At A Glance
- Relic Calculation Components: How hero levels, stage completion, full-team, and potions combine to determine relic gain.
- When to Prestige: Signs to know you should reset to boost gains efficiently.
- Optimizing Relics Usage: Using potions, keeping heroes alive, and selecting artifacts to make the most of each prestige.
How Prestige Works and What You Retain
Prestige in Tap Titans 2 becomes available once your Main Hero reaches level 600. It performs a soft reset of many aspects of your game, but you keep certain permanent upgrades.
You reset:
- All stage progress (you go back to Stage 1).
- Main Hero level, skills, all purchased heroes (they need to be rehired, starting at level 1)
You retain:
- Relics you’ve earned.
- Artifacts and their upgrade levels.
- Heroes’ weapon upgrades.
- Diamonds, equipment, pets, perks etc depending on feature.
How Relics Are Calculated
Relics are the prestige currency that let you buy or upgrade artifacts, which permanently aid progression. Earning more relics per prestige is the key.
Here’s how relic gain is determined:
- Hero Levels Bonus:
You get 1 relic per 1,000 total levels of all hired heroes (excluding the Main Hero). - Stage Completion Bonus:
You gain extra relics based on the highest stage you reach, with bonus increases every 15 stages. The higher your stage, the larger this bonus. - Full Team Bonus:
If all of your heroes are alive at the moment you prestige (i.e. none are “dead/inactive”), you get a relic multiplier (×2). - Prestige Potion Bonus:
Having a prestige potion when you prestige gives another multiplier (+1 to the multiplier) to relic gain.
So combining those, the formula is roughly:
(Hero Levels Bonus + Stage Completion Bonus) × Multiplier,
where Multiplier = 1 normally, +1 if full team alive, +1 if you use a prestige potion.
When Is It Best to Prestige
Prestiging too early or too late can both cost you relics/time. These are signs and rules of thumb to help you choose the optimal time:
- You must reach level 600 with Main Hero to unlock Prestige. Trying before that yields no prestige benefit.
- When your progress slows down significantly – e.g. you’re spending a long time per stage or barely defeating Titans – that’s a good indicator. When each stage takes much more effort/frontloaded resources, you’re wasting time between prestiges.
- When relic gain per unit time peaks: If going farther gives only marginal relics but costs a lot more time, better to prestige earlier.
- Just before you unlock powerful artifacts or key hero/weapon upgrades that will turbo-boost your run post-prestige. That way, you use relics on those artifacts and benefit immediately in the next run.
Tips for Maximizing Relic Gains
Here are actionable strategies players use to get more relics per prestige:
- Keep All Heroes Alive: Revive if needed using diamonds if a strong full-team bonus outweighs the cost. The mortality of heroes during boss fights can kill your relic multiplier.
- Use Prestige Potions: Save these and use them when you’re about to prestige and the relic gain will be high. They multiply your relic gain.
- Push High Stages: The Stage Completion Bonus grows every 15 stages. So pushing a little further before prestige can have big returns. But not so far that time per stage is terrible.
- Artifact Strategy: When you get relics, invest first in artifacts that give big boosts (especially those that multiply relic gains or stage-clear speed) so future runs get easier. Also upgrade existing artifacts rather than spreading relics too thin.
- Time Efficiency: It’s often better to prestige when you have a good relic gain per minute rather than pushing extremely high stages slowly.
Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Prematurely prestiging without enough artifact upgrades, meaning you don’t get much added boost for the reset.
- Neglecting to revive dead heroes or ignoring full team bonus, resulting in lower relics.
- Using prestige potions on small runs where the impact is minimal.
- Spending relics equally or arbitrarily rather than focusing on the artifacts that yield highest returns.
Final Thoughts
Prestiging is central to progressing efficiently in Tap Titans 2. By understanding how relics are calculated, keeping your heroes alive, using potions strategically, and knowing when to prestige, you’ll maximize relic income and speed up your growth. Always weigh the time cost vs relic reward — pushing further isn’t always better if you’re spending too long per stage. Use relics wisely on artifacts with long-term benefit, and over time each prestige becomes more powerful thanks to those incremental upgrades.