important info for anyone playing skyforge especially in the beginning and especially after cap as well.
now to the meat..
Our friend Wick (Wick Titalus) is having issues with entering the NA Portal and requested me to post this here. So here it is.
Building up your Prestige. Almost non-stop progress.
Introduction
There are no levels here and no level cap, no tangible mark where you character progress ends (besides weekly caps, but they are not that restrictive as they seem to be). This games provides you with ability to keep improving your character week by week.
Let me tell you how to use this opportunity for your benefit.
Why should i bother?
if you are playing casually then, you should probably not bother yourself too much about it. But if you want to reach the Distortion raids first and make first server kills with your Pantheon, then you should definitely go for it.
Anyway, itÔÇÖs also a description of what you can do after you reach your weekly caps.
Prestige
First of all I'll tell you about Prestige.
What is it?
ItÔÇÖs the overall power of your character, that shows how much he developed.
ItÔÇÖs your access card to new difficulty levels of adventures, to new adventures and new abilities (like GodÔÇÖs form),
Prestige comes up from different directions of your character progress:
Buying new nodes in Class and Ascension (and Divine) atlasses.
Equipping gear with a higher prestige bonus (and Proficiency requirement).
Upgrading your weapon, offhand and jewelery slots.
Upgrading temples of your Order
Upgrading shrines of your Order
Upgrading Obelisks in your Pantheon (really minor increase really.. donÔÇÖt bother too much about them).
There are not-so obvious thing about Prestige. There are your real Maximum Prestige value , and your current Prestige. ItÔÇÖs your Maximum Prestige value that serves as your access level to new game content.
You might have noticed that when you switch classes or change gear your Prestige is going down - itÔÇÖs your current Prestige (lower left part of the screen), not Maximum Prestige. So far, only place where you can see your Maximum Prestige value is in your Pantheon members list, i know, itÔÇÖs pretty confusing.
The game remembers your best value of prestige when you switch to the class with most node, put up the gear with highest prestige (even if it have useless bonuses, you can switch them back to useful after that) , and select highest quality shrines. Do this from time to time to increase your Maximum Prestige value.
Chain of Progress. Upgrading one thing will help you to upgrade another
Basically is the core idea of character progression in Skyforge.
And here how it works.
Atlas
Each node you buy gives you a small amount of Prestige, but also, depending of type of the node, it gives you small bonus to some stat or stats.
Here is is the few i need your attention on for the purpose of this guide:
Red nodes gives you Might and Proficiency.
Green nodes gives Endurance and Proficiency.
Blue Node of Greatness gives you Greatness.
Proficiency
Every piece of gear (weapons, offhands, amulets and rings) have a Proficiency requirements to equip them. So the more Proficiency you have - the more powerful gear you can quip,which also increases you Prestige, that allows you to get access to higher difficulty levels of adventures, and new adventures, where you find even more powerful gear, that gives you more Prestige while requiring even more Proficiency to equip it.
Are you starting to get the idea?
Greatness.
Is one of the requirements to upgrade temples or your Order. Nothing more, nothing less, but extremely important to have if you want to squeeze as much as you can from your potential to get even more powerful.
Order
In a nutshell itÔÇÖs a mini game (which you will be able to play from game portal at some point), that allows you to significantly improve your character. Though itÔÇÖs not so obvious at the start.
The rank of your Order is one of the requirements to upgrade your temples.
And your AdeptÔÇÖs quality is a requirement to use a shrines of the same quality to full extent.
IÔÇÖll explain how the Order works later in this guide.
Doing red mission in the Order provides you with Gifts - another requirement to upgrade your temples.
What is the big deal about the temples? Why they a require so much?
First of all they require one more thing for upgrade - Sacred texts, a lotÔÇÖs of them! You donÔÇÖt realise how big this ÔÇ£a lotÔÇØ will become at some point of your progress. (So itÔÇÖs: 1) Greatness 2)Order rank 3)Gifts 4) Sacred texts)
Second of all - temples are really the Big Deal. At my ~110000 Prestige on RU OBT they provide me with 20600 Prestige, along with a huge bonuses to Might, Endurance and +88% Bonus Health.
Yes itÔÇÖs their purpose - to give you a huge increase in Might and Endurance, as well as provide you with bonus health (+88% at lvl 26 of each temple).
Now you might be interested in them?
Here is one more thing - why you should upgrade them - if you dont upgrade them, then your Proficiency will allow you to equip the gear, that you cant get yet, since your Prestige is too low to get access to the difficulty levels of adventures and new adventures that allows you to get gear with a higher Proficiency requirements and a Higher Prestige.. Well you know the drill already.
Without upgrading the temples you will not be able to use your Proficiency for itÔÇÖs full potential.
Without upgrading the temple you will have a Lot less health than the characters with a same prestige but with upgraded temples. Not a big deal you say? But what if itÔÇÖs your opponent in PVP?
So. Temples. Big Deal. Upgrade them. Expensive, Totally worth it!
Upgrading gear slots
itÔÇÖs rather a good plan to upgrade all three of them equally, to some point in your progress where Might and Endurance starts to lose their usefulness to you Strength\Valor\Luck\Spirit becomes your key concerns, since they will become the most important part of your DPS and DPS of your group DD classes you are playing support classes, since you provide your party with 20% your Strength\Valor\Luck\Spirit passively, and can increase those stats with direct buffs). Besides providing the bonuses, upgrading this slots also provides you with a Prestige ( but not too much).
That covers all the bases (i hope). Now let me tell you about your Order.
Order.ÔÇ£OrdervilleÔÇØ mini-game
Adepts 101
The starting point and key part of your Order is your Adepts. They come in a different profession, each profession comes with itÔÇÖs set of 2 stats, and each profession are more suitable for specific missions, they also comes in different quality and level.
Profession qualifies the Adept to do specific mission with a higher success chance.
Stats provides bonuses to time, difficulty level and rewards from Order missions.
Level provides bonus to success chance.
Quality of Adept can be improved via Enlightenment process with special medallions (of the grades) which you can get as reward for adventures. This process also requires profession-specific resources that you can get from ÔÇ£blueÔÇØ missions.
Level of Adept can be improved by sending him to do missions.
Recruitment policy
The starting goal is to have at least one Adept of each profession, and at some point (at high rank of the Order) you want to have 2 of each profession.
Each day, early at the morning you will get a selection of potential candidates to become your Adepts.
At the early ranks of your Order your priorities in selecting the Adepts should be: Profession>StatÔÇÖs values>Level>Quality. But if you see an Adept with stats 4/4 or higher - forget the profession - grab him now!
At the higher ranks of the Order switch priorities to Stats>Nothing else matters. Since you will have all slots filled with Adepts and you simply want to have the best of the best of each profession. Quality and level you can improve over time, but stats of Adepts is the thing you canÔÇÖt improve.
Missions
Yellow mission will give you Supplies or Ammunition
Blue missions for spending Supplies will bring you Followers and enlightenment resources.
Red missions for spending supplies will bring you Gifts.
Violet missions (available only during Invasions) will provide you with Faith, Gifts and Followers.
Dark Blue mission will provide you with construction materials for Pantheon, or with energy modules for research.
If you are in the Pantheon and itÔÇÖ have an OperationÔÇÖs HQ built, then you can buy consumables to improve rewards from missions or to increase chances to succeed in doing them.
Ranking up the Order
More followers - higher the rank.
Higher the rank - higher level cap of Adepts.
Higher the rank - more slots for Adepts
Higher the ranks - higher the level cap for Temples.
Summarizing the Order
if you read this guide from the start - you will realise why you should play ÔÇ£OrdervilleÔÇØ minigame.
And now key part of this evening show!
What to do when i hit my weekly cap?
Farm for a higher Prestige gear, to be able to farm better prestige gear, to be able to farm better Prestige gear. its might be very time consuming. Especially when you start farming for epic rings.
Farm for Order resources (Supplies and Ammunition)
Farm for enlightenment medallions
Check the map in Divine Observatory every few days for a Relics to upgrade your Order shrines.
If you are not playing alone - then play with your friends, or help your pantheon members.
Play PVP. Though itÔÇÖs rewards does not matter much when you hit weekly caps, the PVP gameplay is reward in itself (provided you enjoy it).
Additional materials that you might find very useful.
Loot Proficiency table for solo adventures https://eu.portal.sf.my.com/comments/55 ... d/6?page=1 (i suggest using DeafpoolÔÇÖs version table itÔÇÖs better than mine)
Catch-up system sneak peak from RU OBT https://eu.portal.sf.my.com/comments/55 ... b/4?page=1
(I hope it will soon hit EU\NA servers)
3.Solving Nvidia video driver crushes https://eu.portal.sf.my.com/comments/559ee156ac72...
P.S. My English might be a bit rusty, i have not used it for a while to write "walls of text"
Cheers from RU OBT! 
ANOTHER INFORMATIVE POST.....
March 26 there was a long-awaited for us game developers point: The first player to our founders, went on a journey through the world Elyon. For us it is not just an opportunity to share what we have been doing for several years, it is a turning point in the life of the project.The transition from the development of the game to the service, which means maintaining the project live and active communication with the players, as well as change and improvement of an existing product.
One of the important elements of service - collection, processing and discussion of all kinds of statistics collected by the game itself to the issues and opinions discussed at the forum. The most striking issues deserve us to discuss them with you and talked about what was really going on, what changes are planned and what is our vision on this issue. Currently, the largest number of discussions took place around the theme of "Sparks ran out and play is no longer in that" about it and we'll talk today.
Many players are faced with the fact that after 10 - 15 hours after the start of the game (about when they reached the island Naor), they stopped coming sparks of insight. It happened because the weekly limit has been reached for this type of awards. And, apparently, it was impossible to develop further, as no more progress on the development of the atlas and not get prestige. The player with the prestige of 2500-3500, went to the forum to discuss what to do next ... but not all. Let's look at Mr. X. Over 52 hours of play (and it's not a record for time spent in the game, he played very sparingly), he attained the prestige of 7433, which is the highest value at the time of removal statistics. It is more than 2 times (!) More important than what is achieved at the limit of the sparks of insight. How he managed to do it?
Simply, he continued to play and win awards from other limits and develop versatile character. The strength of character (measured prestige) has three major sources - satin outfits and cult. Note the screenshot: a little less than one third the strength of this character (more than 2,000 prestige) comes from the cult! This cult, as a major source of strength of the character, was missed by many players who have scored the limit sparks of insight. That it can and should continue to play.
For us it was clear that at the moment we are not able to convey the importance of this major element of the game and explain how to get a third of the forces of the character, while continuing active and fun to play. And now designers are working to make this point clearer and more accessible, both from the interface of the game, and by training cults. We plan to do a more detailed explanation and detailed.
In this guide the cult can have right now, because the mechanics of the system and connected to it rewards work like this, as we have laid.And "lead the cult 'does not mean only" to send adherents to the job, "it means more adventurous and visit in order to obtain resources for the development of the cult. Learn more about cults can be of this article .
How to play it right now, what is the sequence of actions to somehow get closer to 7000's prestige?
Assignments cult divided into three parts:
"Yellow" extract resources (provisions and ammunition);
"Blue" spending provisions and bring followers and charms;
"Red" spend ammunition or provisions, and bring gifts.
It follows that it is necessary to obtain resources from the "yellow" jobs and spending in the "red" and "blue" as a provision .tak consumed in the "red" and "blue" jobs, it will be a scarce resource.
To cover the deficit should be:
do not waste provisions in the "red" jobs;
visit the adventures of informants giving provisions.
The bulk of the power comes from the cult temple, standing on the provinces. Rank temple can be improved with the help of the sacred texts and gifts. You will need a large amount of sacred texts, and on the trading floor, they are many, but they can be obtained not only through purchase, but also awards for adventure (until you are completely exhausted the limit on loans).
To improve the temple until the fifth grade, you will need the second rank of the cult. It is achieved in the presence of 800 cult followers. The number of followers is increased when the "blue" missions.
For higher ranks of the church need the characteristic "greatness." It can be obtained in the capture of specific peaks of the Atlas. For a number of them you could not pass, but the maximum value can be obtained only by deliberately moving from one such top to another.
This algorithm does not describe all the details of the work of worship, only part of the system that will begin to play and study in detail the system. And, of course, to get out of it owed you a share of prestige. And most importantly, even if now you do not engage your cult - you have nothing to lose in the first place thanks to a system of limits. Limits of each week to accumulate and do not burn, you can catch up on the coming weeks.
Summing up, I want to note that we are very pleased that so active players began their way to divinity and study all aspects of our game.Cult - one of the fundamental systems Skyforge, from his character gets a significant share of power, and we will make every effort to show the players all the nuances of the system. And of course we will not stop on the cult, and will continue to observe the active discussions and controversial issues, making changes and developing the game and giving the necessary explanations.
