Suggestion for Sanity's Edge titles

Hugie · April 2023

Hello! As someone who primarily focuses on endgame PVE, one of the main things I look forward to in a new chapter's patch notes is the suite of titles available to chase in the upcoming trial.
This is obviously totally subjective, but I wanted to throw it out there: I feel that a little more love could be given to some of the toughest chase prizes available in the game.

Recent trials have featured a mix of "cool" and "underwhelming" titles (IMO):

Good:
- Godslayer, Hand of Alkosh
- Dawnbringer
- Planesbreaker
- Hurricane Herald

These titles evoke awe and sound impressive. Then, we've also had:

Bad:
- Swashbuckler Supreme (sounds like a Subway sandwich order. Toasted or naw?)
- Kyne's Wrath (just underwhelming for a trifecta)
- Daedric Bane (yawn-worthy generic for one of the toughest collections of achievements)

Now, we've got:
- Tenacious Dreamer: I've seen mixed reactions from my raiding peeps. Some insomniacs dig it, others not so much.
- Mind Master: This just doesn't feel very grand to me for something so hard to get!
- Tormentor's Bane: Again with the bane! I just don't think this is appealing to many people compared to past titles like Godslayer or Dawnbringer.

My suggestions: crank it up! Please by all means feel free to steal these ideas, I don't care about credit, I just want cooler chase titles.
- Dreamwalker
- Nightmare Fuel
- Defiant Dreamer / Defiant in Dreams
- Dreamweaver (I believe you can get me through the niiiight)

You get the idea. Thanks for listening & for all the hard work you guys do making cool stuff for us to enjoy!

Hugie · April 2023

Some other ideas (from guildies & from ChatGPT lol):
- Lucid Guardian
- Nightmare Tamer
- Sleepless Savior

Dragonlord573 · April 2023

We need less vague or random words as titles in general.

I do dungeons and I feel it bad.

Shadow Blessed. Awesome and sounds cool.
Temporal Tempest. What does this mean? It's just words.
Subterranean Smasher. So I smash things underground?
Bane of Thorns. Epic, actually understandable.
Ardent Bibliophile. Fancy words that mean "I love books."

Those trial titles are so boring and generic that they seem like overland titles like Mighty in Magma.

VaranisArano · April 2023

Hugie wrote: »

Bad:
- Swashbuckler Supreme (sounds like a Subway sandwich order. Toasted or naw?)

Okay, this made me laugh.

UntilValhalla13 · April 2023

I've joked about this for the last year or two. Bane really needs to go. There's easily like 15 Bane titles in the game now. It has no weight as a word anymore. Please be more creative or use a thesaurus. It's bad enough the rewards are body and face markings.

BahometZ · April 2023

Too many Scourges, too many Banes, too many Slayers, too many Saviors. They need a Thesaurus.

Whoever has been coming up with titles has been asleep at the wheel for many months.

The rewards in ESO are so lacklustre, that titles are one of the few things that can stand out. So many forgettable pets, emotes, mementos, facemarkings that never get seen, mounts stuck behind crown purchases. The only things that show in-game achievement are trifecta title mounts out of reach of 99% of the player-base, skins, and titles.

Ever since Ascending Tide DLC we have had a slew of painful alliteration, and uninspiring titles that are often worn as a joke, rather than to actually show any pride in the achievement.

ASCENDING TIDE
Gryphon Handler HM Coral Aerie (Hi, I handle Gryphons, I'm cool)
Aerie Ascender HM without buffs (Hello alliteration my old friend)
Coral Caretaker Trifecta (oh hey again)
Tide Turner HM Shipwright (Ok please go away alliteration)
Shipwright HM without buffs (A bit dull but fine)
Privateer Trifecta (A bit dull but fine)

HIGH ISLE
High Isle overland titles are same as always, so whatever
Savior of High Isle
Knight Errant
Three Thrones' Defender

Dread Sail has the goofiest HM and trial trifecta titles in the game, well done
Dreadsails' Scourge normal dreadsail (look, a scourge)
Seaborne Slayer vet dreadsail (look, a slayer)
Hurricane Herald Dread Sail hardmode (Alliteration, please stop)
Swashbuckler Supreme Dread Sail trifecta (Get help)

Way too many cardgame titles, literally what is the point of them?
Roister's Club Initiate Roister's Club Initiate Reach the rank of Initiate in the Roister's Club.
Roister's Club Trainee Roister's Club Trainee Reach the rank of Trainee in the Roister's Club.
Roister's Club Novice Roister's Club Novice Reach the rank of Novice in the Roister's Club.
Roister's Club Regular Roister's Club Regular Reach the rank of Regular in the Roister's Club.
Roister's Club Adept Roister's Club Adept Reach the rank of Adept in the Roister's Club.
Roister's Club Expert Roister's Club Expert Reach the rank of Expert in the Roister's Club.
Roister's Club Veteran Roister's Club Veteran Reach the rank of Veteran in the Roister's Club.
Roister's Club Master Roister's Club Master Reach the rank of Master in the Roister's Club.
Club Virtuoso Tribute Tactician Use all 8 Patron powers 10 times each across match-made Tales of Tribute games.
Cardsharp Ebony Roister Reach Ebony Rank in competitive Tales of Tribute.
Club Contender Quicksilver Roister Reach Quicksilver Rank in competitive Tales of Tribute.
High-Stakes Gambler Voidsteel Roister Reach Voidsteel Rank in competitive Tales of Tribute.
Game-baron Rubedite Roister Reach Rubedite Rank in competitive Tales of Tribute.

LOST DEPTHS
Invaders' Bane (look, a bane)
Earthen Root Avenger (literally the name of the dungeon + a word)
Earthen Root Champion (literally the name of the dungeon + a word)
Fist of Tava (fine, I guess, not my cup of tea)
Breathless (I can respect this, I actually kind of like it, it's not a bane or a scourge)
Graven Deep Champion (literally the name of the dungeon + a word)

FIRESONG
Overland titles, so who cares

SCRIBES OF FATE
Weaver's Bane (oh look, a bane)
Shadow Blessed (not bad)
Temporal Tempest (alliteration, pls)
Scribe Savior (no)
Scourge of Sunnar (Oh look, a scourge)
Curator's Champion (meh)

I don't want any of the above titles on any of my toons. Maybe Game-baron and Breathless, the rest simply can not compete with Godslayer, Unchained, Immortal Redeemer, Planesbreaker, True Genius, Dynamo, Storm Foe, Overlord, Dawnbringer, Alpha Predator, and so on.

I have lambasted the devs over these before, and I will continue to do so for the rest of my time playing ESO. You guys are dropping the ball massively. This is the easiest stuff to do, they are just words, there are no mechanical, programming or software limitations. All you need is imagination, and you don't seem to want to use that.

NECROM
The Sanity's Edge titles continue this unbroken weak form, with more insipid, disconnected, alliterative, repetitive, dull titles that do not inspire me to attempt them or wear them. This may seem insulting, and I intend it to be, you should feel bad about this, and strive to do better. You will not get a gee willikers I know you're trying your best, because that does not seem to be the case.

Here are the Sanity's Edge titles, and my suggestions that I don't expect to be used.

Sanity's Scourge (lol) normal Sleepwalker
Sanity's Warrior vet Dreamweaver
Tenacious Dreamer hm Lucid Dreamer
Mind Master trifecta Master of Fear
Tormentor's Bane (lol) everything Nightmare

K_G · April 2023

I'm glad others share my hatred of Bane titles in trials. When they changed Stone-Talker to Daedric Bane it hurt me personally - I know the raid community didn't like the stone titles, but the former was vastly better than the latter, I've never seen anyone wear Daedric Bane. If ZOS could change Tormentor's Bane, I think the entire raid community would really appreciate it since I don't think anyone will use it after getting it.

I liked your suggestion of Dreamwalker or BahometZ's Nightmare - the one word titles seem to be more universally accepted and liked in the raid community (and dungeon community I've noticed). I see a lot more of my friends use the past titles over the current one simply because Swashbuckler Supreme just doesn't look good - or sound good. I personally used it for a month before I couldn't stand looking at it anymore and went back to unchained haha.

I will say the mount is a MASSIVE improvement over the last couple years.

BahometZ · April 2023

Just a reminder that these titles are not good, and need some imagination put in to them.

Hugie · May 2023

GUYS IT HAPPENED!!!

Thanks for listening, ZoS!