Community: Message List - To Prestige or Not to Prestige.

Re: To Prestige or Not to Prestige.

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:45:22 GMT

I say do it. Although everyone has their own preference for doing it. Whether its starting a new from scratch for the thrill, extra custom classes, face paint, golden camo, or a pretty new prestige icon.

Honestly i did it for all of the above, main reason was that i wanted a prestige symbol that i liked. It was between 2nd, 5th, 10th, 13th, and 14th. I was going to stop at 10th but i later found out that at 11th-you got new face paint, then at 13th-colored clan tags, and 14th-golden guns. I opted to stop at 14th because i did like the symbol and by the time i realized it i had gotten all the other incentives. Didnt like 15th and the fact that they gave you a crappy animated title didnt help them trying to get me to go 15th.

Its your choice whether or not to prestige. But you should consider the fact that once you have everything and have nothing to work for the game loses its edge. Also dont let crappy players pressure you into prestiging because they think unless your prestiged that "you're bad" theres plenty of 15th prestige players that have 30days and are still horrible at the game

Re: To Prestige or Not to Prestige.

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:21:44 GMT

Don't do it!!

Re: To Prestige or Not to Prestige.

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:48:14 GMT

You have to wait until lvl 27 until you unlock the only decent sniper. Thats my only reason I stayed at prestige 1 so long. Have 2200 kills with that piece of crap. I think the prestige mode should've been like the prestige style in red dead redemption. The more times you prestige the lower level you unlock things.

example:
1st prestige unlock L96 @ lvl 25
2nd unlock L96 @ lvl 22
3rd unlock L96 @ lvl 20 ect...

Would also give you a slight advantage over lower prestige players. Thus giving us more of an incentive to keep prestiging.

Re: To Prestige or Not to Prestige.

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:46:31 GMT

Im sure I will when I get there, I will miss some of the guns that are unlockable at higher levels tho (AK-47 & Commando)

Re: To Prestige or Not to Prestige.

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:38:08 GMT

My opinion: prestige is completely pointless. Just wait till all the hackers from MW2 figure out how to prestige 15 in like 5 minutes. Prestige was a way to show rank and skill. Now its pointless, the added benefits don't do much unless you like more classes and customising (probably spelled that wrong, half asleep) stuff for you guns/camo/facepaint/tag.

If i prestige its when i stop playing after i reach lvl whatever and play again later so i can have a fresh start

Re: To Prestige or Not to Prestige.

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:49:41 GMT

There is not reason NOT to prestige. Why not keep progressing, it's an accurate representation of how much time you have put into the game. I can't understand why anyone wouldn't prestige?

Re: To Prestige or Not to Prestige.

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:44:51 GMT

I'm the complete opposite of most of you guys. Interesting viewpoints.

To me, there is no point NOT to prestige. Treyarch has taken away all incentive to resist prestiging by allowing everything to be unlocked through cP. I would never prestige in MW and MW2 because of all the camos you worked for. Earning camos with your headshots was actually a pretty big accomplishment in the game and prestiging took away well, your weapons prestige. If there was some for of challenge that you could unlock something special through hard work, then maybe I wouldn't prestige. But as it is, you can buy everything you'd want (except for higher prestige items). I might as well prestige to earn the few things that it does get me. I really don't mind losing my weapons for a few hours as they can be quickly earned back.

That's just how I view things.

Re: To Prestige or Not to Prestige.

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:22:33 GMT

I personally don't see any real point to it. The only thing I would really want is the classified face paints and after seeing those, I wasn't impressed at all. I've got my joker... or should I say jester face paint so I'm happy!

That being said I might just do it anyways. I use the m16 90% of the time, so I wouldn't really be hurting for weapons. I guess I'll have to see.

Re: To Prestige or Not to Prestige.

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:22:18 GMT

Re: To Prestige or Not to Prestige.

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:58:48 GMT

Done it twice already, not worth it. But I did it anyway. Game is so boring.

Re: To Prestige or Not to Prestige.

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:55:46 GMT

Had this dilemma yesterday/last night...wasn't sure if I wanted to go through the grind again. Takes me about 30hrs to prestige...just went ahead and did it since I want another 1 or 2 custom classes. To me it's much easier to prestige than in MW2. And since the game is still "fresh" to me - I don't mind it. I know what weapons/perks work for me, but going through it another couple of times, gives me a chance to try things I ignored in previous level-ups.

There is one thing I didn't realize though before going into my 2nd prestige is that the prestige leaderboard - you have to pay another 50K COD pts to open it AGAIN...it's not like you pay it once and you always have access to it. You need to pay each time you prestige. Not really worth it in my opinion. Maybe if I was able to put up godly stats - but I'm just average.

Re: To Prestige or Not to Prestige.

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:39:38 GMT

i kept saying i wasnt going to prestige in this game but when it comes down to it a always do ive just prestiged for the second time.

Re: To Prestige or Not to Prestige.

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:29:46 GMT

MMartin wrote:

I feel out of all the COD games, since COD4, Black Ops is the easiest to Prestige for me. Especially due to the fact you level up so fast and you can pretty much buy all the perks you want very early on. It's not like you have to give up an awesome perk until level 20 or 25.

As for the Pro Perks, I find them all fairly easy to get and also fun to get again.

I feel the same way, prestigeing feels fairly easy. I prestiged in 9 days and I'm already level 27 only playing for a few hours, the first time through it felt like it took forever but now I'm getting like 2-3 levels a game.

Re: To Prestige or Not to Prestige.

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:26:26 GMT

Prestige don't be a try hard and just do it.

Re: To Prestige or Not to Prestige.

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:23:44 GMT

I feel out of all the COD games, since COD4, Black Ops is the easiest to Prestige for me. Especially due to the fact you level up so fast and you can pretty much buy all the perks you want very early on. It's not like you have to give up an awesome perk until level 20 or 25.

As for the Pro Perks, I find them all fairly easy to get and also fun to get again.

Re: To Prestige or Not to Prestige.

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:18:03 GMT

Prestiging is retarded on black oops, there's really no incentive, and some of the things you have to do to unlock pro perks are extremely frustrating, not fun like mw2. Plus, by the time you reach lvl 50, most of the challenges that give you the most xp no longer even matter because its jsut dead xp. So sure you'll get like 750 kills with so and so weapon, but after that, the high 10k xp's and stuff dont even count, so all you're doing is completing them jsut to say COMPLETE. 'tarded. They throw entirely too much xp at you anyways thats its so eays to get to prestige in the first place, Im almost 7th now and bored as hell, and mad at every time I've prestiged at all the dumb stuff you have to do to re-unlock pro perks. Its all a matter of choice though. If you like doing it over and over then go for it. If you like having everything unlocked and dont really care about gold camo (the only REAL reason I can see prestiging that high) then dont.

Re: To Prestige or Not to Prestige.

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:17:18 GMT

But you could be the richest BO player alive :P 10000000000000000000 cod coins. I'm going for it.

Re: To Prestige or Not to Prestige.

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:15:19 GMT

That's their playstyles tho, that isnt every prestiger, I prestige and play demo and sabotage constantly, i like going for challenges so i plant constantly using ninja and that.

It's all different but to each their own, I'd get bored at 50 and feel like i wasted time if i stayed at it and then prestiged. Just me tho.

Either way good luck.

Re: To Prestige or Not to Prestige.

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:10:36 GMT

I will prestige after a while maybe in a month or two . But not now there is no point. If you play objective type games you will notice the 2nd 3rd and so on prestigers are the ones with a a$$ of kills but no captures, defuses no wonder it gets boring they do the same thing over and over again. There are plenty of things to do on this game to keep it fresh. Prestiging just dosnt mean what it should.

Re: To Prestige or Not to Prestige.

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:00:40 GMT

Prop wrote:

The reason I prestige, is to re-fresh the game if you like. Using the same classes constantly grows boring. If you prestige, you lose your perk pros and everything, so you start a fresh for a bit of a challenge etc.

Yeah it does get boring once you've maxed at 50. I know from playing MW2 that it got boring and there wasnt much point other than gaining another class. Also with everyone boosting it seemed pointless to me. On this game though its been fun prestiging and I've only seen 3rd prestige since the games release (i'm close to 3rd myself).

Besides, I know I'll be playing this game until next November, best time to pristige is now imo.