Stat Priority
The Stat priority for Aeona is as follows:
- Item level / Intellect
- Crit
- Expertise
- Spirit
- Haste
Item level is king in Fellowship as main stat has the greatest effect on your damage, healing and survivability.
Critical Strike has the chance to double the effectiveness of our damage and healing which is already very strong. It doesn’t double dip for Aeona, so it is not super overpowered, but it still scales well, especially through Oblivion's Embrace. On top of that, your absorbs have a chance equal to your Critical Strike chance to ignore 50% of any hit.
Expertise increases our damage, healing and absorption effects, making it fairly decent for Aeona.
Spirit decreases the cooldown of your ultimate, and generates a small amount of Chrona and mana when it procs.
Haste lowers some of your cooldowns, GCDs and makes your casts shorter.
Diminishing Returns
Secondary stats have diminishing returns. The more you stack one stat, the less each extra point gives, especially past 25%. The thresholds are listed below:
- 0–10% full value
- 10–15% 95%
- 15–20% 85.5%
- 20–25% 72.7%
- 25%+ 58.2%
Avoid stacking any secondary past about 25%. Crit is the exception since you start at 5% baseline, so aim for about 30% total Crit instead.
Weapon Traits
Due to the random nature of Weapon Traits, it can be a game of cat and mouse trying to get the ideal weapon tree. You have two offensive rows, two defensive rows, and a major capstone, with multiple options in each row for different pathing up the tree. With that in mind, you can start to see how gaining access to a “BiS” set-up might prove tricky. Don’t be afraid to use some materials to reroll Traits if you need to.
Below I’ll separate and list the ideal weapon traits for each type:
Master Traits
Heroic Brand when paired with Zeraleth's Scythe double dips on the healing output and helps you contribute significantly to single target damage. Emerald Judgement allows you to contribute massively to AoE CC and does a large amount of AoE damage in the process. Diamond Strike is really strong in combination with Kindling for both damage and healing, particularly on bosses.
Heroic Traits
Inspired Allegiance grants some Haste to yourself and allies but more importantly it reduces the cooldown of your weapon ability with each proc. Willful Momentum grants some flat Spirit and a % Intellect bonus on Spirit procs. This has a very high uptime. Kindling is a very strong single target dps increase and in combination with the Diamond Strike Master trait it’s very potent.
Defensive Traits
With the introduction of Ancestral Intervention and Against All Odds, you get some crazy value from Defensive traits now. Ancestral Intervention is a cheat death on a 5 minute cooldown, which is invaluable as a healer. Against All Odds is a very powerful damage reduction whenever a single hit would take you below 40% health. It has a very low cooldown effect. Lastly, King Of The Hill is a very consistent, high value defensive trait in most cases.
Gems & Gem Builds
The Gem system in Fellowship is fairly unique. You can obtain powerful gems to attach to sockets in your gear, which gives you Gem Power that enables different Gem Bonuses. There are multiple Gem sizes that provide you with more Gem Power. You can combine 3 of the same gem type and size using Gem Fusion (Master Craftsman Braggi NPC) to create a gem of the next size up.
It’s not worth noting that some socketed gear can additionally drop with a 35% gem power increase (100% for a Legendary). This makes it so you’ll want to prioritize socketing higher quality gems into these items. For example, Legendaries come with a 100% increased gem power socket, making it ideal for your larger gems.
Gem Types & Bonuses
The Gem types each follow a pattern of the type of bonus they provide, a simplification of the Gems is shown in the table below.
| Gem Type | Gem Bonus |
| Ruby | Main Stat / Boss Combat Buffs |
| Amethyst | Critical Strike |
| Topaz | Haste |
| Emerald | Expertise |
| Sapphire | Stats during Ultimate Ability |
| Diamond | All Secondary Stats |
Aeona Gem Priority
The following gem-set up is what I'd suggest for the late-game.
You can use Method’s Gem Calculator to play around with different configurations and create your own.