WoW Cataclysm

The guild is gaining levels, too!

It is more advantageous than ever before to be member of a guild in Cataclysm. This is because your guild will now earn experience points, too!Your guild will earn experience in the same way players earn experience: by being successful. For example, if more than 80% of a raid group consists of members of your guild while you clear a raid instance, you gain experience for every boss you kill, every achievement you unlock and so on.

Winning Battlegrounds or performing other feats will also increase your guilds experience. This doesn’t mean that bigger guilds have an advantage over smaller ones, though. A guild with 150 members which consists of really bad players who simply cannot even reach the easiest milestones will never reach a higher level. However, a small guild with 15 enormously capable players will have no problem steadily leveling up.

A guild can gain a maximum of 25 levels. Every level gives each player of the guild access to various guild perks. For example: The first rank increases the experience that every player in the guild earns by 5%. Other levels increase the speed of your mounts or decrease the cooldown of your Hearthstone. One of the higher levels also loots 10% extra gold per monster that goes straight into your guild bank.

The highest levels then give you access to the really powerful guild perks. Mail that you send to your fellow guild members will arrive instantly. Costs for repairs and purchases at all vendors drop by 5%. You can summon your entire raid group from one point to another at will, or even resurrect all your friends at the same time after an unsuccessful attempt at a new boss. Those abilities are the most powerful ones and thus you won’t see them for a long time. Earning the highest level for your guild will take even longer than simply maximizing your own character.