Detective
Player Title
Detective <Name> Achievement
Detective is the title reward of the achievement Azeroth's Greatest Detective (25 points, filed under Anniversary Celebration).
Details
In game this title prints before your character's name. The client stores it as the format string Detective %s, where %s is the character wearing it.
How to Obtain
Earned from this achievement:
What the Achievement Asks
The client’s own line for Azeroth's Greatest Detective is “Complete two of the following achievements:”. It is worth 25 achievement points.
The client tracks 4 steps toward it:
Who Is Wearing It
433 of the 257,834 ranked PvP characters in our own leaderboard snapshot are wearing “Detective” right now, which is 0.17% of them. The snapshot was last refreshed on 4 November 2026.
- 433 displaying it
- rank 95 of 581 worn titles
- 246 Alliance
- 187 Horde
- 238 in EU
- 195 in US
581 different titles are being displayed across that snapshot, and this one sits at number 95 by wearers.
The specialisation those characters play most is Holy (29 of them), ahead of Frost (22), Retribution (22).
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.