TheWoWDBthe Proven Defender
Player Title
<Name> the Proven Defender Achievement
the Proven Defender is awarded by any of 2 achievements, starting with Proving Yourself: Endless Tank (Wave 30) (Level 90).
Details
In game this title prints after your character's name. The client stores it as the format string %s the Proven Defender, 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 Proving Yourself: Endless Tank (Wave 30) (Level 90) is “Successfully complete Wave 30 of the Basic Tank (Endless) trial at the Proving Grounds.”
The game carries 2 achievements with this reward, and completing any one of them awards the title.
It supercedes Proving Yourself: Endless Tank (Wave 20) (Level 90), so completing this one credits the earlier step as well.
Who Is Wearing It
40 of the 257,834 ranked PvP characters in our own leaderboard snapshot are wearing “the Proven Defender” right now, which is 0.02% of them. The snapshot was last refreshed on 4 November 2026.
- 40 displaying it
- rank 411 of 581 worn titles
- 22 Alliance
- 18 Horde
- 24 in EU
- 16 in US
581 different titles are being displayed across that snapshot, and this one sits at number 411 by wearers.
The specialisation those characters play most is Protection (11 of them), ahead of Guardian (4), Retribution (4).
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.
