Prestige Explained

[Torlen]

I've noticed that a few people don't understand the deal behind resetting prestige, or quite understand how it all works.

 

The first time you complete a floor, you get a prestige bonus. This is important because your base xp is based on the average of the xp you get for the floor and your prestige bonus. The idea behind prestige is that you will do each floor that you can one time, then reset your ring and start over again from floor one.

 

For example, say you are level 34 dungeoneering. You have full access to floor 17. After completion of floor 17 (and all consecutive floors) you will have a prestige level of 17. Now, you could run floor 17 again and again and again until you open up the next floor, but there is a very large xp penalty because of this. Because your total xp gained is an average, you are averaging one number with 0, which means you get a -50% penalty to all xp if you aren't gaining any prestige bonus.

 

This is where the reset button comes into play. If you have a prestige level of 17 and you reset your ring, you still have a prestige of 17. However, you can now start at floor 1 again and get a prestige bonus of 17 for all floors up to 17. This is huge. When you did floor 1 the first time, you maybe got 100 xp for it. Now you are averaging 50 (baseish xp for floor 1) and roughly 1500-1700 (roughly the prestige bonus for 17), bringing your xp for floor 1 up to 700-800.

 

There is one warning, however. You MUST NOT reset your ring if your current progress (on the ring interface) is lower than the previous progress. If you reset while your current level is lower, you reset your prestige to that lower level. So if you have your prestige of 17, run floor 1 and then reset your ring thinking you can run the easiest floor over and over, you will end up resetting your prestige back to 1.

 

I hope this explained it well enough for people to understand.

 

TL:DR - Run every floor you can a single time, reset your ring and start over at floor 1, waiting to reset again until you've completed every floor that you can.

 

This is a good example of how resetting prestige helps. This is my xp gain for floor 1.

 

FAQ

 

In your example, if I complete up to level 17 for the first time, reset, join a party that starts from level 11, continue till 17 (experiencing the bonus of 17 prestige for this 7 levels), reset, will I get a new prestige of 7 instead?

 

And another scenario. I completed up to level 17 for the first time, reset, join a party that starts from level 11, continue till 17, get out, start from level 1, played till 10, reset. Will I still get 17 prestige?

 

If you were to do floors 10-17 and reset, your prestige will reset to 8. You would have to go back and complete floors 1-9 as well to keep your bonus of 17.

 

So...are you saying that it is best to reset at any even level because new floors unlock on the odds?

 

At some point this no longer becomes plausible. That one extra prestige level spread over the course of 20 floors would only churn out roughly 2-4k extra xp. If you have farther than that to go to achieve your next even level, I wouldn't bother wasting time getting -50% by repeating a floor over and over.

 

I will say that I have done this one time, because I was at floor 19 and needed 50 xp to unlock floor 20. I just took the -50% for a single floor to gain that extra prestige level.

 

So let me make sure I'm right on this, if you're just starting off you would want to run it something like(This is assuming floor lvl = your lvl?)

 

Floor 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.. and then at level 5 you don't level up with the fifth floor, you reset your floor and start back over at 1 with 5th prestige, but once you level up you should keep going. So say you reset and level up on floor 3, you would still want to do floor 4 and 5 instead of skipping to 6.

 

 

Am I getting this right or am I way off lol

 

You're getting it. You still have to do floor 4 and 5. If you skipped to 6 your current prestige will only be 4 because you only completed 4 floors.

[jonni]

yeah it was pretty hard to work things out and jagex didn't do a very good job of explaining mechanics like this. thanks!

[Vansing]

This clears things up, thanks. :thumbup:

[benisfab]

Very well worded - 1st explanation thats made sense to me anyway

 

Had only just worked out how it worked myself - after a lot of silly mistakes, and doing exactly what you warned against <_<

Had like a prestige of 16 run up, and then reset it twice, meaning once again i'm getting like 100 exp for the 1st floors :wall:

 

Wont make that mistake again.

[Ezz]

Nice! Thanks! A pretty good explanation of how prestige works :)

[Jabawoki13]

Thanks Torlen :smile:

 

I actually understand how it works now, this will be useful.

[Drazhor]

If this was a facebook status i would like it.

 

But yeah, thanks for clearing it up! :smile:

[Zepheras]

In your example, if I complete up to level 17 for the first time, reset, join a party that starts from level 11, continue till 17 (experiencing the bonus of 17 prestige for this 7 levels), reset, will I get a new prestige of 7 instead?

 

And another scenario. I completed up to level 17 for the first time, reset, join a party that starts from level 11, continue till 17, get out, start from level 1, played till 10, reset. Will I still get 17 prestige?

[Torlen]

In your example, if I complete up to level 17 for the first time, reset, join a party that starts from level 11, continue till 17 (experiencing the bonus of 17 prestige for this 7 levels), reset, will I get a new prestige of 7 instead?

 

And another scenario. I completed up to level 17 for the first time, reset, join a party that starts from level 11, continue till 17, get out, start from level 1, played till 10, reset. Will I still get 17 prestige?

 

If you were to do floors 10-17 and reset, your prestige will reset to 8. You would have to go back and complete floors 1-9 as well to keep your bonus of 17. I will add this up top.

[Ronan]

Definitely a helpful explanation that Jagex really messed up on explaining, nice one!

 

I (shamefully :P) kept resetting my prestige any time it said I have to and was simply repeating the highest floor over and over, thinking it was the best way to go before realising that my prestige really was dropping me down and figured out what to do after a while!

[killmenub]

Sorry but I still don't understand :/

 

So if the highest floor I can do is level 10 your saying the best way to get exp is doing level 1 then 2, then 3 etc... Once I reach the highest level I will have a prestige of 10, which means if I go do level 1 I'll get exp close to the level of 10 but obviously complete it quicker?

[Torlen]

Sorry but I still don't understand :/

 

So if the highest floor I can do is level 10 your saying the best way to get exp is doing level 1 then 2, then 3 etc... Once I reach the highest level I will have a prestige of 10, which means if I go do level 1 I'll get exp close to the level of 10 but obviously complete it quicker?

 

Once you get to level 10, if that is your highest floor, reset. Your prestige will be 10. When you go back and do floors 1-10 again, you will get a 10 prestige bonus for each floor (1-10). I can give an example, but remember these xp are just rough predictions:

 

Base xp for beating floor 1 - 50

Prestige 10 bonus - 1000

Average of both - 525

 

Base xp for beating floor 2 - 100

Prestige 10 bonus - 1000

Average of both - 550

 

....

 

Base xp for beating floor 9 - 600

Prestige 10 bonus - 1000

Average of both - 800

 

Understand?

[wioneo]

So...are you saying that it is best to reset at any even level because new floors unlock on the odds?

[canadiansmurf]

This is far too complicated.

 

Why didn't jagex just simplify the skill?

 

This prestige reset just seems like a way to keep the exp gained in the skill down.

 

As it's not intuitive. My first guess would have been to not reset prestige.

 

All of these complicated rules for a skill remind me of a... Mini-Game.

[Torlen]

So...are you saying that it is best to reset at any even level because new floors unlock on the odds?

 

At some point this no longer becomes plausible. That one extra prestige level spread over the course of 20 floors would only churn out roughly 2-4k extra xp. If you have farther than that to go to achieve your next even level, I wouldn't bother wasting time getting -50% by repeating a floor over and over.

 

I will say that I have done this one time, because I was at floor 19 and needed 50 xp to unlock floor 20. I just took the -50% for a single floor to gain that extra prestige level.

 

This is far too complicated.

 

Why didn't jagex just simplify the skill?

 

This prestige reset just seems like a way to keep the exp gained in the skill down.

 

As it's not intuitive. My first guess would have been to not reset prestige.

 

All of these complicated rules for a skill remind me of a... Mini-Game.

 

How dare they add depth to a skill!

[killmenub]

Sorry but I still don't understand :/

 

So if the highest floor I can do is level 10 your saying the best way to get exp is doing level 1 then 2, then 3 etc... Once I reach the highest level I will have a prestige of 10, which means if I go do level 1 I'll get exp close to the level of 10 but obviously complete it quicker?

 

Once you get to level 10, if that is your highest floor, reset. Your prestige will be 10. When you go back and do floors 1-10 again, you will get a 10 prestige bonus for each floor (1-10). I can give an example, but remember these xp are just rough predictions:

 

Base xp for beating floor 1 - 50

Prestige 10 bonus - 1000

Average of both - 525

 

Base xp for beating floor 2 - 100

Prestige 10 bonus - 1000

Average of both - 550

 

....

 

Base xp for beating floor 9 - 600

Prestige 10 bonus - 1000

Average of both - 800

 

Understand?

 

 

Yup, by reset you mean leave?

[Torlen]

Sorry but I still don't understand :/

 

So if the highest floor I can do is level 10 your saying the best way to get exp is doing level 1 then 2, then 3 etc... Once I reach the highest level I will have a prestige of 10, which means if I go do level 1 I'll get exp close to the level of 10 but obviously complete it quicker?

 

Once you get to level 10, if that is your highest floor, reset. Your prestige will be 10. When you go back and do floors 1-10 again, you will get a 10 prestige bonus for each floor (1-10). I can give an example, but remember these xp are just rough predictions:

 

Base xp for beating floor 1 - 50

Prestige 10 bonus - 1000

Average of both - 525

 

Base xp for beating floor 2 - 100

Prestige 10 bonus - 1000

Average of both - 550

 

....

 

Base xp for beating floor 9 - 600

Prestige 10 bonus - 1000

Average of both - 800

 

Understand?

 

 

Yup, by reset you mean leave?

 

You have to leave, then open your ring interface and hit the "reset" button at the bottom. Just make sure you have completed every floor that you can, and your current level (also on the ring interface) is larger than your previous level.

[sees_all1]

This is far too complicated.

 

Why didn't jagex just simplify the skill?

 

This prestige reset just seems like a way to keep the exp gained in the skill down.

No, its to keep the EXP gained in the skill UP without being too repetitive.

[Racheya]

So would just going from 1 down to the very lowest dungeon then resetting and going back from 1 - lowest again, be decent in Experience terms with prestige? I kiiind of get it.

[Torlen]

So would just going from 1 down to the very lowest dungeon then resetting and going back from 1 - lowest again, be decent in Experience terms with prestige? I kiiind of get it.

 

I'm sorry, I don't understand your question. If you mean just running floor 1, resetting and running it again, that would be terrible xp. A prestige level of 1 only makes your prestige bonus ~100.

 

This is an example of me running floor 1 after resetting at 25 prestige.

 

[Jagerblue]

So let me make sure I'm right on this, if you're just starting off you would want to run it something like(This is assuming floor lvl = your lvl?)

 

Floor 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.. and then at level 5 you don't level up with the fifth floor, you reset your floor and start back over at 1 with 5th prestige, but once you level up you should keep going. So say you reset and level up on floor 3, you would still want to do floor 4 and 5 instead of skipping to 6.

 

 

Am I getting this right or am I way off lol

[Torlen]

So let me make sure I'm right on this, if you're just starting off you would want to run it something like(This is assuming floor lvl = your lvl?)

 

Floor 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.. and then at level 5 you don't level up with the fifth floor, you reset your floor and start back over at 1 with 5th prestige, but once you level up you should keep going. So say you reset and level up on floor 3, you would still want to do floor 4 and 5 instead of skipping to 6.

 

 

Am I getting this right or am I way off lol

 

You're getting it. You still have to do floor 4 and 5. If you skipped to 6 your current prestige will only be 4 because you only completed 4 floors.

[Racheya]

I mean doing floor 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... ect - all the way down to the lowest floor (repeating a floor if need be to get the level) then once I'm at the final floor, reset then do it all again?

[Torlen]

I mean doing floor 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... ect - all the way down to the lowest floor (repeating a floor if need be to get the level) then once I'm at the final floor, reset then do it all again?

 

Yep, that's it. The most important part of it all is to make sure your current progress is larger than your previous progress before you touch that reset button.

[Beloved]

I mean doing floor 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... ect - all the way down to the lowest floor (repeating a floor if need be to get the level) then once I'm at the final floor, reset then do it all again?

 

Yep, that's it. The most important part of it all is to make sure your current progress is larger than your previous progress before you touch that reset button.

yeah some of my friends went wrong with that, once you reset you *have* to do all floors again, so make sure you do it right (or face the consequences: 200xp dungeons)