Cataclysm Guild Advancement

Guild advancement is a feature introduced during BlizzCon 2009 which enables 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 enables 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]

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 (Heroic dungeons have a 1.5 multiplier on all guild experience earned.)
Number of guild members present (more xp for raids, since they are limited to once a week)

Instance Type	Guild members required to receive guild achievements and guild XP
25 player raid	20 guild members
10 player raid	8 guild members
5 player dungeon	3 guild members for 50% of normal guild XP 4 guild members for 100% of normal guild XP 5 guild members for 125% of normal guild XP
Pre-*Cataclysm* 25/40 player raids	10 guild members

Arena victories

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

Rated battleground victories

Amount of guild members present
- 8/10 – 10 player rated battleground
- 12/15 – 15 player rated battleground

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 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 release, 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	Spell	Description
2	16,580k	3		[Fast Track] (Rank 1)	Experience gained from killing monsters and completing quests increased by 5%.
3	18,240k	6	2010-12-11	[Mount Up]	Increases speed while mounted by 10%. Not active in Battlegrounds or Arenas.
4	19,900k	9	2010-12-14	[Mr. Popularity] (Rank 1)	Reputation gained from killing monsters and completing quests increased by 5%.
5	21,550k	13	2010-12-18	[Cash Flow] (Rank 1)	Every 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	[Fast Track] (Rank 2)	Experience gained from killing monsters and completing quests increased by 10%.
7	24,880k	20	2010-12-25	[Reinforce] (Rank 1)	Items take 10% less durability loss once you die.
8	26,530k	25	2010-12-30	[Hasty Hearth]	Reduces the cooldown on your Hearthstone by 15 minutes.
9	28,190k	29	2011-01-03	[Reinforce] (Rank 2)	Items take 20% less durability loss once you die.
10	29,850k	34	2011-01-08	[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	[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	[Mr. Popularity] (Rank 2)	Reputation gained from killing monsters and completing quests increased by 10%.
13	34,820k	50	2011-01-24	[Honorable Mention] (Rank 1)	Increases Honor points gained by 5%.
14	36,490k	56	2011-01-30	[Working Overtime]	Increases the chance to gain a skill increase on tradeskills by 10%.
15	38,140k	62	2011-02-05	[The Quick and the Dead]	Increases health and mana gained when resurrected by a guild member by 50% and raises 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	[Cash Flow] (Rank 2)	Every 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	[G-Mail]	In-game mail sent between guild members now arrives instantly.
18	43,120k	82	2011-02-25	[For Great Justice]	Increases Justice points gained by 10%.
19	44,780k	89	2011-03-04	[Honorable Mention] (Rank 2)	Increases Honor points gained by 10%.
20	~46,430k	96	2011-03-11	[Happy Hour]	Increases the number of flasks gained from using a flask cauldron by 50%.
21	48,090k	104	2011-03-19	[Have Group, Will Travel]	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	[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	[Bountiful Bags]	Increases the quantity of materials gained from Mining, Skinning, Herbalism, and Disenchanting by 15%.
24	~53,070k	*	*	[Bartering]	Reduces the price of items from all vendors by 10%.
25	~54,730k	*	*	[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

Once a guild hits level 23, the daily cap on experience gained is removed.

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 presented to players.

Achievements mentioned at BlizzCon include:

Clearing a raid instance
Having a Grand Master in every profession
Obtaining a legendary item

Patches and hotfixes

Patch 4.0.6 (2011-02-08): Once a guild hits level 23, the daily cap on experience gained is removed.
Hotfix (2011-01-18): Guild experience daily resets should no longer sometimes fail to occur.
Hotfix (2010-12-13): The guild experience gained from quests has been greatly decreased from 100% to 25%.
Hotfix (2010-12-08): “Guilds no longer receive guild experience when earning guild achievements.”
Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Added.

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