First off, I know this is a very niche group of people that this affects.
But it makes no sense that this title is account wide across all your alts. It loses so much prestige. The title should be a representation of your skill on that class during that specific season.
One of the cool things about the r1 arena title is that when you see someone with it you know that they were one of the few warriors or druids etc that season that earned it and they’re very skilled on that class.
Having the title across all your chars including alts you’ve barely ever touched and have no idea how to play significantly reduces how cool it is.
I see where you’re coming from, but this argument can be made for pretty much anything, no?
E.g. glad mounts could be argued to be made character/class specific, mythic end boss titles, achievement titles etc etc etc.
I don’t think it’s ‘less cool’ that the R1 titles are account wide because R1 is the hardest thing to achieve in the game, but of course the ‘coolness’ is just an opinion.
They don’t HAVE to use the titles on their alts though, but having the option is nice and something tell me the people this concerns are happy to have it. I do see where you’re coming from too though.
this is exactly why it should be class/character specific. so if you see a druid with the title relating to a season that druids were bad and non meta you know how much hard work and skill went into earning it.
This is literally the way that the rank 1 title has always been in arena. It’s the way it should be in m+ too. I earnt the title playing X class, I’m by no means a cryptic hero guarian druid or a cryptic hero ret paladin. It makes no sense to have the title on those alts I have no skill on.
It ruins the prestige of a potentially super cool title by having it so widely used across everyone who earns it’s alts. It would be much cooler if it was a display of skill on that class during that season, the same way that rank 1 titles are in arena.
Except simply rerolling to a FOTM spec doesn’t guarantee you the title. There’s plenty of awful player who absolutely suck at the class after to rerolling it. Being able to adapt to and play several, or even all classes/roles at 0.1% level is a considerable skill to factor in.
Another thing is that plenty of the one tricks are capable of the 0.1%, they’re just gated by the community. The off meta players who get into the 0.1% are pretty much exclusively those who have a steady team to play with, but most people don’t have that privilege and are at the mercy of pugs. I’m confident I could be up there consistently as a warlock. The fact that I only got it last season is only due to warlock becoming meta, therefore I was getting invited to groups a lot more than I did in S2, and I wasn’t that far behind then.
What I’m trying to say is that an off meta player with a title didn’t necessarily put more effort into it than someone else, they were just lucky enough to have people to play with regularly. Meanwhile it’s quite likely that there were much better players out there who put much more time and effort in, yet still never got the chance to reach the title because it’s just not likely to do with pugs.
