of the Iron Vanguard
Player Title
<Name> of the Iron Vanguard Achievement
of the Iron Vanguard is the title reward of the achievement The Iron Invasion (filed under Events).
Details
In game this title prints after your character's name. The client stores it as the format string %s of the Iron Vanguard, where %s is the character wearing it.
How to Obtain
Earned from this achievement:
What the Achievement Asks
The client’s own line for The Iron Invasion is “Complete the Blasted Lands invasion quests before the Assault on the Dark Portal begins.”
The client tracks 2 steps toward it:
Who Is Wearing It
99 of the 257,834 ranked PvP characters in our own leaderboard snapshot are wearing “of the Iron Vanguard” right now, which is 0.04% of them. The snapshot was last refreshed on 4 November 2026.
- 99 displaying it
- rank 288 of 581 worn titles
- 48 Alliance
- 51 Horde
- 42 in EU
- 57 in US
581 different titles are being displayed across that snapshot, and this one sits at number 288 by wearers.
The specialisation those characters play most is Arms (15 of them), ahead of Retribution (9), Holy (7).
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.