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Guild advancement is a feature announced during BlizzCon 2009 which allows guilds to level in a way similar to characters. There are currently 25 levels for a guild to progress through. Experience towards level progression is gained through guild member participation in dungeon and raid boss kills, battleground victories, Arena victories, and profession skill-ups . To qualify for guild XP, a raid or PvP group must be composed of at least 80% guild members (with some exceptions, see exact numbers below). Participating in any of these activities will also grant players reputation with the guild, which allows them to purchase unlocked guild rewards like heirlooms, recipes, pets and mounts. Originally, there was also going to be a guild currency and a guild talent tree system, but they were simplified(guild talent trees became a set of linear guild perks without exclusive choices, and guild rewards are purchased with gold instead of an additional currency type).

Earning guild experience

A guild is able to level up to level 25. Advancement in levels is done in a manner similar to player characters: a variety of tasks lead to earning XP which counts toward advancing to the next level.

Activities which earn guild XP include:

  • Boss kills in a raid or dungeon in which most of the party is from the same guild (see below)
  • Rated Battleground or Arena wins in which most of the party is from the same guild (see below)
  • Completing quests / daily quests that reward experience[1]
  • An individual player's faction reputation advancement
  • An individual player's profession progression

For each level, the guild is awarded a special perk. These perks will add convenience to guild-related activities like raid-wide resurrection after a wipe or raid-wide summons.

Size of party to qualify for guild experience

The top left of your minimap will show a small flag with your guild logo indicating if your instance qualifies for Guild achievements. Hovering your mouse over the flag indicates the status. If it isn't showing the flag then your group won't qualify for guild XP/rep.

Raid and Dungeon boss kills

Guild xp for boss kills is scaled on a few factors.

  • Boss level
  • Normal / Heroic
  • Amount of guild members present (more xp for raids, since they are limited to once a week)
    • 20/25 - 25 player raid
    • 8/10 - 10 player raid,
    • 4/5 - dungeons
    • 10/25 - Old 25 and 40 man raids (Vanilla, TBC, and WOTLK)

Arena victories

  • Amount of guild members present
    • 2/2
    • 3/3
    • 5/5

Rated battleground victories

  • Amount of guild members present


Guild XP & guild reputation caps

The daily cap on guild XP is 6,246,000 (i.e. 6.246 million) XP . The guild's current XP is listed in the Guild Tab, which also shows a meter of how close your guild is to the daily cap. The daily cap does not reset if you do not hit the cap on a given day.

The weekly cap on Guild Rep is 3,500 rep. Thus it takes just over 12 weeks in a guild to reach exalted, provided you have enough guild activity each week to reach the cap.

Although present at launch, Blizzard removed the ability of guilds to gain Guild XP from completing achievements in a hotfix deployed soon after Cataclysm's release, leading to the belief that every guild that hits the daily XP cap every day would eventually reach guild level 25 on the same day. The daily cap on guild XP is removed at level 23; during the last two levels experience gain is unlimited. See the table below for the time required for each level (assuming the cap is hit each day).

Guild perks

Level XP Required Days Needed First Possible Date to Get Icon Spell Description
2 16,580k 3 2010-12-08 Achievement guildperk fasttrack Achievement guildperk fasttrack [Fast Track] (Rank 1) Experience gained from killing monsters and completing quests increased by 5%.
3 18,240k 6 2010-12-11 Achievement guildperk mountup Achievement guildperk mountup [Mount Up] Increases speed while mounted by 10%. Not active in Battlegrounds or Arenas.
4 19,900k 9 2010-12-14 Achievement guildperk mrpopularity Achievement guildperk mrpopularity [Mr. Popularity] (Rank 1) Reputation gained from killing monsters and completing quests increased by 5%.
5 21,550k 13 2010-12-18 Achievement guildperk cashflow Achievement guildperk cashflow [Cash Flow] (Rank 1) Each time you loot money from an enemy, an extra 5% money is generated and deposited directly into your guild bank.
6 23,220k 16 2010-12-21 Achievement guildperk fasttrack rank2 Achievement guildperk fasttrack [Fast Track] (Rank 2) Experience gained from killing monsters and completing quests increased by 10%.
7 24,880k 20 2010-12-25 Achievement guildperk reinforce Achievement guildperk reinforce [Reinforce] (Rank 1) Items take 10% less durability loss when you die.
8 26,530k 25 2010-12-30 Achievement guildperk hastyhearth Achievement guildperk hastyhearth [Hasty Hearth] Reduces the cooldown on your Hearthstone by 15 minutes.
9 28,190k 29 2011-01-03 Achievement guildperk reinforce rank2 Achievement guildperk reinforce [Reinforce] (Rank 2) Items take 20% less durability loss when you die.
10 29,850k 34 2011-01-08 Achievement guildperk chug a lug Achievement guildperk chug a lug [Chug-A-Lug] (Rank 1) The duration of buffs from all guild cauldrons and feasts is increased by 50%.
11 ~31,510k 39 2011-01-13 Achievement guildperk mobilebanking Mobile Banking Summons your guild bank for 5 minutes. 3 second cast, 1 hr cooldown, must be Friendly with guild to use.
12 33,170k 44 2011-01-18 Achievement guildperk mrpopularity rank2 Achievement guildperk mrpopularity [Mr. Popularity] (Rank 2) Reputation gained from killing monsters and completing quests increased by 10%.
13 ~34,830k 50 2011-01-24 Achievement guildperk honorablemention Achievement guildperk honorablemention [Honorable Mention] (Rank 1) Increases Honor points gained by 5%.
14 ~36,490k 56 2011-01-30 Achievement guildperk workingovertime Achievement guildperk workingovertime [Working Overtime] Increases the chance to gain a skill increase on tradeskills by 10%.
15 38,140k 62 2011-02-05 Achievement guildperk quick and dead Achievement guildperk quick and dead [The Quick and the Dead] Increases health and mana gained when resurrected by a guild member by 50% and increases movement speed while dead by 100%. Does not function in combat or while in a Battleground or Arena.
16 39,800k 68 2011-02-11 Achievement guildperk cashflow rank2 Achievement guildperk cashflow [Cash Flow] (Rank 2) Each time you loot money from an enemy, an extra 10% money is generated and deposited directly into your guild bank.
17 41,450k 75 2011-02-18 Achievement guildperk gmail Achievement guildperk gmail [Guild Mail] In-game mail sent between guild members now arrives instantly.
18 ~43,110k 82 2011-02-25 Achievement guildperk everyones a hero Achievement guildperk everyones a hero [For Great Justice] Increases Justice points gained by 10%.
19 ~44,770k 89 2011-03-04 Achievement guildperk honorablemention rank2 Achievement guildperk honorablemention [Honorable Mention] (Rank 2) Increases Honor points gained by 10%.
20 ~46,430k 96 2011-03-11 Achievement guildperk happyhour Achievement guildperk happyhour [Happy Hour] Increases the number of flasks gained from using a flask cauldron by 50%.
21 ~48,100k 104 2011-03-19 Achievement guildperk havegroup willtravel Have Group Summons all raid or party members to the caster's current location. Unlimited range, 6 sec cast / Channeled, 2 hr cooldown
22 49,750k 112 2011-03-27 Achievement guildperk chug a lug rank2 Achievement guildperk chug a lug [Chug-A-Lug] (Rank 2) The duration of buffs from all guild cauldrons and feasts is increased by 100%.
23 ~51,410k 120 2011-04-04 Achievement guildperk bountifulbags Achievement guildperk bountifulbags [Bountiful Bags] Increases the quantity of materials gained from Mining, Skinning, Herbalism, and Disenchanting by 15%.
24 ~53,070k 129 2011-04-13 Achievement guildperk bartering Achievement guildperk bartering [Bartering] Reduces the price of items from all vendors by 10%.
25 ~54,730k 137 2011-04-21 Achievement guildperk massresurrection Mass Resurrection Brings all dead party and raid members back to life with 35% health and 35% mana. A player may only be resurrected by this spell once every 10 minutes. Cannot be cast when in combat or while in a battleground or arena. 100 yd range, 10 sec cast.
Total 845,670k

Guild items and guild reputation

Participating in various activities earns members Guild reputation. Members can buy special items (with gold) based on their current reputation level.

Guild achievements

Guilds will also be able to gain achievements for killing bosses, obtaining a certain membership demographic, and other activities. Some achievements will reflect achievements already available to players.

Achievements mentioned at BlizzCon include:

Patches and hotfixes

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  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Added.

References

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