Warband

For the league, see Warbands league.

Tiers

Warbands are sparated into 4 tiers. The tier of a zone determines what kind of monsters can spawn. Tier 4 allows for the thoughest warbands (the bosses) while Tier 1 only spawns the weakest.

The current tier of the zone can be found with two methods:

• it will be shown with small dots next to circle of the map (2 pairs of 1 dot for Tier 1, 2 pairs of 2 dots for Tier 2 and so on).
• there will be a message on the map modifiers such as ("Captured by the Binerot"); see the faction section below for details

Tier	Restrictions
1	Level 2+ Zones
2	Level 10+ Zones
3	Level 41+ Zones (Cruel+)
4	Level 56+ Zones (Merciless)

In addition to those restrictions, zone level will also affect the number of potential warbands can spawn from each tier. At lower levels you'll only see 2 warbands, where as on 68+ zones up to 6 warbands can spawn in total.

The tier will be determined by the number of warband kills in a zone; every 10 minutes (60 minutes for maps) the zones with the most warband kills will have their warbands removed, while new warbands will appear elsewhere in world increasing the strength of warbands in adjecent zones. Warbands will follow the regular world layout, for maps they follow a layout similar to the map upgrade path (File:Warbands map graph.pdf)

Factions

Warbands are separated into 4 faction each based on an element.

Element	Faction
Fire	Redblade
Cold	Mutewind
Lightning	Binerot
Chaos	Unknown/Unannounced

The faction of the enemies can generally be found out using the following techniques:

• looking at the map; the map icons will have appopinately themed icons (i.e. lightning, fire, ice)
• the mod in the upper right corner

Depending on the tier, the message on the upper right corner will change:

Tier	Faction	Message
1	Redblade	Redblade Scouts
2	Redblade	Redblade Raiders
3	Redblade	Redblade Fanatics
4	Redblade	Conquered by the Redblade
1	Mutewind	Mutewind Trackers
2	Mutewind	Mutewind Hunters
3	Mutewind	Mutewind Purifiers
4	Mutewind	Cleansed by the Mutewind
1	Brinerot	Brinerot Lookouts
2	Brinerot	Brinerot Pillagers
3	Brinerot	Brinerot Buccaneers
4	Brinerot	Captured by the Brinerot

Warbands Members

Name	Faction	Tier	Variations	Skills
Redblade Skullbreaker	Redblade	1	6
Redblade Flamelord	Redblade	2	4
Redblade Warmonger	Redblade	3	4
Uruk Baleh	Redblade	4	N/A
El'Abin, Bloodeater	Redblade	4	N/A
Leli Goya, Daughter of Ash	Redblade	4	N/A
Bin'aia, Crimson Rain	Redblade	4	N/A	Skills: Flameblast Vaal Flameblast Molten Shell
Mutewind Wildrunner	Mutewind	1	7
Mutewind Lynx	Mutewind	1	1
Mutewind Hexbinder	Mutewind	2	4
Mutewind Snow-singer	Mutewind	3	4
Yorishi, Aurora-sage	Mutewind	4	N/A
Jeinei Yuushu	Mutewind	4	N/A
Otesha, the Giantslayer	Mutewind	4	N/A
Brinerot Raider	Brinerot	1	6
Brinerot Soothesayer	Brinerot	2	4
Brinerot Stormhand	Brinerot	3	3
Musky "Two-Eyes" Grenn	Brinerot	4	N/A	Skills: Spark Lightning Wrap
Susara, Siren of Pondium	Brinerot	4	N/A
Lussi "Rotmother" Roth	Brinerot	4	N/A
Rama, The Kinslayer	(Chaos)	?	N/A
Kalria, The Fallen	(Chaos)	?	N/A
Invari, The Bloodshaper	(Chaos)	?	N/A
Lokan, The Deceiver	(Chaos)	?	N/A
Marchak, The Betrayer	(Chaos)	?	N/A
Berrots, The Breaker	(Chaos)	?	N/A
Vessider, The Unrivaled	(Chaos)	?	N/A
Morgrants, The Defeaning	(Chaos)	?	N/A

Version History

Version	Changes
2.0.0f	Fixed a bug where Warbands in Maps were using location information from Merciless instead of the correct Map information. For more information about how Warbands works, read this Development Manifesto post about it.
2.0.0g	There are now more fourth-tier Warbands throughout Merciless and Maps. Increased the experience gained and the amount of items dropped by Warbands Grunts by 60% and Warbands Elites by 50%. Warbands in Maps now change every hour rather than every half-hour, giving more opportunity to kill good ones. The Chaos Leaders will rise up against the Warbands in content update 2.0.1.