Prestige Info

The prestige option allows you to relevel your character and acquire some gains based on your class (or multiclass).

Prestige Types

There are two types of prestige characters. Some classes can multi-class with another, some can only become better at their existing class.

• These "classic" classes can become multi-class (i.e. Cleric-Druid, or Mage-Thief, etc)
  • Your original class will be your "primary class" while your added class we will call your "secondary class".
    • Cleric
    • Druid
    • Mage
    • Thief
    • Warrior

• These classes just become "specialized" with greater powers in their own class. (they cannot multi-class).
  • Augurer --> Harbinger
  • Fathomer --> Buccaneer
  • Nephandi --> Infernalist
  • Paladin --> Knight
  • Ranger --> Hunter
  • Vampire --> Dread Vampire

Currently Barbarians and Bladesingers are not possible to prestige.

Equipment

• For multi-class prestige:
  • The primary class determines what equipment you can wear.

Items made specifically for prestige chars of various classes/multi-classes will be introduced to the game at a later date (2063 at current pace).

Bonuses

Prestige characters get several bonuses, including a max stat increase, hp increase, and skills/spells increase.

Stat Bonus

• For single-class prestige characters, you get a +1 to the maximum value of your prime stat, so it can now reach 26:

Dread Vampire: 26 Dex
Buccaneer:     26 Dex
Knight:        26 Str
Hunter:        26 Str
Harbinger:     26 Lck
Infernalist:   26 Int

• For multi-class prestige characters, you get a +1 to the max stat value based on the prime stat of the secondary class.
  • For example, a Thi-War: Str is the Warrior's prime stat. So Thi-War can have 21 Str.
  • For example, a Mag-Thi: Dex is the Thief's prime stat. So Mag-Thi can have 21 Dex.

Secondary Class   Increased max stat on the prestige character:
          Thief:  Dex
        Warrior:  Str
           Mage:  Int
         Cleric:  Wis
          Druid:  Wis

Here's a full table of the possible max stats, with the bonus stat from the secondary class in bold, and noted. Note that some influence the primary class's prime/secondary/deficient stats, which can be interesting to think about.

Max Stats per Multi-Class

CLASS	Str	Int	Wis	Dex	Con	Cha	Lck	Notes
Thi-War	21	20	18	25	20	22	20	+1 Str
Thi-Dru	20	20	19	25	20	22	20	+1 Wis (Thieves deficient stat)
Thi-Cle	20	20	19	25	20	22	20	+1 Wis (Thieves deficient stat)
Thi-Mag	20	21	18	25	20	22	20	+1 Int
War-Thi	25	18	20	23	20	20	20	+1 Dex (Warriors secondary stat)
War-Mag	25	19	20	22	20	20	20	+1 Int (Warriors deficient stat)
War-Cle	25	18	21	22	20	20	20	+1 Wis
War-Dru	25	18	21	22	20	20	20	+1 Wis
Mag-Thi	18	25	22	21	20	20	20	+1 Dex
Mag-War	19	25	22	20	20	20	20	+1 Str (Mages deficient stat)
Mag-Cle	18	25	23	20	20	20	20	+1 Wis (Mages secondary stat)
Mag-Dru	18	25	23	20	20	20	20	+1 Wis (Mages secondary stat)
Cle-War	21	22	25	18	20	20	20	+1 Str
Cle-Thi	20	22	25	19	20	20	20	+1 Dex (Clerics deficient stat)
Cle-Mag	20	23	25	18	20	20	20	+1 Int (Clerics secondary stat)
Cle-Dru	20	22	26	18	20	20	20	+1 Wis (Clerics primary stat)
Dru-Cle	20	20	26	20	22	18	20	+1 Wis (Druids primary stat)
Dru-Mag	20	21	25	20	22	18	20	+1 Int
Dru-War	21	20	25	20	22	18	20	+1 Str
Dru-Thi	20	20	25	21	22	18	20	+1 Dex

Special Note on one of those. The Dru-Cle or Cle-Dru combination is the ONLY one that causes the prime stat to go up to 26.

This had huge impact for Dru-Cle's especially, as the Druid's main attack spell Dorn Nadur was based on Wis. The 26 wis dorn was so powerful Gonnil had to change it to be based on mana instead (news 1171). Having 26 in a stat CAN make a big difference it seems.

HP gains

Upon having an Immortal prestige you, you will be back at level 1. They will auto-level you to 5.

• Prestige characters have their starting hp at level 1 doubled (after Race Statistic Modifiers are applied).
  • 20 +/- modifiers x 2 for starting hp at level 1.
• You will then receive 4 automatic levels with all of your stats being maxed by the immortal's prestige command.

No bonuses to starting mana or movement outside of racial modifiers.

This starts you out with a higher base at level 5 than is typical.

HP Gains per Level

Upon leveling, your class's min/max hp gains are all +1, with an additional rare chance for a +2 to the usual max gain

For example, if a given class has a standard min hp gain of 13 and max of 18 each level, prestige leveling that class would see hp gains between 14 and 20 (though the 20 is very rare).

Total HP Gains

My rule of thumb is that you basically get between 4-6 "Free" additional levels worth of hp gains. I usually hit my "old base" around level 44/45. So, whatever I gain after that between 45-50 is additional prestige bonus hp. If you use a generic average hp gain of 15, that's 75 hp. It can of course be significantly more/less depending on race/class and dumb luck.

Here is a list of some actual data points:

Cle-Dru got 6 levels of bonus hp. (old base 630, prestige base 714) (Human) Hunter got 6 levels of bonus hp. (old base 832, prestige base 939) (Dwarf) Harb got 2 levels of bonus hp. (old base 781, prestige base 818)