Promotion
“ | Congratulations, miner! You have proven your worth for the company and Management are putting you up for a promotion! Just go to the Character Selection Terminal and hit the button. Sweet promotion awaits you... - Mission Control |
Promotion acts as a prestige system for players who have hit the maximum level on a class and want to continue gaining XP for that class. Upon reaching level 25, a class stops gaining XP and a special Promotion Assignment becomes available at the assignment terminal. Once it is completed, that class can pay a fee to be promoted, resetting it to
1. Previously unlocked items and upgrades are not reset. The Promotion terminal can be found in the Memorial Hall.
The Promotion Assignment doesn't have to be done on the class that is being promoted. The player may choose to undertake the required missions on any class, just like any other assignment.
While it is not strictly necessary to promote classes, the first promotion enhances character options and unlocks a new game mode (see below). Moreover, promotion is the only way to progress past player rank 33, which is the limit if all four classes stay at their maximum
25. A number of cosmetic items are awarded from Prestige Assignments, which become available only at certain ranks and stretch out as far as
100.
Promotion Benefits
After any one class is promoted, the player is permanently granted access to the following. These effects are account-wide and apply to all four classes.
- The ability to activate Machine Events randomly found in the caves of Hoxxes IV
- New assignments: Breach The Core and the Weekly Core Hunt
- Access to the Forge
In addition, the first promotion of a class confers the following benefits for that class only:
- Access to Deep Dives
- +1 Active Perk Slot
- +1 Honor Badge
- Ability to continue leveling that class by resetting it back to
1
Promotions of any class beyond the first one provide the following rewards:
- One
Blank Matrix Core, one Overclock Infused Matrix Core and one Cosmetic Infused Matrix Core
- +1 Honor Badge
- Ability to continue leveling that class by resetting it back to
1
Honor Badge
Honor Badge represents the amount of time the player has put into their dwarves, tracked separately for each class. It is granted upon first promotion and borders the character portrait with a bronze border and one white star. Every subsequent promotion will add another white star, for a maximum of three. After the fourth promotion, the border switches from bronze to silver, and the amount of white stars is reset back to one. Upon reaching three more promotions, the border switches from silver to gold, then gold to platinum, platinum to diamond, and finally diamond to legendary - the highest border for the Honor Badge.
After the three-star legendary level, the border switches to a final style with legendary coloring and four stars, as well as a numeric counter that displays the number of promotions gained past the three-star legendary level.
The list of Honor Badges goes as follows:
Honor Badge | Effective Level | Total XP Cost |
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Bronze II | ![]() |
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Bronze III | ![]() |
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Silver I | ![]() |
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Silver II | ![]() |
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Silver III | ![]() |
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Gold I | ![]() |
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Gold II | ![]() |
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Gold III | ![]() |
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Platinum I | ![]() |
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Platinum II | ![]() |
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Platinum III | ![]() |
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Diamond I | ![]() |
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Diamond II | ![]() |
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Diamond III | ![]() |
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Legendary I | ![]() |
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Legendary II | ![]() |
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Legendary III | ![]() |
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Legendary IV[1] | ![]() |
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- ↑ An unlimited number of promotions is possible after Legendary III, which are displayed as a Legendary IV badge with a counter. This table entry only shows the values for the first level of Legendary IV (with the counter showing "1"). Each subsequent level requires
25 and
315,000 more than the previous. Each promotion beyond Legendary III costs the same amount of resources as if you were promoting to Legendary III.
Promotion Costs
The costs of promoting the same class increase in a linear fashion after each promotion, but this increase is separate for each of the four classes.
- Reaching the Legendary III badge on all four classes (18 promotions for each) costs
15 342,
16 181,
15 340,
15 702,
15 104,
15 703 and
5 472 040.
Detailed costs for each class and promotion can be found in the table below.
Rank | Driller | Engineer | Gunner | Scout |
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Bronze I | ||||
Bronze II | ||||
Bronze III | ||||
Silver I | ||||
Silver II | ||||
Silver III | ||||
Gold I | ||||
Gold II | ||||
Gold III | ||||
Platinum I | ||||
Platinum II | ||||
Platinum III | ||||
Diamond I | ||||
Diamond II | ||||
Diamond III | ||||
Legendary I | ||||
Legendary II | ||||
Legendary III |
Trivia
- Promotions were known as Retirement in Update 18: Job Opportunities and changed in Update 19. Instead of keeping all unlocked class items, Retirement reset all unlocked class items.
- Update 30: Going 1.0 added three more Honor Badge: Platinum, Diamond and Legendary.
- Season 05: Drilling Deeper added a fourth legendary Honor Badge, which displays the number of promotions past legendary III.
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