Has there been any thought or decision about whether the titles in the WeaponMaster category will have their reqs changed to make up for there being fewer weapon skills now? Or new titles created with higher reqs?
In meaning, Weapon Master would be hard to beat. After all, if you've mastered all the weapons, then you've gone about as far as you can go. A title might have flashier words maybe.
Gender specificity is an issue with a lot of titles. Something like Weapon Lord would sound great for males, but the feminine counterpart, Weapon Lady, is technically correct but to me doesn't have the same punch. In peerage, Lady is associated with Lord, but in popular usage it's more linked to culture and refinement, not really weapons and combat. Someone after a weapon title is trying to be Xena, not Audrey. Plus, lady can be sort of slangy, as in a cleaning lady. Dame is a good feminine noun in peerage but also slangy. Unfortunately, there's just not as many female power nouns as male.
Weapon Master was probably intended as a gender neutral title, as in someone who has mastered all the weapons, but it comes off as more masculine than feminine to me, which is not ideal for female characters. Maybe adding counterpart Weapon Mistress would be an idea? I know some people don't like the word mistress. To me it means a woman in control or a Domme, but some think of the other context as a homewrecker. It has been used in other titles though.
I remember from history class that Stalin called artillery the "Queen of Battle." Now that's a title I could work toward.
