Two different bungie employees said two different things. Kevin Yanes said anything with a rank is retroactive, however, someone specifically asked DMG04 "Does resetting your valor rank counts retroactively. For example if i reset the rank 2 times before the step does it count for the quest step or no?" He replied "Nope" See below link to the twitter post for source. [url]https://twitter.com/a_dmg04/status/1030592428212776960?lang=en[/url]