[Guide] Changing Player Titles

[BlizzhackerD]

As I was looking for any guides or information I could find on DBC editing, I came across a post that contained 11 pages of requests and responses of people asking to change their PvP titles. I thought that, because this was something that was relatively simple to do, and that I haven't made any posts here yet, that I would open with a contribution.

Editing your PvP title is actually a very simple process.

Firstly, you'll need to open:

<World of Warcraft Directory>/Data/xxXX/locale-xxXX.mpq

Replace xxXX with your client's language extension, enUS, enGB, frFR, etc.

From inside this MPQ, extract:

DBCFilesClient/CharTitles.dbc

Once you've extracted this file, either convert it to a CSV using one of the tools in the sticky at the top of this forum, or with DBCEditor, which allows you to edit DBC files without converting them. I personally don't like this program, since I prefer working with CSV's in OpenOffice.

Now, after you've converted to a CSV, open this CSV in your editor of choice. Look down the third column, and find the title you want to change. Once you find it, simply replace that title with whatever you want to change it to say, save the CSV, and close the editor.

Now, convert the CSV file back to CharTitles.dbc, and build the appropriate patch-X.mpq file.

xxXX/DBCFilesClient/CharTitles.dbc

Place it in your Data folder, and you're good to go.

Sorry, I know this probably isn't the most detailed of guides, but I don't write many guides, so I forget to be as detailed as I could be.

[TheDoom]

I tried this with the Emote .dbc, and assuming they're the same thing, it will just give you an error on how the file is corrupt then kick you out. :\

Either that... or a question, if it DOES work, is it just clientside?

[Gastricpenguin]

Yes, because it is your dbc's - not the servers.

[Fenryr]

great guide really easy to follow, +rep

[namelessgnome]

Kinda short but it does not need to be any longer

[Fault]

my favorite title is "Scarab Lord" its given to the person who opened AQ

[Afrobotics]

Is there a way to change the new arena titles instead of just the old ones? I seem to only be able to find Scout -> High Warlord and the alliance equivalents, not any of the new titles such as Gladiator and Rival.

[reflex0rzor]

Is there a way to change the new arena titles instead of just the old ones? I seem to only be able to find Scout -> High Warlord and the alliance equivalents, not any of the new titles such as Gladiator and Rival.

the new titles are in the same file

[MrClean]

Hah! Way Cool! Thanks, +rep