Junior Priorities

The Junior God brief:

 Daily [Directives] and personal [Operation] give Junior Gods the good to great rewards. Make teams and/or spend faith.  Solo, finish all your [Bastion] quests. Earn seasonal mounts. 

   IMPORTANT:  Hoard the [Trophy Booster] Stars you earn in your bag. Stop spending KoE, Credits, Argents and Victor Medals for now.  Spending them now will cost you lots later. Ask a commander why and when it's wise to spend them, or see your Discord guides and channels and voice in your browser @ https://discord.gg/dmSQ7sY 

Story quests are less important. Ignore Thea, Terra, Hostile Territories, Distortions, Nightmares, and Cognition quests until you unlock your Elder God or a leader invites you personally to one. 

The deets:

This briefing starts with "Cultivate friends from everywhere." We expect and encourage new gods to let higher rank players assist with their directives - we know they are tough, and ALL of us got help from others.  Let us pay it forward for you

Make friends by giving other players a commodity that the game cannot give them: Respect. Use simple manners like "please" and "thank you" (tyvm) a lot, say "afk" and "back" when others are working with you, "sorry" when your err, acknowledge requests from others, especially group hosts and team leaders, follow instructions and help if you possibly can. You get the idea.

After that, you can provide an even rarer commodity: Admiration. When another player does something you truly admire, tell them in public chat. It can be part of a thank you. "How did you do that cool move?"  "How can I get a copy of your nifty item".  Give criticism in private, if at all.  Nothing is more humiliating than a public chastisement, or causes more anger when it's embarrassing or unwarranted.

Last, originate communication often. "Welcome back", "I'd like your advice...", even "I'm glad because you...", are great things to tell anyone. Gives honest praise whenever you can. Add "answer all your communications, (even if it's been a while since it was sent) to your daily list, then start a few. (This works beautifully in real life, too.)

Daily (if not more often) tend to your:
 Adepts (L), (manage them)
 Prizes (F9), (accept them)
 B-Bag (open boxes, use the best items, sell the rest, buy necessary slots), 
 Sales (N), (consider dailies and packs, but usually don't buy)
 I-Invasion Atlas (spend [Eidoi]),
 Community Chat (Y>Recent) (review, reply, be friendly), 
 Shift-K to [Hall of Deeds] (spend your [Divine Deeds]),
 Shift-K Tower and Cathedral (visit for daily rewards, spend nothing), and
 Shift-K AELION screen...

[Directives] give juicy "catch-up" prizes over the [JOIN] buttons:
 [Followers] immediately boost your Cathedral Might,
 [Scientific Development Project] coins click in Bag to boost your ToK Might,
 [Trophy Booster] stars  HOARD until a [Hall Trophies] sale, and
 [Divine Deeds] spent in your [Hall of Deeds] in the [Capital] give buffs and abilities. 

  Use [Divine Deeds] to fill the first  three [Hall of Deeds] tabs (Knowledge for Support, Willpower for Tanks, War for Damage) about in the order presented to unlock Elder God status. To get the six Avatar Trophies you need to unlock the first three HoD tabs, take every "Trava" (Training Avatar) invitation you can.
  Players who solo a lot should unlock the fourth tab [Halls of Travel] with Victor Medals then spend credits for the first six nodes.

Other valuable Directive prizes are:
 [Victory Medals] to hoard until a [Hall of Trophies] sale,
 [Premium Days] to use on days when you game a lot,
 [Premium Boosters] to use right away for extra daily prizes,
 [Argents] to save for legendary weapons and other must-have items on sale,
 [Sparks of Transform] to save for new classes, and
 large [Credit drops] to hoard for now.  You'll need 2.6 million later. Do buy open spaces to enlarge your Bag as you need them. Don't spend credits in the Cathedral or KoE in the Tower while you are in catch-up

 After your 1) daily Directives and Operations ("Dirs&Ops"),  2) [Bastion] quests (range easy to hard) offer additional skills and resources. Open all you can: they overlap with each other and your directives so one mission can get you many completions. You can use use a [Stimulant] to bypass one bastion quest anytime.

  3) The two [Inghar Test Area] group adventures  in Tacit Dunes province (ITA and ITAP) need at least two strong players to complete even one round there.  They award [Argents] and other prizes to all participants every week, and special prizes every two weeks.

 Less important are 4) Seasonal (easy) and Story quests season 2 or 3 (vary easy to hard),  5) You can safely ignore quests in Thea, Terra, Hostile Territories, and Distortion quests (all very hard) for now although they give buffs and prizes. Guides and rising rank make them easier as you continue playing. 6) You cannot join most Nightmare quests (unlock with Trial Rank) or Cog quests (unlock with Elder God status) yet.

  7) When a Pantheon leader or trusted Elder arranges and invites you to a special mission or class or duty, try to accept it if at all possible. The personal prizes might not seem great, but the jumps in status, leader boards, team play, experience, training, and future invitations are surprisingly rewarding.

Now, let's get your Adepts and Faith maximized!

Summary

 Every day check and handle F9, 9, L, N, B,  Invasion Atlas, Y > RECENT,  K >ToK, >Cath, >ToD.  Often, check Shift K> Directives and Y>Operations and run them to earn Followers, Science, Deeds, and Premium Boosters that you spend fast.  Save and hoard TB stars, Argents, and Victor Medals for items on sale.  Use stims on grey dirs for better prizes. 

 Use god form on group missions to earn the most [Divine Deeds]. Rarely go god on squads (they are easy) or invasions (very expensive, so use a team) or trails (give no deeds for gods). Look for and give /invites.  Ignore the "find a group" button. Bi-weekly, try to join a ITA and ITAP team in Tacit Dunes for prizes.  Take all the Trava's you can to get Avatar Trophies to unlock your Hall of Deeds

Junior Tutorials

Chat script for an elder god assisting a new god with tutorials and team making:

You will need teams to complete your important [Tutorials]. Ready?

In your Ctrl-K Campaign screen, right next to AELION is your QUESTS list.  It has sections: BASTIONS, TUTORIALS, STORYLINE, OTHER and maybe more.  In the TUTORIALS section, ignore quests for Thea, Terra, and Hostile Territories for now. What's in there for you to do?

Some answers are: Assume god form in squad (you can solo that adventure easily: you likely already did it) or "Equipment Upgrades: complete any group or party adventure". Groups are easier than Parties. You'll need to use a god or a team.

 Tap Ctrl-K, then click AELION  to reach your DIRECTIVES screen, click Join under the third one labelled "Group" and LAUNCH it. It will warn you "not enough players". Launch anyway. Then invite me using my invite button or type /invite in an empty chat line I can see. When I accept, we're both there.

Next we /invite to our Pantheon and wait for a minute to see who comes.  Then we'll decide who takes which role:  Tank, Support, DPS, and God (if we need one or two) and run it.  When done and without delay, thank everyone who joined in Group, Vicinity, Pantheon or Personal channels as needed. I will, too.

  Your next tutorial quests are easy. "Select portal to distortions" means click the image in the lower right of your Capital. You don't have to enter one.  Next, find your Exoskeleton in your B-bag.  You don't have to equip a piece.

  Your last tutorial is "Special Directives: fulfill any directive from invasions or trial blocks"  Invasions are easier than Trials. To do it, [Join] your Ctrl-K AELION Directive Invasion (fifth one).  

  To recruit a team, use /invite your Pantheon in chat: type: /invite  xxxx at the start of a line with the name of your mission instead of xxxx.  The "Join My Group" link appears, followed by your xxxx.

 Wait a minute or more to see who comes, then run it. Invitations expire after three minutes.  Most invite hosts don't wait that long to begin the combat, so clickers might get the "You are in battle" error.  Players can keep clicking your invite til it expires, hoping that you finish the combat and they can join you. You can send a new /invite to your group anytime on any channel.

When done, thank your team in the channels you used to send the invite.  "TY, xx" is enough.  You can always name names and give praise.  

 I asked "Aelinet", a server-wide chat channel, to invite you. Aelinet is much like Pantheon chat, but multi-pantheon and reaches almost all the Elder and Junior Gods on the server. Invitations to missions regularly are there. Some of them you cannot do, but if you see one you need, click it quickly before it expires or fills, and you will soon find yourself in a group doing that mission together.

Now claim your Directive prize and double-click any [Scientific Development Project] coins in your bag (but NOT any Trophy Booster Stars) and check your Rank. 

You're ready to tackle a lot more in SkyForge. Your next briefing is on Junior Gods' Daily Priorities.

 BTW

Instead of clicking EXIT or LEAVE buttons, you can type /leave in any chat to leave your battle team. The EXIT button in your your battle team chat can remove you from Aelinet or another chat channel with unlucky timing. EVERYONE made that error and leaves channels they didn't mean to leave.  No worries if you mess it up, you can get back in by asking a friendly leader. Instead of clicking, you can type /leave in any chat anywhere. No matter where you type it, you leave your battle team