The Prestige Shop in MW3 seems to have confused a lot of people.
Prestige tokens work a bit differently than in previous Call of Duty games. Once you hit level 80 in multiplayer you unlock prestige mode (or if you prestiged in one of the previous four Call of Duty games, it will be unlocked immediately). Once you hit 10th prestige at that point you can finally reset everything (progress, stats, unlocks, etc) like you did in at first prestige in previous Call of Duty games.
In the prestige shop, you can spend prestige tokens for special bonuses. Here is how you can earn prestige tokens:
- Each time you prestige, you get a prestige token. You can do this up to the maximum 10th prestige
- Complete campaign mode
- Complete spec ops mode
- Complete campaign on Veteran difficulty
- Spec ops challenges
- Prestige in Black Ops
- Prestige in MW2
- Prestige in World at War
- Prestige in CoD4
Here are the things you can buy with prestige tokens:
- Additional custom class slot
- 2 hours of Double XP
- 2 hours of Double XP for your weapons
- Callsign Title and Emblem for Regular Package
- Callsign Title and Emblem for Hardened Package
- Callsign Title and Emblem for Veteran Package
- Permanent unlock (you can permanently unlock a perk, weapon, or equipment that won’t ever reset even when you prestige again. Note that items unlocked as prestige bonuses is automatically permanently unlocked. This applies instead to normal weapons/equipment/perks that would typically reset.
- Complete stat reset (only available on 10th prestige)

