When they first came out they reset with the ladder. But Paul changed it for a couple reasons, one of which being to give death some sort of penalty to softcore players as to discourage from using "suicide wellers", which was basically just a char that they would park at 64 to well and then intentionally die so they would not go above level 64 for the easiest mobs who give the best drops. But that doesn't affect us now because the well was removed from town anyways. So yeah, I definitely agree with the advice above to not read any guides more than a year old
