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Reborn: the long climb

Level 150 is the top of the level climb, and it is where a longer one starts. Oswin, the Warden-clerk in the Warden House in Aldhearth, can rekindle you anew: you go back to level 1 and keep your gear, your bag and your gold, your passives are refunded, and you come back stronger for good, with a new name, a title now and then, and a glow round you that the others can see. There are sixty ranks, with +91.7% of life and damage waiting at the top.

The first rank asks only what it always did: level 150 and its gold. Every rank after it asks for something more, from all over the game: rifts and dungeons and events, how deep you have been, the side paths (fishing, cooking, quests, tales, the bestiary) and relics you bring to Oswin. So the climb is long and goes through all of it, not through one place on a loop.

The moment itself is a ceremony: the world dims, a sigil turns on the ground, pillars of light rise, you lift, one white burst, and then REBORN and your rank. It takes three and a half seconds at most, and any key or a click skips it. For anyone who asked their device for reduced motion it is a quiet one of words and a dimmed world (Effects and animation).

Something to do on the way back up

• Five chapters for the reborn. From your first rebirth, Oswin has The Ledger Below and Ysra in Coldhaven The Last Name; from rank 6 Oswin has The Second Crown, from rank 10 Bram at the well tells Past the Threshold, and from rank 15 Ysra has The Keystones, a part at ranks 15, 30 and 60, each worth one more keystone. They go down into the Twenty and hold places against waves of Grown, and every part ends with something to keep using or to show: auras, abilities, companions, the best wings, a door home from the Deep, the best amulet, the fastest mount and Mythic titles. See Chapters for the reborn and The Wardens' gifts.
• Events fight back. On an event's floor a reborn's Grown are as much stronger as the rank makes you, and the points are worth up to half as much again (1% a rank). See Events.

Armour to go for

Seven armour sets are made for the reborn, one for each band of ranks: Reachwarden from rank 1, then Riftglass (5), Throneguard (10), Ossuary (20), Coldflame (30), Sunforged (45) and Nightglass (60). Each is found at its own home in the end game, or made at the Master Forge from its shards, and five pieces worn together give the set's signature. See End-game armour.

Your Homes can be raided

Once you are reborn, every Home of your account, on any character, is open to raids by other reborns: they can break in, take what is in your chests and strike your Home Stone. Breaking in takes 3× as long while someone of your Home is online and 15× while nobody is, and then the Stone cannot be struck at all. It stays so: a fresh character on the same account does not hide a Home. The rebirth window says so before you choose. All of it is in Homes and land (Raids between reborns).

How to see it

• The Rebirth window. Oswin's menu (Be rekindled anew (reborn)...) opens it, and so does the game menu (Esc) and the Open button in the character window (I). It says what rank you are, what the next rank gives, and every requirement with what you have, what it takes, a bar, a mark when it is met, where to do it and a link to the guide that tells more. At the bottom is the whole list of ranks.
• The button waits until the level, the gold and every requirement are met. It sends the asking to Oswin, who must be next to you: only he can do it, and the server decides whether the work is done (the page's marks are only what it was told).
• When it goes through Oswin tells you the rank, what you got, and what the next rank asks.

What a rank gives

• Life and damage. The first ten ranks give +6% each, as they always did (+60% at rank 10). From the eleventh the steps shrink: +1.5% a rank, falling by a twentieth each rank and never under 0.4%: rank 20 is +72%, rank 30 +79.2%, rank 40 +83.7%, rank 50 +87.7%, rank 60 +91.7%. (It applies to your mana as well.)
• Skill points. 3 for each of the first ten ranks, then 1 for every rank after. Every rank also makes the tree a little dearer in gold (20% a rank to the tenth, then 4%).
• Keystones. You hold three keystones at once in the skill tree. Rank 15 opens the first part of Chapter VIII: The Keystones, rank 30 the second and rank 60 the third, and each part done lets you hold one more: six at most.
• Experience. +2% for every fifth rank from the fifteenth, and from the eleventh rank +3% for every rank above ten on top: ×1.34 at rank 20, ×2.02 at rank 40, ×2.70 at rank 60. Each rank climbs back to 150 faster than the last.
• Mastery on the way up. Under level 150 a reborn also puts a quarter of the experience it earns into Mastery, on top of its levels.
• The far places. The Unlit Reach is open to you at any level (to everyone else from level 100), the Unlit Citadel's scroll can be read by anyone of its levels, and the Throne of the Wane's needs rank 1 (see Dungeons).
• Titles. Every fifth rank from the tenth gives a title: the Flamewalker (10), the Torch-sworn (15), the Unquenched (20) and on to the Unending (60). They are shown with your name like any title (Y), the first three Rare, the next Epic, the last Legendary.
• A name. Each rank has its own, from Rekindled to Unending, shown by your name in the friends list and the inspect window. The first six are the names there always were.
• A glow. Gold at rank 1, pink from rank 3, then a colour for each ten: ice at 10, green at 20, amber at 30, red at 40, and white from 50, slipping through other colours. It grows a little each ten.
• Gold. A rank costs 5,000 gold times its number: rank 8 is 40,000, rank 60 is 300,000.

A reborn also counts as 20 levels more in a fight, in experience and in a match, but only for the first ten ranks: at level 1 a rank-60 character is matched like a rank-10 one.

What the ranks ask

Besides level 150 and gold, a rank asks for some of these (the table below says which, rank by rank). Some are counted this life: from your last rebirth on, so each rank is work done now. The others are counted for good: what you have reached, which is never reset or spent.

Relics are given to Oswin from your bag when the rebirth goes through, all of them or none:

• Nothing is taken until everything is met and the rebirth goes through, and nothing is taken twice: the level goes back to 1 in the same moment, so asking again asks for rank after next.
• A character that began before these ranks has no count of where its last life began: its whole record counts once, toward its next rank, and is written down then.
• Starting a character over keeps its achievements and counts (as it always did), and its new life begins from nothing.
• Depth is the Delvers' own: the deepest you have stood on your own trail, not a place a waystone set you down (see The Delvers).

The ranks

Tips

• Rank 2 and 3 are one rift and a couple of dungeons: a good afternoon on the way back up. Rank 5 is the first one that sends you down, 150 rows, and rank 10 asks Mastery and chapter II.
• The ranks that ask for a relic come every fourth rank from the eighth, so keep what drops: fossils (the pale bones in the rock), dragon scales from the dragon event's hoard, a Home raid's trophy, then the trophy of each band's great one in turn.
• Mastery and the rebirth do not fight each other: Mastery stays with you through every rank, and several ranks ask for some.
• The others see your rank: a glow, the title you choose to show, and the name in the friends list.

See also Mastery (what past level 150 is for), The Delvers, Rifts, Dungeons, Events and Achievements and titles.