Welcome to the Academy

the brief:

 Welcome. I help manage our Pantheon Academy membership.  Ask me or your Pantheon anything anytime. We can't promise speedy answers, but we always answer.

 When you like, join our Discord guides and voice. We're chill @ https://discord.gg/dmSQ7sY  

To find this briefing and more, copy/paste this url to your browser: https://skyforgeacademy.blogspot.com/2023/03/welcome-to-academy.html

 The deets: 

  Drag your mouse backward over this text to select the link, then paste it into your browser:  https://discord.gg/dmSQ7sY 

  Make your nickname on the Arcanum Discord server resemble your SkyForge name and we'll unlock our guides for you. Our guides show how to spend no cash in SkyForge (but you can if you like) while you unlock your God, then Elder God, Nightmare content, every class, the best weapons, and end game content.  The key:  Just keep playing and everything will come to you.

  We remove inactive Immortals from our Academy after three weeks to make room for new active players. It's nothing personal: space is limited. When they return, immortals can join again, losing no rank, items, nor prestige. 

   Before players unlock god, Immortals have the ability to enter and leave Pantheon Academies. There is a three-day wait time to re-enter a pantheon. 

     When you unlock god, the game removes your ability to join a Pantheon Academy. Any commander can invite you to join.  Commanders also vote to remove inactive Gods after several months (nothing personal) to make space, and re-invite them back anytime they're active.  On (re-)joining, you can do most Panth activities immediately, and in one week, everything.

BTW

 Allow me to introduce myself.  I am your Academy and Junior guide, Sir Arthis Greystag, Commander and Knight of Cups in the Arcanum Pantheon in SkyForge North America. "Knight of Cups" is a Tarot card in the Lesser Arcanum that signifies a romantic male messenger, peaceable but fights well in need. In chat, I answer to whatever class I am wearing, Arthis, Arth, Art, or A, Grey, Greystag, Stag, Commander, Sir, or Papa in about twelve languages including typonese. 

 The player behind Arth is a semi-retired professional classical musician with degrees in education, administration, mathematics, theater, and composition (here's an anonymous sample of his music).  Born 1956, despite computer experience since 1971, he's never played a real-time skill-based battle MMORPG before starting SkyForge in 2022. He's REALLY slow and clumsy at it, but getting better at it and having a blast!

 In either role, I gather and share information freely. I've had GREAT mentors in SF and shout out to Basic, Rory, Lore, Elrique, Jack, Shadow, Rekt, Mercy, Wiawyr and a dozen other names who gather and share their hard-won knowledge. THANK YOU!

 Since starting 20221101, earned God 20221231, Elder 20230205, Max Rank 20230801, completed Ether quests 20231106 and Elder skills 20240625. I have made every mistake a player can make, invented a few new ones, and took copious notes. I can guide players thru the tricky and expensive parts of SF without spending cash or excessive time trying to do the impossible. 

  I opened an account on EU on 20240119 (my 68th Userworld spawn anniversary) to test this material. I am shocked at how easier the second run was.  I have knowledge and allies that make every landmark happen twice as fast.  Discrepancies were corrected here as I found them.  I am still having a blast and hope you do, too.

 The paragraphs in these briefings are designed to fit into SkyForge's limited chat allowance, so they can be shared from one player to another in-game via copy-paste. Screenshots, while easy to make, are inefficient and blurry ways to store text and cannot be shared thus.

Next:  your first Immortal briefing