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Funny, my first thought wasn't one of desire at all. More like "Why don't they just make one all inclusive title for all the server first classes and races? It could be something like `Heilig, Able To Stay Awake For 60 Hours'. That way, people won't be confused and think the title stands for an actual accomplishment."

I know I could do it... I mean, I've already asked the time off (my boss plays, and understands completely.) I've done powerleveling in Outlands and know the deal, and I have friends who know how to help.

But do I want to? No! Doing that would mean recruiting a legion of helpers and staying up 24 hours a day until the job was done - most likely much longer than 24 total hours.

That's crazy.

I know how you feel. I'd just about go nutty if I could turn my RP gnome into "Grand Master Engineer" but it's unlikely.

Still, nobody would ever question her designs again!

the replacement was gladiator titles.

which are neither permanent, nor available to the majority and are part of a game bolted onto WoW.

"I'm sure that one will exclusively go to someone from a very big guild who persuaded all his guildies to send all the cloth to him the first day or two"

I think you're overestimating things here. The tradeskill titles will be achieved within hours of the servers coming up. Estimates are that it will take between 4 and 5 hours to hit 450 fishing. Ghostcrawler said earlier that server-first achievements will have a one-hour window after the first guy gets it, kind of like the Scarab Lord thing. I plan on hitting Northrend and just fishing my way through the crazy server lag of the first day and having a nice "Grand Master Angler" title to carry around. That way I can laugh at all the people who power-leveled to 80 and skipped the content and experience of the game just for a title.

It's actually only a one minute window, last I heard.

Seconded! That sounds like a *much* better idea.

thirded

Agreed, sounds like a good idea too.

In some ways having the imba title of being first would be nice, but reality would just be as mentioned that someone had multiple people play the account to get there, pretty sad and makes a mockery of the whole rpg part of the game.

Having a title though that is earn't more like a Decathlon would be cool and force people to experience more variety in the game (I'd have the bar set higher like having to win 5 battlegrounds as one of each form for a druid which any going afk resetting the achievement to start along with all the other tasks to do).

This achievement would have the welcome effect too of the people who have it very likely knowing their class. You could even have one stage where you needed to be the only tank class in a party and complete a dungeon on heroic as a way of proving you tanked - ditto for healing.

I'd definitely have a lot more respect for someone who achieved something like above then someone who just sat in a smelly room for 60 hours flat ;)

/signed
Great idea and just to elaborate on how I see your school of thought...
Just like the hierarchical PvP achievements (i.e. BGs, Arena all have their own "set" of achievements, achieve all those and you get a title), there should be class achievements. Complete all of these and you should get the title for being master of that class (e.g. Archmage, Prophet, etc).
Some ideas:
Receive X damage from a single enemy without dying. (Tanking skill).
Produce X tables of food / soul wells / light wells and have their contents exhausted by party/raid members.
Buff X players with (class specific buff)
Polymorph / shackle / ice trap X mobs.
Heal X damage on a single player in a single combat.
OMG, I could go on forever.

/agree

You hit the nail on the head, Amaris. It seems absolutely silly to reward people for skipping content. They're cool titles, but why reward only the people who blow past content as fast as possible?

I'll be taking my time leveling, doing some fishing/gathering as I go, running the new instances, and generally enjoying myself when the expansion comes out. I guess that means I don't get a title.
: /

Totally agree.

Would be awesome if they used a system similar to that of the Battlefield 2 awards system.

For example,
Of the Elements
Play as an Elemental Combat Shaman for x
Achieve x DPS with x amount of spell power/crit
Get x killing blows in a battleground
Down x boss(es)

Something of that sort maybe.