Path of Glory Ranks

The seven tiers

Path of Glory has seven major tiers. In order, lowest to highest:

#	Tier	Note
1	Duskborn	Starting tier. The developers’ screenshot shows Duskborn I with a 0/499 point bar
2	Mistwalker	—
3	Dawnseeker	—
4	Fateweaver	Normal difficulty stops granting Rank Points at Fateweaver I
5	Oracle	—
6	Exalted	—
7	Zenith	Top tier. Exact point totals are shown publicly on the leaderboard

Major tiers are subdivided — the in-game screen shows “Duskborn I” rather than plain “Duskborn” — but the developers have not published how many divisions sit inside each tier, so this page does not guess at it.

How you unlock it

Path of Glory becomes available once your character reaches Level 6. From then on it is opt-in: before a match starts you choose whether to enable it, and that choice is independent for each team member. You can queue ranked alongside a squadmate who is not.

Enabling it does not change who you are matched against. The developers state plainly that ranked mode “will not alter the original matchmaking rules” — it changes what the match is worth to you, not who is in it.

Earning and losing points

Rank Points are awarded at match settlement for four things:

• Extracting successfully
• Defeating monsters
• Completing tasks
• Acquiring assets

Two rules shape how that plays out. First, which actions give you points changes depending on your current tier — the developers say the point-yielding actions vary by tier, so a route that ranks you up early will not necessarily keep working later. Second, there is a cap on how many points a single match can give you, so one exceptional run cannot substitute for consistency.

And there is exactly one way to lose points: failing to extract. Not dying in general, not losing a fight, not an unprofitable run. Getting out is the whole scoring criterion, which lines up with what the developers say they balance classes around — see how extraction works.

The Fateweaver wall

The single most important rule to know before you start climbing:

Once you reach Fateweaver I, Normal difficulty matches will no longer grant Rank Points, and Gyldhunters must venture into higher-difficulty modes to keep climbing.

Fateweaver is the fourth tier of seven. Everything above it requires you to play harder content — which also happens to be where the best loot is, since the developers say top-tier gear most commonly comes from defeating Mist Lords on Cataclysm difficulty. See gear and loot for that side of it.

Rewards and the leaderboard

Every time you advance to a major tier you can claim milestone rewards, and higher tiers unlock exclusive cosmetic rewards. The reward previews in the developers’ own screenshots attach a second condition beyond the rank itself: the Zenith reward reads “Reach Zenith and complete 3 matches to claim,” so arriving at a tier is not by itself enough to collect.

Alongside the ladder runs the Server-Wide Points Leaderboard, which ranks accounts by total accumulated points. Two details are worth knowing:

• It picks your main class automatically, by playtime — the class you have played longest on the account, displayed with the character nickname that has the most hours under it. You do not choose what it shows.
• For accounts that reach Zenith, the leaderboard additionally displays exact point totals rather than just position.

What this replaced

The beta’s three leaderboards — Hunt Ranking, Gylden Hunt and Demon Hunt — were all retired at launch. Path of Glory is not an addition alongside them; it is the replacement for the whole system.

One more thing to plan around: seasons reset. The developers have confirmed seasonal resets happen, though “certain long-term progression elements will carry over to the next season,” and that a season is currently expected to run three to four months.