Misti's Beginner's Guide to Fellowship

Fellowship offers an experience that feels both new and familiar. You might feel like you’ve played it before, but at the same time, the experience remains fresh. It’s easy to get confused by this, so in this Fellowship beginner’s guide, we’ll teach you all you need to know about this game and provide some essential tips.

What if World of Warcraft, Diablo, and a bit of League of Legends had a child? You’d get Fellowship, a multiplayer online dungeon adventure, or MODA, as its developers call it. Heavily inspired by MMO games—specifically endgame dungeon runs—Fellowship wears its inspiration on its sleeve.

If you’ve ever seen WoW, you’ll recognize the visual style at once. This guide will explain the game's core features and provide you with valuable tips to maximize your enjoyment.

🗺️ Where To Start As a Beginner

So, how do you start playing Fellowship? When you first spawn in, you’ll see a table in front of you with “Game Finder” written above it. This is your way of queuing up with other players.

You will have three options for the dungeons available to you: Quickplay, Challenge, and Eternal. Let’s talk about each one.

Quickplay

This will be your first experience in the game. Here you’ll get your first loot and some resources. It's a decent way to learn about your character and the dungeons.

Quickplay, unlike Challenge mode, is not time-limited and has a cap on your Item Level (ILVL). This mode puts you in one of the many dungeons the game has. After beating the dungeon boss, you’ll be rewarded with Quartermaster Tokens and Cache Keys. These resources are account-wide and easily obtainable, so don’t be afraid to use them. Their primary use is to obtain material chests that allow you to upgrade and modify your equipment.

Challenge

This mode is half-ranked system, half difficulty level. The mode is split into 4 Leagues, with 7 sublevels each, which get progressively more difficult as you move up the ladder. Each level, starting with Adept, also adds difficulty modifiers called Curses to spice up your game.

The leagues are:

• Contender
• Adept
• Champion
• Paragon

The first 6 dungeons in a league are all solo-boss experiences, but the final, 7th one has three bosses. Beating the final dungeon gives you access to the next level (e.g., beating Contender +7 gets you to the Adept league).

This is the mode where you’ll likely spend the most time, as it provides the same resources as Quickplay but adds proper loot drops from bosses. After you're comfortable with your character, there’s not much reason to return to Quickplay.

Eternal

This is an Endgame mode. We will not focus on it here, as this is a beginner’s guide.

As mentioned, your best bet is to jump into Quickplay mode first to learn a hero you’ve decided to play.

⚔️ How to Play Fellowship

Now that you understand the game modes, it’s time to talk about how to play. In the following sections, we will discuss heroes, game mechanics, resources, and more.

Classes: The Holy Trinity

Before we move on to heroes, it’s important to explain the class system, which is very typical for the RPG genre: Tank, Healer, and DPS.

Here’s a brief overview of your goals for each class:

• Tank: Your job is protecting your party, aggroing foes, taking damage, and staying ahead of everyone else. Your goal is straightforward: the fewer times your friends get hit, the better.
• Healer: You are responsible for supporting other heroes, mainly the Tank, as most other characters have some form of self-sustain. Your goal is not only to restore lost HP; healers are frequently the shot-callers. Staying aware of your surroundings means you always observe what’s happening on the battlefield.
• DPS (Damage Per Second): This is the most straightforward role, but it probably has the most difficult heroes to master. Playing DPS well requires a good understanding of macro game mechanics and boss fights so you know when you can deal the most damage.

Each hero has 18 talents to choose from and 13 total points to spend on them. You can respec these talents for free at any time while you are in the Stronghold area.

Heroes

Fellowship has 9 unique heroes, each belonging to the classic trinity. Currently, there are 2 Tanks, 2 Healers, and 5 DPS characters. When you enter a dungeon, your party will need to pick 1 Tank, 1 Healer, and 2 DPS.

Here’s a quick look at the current roster:

• Meiko (Tank): Her power is her mobility and defensive buffs. She’s great for tanking bosses but not as good against crowds of enemies.
• Helena (Tank): A walking bastion. Helena excels against crowds and boasts high damage, but she struggles against bosses. Her mobility is also limited.
• Sylvie (Healer): The best healing in raw numbers. Great damage, but you’ll most likely be babysitting your tank. Not good against burst damage.
• Vigour (Healer): This one requires finesse. While providing good instant healing, he’s not as strong with general heals, making him more of a damage negator. You’ll also need to micro-manage his mana.
• Tariq (DPS): This character is all about resource management and good positioning. He has insane damage output, both single-target and AoE.
• Elarion (DPS): Possibly the highest skill ceiling among all DPS. A builder-spender who relies on mobility. Low burst damage, but great sustained damage.
• Ardeos (DPS): A simple and effective hero. Another resource-management character, but easier. Play around your Burning Embers and time your damage.
• Rime (DPS): If you enjoy big booms, this is your pick. AoE damage is off the charts, and burst damage is superb. A simple character, but watch those long cooldowns.
• Mara (DPS): Your classic rogue DPS. Focuses on a single target. Another resource-management DPS who is weak early on but hits a powerspike later.

💎 Currencies, Vendors, and Progression

Fellowship for new players can be daunting with the amount of stuff you need to track. Here’s a breakdown of the most important systems.

Account-Wide Currencies

There are 3 currencies that are shared among all of your heroes: Gold, Supplies, and Marks of Fellowship.

• Gold: You mostly need gold to upgrade your equipment with the Blacksmith. You can also use it for rerolling items and buying cosmetics. You get gold by playing the game, salvaging gear, and opening daily Blacksmith Supply Boxes.
• Supplies: Acquired from Quickplay and Challenge modes (Quickplay provides a more stable flow). They’re primarily spent on getting Common gear from the Quartermaster to fill up your lower ILVL slots.
• Marks of Fellowship: This currency is earned upon completing dungeons. It's used at Storekeeper Keiren to buy Artisan Boxes, which contain resources for rerolling and modifying gear.

Vendors and Services

You'll interact with vendors often, as they are a significant part of your progression.

• Storekeeper Keiren: Sells boxes that are renewed daily and weekly. They contain important resources, so be sure to visit him every day.
• Bjorn the Blacksmith: Your best friend. He levels up your gear to reach its maximum potential.
• Cassian the Jeweler: Imbued your gear with the wrong gem? Cassian will help you out.
• Quartermaster Novak: Lets you exchange your Supplies for basic gear to cover any low-level item slots.
• Outfitter Brenhem: Fashion is the true endgame. This vendor sells cosmetics, but his services are costly.
• Master Craftsman Braggi: A late-game vendor who allows you to transform items, change gem colors, and reroll item traits. He requires Aether and Mithril to operate.
• Scrapper: Allows you to recycle items of all rarities (Uncommon to Legendary) for materials.
• Shrine of Infusion: Allows you to choose talents for your weapons, starting from Epic rarity.

Starmap

The Starmap is the game's main reward system. You progress through it by completing dungeons and finishing certain challenges. It has three paths:

• The Left Path: Your main progression. It gives you talent points and unlocks new abilities.
• The Middle Path: Offers many benefits, providing equipment, currency, materials, and additional talent points.
• The Right Path: The smallest path, which gives you mounts and cosmetics. These are permanent unlocks.

⭐ Fellowship Tips for New Players

Fellowship's mechanics will be familiar to most people who have tried RPGs. The difficulty is hidden in the details. Here are some tips for new players.

General Tips

• Visit Keiren often: Buy his goods every time they’re available. The most expensive box recharges weekly, so buy it first to start its recharge timer.
• Don’t spend valuable resources: If you don’t know who to main yet, do not spend your Mythril and Aether, as they are hard to get.
• Rush the left path on the Starmap: Complete 16 dungeons, and you will acquire a random Item Level 90 Weapon, which will help you breeze through most early encounters.
• Mind the colors: Yellow enemy casts can be interrupted by Kick or Crowd Control (CC). Gray enemy casts can only be interrupted by Crowd Control.
• Spend your gold: Use it to upgrade your gear. It will make your life much easier.
• Try more heroes: Since Gold and Supplies are account-wide, you can quickly raise an alternate hero's Item Level.
• Try different builds: Don’t be afraid to experiment. You can always respec your talents for free.
• Understand the damage: A circle on the ground with arrows pointing inwards means you have to soak the damage as a group. A circle with a cyclone means you have to stay away from it.
• Status debuffs: Red border debuffs cannot be dispelled. Blue border debuffs can be dispelled by healers.

Tips for MMO Newcomers

• Don’t forget to use Kick: Kick is a skill that interrupts some spellcasts. By default, you can press V to select your target and F to kick it.
• Don’t bother with secondary stats: In the early game, your Item Level (ILVL) is much more important.
• Communicate: This is a co-op game. If you’re playing with randoms, talk to them, discuss plans, and warn them of danger.
• Scrap items: There's no need to hoard items you aren't going to use.
• Don’t underestimate Crowd Control: Just because a skill doesn't deal damage doesn't mean it's useless. CC provides windows for free damage and eases pressure on your whole group.
• Move around: Don’t just stand still. Many AoE (Area of Effect) attacks can be dodged by simply moving.

Conclusion

Fellowship offers a fun and highly addictive gameplay experience that can be enjoyed for hundreds of hours. That’s why it’s so important to understand the basics of the game before moving toward more complex mechanics. We hope this beginner's guide from Misti Services helps you get started on your adventure!