TheWoWDBthe Kingslayer
Player Title
<Name> the Kingslayer Achievement
the Kingslayer is awarded by any of 2 achievements, starting with The Frozen Throne (10 player).
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:
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, and completing any one of them awards the title.
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
3,825 of the 258,028 ranked PvP characters in our own leaderboard snapshot are wearing “the Kingslayer” right now, which is 1.48% of them. The snapshot was last refreshed on 9 November 2026.
- 3,825 displaying it
- rank 3 of 582 worn titles
- 1,990 Alliance
- 1,835 Horde
- 1,928 in EU
- 1,897 in US
582 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 (268 of them), ahead of Assassination (230), Frost (226).
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.
