Guild advancement

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Guild Advancement is a feature announced during BlizzCon 2009 which will allow guilds to level in a way similar to characters. There will be 20 levels for a guild to progress through. Experience towards level progression is gained through guild member participation in raid boss kills, battleground victories, Arena victories, and profession skill-ups. To qualify for guild XP, a raid or PvP group must have been composed of at least 75% guild members. Guild XP will also be converted into a currency that can be used to buy guild-bound items like heirlooms and raid materials.

Guild Leveling and the Guild Talent Tree

A guild is able to level up to level 20. 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. Unlike player XP, guild XP is also a form of currency which can be used to buy items (see below).

Activities which earn guild XP include:

• Boss kills in a raid or dungeon in which 75% of the party is from the same guild
• Rated Battleground or Arena wins in which 75% of the party is from the same guild
• An individual player's faction reputation advancement
• An individual player's profession progression

For each level, the guild is awarded a talent point, which can be used to purchase a guild-wide talent. These are not talents in the sense of player talents which increase an individual's stats or change a spell, nor will there be talents which are required to kill a boss, but these talents will add convenience to guild-related activities like raid-wide resurrection after a wipe or raid-wide summons.

Abilities granted via guild talents include (tentative list):

• Reduced cost on repairs
• Increased gold drops off of mobs
• Mass resurrection
• Raid summons
• No reagents for raid-wide buffs
• Percentage of a boss's gold garnished by guild bank, the same talent also increase the amount of gold bosses drop, so the gold received by players does not diminish.
• Increased benefits from guild potions

Guild Currency and Guild Items

The guild XP earned will be convertible into a kind of special currency which can be used to buy special items. These items are bound to the guild; if a member possessing a guild item leaves the guild, the item is returned to the guild bank. These items will be purchased via special guild vendors.

Guild bound items proposed at BlizzCon include:

• Heirloom gear
• Rare reagents
• Profession plans (person leaving the guild loses the ability to craft the item)
• Guild talent respecs
• Guild bank tabs
• Vanity items, such as pets
• Guild standard

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:

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

UI Changes

The guild pane will be revamped to facilitate the management of all these changes. Also, one will be able to view guild member's professions. A filterable achievements pane will be added for guild achievements as well as guild statistics like boss kills, loot, reputation gains, profession gains, and level-ups. A guild RSS feed will be added to WoW Armory.

Finally, the Looking For Guild facilities in-game will be completely revamped and will be similar to the Looking for Group utility.

External links

• WoW Insider's coverage of BlizzCon 2009