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Player Title
the Proven Defender
<Name> the Proven DefenderAchievement
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 (the game awards the one matching your faction):
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, one per faction, and awards whichever matches your character.
It supercedes Proving Yourself: Endless Tank (Wave 20) (Level 90), so completing this one credits the earlier step as well.
Who Is Wearing It
38 of the 243,236 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 20 September 2026.
- 38 displaying it
- rank 408 of 573 worn titles
- 21 Alliance
- 17 Horde
- 24 in EU
- 14 in US
573 different titles are being displayed across that snapshot, and this one sits at number 408 by wearers.
The specialisation those characters play most is Protection (10 of them), ahead of Retribution (4), Guardian (3).
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.
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