the Cryptic
Player Title
<Name> the Cryptic Achievement
the Cryptic is the title reward of the achievement Shadowlands Keystone Conqueror: Season Three (filed under Dungeons).
Details
In game this title prints after your character's name. The client stores it as the format string %s the Cryptic, where %s is the character wearing it.
How to Obtain
Earned from this achievement:
What the Achievement Asks
The client’s own line for Shadowlands Keystone Conqueror: Season Three is “Attain a Mythic+ Rating of at least 1850 during Shadowlands Season Three.”
It supercedes Shadowlands Keystone Explorer: Season Three, so completing this one credits the earlier step as well.
A later achievement, Shadowlands Keystone Master: Season Three, builds on it.
The client tracks one step toward it:
- Rating Requirement
Who Is Wearing It
58 of the 257,834 ranked PvP characters in our own leaderboard snapshot are wearing “the Cryptic” right now, which is 0.02% of them. The snapshot was last refreshed on 4 November 2026.
- 58 displaying it
- rank 353 of 581 worn titles
- 35 Alliance
- 23 Horde
- 23 in EU
- 35 in US
581 different titles are being displayed across that snapshot, and this one sits at number 353 by wearers.
The specialisation those characters play most is Frost (7 of them), ahead of Restoration (6), Destruction (5).
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.