Fellowship Experience Sharing: Vitality

Catching up another character or a friend can be a tedious chore if you are not a strong power leveling class. Necro are not particularly well suited for it, but there is a solution.

Fellowships

Fellowships are groups of players that are formed independently of guilds, although they share a few similarities. Primarily, they have a chat channel, a message of the day, and a method of transport (campfires) which will not be covered in detail in this guide.

The noticeable difference is that you can share experience. This was intended to help groups of players keep the less active players caught up, but as always, it tends to get more use for your own alts than actual friends.

Sharing Experience

Each player can turn on or off his own sharing, but only the fellowship leader can change other member's settings.

Members must be within the level limit to group with a player normally in order to utilize sharing. That is the lower level character takes his level, and adds half of it again to his level to find the maximum he can group with. A level 70 adds half (35) and can group with a 105.

Vitality

Think of sharing as a hose, it has to be open at both ends for anything to go through. Both your guys must have sharing on in order to send xp to the alt. The experience is saved in a pool called Vitality.

Vitality shows up as a green bar underneath your experience and AA experience bars. This is the same pool, not two separate ones. This pool can hold a value equal to 10 levels or that characters max unspent AA cap.

Using vitality is slightly confusing. You have to turn off the hose before you grind xp on the lower character, or it just shares right back to the other. Once you start spending your pool, it will give you a bonus per xp gain or 3x for normal experience, or 5x for AA experience until the pool is depleted.

An example of its use, if the pool is completely full, and you are level 85 with a 100 AA stored cap. Using normal experience only, it would take you to 95. On AA, you could only gain 100 before the pool was depleted. You can see how it is far better for use on level experience, as AA will be easier to get for the alt at a higher level.