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Player Title
the Kingslayer
<Name> the KingslayerAchievement
Details
In game this title prints after your character's name. The client stores it as the format string %s the Kingslayer, where %s is the character wearing it.
How to Obtain
Earned from any of these 2 achievements (the game awards the one matching your faction):
What the Achievement Asks
The client’s own line for The Frozen Throne (10 player) is “Defeat the Lich King in Icecrown Citadel in 10-player mode.” It is worth 10 achievement points.
The game carries 2 achievements with this reward, one per faction, and awards whichever matches your character.
A later achievement, Bane of the Fallen King, builds on it.
The client tracks one step toward it:
- The Lich King
Who Is Wearing It
3,663 of the 243,041 ranked PvP characters in our own leaderboard snapshot are wearing “the Kingslayer” right now, which is 1.51% of them. The snapshot was last refreshed on 18 September 2026.
- 3,663 displaying it
- rank 3 of 572 worn titles
- 1,909 Alliance
- 1,754 Horde
- 1,851 in EU
- 1,812 in US
572 different titles are being displayed across that snapshot, and this one sits at number 3 by wearers.
The specialisation those characters play most is Retribution (263 of them), ahead of Assassination (239), Arms (221).
Counted from the characters on the current PvP ladders we refresh, not from every player in the game: Blizzard publishes no ownership figure for a title. Browse the leaderboards those characters come from.
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Other titles awarded by Lich King Raid achievements.
