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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.

Tier	Rank	Gathering XP	Clean gathering XP	Craft XP	Low-tier penalty from rank
1	0	15	22	20	40
2	10	30	45	40	55
3	25	45	67	60	70
4	40	60	90	80	90
5	55	75	112	100	Never
6	70	90	135	120	Never
7	90	105	157	140	Never

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.

Activity	XP tier	XP awarded per
Herb picking	Current profession rank	Completed pick
Fishing	Current profession rank	Completed haul
Basket search	Always tier 1	Completed search
Cooking	Current profession rank	Dish craft
Masonry cutting	Current profession rank	Unit of work in the batch
Masonry mixing	Current profession rank	Unit of work in the batch

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

Craft	First-time bonus XP	What counts as a new recipe
Smithing	500	One pattern at one material tier, including jewellery
Outfitting	511	One garment or furnishing pattern at one material tier; dye does not create another bonus
Building	1,823	One pattern at one material tier; cutting stone and mixing Mortar each have one first-time bonus
Provisioning	3,155	Each potion and each dish; northern and southern herb versions share the dish bonus
Enchanting	0	No first-time bonus; XP comes from disenchanting

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.

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