Fellowship Adventures
Fellowship Adventures (FA) are when the whole fellowship comes together to complete three different paths on three different stages and win the prizes for each stage. It's a joint effort! If you do not participate, even though you are in the fellowship, you will not win the prizes. You must contribute at least one item to at least one Way Point (WP) on each stage in order to win the prizes for that stage that your fellowship is on at the time. You will have to contribute again to another Way Point on the next path on the next stage in order to win the next prize. And then one last time, since there are three stages - each with three different paths from which your fellowship can chose. They only have to complete one path per stage in order to gain the prizes
So, the paths look like this:
So, the paths look like this:
OK, it has been pieced together, but you can kind of see what it looks like. There won't be the "Fellowship Adventure" in the left-hand corner. I did that. However what does stay the same are the paths - the Orange or yellow one is always the top or left path. The middle one is always blue and the green path is always to the right or bottom of the map. These never change.
Paths
The first thing you will need to do is to figure out which path you want to take. It only makes sense for everyone in the fellowship to only add badges to the same path. After all, you all have a common goal of winning the prize at the end. So, eventually someone makes the call as to which path everyone should take. It's usually the Arch Mage, but one of the Mages may also if the Arch Mage isn't around at the time or it is agreed upon earlier.
Badges
Each player makes what they call "Badges" by harvesting the different badge formulas. You can find a table with the formulas HERE.
To add badges to the path, just click on the WP and a box will pop up and give you three things it needs to be completed and the amounts of each. Just add what you can, and if you can't add anything, but you still have some badges, wait until another WP is opened rather than trying to find one on another path. You will just be wasting them and not helping your fellowship reach the end of the path.
At the end of each path, and before the treasure chest is opened, fellowships usually wait for everyone to add at least one badge to the stage.* This time, since the path is complete, you can add it anywhere you can find a spot for it. You should only do this if you haven't already added some badges to the path! And only add one so you don't waste the badges - they will carry over to the next path!
When all three stages are complete, there will be what is called a Bottomless Pit in which you can throw any and all your leftover badges of the brewers, treants, bakers, carpenters, farmers, smiths, flacons, bracelets, and necklaces. None of the other badges. It racks up points for fellowships interested in ranking with 50 points for each rotation.
* Personally, I feel that since the Fellowship Adventure is usually talked about both in chat and in messages for usually about a week beforehand, there really should be no need to wait on anyone. Everyone should know about the FA and what's expected so they should take it upon themselves to add a badge, any badge, whenever they are able to get online for each stage.
To add badges to the path, just click on the WP and a box will pop up and give you three things it needs to be completed and the amounts of each. Just add what you can, and if you can't add anything, but you still have some badges, wait until another WP is opened rather than trying to find one on another path. You will just be wasting them and not helping your fellowship reach the end of the path.
At the end of each path, and before the treasure chest is opened, fellowships usually wait for everyone to add at least one badge to the stage.* This time, since the path is complete, you can add it anywhere you can find a spot for it. You should only do this if you haven't already added some badges to the path! And only add one so you don't waste the badges - they will carry over to the next path!
When all three stages are complete, there will be what is called a Bottomless Pit in which you can throw any and all your leftover badges of the brewers, treants, bakers, carpenters, farmers, smiths, flacons, bracelets, and necklaces. None of the other badges. It racks up points for fellowships interested in ranking with 50 points for each rotation.
* Personally, I feel that since the Fellowship Adventure is usually talked about both in chat and in messages for usually about a week beforehand, there really should be no need to wait on anyone. Everyone should know about the FA and what's expected so they should take it upon themselves to add a badge, any badge, whenever they are able to get online for each stage.
