Professions — Earning experience

XP is awarded per completed harvest or craft, rather than per item produced. Extra potions, servings, ingots or hides from a perk do not multiply XP. The figures below are base awards before first-time bonuses and other XP modifiers.

A recipe or node more than two tiers below the highest tier your rank opens awards only 25% of its base XP, rounded down. A clean tier-1 harvest therefore falls from 22 to 5 XP at rank 40. The first-time bonus is separate from this repeat-work penalty.

Cooking, cutting and mixing give 20 XP per tier, or 30 for clean work. Common herbs still use your current rank’s tier.

Perfect timing adds 50% gathering XP. On equipment crafts it raises quality by one step instead of adding 50% XP. Cooking and the mason's cutting and mixing receive the 50% XP bonus because those products have no quality.

First-time recipes

Elven and Dwarven share tier 4, so the first Longsword made from either uses the same bonus. Adamantium, Ebony, Orcish and Warforged share tier 6. Changing a jewellery gem or dye does not give another bonus.

Linen- or Wool-only crafts qualify when the cloth is woven, spun or received from a guildmate and no silver-bought bolts remain counted against the craft. Woven cloth qualifies even when its raw ingredients were looted or bought. Silver-bought cloth does not consume the recipe's unused first-time bonus; try the pattern again with qualifying cloth. See Outfitting.

Water Breathing and Levitation never pay a first-time bonus and always make one potion. Most other brews make two potions before Master, or three with Brewer from rank 50. Disenchanting has its own XP calculation; see Enchanting. Court gathering writs pay twice their silver reward as profession XP.