Prestige

Prestige is a mechanism in Dungeoneering that contributes to determining how much experience the player it is looking to is given. It is one of the biggest factors that determine how much Dungeoneering experience one gets, along with the dungeon floor's base experience.

The general concept of prestige: for maximum experience, do every floor available at your dungeoneering level once and only once, then reset your progress and repeat.

Calculating Prestige
Prestige is a bonus given to you at the end of a floor, based on how many unique floors you have completed. It is equal to the greatest value of either your Current Progress or Previous Progress values (which can be viewed on the Party Interface screen). '''However, a floor that you have already completed since your last reset will always have a Prestige value of 0 and will not count towards your Current Progress. '''Floors that you have already completed will have a tick on them on the floor selection screen.

Example: A player currently has a Current Progress of 5 (they have completed 5 unique floors), and a Previous Progress of 0. The player thus has a Prestige of 5, as it is the larger of the two numbers. They reset their progress, so they now have a Current Progress of 0, but their Previous Progress is set to the old Current Progress value of 5; therefore their Prestige value is still 5. The Prestige will remain 5 until the player completes 6 or more unique floors, giving them a Current Progress value greater than their Previous Progress value of 5.

Another important aspect of prestige is the total rooms cleared. For instance, a three man team clearing several rooms will most likely outweigh clearing all the rooms while going solo. Currently, it is only necessary to open the doors to a hidden room in order to receive the exploration bonus. It is not necessary to actually enter the room. To confirm if a room will count towards your xp bonus, the room in question will show up as revealed on the map of Daemonheim.

NOTE: It is advantageous to achieve the highest Current Progress that you can before resetting (which means unlocking and completing every floor that you can). Resetting early will give you a lower Previous Progress value, and therefore a lower Prestige value, which will reduce the experience you receive from each dungeon until your Current Progress exceeds your Previous Progress again.

Use of Prestige
Prestige is used to calculate the base experience you receive when completing a floor. The average of the dungeon floor's experience and the experience value of your current Prestige becomes the base experience that you receive for that floor.