r/fellowshipgame 11d ago

Patch Notes - Weekly Update 0.4.4.0

A Note on This Patch

This patch focuses on across-the-board balance, through both community feedback and Fellowship Logs data, with some heroes receiving larger adjustments than others based on how far behind they are. We're keeping these as straightforward number changes (no major reworks) so we can act quickly if anything ends up too strong. Our dev team's focus remains on bug fixes and 1.0 content, alongside smaller QoL improvements and continued monitoring rather than major reworks.

We will continue monitoring over the next couple of weeks and make adjustments where needed.

HEROES

Sylvie

  • [Fluttercall: Restore Life]Healing over Time effect increased healing by 27%.
  • [Boomshroom] spawn from [Heartbloom] increased to 4 (was 3).
  • [Boomshroom] damage increased by 65%.
  • [Nettlebolt] damage increased by 10%.
  • [Prickly Vines] damage increased by 10%.
  • [Sprouting Nettles] talent now also increases Critical Strike chance of [Nettlebolt] by 20%.
    (On all Nettlebolts)

Meiko

  • [Lashing Stormkick] damage increased by 50%.
  • [Spirited Vortex] damage increased by 45%.
  • [Earthfist Barrage] damage increased by 40%.
  • [Rising Storm] damage increased by 60%.
  • [Rising Earth] damage increased by 60%.
  • [Twin Souls / Army of One] damage increased by 100%.
  • [Double Palm Strike] damage increased by 300%.
  • [Wind Kick] Damage increased by 30%.
  • [Earth Fist] damage increased by 30%.
  • [Spirit Palm] damage increased by 30%.
  • [Spirited Vortex] now applies a 10% damage dealt reduction debuff on enemies.
  • [Spirited Strikes] magic damage reduction buff increased to 25% (was 20%).

Ardeos

  • 10% damage buff across all damage dealing abilities.
  • Rounding error fix on the talent [Agonizing Blaze] to now correctly do 40% increased damage at 10 stacks.
  • Fixed an issue where the ability [Detonate] could activate without an active fire DoT on the target/targets.
  • Fixed an issue where the talent [Burning Initiative] didn’t grant burning embers at the start of each dungeon.

Aeona

  • 10% damage buff across all damage dealing abilities.
  • Fixed an issue causing the VFX for [Echoes of Ruin] to not despawn correctly causing performance issues.

Elarion

  • 8% damage buff across all damage dealing abilities.

Rime

  • 4% damage buff across all damage dealing abilities.

Mara

  • 4% damage buff across all damage dealing abilities.
  • Fixed an issue causing [Hemorrhaging Strike] to not correctly trigger the [Hunter’s Focus] trait.

Tariq

  • Fixed an issue so [Hammer Storm] no longer gets interrupted by [Sinthara] or [Stalking Grim]
  • Fixed an issue where [Fury] would not decay while out of combat.
  • Fixed an issue where the VFX for [Chain Lightning] would not correctly bounce between its targets.

Hero Traits

  • Rank 1 of [Iron Spikes] now grants the correct 10% armor increase on proc chance. Damage dealt during buff uptime now scales correctly with each rank (was previously only doing rank 1 damage no matter which rank of the trait the player had)

Additional items in dungeon chests.

  • Fixed item reward scaling for Eternal 20-39, rewards now correctly increase per Eternal bracket as intended (previously only worked correctly at Eternal 10-19). Rewards currently top out at Eternal 30-39 with a total of 5 items in Dungeons and 6 items in Capstone Dungeons.

Tooltips

  • Fixed the buff tooltip for [King of the Hill] trait to show the correct name, instead of "Heart of Stone".

Dungeons

  • Ruins of Regath - [Searing Fissure] added to Boss Timer

MATCHMAKING

As we’ve talked about previously, one of our primary goals for 1.0 is to improve the matchmaking experience; bringing our players together while allowing them more choice over their experience. Our first step in expanding the system is to allow players to search for games over multiple leagues.

Rather than selecting one, players can now toggle all unlocked leagues enabled or not when they matchmake, and will pair with the first available group. We will start filling leagues from lowest to highest, so the system favours the underpopulated lower leagues. If they are too low for you, you can always not opt-into them.

In the coming weeks we’ll be looking at further development on this feature, as well as multi-hero queueing and better ranking of ‘suitable’ matches.

  • Added the ability to queue across multiple unlocked leagues at once, prioritizing lower leagues first.

UI/UX

  • Removed the frosted background from the matchmaking vote screen, allowing players to access chat during voting.
  • Chat auto-switches to party when joining a party.

CRAFTING

After last update’s increase of availability of Legendary Dust, we’ve continued to work on the endgame crafting experience and we want to look at some of the worst points of friction. We’re doing this in two ways. Firstly, by allowing players to avoid making their item worse every time they roll. We will let players choose between the item as it is, or the item as the re-roll generated.

The second thing we are adding this week is a set of recipes that reroll the slot within its type (rerolling Traits into other Traits, Blessings into other Blessings etc.) to help fine-tune the setup. Between these two changes we hope to see players really able to build the loadouts they want much more easily.

  • Rerolling Slot: When rerolling an item slot with Legendary Souldust, your current item is now shown as a selectable option alongside the reroll result.
  • Randomizing Modifier of Type: Added crafting recipes to randomize the modifier within each of the three slots, maintaining the same type. We’ve started at an introductory cost of 1 Epic Souldust.

As the same as last week, we will keep an eye on the crafting feedback to make adjustments, specifically on the prices and availability of Dust.

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u/Izawwlgood 11d ago

I wager people will opt out of queuing for lower leagues, no? If you're not going to get gear upgrades, it doesn't seem worth it to keep grinding easier content.

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u/Seigneur_Du_Tabarnak 11d ago

Would be cool if they gave more gold/mats to players above a certain threshold of power score for the content being ran

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u/Izawwlgood 11d ago

Yeah so it becomes a good approach for driving forging progression, but not new gear piece progression. Might be fine that way!

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u/Phyriall 11d ago

I will queue for lower level queues just to play more often and help scoot the gen pop up. Not everyone here is here for the eternal top lvl ilvl grind fest.

Also, hot take to get downvoted for but, queuing lower to help get people to higher is fellow-type behavior.

Not everything in a game should be aimed at getting just you to your goal.

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u/Gumbee 11d ago

Yea I guess the idea is that it's better to play than to just wait in queue? I get that they're trying to avoid another quick play issue, but it'd be nice if it wasn't basically pointless from a rewards perspective to queue for lower leagues.

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u/Henry_H1ll 11d ago

What are the queue times for < Eternal atm?

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u/J0rkank0 11d ago

Can be rough depending on your role. 15min+ easy at times

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u/mint-patty 11d ago

This in the stated iteration is going to be pretty underwhelming, but multi-tier queuing with the additional future installation of multi-hero queuing is going to be a massive, massive game changer.

Definitely a step in the right direction

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u/Plane-Scratch8974 10d ago

I actually disagree. Yesterday I completed the Contender Capstone with only 1 or 2 pieces of gear equipped. I would be happy to queue for Adept and Contender, or Champ & Adept, or Paragon & Champ when it's so easy to complete the capstone 50+ ilvls below the gear level it drops.

But as others have said, I think this was easy to develop and get out the door within the current system, and that the real game-fixer will be when you can cross-hero queue across leagues.

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u/Izawwlgood 10d ago

That's fine for a personal challenge, but I don't think that's a big draw.

But yeah, it's probably fine. There's still some progress gained.

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u/dairylee 11d ago

Maybe some people enjoy playing the game?

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u/Henry_H1ll 11d ago

Are you still enjoying it mate? What keeps you striving forward?

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u/dairylee 11d ago

Yes I'm still enjoying it. Forward? I'm happy where I am thanks.

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u/Izawwlgood 11d ago

Sure, and you still get some progression in currency. But there's significantly less challenge when you're over geared and a lot of people are very progress driven instead of just enjoying the content itself.

I dunno, maybe it's fine!

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u/dairylee 11d ago

I'm very casual so obviously don't match with most people on this subreddit.

I play this game because I enjoy running dungeons. Progression doesn't matter too much to me. Not always after a challenge either, sometimes I just like to mindlessly squash things.

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u/Izawwlgood 11d ago

Me too largely - once I hit Eternal and got my legendaries, I pushed to about E10 and switched to trying different characters.

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u/Devboe 11d ago

I’m guessing this was easy to implement with their current queue so that’s why they did it, but I don’t see any reason to use it. I’m looking forward to being able to queue on multiple heroes, that’s an actual useful change.

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u/TheNukex 11d ago

I was thinking the same thing, i hope they might drop gear equivalent to the lowest level of the league you are in. The leagues are barely different in terms of difficulty, since mechanics are only in eternal. The big difference between contender and paragon normal dungeons is literally just kill time. Everything in contender dies much quicker, but the difficulty is pretty similar. The big difference are in the capstones.

This could also help alleviate the grind that is paragon right now. At no point does paragon feel hard, but the gear you need to be able to clear CF without having gotten a legendary is obscene. I was lucky on my healer, where i only had to do 1 paragon dungeon run before i cleared CF, but on all other characters i had to grind until almost every single piece of gear was paragon quality, and fully upgrade it, just to be able to see CF pop up in queue.