Your First Week on Immortal Realm: Skills, Gold, Housing, and Direction

The first week is the bridge from "I logged in" to "I understand the shard." This page lays out a day-by-day plan that exposes you to every major system without grinding any single one. By the end of it, you'll know what kind of long-term play you want.

If you haven't done day 1 yet, start with Your First Day on Immortal Realm — that page covers the welcome quest and the basics; this one assumes you've graduated from that.

Quick Answer

Day 1: New Haven and the welcome quest

The full day-1 plan lives at Your First Day on Immortal Realm. Short version:

• Complete the welcome quest with Guide Arin.
• Open your bank.
• Try one starter quest.
• Take the moongate to Britain and back.
• Stop when tired.

Day 2: Train your main skill

Pick the skill you want to lean into. Examples:

• Swordsmanship if you like melee combat.
• Magery if you like ranged + utility.
• Tailoring or Blacksmithy if you like crafting.
• Animal Taming if you like pets.

Your day-2 path:

1. Find the relevant trainer NPC in New Haven.
2. Buy training up to 30 in your skill.
3. Practice on starter mobs (combat) or training tools (crafting) until you feel comfortable.
4. Bank what you don't need.

You're not pushing for grandmaster. You're getting from 30 to 50, which is the threshold where the next tier of content opens.

Day 3: Try crafting or gathering

Even if you didn't pick a crafter as your main:

• Mining is fast to start. Buy a pickaxe; find a mountain; mine. You'll get iron ingots. Sell to a smith NPC or save for later.
• Lumberjacking works the same way with trees.
• Fishing opens up the Fish Collection eventually.

The point isn't to grandmaster a craft. The point is to know what crafting feels like so you can decide whether it's part of your long-term play.

Day 4: Visit Britain civic systems

Take the moongate to Britain. Visit:

• The College of Chirurgeons Hall in Britain. Read the public roster. Watch a treatment if one happens.
• The High Ledger Hall in Britain (around 1476, 1645 on Trammel). Look at the Public Records Wall and the Filing Desk.
• The Velvet Hand alms loop at the West Britain bank (Trammel 1436, 1699). It's a permanent ambient fixture, not a scheduled scene — a Begging Spot plus a seated NPC named Ragged Jeda are always there, and a 2-second proximity tick will auto-pop a Begging or Give Alms gump if you stand near them. Drop a coin or sit down to beg; either side counts as engagement with the Order's most public verb.

You don't have to join anything. You're just looking. The civic layer is one of the shard's defining features; seeing it once cements that the shard is serious about its institutions.

(The Velvet Hand's actual Hall is in Buccaneer's Den, not Britain — only the alms loop is at Brit bank. If you want to see the Hall, plan a separate trip.)

For the full institutional layer, Civic Orders.

Day 5: Use the market and auctions

Visit /market and /auctions on the website. These are the live web tools that show what's actually being bought and sold on the shard.

Then, in-game:

• Browse a player vendor. Note the prices.
• Look at the auction house listings. Note the high-value items.
• If you crafted anything on day 3 that's worth selling, list it.

This day teaches you that the economy is real and that the website tools genuinely help you participate in it.

Day 6: Try a dungeon or convoy

Pick one:

• A starter dungeon — most cities have one. Enter solo or with a friend. Don't go deep your first time; just see the layout.
• A convoy — wait for a Convoy broadcast in a major city, walk over, escort it, get paid.

Either gives you your first taste of group content (dungeons can be solo if you want; convoys are technically group but don't require a pre-formed party).

For the full picture, Convoys and Dungeons.

Day 7: Choose a long-term path

By now you've touched combat, crafting, civic systems, the market, and group content. Pick the thing you enjoyed most. That's your long-term path.

Common long-term paths:

• PvE combat + dungeons — see PvP for risk levels.
• Crafting + economy — see Crafting and Economy.
• Civic engagement — see Civic Orders.
• Quest content — see the Ashen Pact Questline or Britannia Murders.
• Collection arcs — see Frog Collection, King Whiskers, or Living Herbarium.

You don't have to pick exactly one. Most active players have a primary path and a secondary one. Pick a primary; everything else is bonus.

Common Mistakes

• Trying to grandmaster a skill in week 1. Doesn't happen. Train to 50-60, expand later.
• Buying expensive gear before knowing your build. Your build will shift in week 2-3. Buy disposable gear until you settle.
• Joining a guild on day 3. Wait until you understand which guild fits how you actually want to play.
• Ignoring the website tools. /market, /auctions, /bounties are real and useful from week 1.
• Avoiding civic Orders because "they sound serious." Visit them. They're more accessible than the page-titles suggest.

Where to Read Next

• For day-1 specifics, Your First Day.
• For the basic commands, Immortal Realm Commands.
• For the realm's currencies, Immortal Realm Currencies.
• For the broader new-player path, New Player Guide.
• The download page is the on-ramp when you're ready.