After hearing from our growing community, we are changing the base XP rate from 1x to 2x. Nothing too aggressive, but enough to give a real boost.

Premium accounts stay at 5x. That is five times a 1x server, not five times the new rate — premium replaces the base rate instead of multiplying it.

Weekend bonus. All Saturday and all Sunday, server time, your experience is doubled on top of everything else. You need to be in a group of at least three players, within 100 yards of each other and no more than 4 levels apart — the same conditions as the recruit-a-friend bonus.

Professions now pay experience. Every skill point you gain in a primary profession is worth as much as killing a creature of your own level. Gathering pays even when the point does not come through, as long as the node is still green or better for you — grey nodes give nothing. Cooking, fishing and first aid do not pay: they level with no risk, and we would rather you played the game than stood still. If your guild house doubles your skill-ups, it doubles this experience too.

Everything stacks. Base 2x, weekend 2x and recruit-a-friend 3x multiply together: that is 12x, plus your guild perks on top.

Find a guild, or find members. Guild masters and anyone who can remove members from the guild can now list their guild for players looking for one. Everyone else sees that list — name, tabard, level and member count — and can apply to as many as they like, withdraw an application at any time, and get an answer from the guild. The list only shows guilds of your own faction.

All of this needs the Uldaris Addon. This is a new version, so download it again even if you already had it and replace the whole folder. It is one window now, with an icon on your minimap: guild, gathering, appearance, reforge, and an Experience tab that shows exactly which multipliers are active on you right now, and why one is not.