Best Prestige Perks to Buy First

Published 2026-05-08 · VvW Editorial Team

Priority order for spending Prestige Points in the VvW Prestige Shop — maximum value guide.

This guide is based on live Season 3 data pulled directly from the Prestige system config: requirement level, exact bonus percentages per rank, and every reward tied to reaching each Prestige tier.

TL;DR — What Prestige actually does

You unlock Prestige at level 80 and can run it up to 5 times (P1–P5), hard-capped at level 100. Each Prestige resets your level, XP, and base stats — but you keep gold, items, clan standing, achievements, and cosmetics. In exchange you get a permanent, stacking stat bonus. There's no "shop" of perks to pick from — the bonuses are fixed per rank, so the real decision is when to prestige, not what to buy.

What resets and what you keep

Before you commit, know exactly what the ritual touches. The Ascendancy Shrine (guarded by the NPC Ascendancy Priest Eon) resets three things: level, XP, and base stats. It keeps five things: gold, items, clan, achievements, and cosmetics. As the NPC dialogue puts it in-game: "You keep your skills, your titles, your equipment, your gold, and a permanent Prestige stat bonus that grows with each Ascendancy. The world remembers who you are. Only the numbers reset."

The exact bonus at each Prestige rank

The jump from P3 to P4 is the real power spike — that's where you start gaining extra skill points on top of the stat and XP multipliers, not just bigger percentages. If you're deciding where to stop grinding for a season, P4 is the last rank where each additional prestige adds a genuinely new mechanic rather than just scaling existing numbers.

Titles and cosmetics tied to Prestige

Each Prestige completion is tracked as its own achievement with its own reward, and the game separately awards permanent titles for the milestone:

• Prestige 1 — achievement "First Prestige" (200 gems + "Prestige Glow" cosmetic), title Ascendant (epic rarity).
• Prestige 2 — achievement "Second Prestige", title Twice Born (legendary rarity).
• Prestige 3 — achievement "Third Prestige", title Undying (legendary rarity).
• Prestige 4 — achievement "Fourth Prestige".
• Prestige 5 — achievement "The Eternal" (500 gems, title "The Reborn", cosmetic "Prestige Glow V"), plus the separate title Eternal (legendary rarity) baked directly into the P5 bonus tier.

Race-specific "first to prestige" titles also exist and don't come back once claimed on a server: Blood Sovereign (mythic — first vampire to complete Prestige 1) and Feral King (mythic — first werewolf to complete Prestige 1). If you're rushing to 80, these two are worth racing for since they're one-time-only per faction per server.

Gear, quests, and companions that reward Prestige

A few systems outside the Shrine itself are worth lining up before or after you prestige:

• Void Walker Aura — a level-80-gated cosmetic in the gem shop (600 gems) explicitly flagged "For Prestige players."
• Ascendant Bundle — a €14.99 real-money bundle (1,000 gems) with an Ascendant Portrait Frame, Prestige Weapon Trail, and a 14-day XP boost at 1.5×, gated to level 80+.
• Ascendant Rebirth Bundle — a milestone bundle (€9.99, 800 gems) that triggers the first time you hit Prestige 1, including a Prestige Aura and a Rebirth Frame.
• All-Seeing Eye companion — unlocks at Prestige 1+ and scales directly with your prestige count: +5% all stats per prestige level from its base bonus, plus an "Ancient Wisdom" skill at companion level 20 that adds +15% XP at your next prestige level-up.
• Ashveil (hero) — has a passive granting +25% Prestige gain rate, on top of +50% gold from PvP wins, making Ashveil worth slotting if you're actively grinding toward your next rank.
• Full Vampire synergy (3 vampires in your party) grants +10% Prestige on top of +15% Blood Drain — useful if you're stacking hero teams to speed up the grind back to 80.

Prestige-gated quests

Several story quests only unlock once you've actually prestiged, so don't expect to see them at level 80 on your first run: quest_147 "Path of the Ascended I" (requires Prestige 1, defeat 20 legendary Blood Moon creatures), quest_148 "Path of the Ascended II" (Prestige 2, 3 legendary dungeons + all 10 regional bosses), quest_149 "Blood Moon Transcendence" (Prestige 3, solo 5 world-tier enemies), quest_150 "The World Devoured" (Prestige 4, every quest category), and quest_151 "Legend of Aeternum" (Prestige 5 only — the final Hall of Fame quest).

FAQ

Q: What level do I need to Prestige?
A: Level 80 minimum, and the hard level cap is 100.

Q: How many times can I Prestige?
A: Five times — P1 through P5.

Q: Do I lose my gear when I Prestige?
A: No. Items, gold, clan membership, achievements, and cosmetics are all kept. Only level, XP, and base stats reset.

Q: Which Prestige rank gives the biggest jump in value?
A: P4, because it's the first rank to add extra skill points (+5) on top of the stat/XP/gold multipliers, not just bigger percentages.

Q: Is there an actual "Prestige Shop" with perks to choose from?
A: No — the bonuses per rank are fixed. The only real choices are when to prestige and which cosmetic/gem-shop items you buy with the gold and gems the system awards you.

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