How Prestige works
- Player rank tops out at level 55. Finish it and you can Prestige.
- Each Prestige takes your rank back to level 1.
- After Prestige 10 you reach Prestige Master, where your level keeps climbing up to 1,000.
Classic or Regular Prestige?
| Prestige | What happens |
|---|---|
| Classic | Relocks your loadout unlocks, in return for an XP boost |
| Regular | Keeps everything you've unlocked |
Both start your rank again from level 1. Pick Classic if you want to rank up faster and don't mind earning your loadouts again, or Regular if you'd rather keep everything.
The fastest ways to rank up
- Play objective modes like Domination, Kill Confirmed and Hardpoint: lots of kills, plus XP for playing the objective.
- Activate a Double XP token, and save it for a live Double XP event so the two stack. Tokens only count down while you're in a match.
- Do your daily and weekly challenges for their bonus XP.
- Level a gun at the same time: a Double Weapon XP token stacks with Double XP. See our weapon leveling guide.
- Get far more kills a match in a bot lobby. How MW4 bot lobbies work explains what counts.
