Fellowship Beginner’s Guide

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

If you’ve ever seen WoW, you’ll recognize the visual style at once. It comes as no surprise, though, as Fellowship was developed by industry veterans. This is a Fellowship starting guide, where we’ll explain the game's features and provide you with valuable tips to maximize your enjoyment.

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Read our other Fellowship Guides:

• Heroes Tier List
• Gearing Guide

Where To Start As a Beginner

So, how to start playing Fellowship as a beginner? If you’re new to these kinds of games, it can be confusing to understand what you need to do. When you first spawn in, you’ll see a table in front of you and “Game Finder” written above it. It’s your way of getting queued up with other players.

There will be multiple options to go into the dungeons available to you when you select them. Three options are Quickplay, Challenge, and Eternal. Let’s talk about each one.

Quickplay

That’s gonna be your first experience. Here you’ll get your first loot and some resources. A decent way to learn about your character and dungeons.

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

Challenge

Half-ranked system, half difficulty level. The mode is split into 4 Leagues, with 7 sublevels, which get progressively 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 are all solo-boss experiences, but the final, 7th one, has three bosses. Beating the final dungeon gives you access to the next level. That means if you beat the Contender +7, you’ll get to the Adept league.

This is the mode where you’ll likely spend the most time in, as it provides the same resources as Quickplay and additionally to that, bosses drop some proper loot. As you can understand, there’s not much sense to queue Quickplay after learning your character.

Eternal

It’s an Endgame mode. We will not focus on it here, as it is a beginner’s guide, but we will definitely discuss it in the future.

As mentioned before, your best bet is to jump into the quickplay mode first when learning a hero you’ve decided to play as.

How to Play Fellowship

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

Classes

As this is a Fellowship complete guide, we need to cover most bases. Before we move on to heroes, it’s important to explain the class system. Classes here are very typical for the RPG genre. Those are Tank, Healer, and DPS.

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

Tank: Protecting your party, aggroing the foes, taking damage, staying ahead of everyone else. Your goal is straightforward: the fewer times your friends get hit, the better. If there’s ever a choice to deal a final strike to a foe or to protect a wounded ally from more damage, always choose the latter.

Healer: Supporting other heroes, mainly Tanks, as most other characters have some form of self-sustain. Your goal is not only to restore lost HP, but most frequently healers are the shot-callers. Staying aware of your surroundings means that you always observe what’s happening on the battlefield. Use it to your party’s advantage.

DPS: The most straightforward role, but probably has the most difficult heroes to master. Playing DPS well requires a good understanding of macro game mechanics. In order to play DPS on the next level, you gotta know other classes well too. That concerns the dungeons, too. If you know what the boss will do next, you will be able to deal more damage.

Each hero has 18 talents to choose from and 13 points total to spend on these talents. At any given time when you’re in the Stronghold area, you can respec them for free.

Heroes

Fellowship has 9 unique heroes, each of whom belongs to the classic trinity of any RPG game ever. Currently, there are 2 Tanks, 2 Healers, and 5 DPS characters in the game. When you enter the dungeon, you’ll need to pick 1 Tank, 1 Healer, and 2 DPS. Here’s a table for you to quickly understand who picks your interest:

Name	Class	Description
Meiko	Tank	Her power is her mobility and defensive buffs. She’s great for tanking bosses, but not so good against crowds of enemies.
Helena	Tank	Walking bastion. Helena excels against crowds and boasts high damage, but she struggles against bosses. Her mobility is also really limited.
Sylvie	Healer	Best healing in raw numbers. Great damage, but you’ll most likely babysit your tank. Not good against burst damage. But hey, you’re a dryad. That’s a huge pro.
Vigour	Healer	This one requires finesse. While providing good instant healing, he’s not that good when it comes to general heals. That makes him more of a damage negator than a healer. You’ll also need to micro-manage his mana. Maybe don’t pick him as a beginner.
Tariq	DPS	This character is all about resource management and good positioning. With his insane damage output, both single-target and AoE, it’s not a problem at all. He requires some getting used to, but is well worth your time.
Elarion	DPS	Possibly the highest skill ceiling among all other DPS. Builder-spender who relies on his mobility. Low burst damage, but great sustained one.
Ardeos	DPS	Simple and effective hero. Another resource-management character, but it’s easier this time. Play around your Burning Embers and time your damage accordingly; the rest will come.
Rime	DPS	If you enjoy big booms, this is your pick. AoE damage is off the charts, plus burst damage is also superb. Overall, a simple character, but watch those cooldowns as they feel like forever.
Mara	DPS	Your classic rogue DPS. Focus on a single target for damage dealing. Another case of resource-management DPS. Also, you’re pretty weak early on, so you’ll have to struggle a bit before hitting your powerspike.

The Fellowship’s hero roster offers a diverse and vibrant array of personalities. All of the heroes fill the gaps in each other’s abilities, so balancing the team can be as fun as building your perfect skill kit.

Account-Wide Currencies

There are 3 currencies that are shared among all of your heroes: gold, supplies, and Marks of Fellowship. Each of them serves different purposes. Fellowship for new players can be really daunting with the amount of stuff you need to track, so here’s a little help.

• Gold
  You mostly need gold to upgrade your equipment with a Blacksmith (more on him later). Some other ways to spend gold are rerolling your items and buying cosmetics from Outfitter Brenhem. You can get gold by playing the game, salvaging gear, and opening up daily Blacksmith Supply Boxes. Our best recommendation for the early stage of the game is to spend your gold on upgrading your equipment.
• Supplies
  Supplies can be acquired by going through Quickplay and Challenge modes. Quickplay provides a more stable flow of these. They’re primarily spent on getting Common gear from the Quartermaster to fill up your lower ILVL slots. They can also be used to buy a Blacksmith Supply Box, which grants you gold and resources. It is a good idea to fill up your gear slots as quickly as possible, because the game’s progression is mainly tied to your Item Level.
• Marks of Fellowship
  Currency that you get upon completing dungeons. Used with Storekeeper Keiren mostly. In exchange for them, Keiren will grant you Artisan Boxes, which contain resources needed for rerolling and modifying your gear.

Vendors

One of the most important aspects of the game is its Vendors. You're going to be interacting with them quite often, as they are a significant part of your progression path. They offer different services, so let's talk about what exactly they do in the Stronghold:

• Storekeeper Keiren: The vendor you will see most often. He sells boxes that are renewed daily and weekly. The boxes contain important resources, so be sure to visit him every day. Later in the Fellowship tips section, we will give you important advice concerning his goods.
• Bjorn the Blacksmith: Your best friend in most stages of the game. He levels up your gear to reach its maximum potential.
• Cassian the Jeweler: Imbued your gear with a wrong gem? Not a problem. Cassian will provide it to you absolutely free of charge.
• Quartermaster Novak: You’ll be able to exchange your Supplies for gear. It’s a pretty basic gear, so buy it when you need to cover the slot that contains a low-level item.
• Outfitter Brenhem: As everyone knows, fashion is the true endgame. This dude will help you out with it. His services are really costly, though, so don’t waste your gold prematurely.
• Master Craftsman Braggi: This vendor is more important for later stages of the game. He allows you to transform your items from one to another, change the color of your gems, and reroll your item traits. He requires Aether and Mithril to operate, so don’t spend it before you decide who to main. If you take away anything from this Fellowship noob guide, let it be this.

Apart from human vendors, there are two more things that will be useful for you. Those are Scrapper and Shrine of Infusion. Scrapper allows you to recycle items of all rarities, from Uncommon to Legendary. Shrine of Infusion will allow you to choose talents for your weapons, starting from Epic rarity. BLOG20

Starmap

Starmap is a reward system present in this game. You’ll progress through it by closing the dungeons and finishing certain challenges. It has three paths, which can be easily completed with minimal effort. 

• The left path is your main progression. It gives you talent points and unlocks new abilities.
• The middle path offers many benefits. It provides you with equipment, currency, materials, and additional talent points.
• The right path is the smallest one. It gives you mounts and cosmetics. Unlike others, it’s a permanent unlock.

Fellowship Tips for New Players

If we’re being honest, Fellowship is not that difficult a game. Its mechanics will be familiar to most people who have tried RPGs. The difficult part is hidden in the details. Here, we will give you Fellowship tips for new players:

1. Visit Keiren often: Buy his goods every time they’re available. The most expensive box recharges for a week, so buy it first so that it recharges faster.
2. Don’t spend your valuable resources: If you still don’t know whom to main, do not spend your Mythril and Aether as they’re hard to get.
3. 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.
4. Mind the colors: Yellow enemy casts can be interrupted by Kick or Crowd Control. Gray enemy casts can only be interrupted by Crowd Control.
5. Spend your gold: Use it to upgrade your gear, which will make your life much easier. Just don’t overspend too much.
6. Try more heroes: Since Gold and Supplies are account-wide, you can quickly raise your alt’s Item Level. That means you’ll get to proper dungeoning faster.
7. Try different builds: Don’t be afraid to experiment. You can’t ruin your build, as you can always respec.
8. Understand the damage: A circle on the ground with arrows pointing inwards means that you have to soak the damage as a group. A circle with a cyclone means that you have to stay away from it.
9. Status debuffs: Red border debuffs cannot be dispelled. Blue border debuffs can be dispelled by healers.

And if you are going to experience an MMO game for the first time, here are Fellowship tips for beginners:

1. Don’t forget to use Kick: Kick is a skill that allows you to interrupt some spellcasts. To do it fast, press V to select your target and F to kick it.
2. Don’t bother with secondary stats: In the early game, Item Level is much more important.
3. Communicate: It’s a co-op game, so if you’re playing with randoms - talk, discuss plans, warn them.
4. Scrap items: No need to hoard them if you ain’t gonna use them.
5. Don’t underestimate Crowd Control: Just cause it doesn’t deal damage doesn’t mean that it’s useless. It gives windows for free damage and eases pressure on everybody in the group.
6. Move around: Don’t just stand there. Many AoE effects can be evaded by just moving around the battlefield.

Hopefully, with the given advice, this Fellowship complete guide will bring you a lot of fat loot. We wrote it with the hope that it will optimize your time playing the game.

Conclusion

With the long wait over, we can finally enjoy Fellowship. The game 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 towards more complex mechanics. We hope you enjoyed our 2025 Fellowship beginner guide. Be sure to check out our other guides as well!

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