In Dynasty Warriors 9 Empires, every character has a Title. These will affect much of what you can do in Conquest Mode, and unlocking Titles is a great way to become stronger thanks to the boons they provide.

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Unlocking Titles is a simple process that involves your character's Reputations. These are six scores associated with six different values that represent your character's action taken thus far in Conquest Mode. The Titles are Reputation systems are closely linked in DW9E, so knowing the ins and outs of both is key to mastering the game.

Reputation Overview

In most game menus, the six Reputations are represented only by small white icons. These are:

• Brave, represented by a sword.
• Commanding, represented by a flag.
• Ingenious, represented by a fan.
• Eloquent, represented by paper.
• Benevolent, represented by sparkles around a head.
• Evil, represented by lightning around a head.

You'll improve these gradually as you make various choices in Conquest mode. This includes the diplomatic, militaristic, and commercial decisions you can make to develop your kingdom, the secret plans you choose before a battle and even interacting with officers during a Stroll.

As your scores increase, you will level up your Reputation. Each Reputation has a maximum level of 10, and improving them is the key to unlocking new titles.

How Reputation Affects Character Interactions

When on a Stroll, you can Interact with officers around the country. In addition, you can attempt to Recruit unaffiliated officers. How successful these interactions are is based on your Reputation levels. Each officer in the game has two Reputations that they like and two Reputations that they dislike. You can see which Reputations a character likes and dislikes when you choose them to talk to during a Stroll. The Reputations will have upward, blue arrows for likes and downward, red arrows for dislikes.

As a result, your Reputation levels affect two things: how much your relationship deepens with a character when choosing the Interact action and the chance of a character agreeing to be Recruited.

The formulas are listed below, where the Disliked and Liked Reputations are simply the sum of the levels of the relevant Reputations:

Relationship Bonus = (((Disliked Reputations) / 2) x -1) + (Liked Reputations) + 3

Recruitment Chance = (Disliked Reputations x -1) + (Liked Reputations x 2)

You will also get a bonus to recruitment chance based on your relationship level with the character, so you don't have to rely on your Reputation levels alone. You can keep Interacting with them to become close.

Titles Overview

Titles are earned through leveling up your character's Reputations, and they come in a few rarities:

• Common Titles
• Rare Titles
• Legendary Titles
• Epic Titles

There is only one Common Title, Common Officer. This Title provides no Reputation bonuses and no chance of acquiring Uncommon, Rare, or Legendary Secret Plans. It only serves as a starting Title for Conquest Mode.

On the other hand, rarer titles have different rates for Secret Plan Acquisition, affecting what personal Secret Plans you may be rewarded with at the end of a battle. The rates are as follows:

Your Title will also come with Reputation bonuses. These are either positive or negative modifiers attached to each of the six Reputations that affect how much Reputation you gain from certain actions.

To illustrate this, take the Great Training military action:

• Without any modifiers, it will increase your Brave score by 15.
• With the Mighty Officer Title equipped, it will increase your Brave score by 22 thanks to the Title's 50 percent bonus to Brave gains.
• With the Sage Title equipped, it will increase your Brave score by 11 thanks to the Title's -25 percent penalty to Brave gains.

Knowing this, you can micromanage your Titles and actions once you gain enough of them to level up your Reputations efficiently.

The final things that come with new Titles are unique Political actions, new Secret Plans, and new Military Units. You must unlock the Title in your current Conquest Mode run to use the unique Political Ploys, but Secret Plans and Military Units are unlocked permanently in the game once you've unlocked them once.

When you unlock a new tier of Title, you will also have more action points to use when you go on a Stroll. Without any Rare Titles, you'll have three actions per Stroll, all the way up to six actions per Stroll once you have any Epic Title unlocked.

Unlocking Titles

To find the requirement to unlock a Title and see all the benefits a Title has, head to the Title section of the Player Menu. Click on "Title Settings" to change your Title and "Title Info" to see every Title in the game and its unlock requirements.

Some Epic Titles are unique to certain characters, but they come with very powerful Secret Plans. These should give you simple goals to shoot for when thinking about how to play Conquest Mode. For quick reference, though, here are the generic Rare, Legendary, and Epic Titles, along with their unlock requirements. In these tables, the Reputations are abbreviated as follows:

• Br = Brave
• Co = Commanding
• In = Ingenious
• El = Eloquent
• Be = Benevolent
• Ev = Evil

Rare Titles

Legendary Titles

Epic Titles

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