Hopefully Solomon won't shut this one down since it's not cluttering up any other folders and it's a complaint.

PAFO titles are ridiculous. As has been pointed out in other threads titles are a sort of Achievement system. Not knowing what you are supposed to be achieving doesn't make sense. JMF90 pointed out that having a title that know one knows how to get is ridiculous in it's own right.

I'm still pretty tired, posting before my coffee so these aren't the best arguments hopefully more people will add to them. I canceled Rishlu last night though because I don't have anything Tangible to work towards. If I knew how many ranks and/or stat points I needed to get Holy Being or Holy Titan I'd be more willing to stay but Titles are the only thing I have left and I don't want to randomly work skills hoping i'll stumble across something.

>>That sums up my feelings on PAFO.

Personally I think PAFO has it's place, just not with titles. I'm not asking for spoilers for every quest and every ability, just for Titles.

Totally agree. I know on other thief boards we used to have, we pretty much tore our hair out trying to figure out titles that imho don't belong being on the list of "super sekrit stuff" that nobody knows what they are".

since many of these "skills" are either going away or being combined anyway with the new systems coming in ....Mister Solomon, tear down that PAFO wall.

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Down with PAFO! For titles at least...

I gotta agree with everyone. PAFO for titles is not the way to go. It's an achievement system in which you see what your goal is and you work to achieve it. I'm not a fan of working arbitrary skills just to see if I can get a title, I'd rather know exactly what skills I need to train.

This whole PAFO for titles business just makes me lose total interest in the title system.

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>Personally I think PAFO has it's place, just not with titles. I'm not asking for spoilers for every quest and every ability, just for Titles.

^^^This. PAFO definitely has its place, and I like it for the majority of systems. However, Titles require hundreds and sometimes thousands of ranks to achieve. If one wishes to invest the (considerable) time to work toward that goal, it should be a stated goal.

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Not that I'm agreeing or disagreeing with anyone, but I think part of the current philosophy behind titles and their role is to supply a sense of fear, mystery and/or awe to those who see another with title "X" that is currently unknown.

The best I can compare it to is when you start a new game and don't know how powerful anything is. Then you see "Deathstalker of Oblivion Draco Lord" and then you say, "Oh Snap! What is that?"

The same happens whenever I see someone with a really cool sounding title, and then I go to the DR website and see ???? listed for all of the requirements. I ponder at what that person had to do in order to get that really awesome title. A myriad of potential and possibility then starts running through my head. Does it mean that person is powerful? Does it mean I have no chance of seeing them hide? Does it mean that person can one-shot me? How long has that character existed in the realms?

Honestly, it's just another way of looking at the title system, rather than just looking at it as another form of grinding achievements.

Again, not saying I prefer one way over the other--I'm just trying to highlight a reason why, perhaps, it has been left the way that it is for so long.

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>I'm just trying to highlight a reason why, perhaps, it has been left the way that it is for so long.

I have nothing but respect for the intent. Let's look at the title Archmage. It requires 1,000 ranks in each of 3 magic skills. Given the time it takes to hit that mark, I wouldn't want to be flailing blindly on it.

Some people like the surprise factor on titles and some don't. I'm in the latter camp. Surely a compromise could be reached.

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How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams. -Bram Stoker's Dracula

Ok I'm not sure why this was moved here. I guess the truth hurts. It's not an old argument and I'm not sure why it's such a burr under solomon's saddle.

>>PAFO to new players is generally bad. Guild secrets are one thing, titles and their requirements are another. I know a couple of people that were going to try DR until I told them if they wanted to know what the guild's spells/abilities did they'd have to go read third party websites because the game is mostly PAFO. Their general response was "I'm not going to play a game that can't tell me what I need for basic things."

To be fair a lot of titles aren't PAFO, just the high level and most complicated ones, which is the most inane thing to me. As someone pointed out earlier high level titles require hundreds of hours to achieve, flailing about wildly for them is not fun, which I thought was supposed to be part of the appeal of the title system.

Going after titles definitely taps into the reward center of my noggin. I hope that someone puts all of the reqs on the web site after the exp combination.

>"Oh I got a new title! Wonder how I earned it"

Yeah, this is always anticlimactic.


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Agree 100% with thread.

Also, to Leilond >>I ponder at what that person had to do in order to get that really awesome title.

I bet if you don't already know, they don't know either.


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The thing is that some GMs are telling what title requirements are and others are not. I thought we were getting away from this model. Parity and/or equality among guilds/systems when possible. Well I'm sorry, but either every GM should expose title requirements or none should. Period, end of statment.

I like to know what the requirements are so I can work towards a title. Having a title and not knowing what you did to get it is pointless if you ask me.

Goals are what keep me playing DR.

The only reason I've been helping guess is because I want to know, not because I find it entertaining.


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I don't think any of us really understand why it was moved here and what I gather from the silence, I don't think we'll get an answer.

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>I don't think any of us really understand why it was moved here and what I gather from the silence, I don't think we'll get an answer.

My read on it is that Solomon moved it here, and he's the one that wants titles to be PAFO.

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I take it that asking for a giant flashing window in the center of my screen congratulating me on earning a new title is out of the question then.