Blizzard recently posted a guide on the community blog to explain in detail how guilds level up, how they gain experience, and the benefits you can earn. Although there is nothing new in this guide, it is useful to have it all grouped together and especially to know how experience modifiers work in 5-person dungeon groups, considering that this changes in the Patch 4.0.6.

You can read it in the community blog, or after the jump.

Playing with other players is the essence of the World of Warcraft experience. Whether it's the simple act of bumping into another player while doing missions and saying hello to them, or joining a makeshift group to defeat an elite, enter a dungeon, or form a gang; what this game is about is being in a world full of other players. And there is no larger or better coordinated player congregation than a guild.

Guilds have been around in World of Warcraft since day one, but we've always wanted players who were in guilds to have goals to accomplish alongside their friends and guildmates that go beyond just beating bosses, as well as a way Better to recognize and display your achievements. In Cataclysm we have added some features to achieve this goal in the form of a new guild user interface, levels, perks, achievements, reputation and rewards.

As you play with your guild, you will gain guild experience, level up your guild, gain benefits, earn guild achievements, earn reputation with your guild, and unlock rewards that you can purchase. All of this is part of the whole that we call brotherhood progress.

Guild Experience and Benefits

With the new guild progression system, members can add guild experience to level up their guild in a way similar to how a character is leveled up. Through a series of individual or group actions undertaken by each member of the guild, the guild gains experience. In turn, experience makes the guild level up. Guild members can bring experience to the level of their guild by completing quests, daily quests, killing dungeon bosses and raids with groups made up of 80% guild members, and winning matches on rated battlegrounds with groups made up of a 80% by members of the brotherhood.

There is an exception to the 80% rule which is 5 player dungeons, it is enough for 3 of the 5 members to belong to the same guild to gain guild experience and achievements. * The amount of experience gained increases: if 3 of all 5 are guild members will get 50% normal guild experience, 4 out of 5 will get 100% and 5 out of 5 will get 125%. The amount obtained by each boss increases with your level according to the level of the boss, with heroic bosses it is worth even more (multiplied by 1,5). It pays to have a full group of guild members!

Another exception is the old 40 person gangs that only require 25% guild participation (10 members) to gain experience and achievements.

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As your guild levels up, you will unlock unique powers called perks at the rate of one perk per guild level. Guilds can now level up through 25 individual levels, each with its own advantage. Perks affect each member of your guild and grant several practical benefits: getting more gold from creatures, gaining more experience from kills, increasing mount speed, a mass Resurrection spell to help you recover from those inevitable deaths band and much more. The perks that currently affect your character can be seen in a new tab available in your spell book.

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The rate at which the guild levels up is similar to the way a player levels up, in other words, lower levels require less experience and are raised faster than higher levels. However, there is a limit to how much Guild Experience can be earned per day to ensure that smaller Guilds can keep up with larger Guilds. This limit can be seen in the guild interface in a blue unearned experience section and / or with an arrow pointing to the daily limit. This is useful if the limit has already been reached. But the daily guild experience limit disappears at level 23, allowing each guild to advance at their own pace from that point to level 25. *

Guild Reputation and Rewards

Your guild as a whole unlocks advantages with guild experience, but your individual contributions also enhance your personal prestige within the guild, which is measured as guild reputation.

Guild Reputation works like gaining Reputation with a Faction: Reputation with your Guild starts at Friendly and levels up to Exalted (although unlike Faction Reputation, there is a weekly limit to how much Reputation you can earn). The exact same activities that grant experience to your guild (completing missions, killing bosses, and winning matches on rated battlegrounds) as well as earning guild achievements will increase your reputation with your guild. As with the guild experience, you can see how much additional guild reputation you can earn each week in a blue section and an arrow pointing to your weekly limit. *

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Increasing your Guild Reputation grants some benefits in the form of Guild Rewards that can be purchased from a Guild Vendor. Guild vendors can be found in the Travel Center in all capitals, right next to the Guild Master NPC. Most Guild Rewards require Guild Achievements or a specific Guild Level to unlock, and each member must have a specific Guild Reputation in order to purchase them. Guild rewards are different from Guild Perks in that they require personal reputation with the Guild to unlock, require gold to purchase, and are generally physical rewards rather than passive Guild Perks like most Guild Perks. .

Guild rewards that can be purchased are of different types, including extra guild bank slots, guild capes that customize your look and provide you with unique mechanic perks, relics, recipes, pets, unique guild mounts, and much more.

It is important to note that if you leave your guild and join a new guild your reputation with the old guild is removed and your reputation with the new guild will be friendly. If you leave your guild and do not join a new guild, you have the ability to rejoin your old guild and maintain your previous reputation. Whether or not you return to your old Guild, you will keep all the rewards you purchased but will certainly lose any unlocked Guild Perks.

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Guild UI

Along with the guild progress features, the entire guild user interface has been changed and improved.

The main guild tab (J) has been put there to put most of the information you want to have on the front page: it highlights recent events, guild level, perks, and your guild reputation. To learn more about recent events, you can click the News tab in the guild UI, which will display a history of guild activity including achievements, bosses defeated, epic loot looted, and guild progress.

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An updated List tab allows guild members to easily navigate and sort their guild members according to a number of categories, including reputation, contribution to guild progress, and (possibly the most practical) profession. Sorting by profession allows anyone to easily locate guild members who have a specific profession, view their skill level or directly their collection of recipes. And they don't have to be connected!

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Although there are many other aspects and improvements to the guild user interface, you should look at your achievements interface (Y) as a new tab has appeared at the bottom. Achievements are required to unlock some Guild rewards; Find out where you can be of help!

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We plan to continue building on the Guild Features and Guild Progress System and keep adding things over time. All you have to do is make the recruiting call, gather your group and dedicate yourself to making your brotherhood stronger. The time has come for you and your guildmates to make an even deeper mark on the world of Azeroth!

* Available with patch 4.0.6