Prestige is a per-job mastery loop for players who have completed the Expedition Hall's core progression. It adds a small, deterministic specialization inside KrispyXI difficulty content without raising power in retail missions, ordinary battlefields, Hunts, Dungeon Gauntlets, or the open world.
Reset eligibility
The current main job must meet every requirement:
- level 99
- Paragon Guild rank at 3,000 Expedition Renown
- Hunting League level 99 clear
- Dungeon Depth X clear
- a selected Prestige discipline
- fewer than ten Prestige ranks on that job
- solo in Celennia Expedition Hall, outside combat, events, instances, and battlefields
The Prestige Curator presents two confirmation menus. Nothing changes until the final confirmation.
On confirmation, only the current main job returns to level 1 and gains one rank. Gear, combat and magic skills, missions, key items, currencies, other job levels, and the selected discipline remain. Prestige does not bypass the normal work required to level the job again before the next reset.
The Field Instructor's alternate-job mentorship never accelerates a Prestige loop. Any job with a Prestige rank is ineligible even while it is below level 99, and the job-change and eligibility checks are repeated when a lesson is confirmed.
Per-job ranks and disciplines
Each of the 22 jobs tracks its own rank and discipline. Maximum rank is ten.
| Discipline | Per rank | Rank 10 total | Intended identity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard | Attack +2, Ranged Attack +2, Magic Attack +2 | +20 to each | broad offensive consistency |
| Warden | Defense +3, Magic Defense +1, Magic Evasion +1 | +30 DEF, +10 MDEF/MEVA | durable progression without damage reduction |
| Savant | Accuracy +2, Ranged Accuracy +2, Magic Accuracy +2 | +20 to each | reliable physical, ranged, and magic contribution |
Prestige deliberately grants no Haste, Dual Wield, Store TP, multi-attack, Regain, Refresh, critical damage, or damage-taken reduction. Those stats would multiply the server's existing TP, weapon-skill, spell, item, and augment bonuses too aggressively.
Where perks apply
Full Prestige values apply only after entry into a Hard, Extreme, or Mythic Apex Expedition. The values are removed on win, loss, manual exit, or failed entry. A player pet receives half the owner's active Prestige values, rounded up to whole modifier units. Pets summoned after entry inherit the same bounded share.
Normal Vana'diel content and every other custom activity receive zero Prestige modifiers. This is an explicit balance boundary, not a display-only rule.
Selecting and changing a discipline
Choosing the first discipline before rank 1 is free. After a job has earned a rank, changing that job's discipline costs:
| Respec in the same Earth week | Gil cost |
|---|---|
| First | 250,000 |
| Second | 500,000 |
| Third | 1,000,000 |
Each job may respec three times per Earth week. The Curator revalidates the price and old discipline at confirmation so a stale menu cannot charge the wrong amount. Respecs never change earned rank.