Fellowship 0.4.4.0 patch notes detail big Meiko buffs and cross-league matchmaking
The update also adds safer Legendary Souldust rerolls, several hero fixes, and new reward scaling through Eternal 30-39.
Fellowship Weekly Update 0.4.4.0 outlines a broad balance pass led by some very large Meiko damage increases. The patch also adds cross-league matchmaking, gives players more control over crafting rerolls, and addresses hero, dungeon, tooltip, and reward issues. The team detailed the changes in its Weekly Update 0.4.4.0 announcement.
Rather than redesigning abilities, the balance work relies on direct number changes so the developers can respond quickly if anything becomes too strong. Bug fixes and work toward version 1.0 remain ongoing priorities, with more matchmaking and crafting adjustments under review over the next couple of weeks.
The update follows Fellowship Hotfix 0.4.3.1, which focused on targeted hero and dungeon problems.
Meiko receives the largest damage pass
Meiko’s changes are the clearest part of the balance update. Double Palm Strike receives a 300% damage increase, while Twin Souls / Army of One goes up by 100%. Rising Storm and Rising Earth both gain 60%, and several other attacks receive increases between 30% and 50%.
Sylvie also receives help across healing and damage. Her Fluttercall healing improves by 27%, Heartbloom creates one additional Boomshroom, and Boomshroom damage rises by 65%. Ardeos and Aeona gain 10% damage across their damage-dealing abilities, while Elarion receives 8% and Rime and Mara each receive 4%.
Matchmaking now covers multiple unlocked leagues
Players can now enable every unlocked league at the same time when searching for a group. Fellowship will search from the lowest enabled league upward, which should give less-populated lower leagues priority. Players can still leave out leagues that are below the difficulty they want.
The team said it plans to keep working on this system, including multi-hero queueing and a better way to rank suitable matches.
Crafting rerolls offer more control
Rerolling an item slot now presents the current item alongside the new result, allowing players to keep what they already have instead of accepting a worse outcome. New recipes also randomize a modifier within its existing type, such as changing one Trait into another Trait or one Blessing into another Blessing. These recipes begin at a cost of 1 Epic Souldust.
Fellowship 0.4.4.0 Patch Notes
The notes cover hero tuning first, followed by fixes for traits, dungeon rewards, tooltips, and encounter timers. Matchmaking, interface behavior, and endgame crafting also receive their own changes.
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
- 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
- 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.
Meiko’s numbers are the biggest talking point here, but the matchmaking and crafting changes could have an even wider effect on daily runs. Tell us what you think in the comments, and follow us on X, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, Steam, and Telegram.
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