IDEAS FOR RYZOM

I like genralized titles by leaving out specializations... reverting to early titles with an added "Master" like:

Master xyz Forager
then Master Forager

Master Offensive/Defensive Magician
then Master Magician

Master (Heavy or Medium or Light) Armor Crafter
then Master Armor Crafter
then Master Crafter

Master Slasher
then Master Heavy Melee Warrior (already too long imo)
then Master Melee Fighter (i think i got the last two wrong anyway, need to check ingame)

generally i like short titles.

short is powerful.

and... i don't like long titles that mess up the in scene display by shifting the character names far away from the actual toon.

im thinkng Archmage of atys :)

But why "of atys" or "... Atys Forager"?

wouldn't "Earth Champion of 100m running" or "Judo Master of Earth" sound odd? I mean... is there anything but atys in the minds of our toons...

How about Master of the sap

Shows the proponents aren't thinking IC, thus not realizing a reference to Atys isn't necessarily needed. In OOC, Atys is just that nice place your toon lives in.

Then again, note we already have the title of Atys Citizen.

and Atys Guardian, which you get if you have Matis Guardian, Tryker Guardian, Fyros Guardian and Zorai Guardian. Using Atys in the title means you have masters / titles for all 4 regions/ civs.

we dont use earth champion but we do use World champion, and also atys just sounds cool :)

or 'All Atys Master Forager'

I like the 4/5 region ones (without the Atys)

"Master Forager" for more than one region
"Grand Master Forager" for all regions

The "Atys Guardian" might be a valid point for Atys in the title but:
1. The guardian titles were only available through special events
2. The foraging titles might be multiple regions (not civs as the guardians) but the other multi-titles not (think "Grand Master Magician" for all 4 types of magic)

if you want to make it sound more global make It something like
"(Grand) Master World Forager" even though that's a bit weird as well.

The Apprentice and Novice remind me of the lower titles.

IMHO the "... of ..." titles just sound(ed) awful.
Same goes for the "All Atys..." suggested by Arfur ;-)

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A relatively simple solution would be this:

Grand Master Fighter (the HOLE fight tree)
Master Melee Warrior (All melee weapons)
Master Light Armsman (all 1H weapons)
Master Bludgeoner (1H mace and staff)
Master Slasher (1H axe and sword)
Master Heavy Armsman (All 2H melee weapons)
Master Cleaver (2H axe and Sword)
Master Close Fighter (Dagger and Hand to Hand)
Master Range Fighter (all Range weapons)
Master Heavy Gunner (Autolauncher, Launcher and Rifle)

Grand Master Magician (the HOLE magic tree)
Defensive master Magician (heal and def affl.)
Offensive Master Magician (ele and off affl.)

Grand Master Crafter (the HOLE craft tree)
Master Armorer (heavy, light, medium and shield)
Grand Master Heavy Armorer (all heavy parts)
Grand Master Light Armorer (all light parts)
Grand Master Medium Armorer (all medium parts)
Grand Master Jeweler (all jewels)
Melee Weaponsmith Grand Master (all melee weapons)
Grand Master Light Melee Weaponsmith?? (all 1H melee weapons)
Grand Master Heavy Melee Weaponsmith (all 2H melee weapons)
Grand Master Range Weaponsmith (all range weapons)

Grand Master Forager (the HOLE harvest tree)

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General rule here:
hole tree = Grand Master, all sub trees that split into subsections = Master (if not in use already, then Grand Master as well)
only one not able to fit is the all 1H melee weapons one though

To my mind Grand Master sounds like a hokey WWF (Worldwide Wrestling Federation) promotion....or a name badge from a Trekkie convention (Grand Master was a title used in both the Jedi Orders to describe the recognized head of the Order. )

.... and yes, i did have to google that :)

Having the title could aslo set ya IG MP3 player to this site? .

http://grandmasterflash.com/

I was going to start a new alt called Flash just in case . . .

lolx, with so few grandmasters in the game (that i know / know of, or are very close, just lacking a few lvl's in one skill or so) this is a title that is rare, but i agree arfur, and just a side note, star wars nuts and star trek nuts alike would be hurt that the two were mixed up, because there are no jedi in star trek, and with a few photon torpedo's and a quick call to the Klingon's the dark side would have got it's a$$ kicked. lolx.

but i would have laughed and laughed to have seen you with that title and the new alt, it would have been worth a screen shot.

I went with Atys because (to me) Atys is the challenge and I was talking about harvesting plus Atys has been used in titles already. But hey, I see lots of good suggestions here. =D