more frequent. More full premades formed solely for the purpose of not ending games for as long as possible so they can farm a gy for max HKs. They drove other players away from PvP.
In wPvP, raids would take turns AOEing each other for fast HKs.
The prestige of these HK titles was ruined, forever associated with degenerate behavior.
Blizzard saw the effects of HK titles and they did not like what happened.
I have made suggestions of adding a ton of Titles in game which revolve around various activities in game.
Productive stuff, positive stuff would go a long way.
Outright removing future titles and ruining an added incentive to increase kills during a normal battle is a lazy solution. We have honorable kills, so how about dishonorable kills that don’t count towards your HK total? The latter could be counted if you kill someone shortly after rezing at a GY, or you kill the same player over and over again in wPvP. Better yet, if you’re part of a premade group you just don’t get credit for any HKs, because ganking someone while part of a premade isn’t… wait for it… honorable.
I’d rather they focus a different statistic so there’s no motivation for degeneracy, something like a 100k BGs won awarding a title like Master of the Universe. So guard your bases, heal your flag carrier even when the fun battle is happening at the enemy base, don’t bypass the rules to form full premades in BGs, you’ll get there eventually.
I don’t think there should be any more titles, personally. Just because you do something doesn’t mean it’s worth a title.
I’d be okay with an achievement, but 250k HK’s is enough for title rewards. All that really does is create more BG botters, make quality of teams even worse than they already are because most will be bots, and increase queue times exponentially when people add HK title grinds to their sales packages on boost service sites.