Playing Together: Multiplayer Guide

Aetheria rewards company. This guide covers every way to hunt, trade, and coordinate with other players — from a two-person party to a full guild war.

Parties: The Core of Group Play

• Invite a nearby player to form a party; they can accept or decline.
• The leader can toggle Shared XP — kill XP is distributed among members in range, each modified by their own Animus Mastery and marriage bonuses.
• Every party gets a private chat channel automatically.
• Party positions broadcast about once per second: members appear as dots on your minimap, even across floors.
• Party members cannot attack each other on PvP worlds.

Spectating

• Right-click a party member in the battle list and choose Spectate to watch through their eyes.
• You see their full viewport — map, creatures, combat, speech — but never their private windows (inventory, mail, market, dialogs).
• Spectating is read-only: you can chat and inspect, but not move, fight, or trade.
• The target always sees the names of everyone watching. Sessions end on logout.

Finding People to Play With

• Team Finder — post or browse LFG listings by activity type and level range.
• Taskboard — take on community-posted tasks for gold held in escrow.
• VIP List — track friends' online status and organize them into groups.
• Live Map Share — opt in to show your position on the portal's live world map so friends can find you.

Guilds

• Create a guild, manage three ranks (Member, Vice-Leader, Leader), and set a MOTD.
• Guild Wars — declare war on rivals; first to the kill cap wins.
• Guild Trials — weekly competition for Trial Points and the Aetherian Crown.
• Faction Allegiance — the leader can align the guild with one of the 10 factions.

Trading & Commerce

• Player Trading — face-to-face secure trades.
• Market / Grand Exchange — asynchronous offers with auto-matching and a 2% Forge Coffer tax.
• Price alerts — up to 20 watchlist rules that toast you when prices cross your threshold.
• Mail — send items and gold to offline players.

Group Content

• Group Activities — dungeons and encounters designed for parties, with mechanics that can't be soloed.
• Soulpit Arena — race-based arena fights feeding Animus Mastery.
• Guild Trials & Event Standings — compete on live leaderboards during scoring events.