Question - Fellowship what and when to used ?

[Hulkman]

Hello,

I have been told fellowship is great way to level toons , but I am unsure how it works.

Any information regarding this ? , please list

 

[bziddy]

If you have a toon that is max AA max xp, you can have them share their experience with others in the fellowship. When the others log on, they will get increased xp and AAs for a time (until their fellowship velocity is depleted).

It can be outstanding. I have a full max group feeding a group of L90-105 guys. Once they got capped (it said capped in the fellowship roster) I would log them in to PL them further and deplete their velocity.

Pop lesson and enjoy some of the fastest/easiest xp ever.

 

[vandersl]

Information on fellowship Vitality is a bit confusing, as some of the descriptions were written before DPG reworked the system. Here is how I think it works, based mostly on muddling my way through.

Every toon has two Vitality pools - one for regular XP and another for AAXP. The XP pool can store a fair bit - enough for at least several levels if filled. The AAXP pool is smaller (and more easily filled) and seems to store enough for around 250AA points. You can see the state of your Vitality pools in the XP bars - it shows as a thin green bar on your normal XP and AAXP bars. Shared Vitality is received only periodically (every 15-30 minutes), and you will see a message like "You have received Vitality from your Fellowship" when it happens while you are online. But you do not have to be online to receive it.

Your Vitality pools get filled by others in the fellowship sharing their experience with you. Any character can share (not just maxed chars). If sharing, some of the XP they earn will go into the Vitality pools of other characters that are also sharing. If not maxed they will earn XP more slowly. If maxed already, then the XP would be lost anyway, so no real downside.

Your Vitality pool gets drawn down when you earn experience (i.e., you kill something that gives experience). The increased is significant - you will get several times the amount of XP per kill until the Vitality pool is empty. The effect seems to be multiplicative, as using Lesson will double the total experience per kill.

I am a bit unclear on the following, and would appreciate any confirmation / refutations:
1) To receive Vitality you must be within grouping range of the donors (or above level 85, not clear).
2) You can only receive Vitality if you have sharing on. My prior experiment on this likely flawed, as the toons were below level 85 at the time.
3) When using (drawing down) Vitality it is best to turn off sharing, as otherwise total XP will be reduced if there are any other uncapped characters with sharing turned on.
4) Shared XP is split between recipients, so a single character will fill up pool faster than two.

 

[Hulkman]

Thanks for information.

On my Cleric, I placed him on sharing and he immediately became "capped" after 30 mins. He is max level 120 but not sure why this happened

Does it effect if you have AA exp or regular set ?

 

[Many_Whelps]

Thanks for information.

On my Cleric, I placed him on sharing and he immediately became "capped" after 30 mins. He is max level 120 but not sure why this happened

Does it effect if you have AA exp or regular set ?

probably a bug

 

[vandersl]

I believe that normally 'capped' means that the character's Vitality pool is filled. However, if the character is already max XP and max AA and cannot earn XP that they become capped immediately.

 

[eqtrader74]

My info may be a little out of date, but I think your answers are:

1 - Fellowship player levels are the same as powerlevel/grouping level caps. So a level 1 can not benefit from a max lvl group.
2/3 - In theory you should toggle it depending on who is online/feeding. I often left everybody on or used the fellowship leader to toggle toons.
4 - I think it does divide between feeding toons, but have not seen a test.

It used to be that Fellowship bar fed a 300% exp bonus to PL toons AA and a 500% bonus if they were using it to level.

From an older post, a couple advanced strat for 12 or 18 toons:

12 setup feeding 2 PL toons - If you've got two groups, you can do a "Dretski" fellowship where 5 toons + 1 PL toon are in each group. The 5 members of each group are cross-feeding vitality to the PL toon in the other group, so those PL toons level super fast.

18 setup feeding 1 PL toon - If you've got three groups, you can do a "william12" where a full group of 6 (in fellowship) + group of 5 (in fellowship) + the PL group of 6 (5 toons not in fellowship + the PL toon in fellowship) and you PL the single toon insanely fast.

Fellowship is one of the best exp bonuses and does stack with others. I think there is a max 5 AA per kill cap enforced server side.

Server Bonus (up to +100%) + potion/LotD (+100%)+ grouping bonus (+20%-80% & division bonus at 6 members) + Fellowship Vitality (300% toward AAexp or 500% toward exp)

 

[bziddy]

In my experience, which is probably wrong...

Fellowship xp is divided equally among fellowship members that are sharing. My 101s fill their vitality faster than the 105s. Between 85 and 100, i would generally get 5+ levels on a fellowship burn with 5 regular toons plus 1 fellowship tune running LoTD in GD or ST (all not sharing).

It really is some of the most obnoxious xp in the game.

 

[vandersl]

A bit more info. Experimenting with 6 level 120 feeding 6 level 90 toons (my post-suspension FTP team):

Vitality seems to be received every 15 minutes (08:27, 08:42, 08:57, 09:12). Pretty sure this would not vary with level of toons, group makeup, etc.

All characters were logged on for the duration.

Part A) All 120 toons and 90 toons sharing.
Each interval received a bit more than 4% XP and 38% AA XP vitality. After third update AA was already maxed. This will of course vary with level of givers, level of recipients, kill rate, etc.
Vitality received per character appears to be the same (same level).

Part B) After 09:12 update disabled sharing on 3 of the level 90 toons to determine if Vitality is still received.
At 09:27 the three alts with sharing turned off did NOT receive vitality. So it appears that to receive vitality sharing must be ON. This was the interesting conclusion for me - seems that actively toggling between sharing and not sharing is required for optimal use.

I guess after I build up some I will follow up with observations on draw-down.

Edit: Delivery is definitely not precise. Next update happened at 09:45. Even with minute timer resolution this is off. All characters received at the same time, making this seem like a server-wide vs. per character action.

 

[bziddy]

At 09:27 the three alts with sharing turned off did NOT receive vitality. So it appears that to receive vitality sharing must be ON. This was the interesting conclusion for me - seems that actively toggling between sharing and not sharing is required for optimal use.

Yes, you do have to hokey pokey with the sharing button. When you want to receive vitality, you turn on sharing. When you want to burn vitality, you stop sharing.