Warband

For the league, see Warbands league.

Warbands are elemental-themed unique packs of monsters. They were originally introducted during the Warbands league but were not added to the core game when the league ended. Warbands are still available through other means, such as Zana's map device, prophecies, certain Delve nodes, and certain maps such as , , and .

Tiers

This section addresses how Warbands functioned in the original Warbands league. This is not applicable on the current leagues.

Warbands Map Graph

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

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

• it would 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 was a message on the map modifiers such as ("Captured by the Brinerot"); see the faction section below for details

Tier	Restrictions
1	Level 2+ Zones (Zones may have two dots, but it doesn't seem like Tier 2 units will spawn)
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. Chaos Renegades, the fourth Warband faction, are hostile to both other Warbands and to exiles. They can only spawn in tier 4 map areas.

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 (see the graph).

Factions

Warbands are separated into four factions, each based on a damage type.

Element	Faction	Home Map
Fire	Redblade
Cold	Mutewind
Lightning	Brinerot
Chaos	Renegades

In the Warbands league, an enemy's faction could generally be found using the following techniques:

• looking at the map; the map icons will have appropriately 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 would 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	Cyclone Firestorm Molten Strike Charged Explosion
El'Abin, Bloodeater	Redblade	4	N/A	Reave Flicker Strike Enrage Fire Elemental Cone Fire Nova Mine Flame Cascade (?)
Leli Goya, Daughter of Ash	Redblade	4	N/A	Magma Orb Magma Orb Nova Summon Flame Golem Summon Magma Elementals
Bin'aia, Crimson Rain	Redblade	4	N/A	Flameblast Vaal Flameblast Discharge Enduring Cry Flame Dash Summon Flame Golem
Mutewind Wildrunner	Mutewind	1	7
Mutewind Lynx	Mutewind	1	1
Mutewind Hexbinder	Mutewind	2	4
Mutewind Snow-singer	Mutewind	3	4	* Freezing Pulse
Yorishi, Aurora-sage	Mutewind	4	N/A	Hatred Ice Crash Leap Slam Vaal Glacial Hammer Ice Storm Call Arctic Breath
Jeinei Yuushu	Mutewind	4	N/A	Hatred Arctic Armour Tornado Shot Barrage Blink Arrow Mirror Arrow Smoke Mine Summon Ice Golem Bearers of Frost explosions
Otesha, the Giantslayer	Mutewind	4	N/A	Hatred Blood Rage Whirling Blades Spectral Throw Flicker Strike Frenzy Dual Strike Double Strike Cold Snap Icestorm Smoke Mine
Brinerot Raider	Brinerot	1	6
Brinerot Soothesayer	Brinerot	2	4
Brinerot Stormhand	Brinerot	3	3
Musky "Two-Eyes" Grenn	Brinerot	4	N/A	Wrath Tempest Shield Shock Nova Lightning Strike Lightning Warp
Susara, Siren of Pondium	Brinerot	4	N/A	Discipline Lightning Warp Storm Call Lightning Tendrils Lightning Trap
Lussi "Rotmother" Roth	Brinerot	4	N/A	Lightning Vaal Fireball Storm Herald Lightning Warp
Rama, The Kinslayer	Renegades	4	N/A	Determination Summon Minions Immortal Call Vulnerability Cyclone
Kalria, The Risen/ Kalria, The Fallen	Renegades	4	N/A	Enfeeble Lightning Warp
Invari, The Bloodshaper	Renegades	4	N/A	Extra Gore Glacial Cascade Haste Whirling Blades Enfeeble
Lokan, The Deceiver	Renegades	4	N/A	Fast Attacks Ethereal Knives Smoke Mine
Marchak, The Betrayer	Renegades	4	N/A	Animated Weapons Fire Trap Caustic Cloud Trap
Berrots, The Breaker	Renegades	4	N/A	Independent Searing Bond Minions Caustic Cloud Trap Ice Trap
Vessider, The Unrivaled	Renegades	4	N/A	Summon Undead Desecrate
Morgrants, The Deafening	Renegades	4	N/A	Seraph Spectral Throw Cast on Hit Lightning/Ice/Fire Storm Call

Items

Any type of Warband member can drop items with special new magic mods or the unique shields. Tier three/four members can drop the unique boots. Tier four members can drop the unique rings.

Warbands mods

These item affixes only appear on magic items of the correct item type that drop from the respective Warband members. The item drops pre-identified. All Warband mods are prefixes.

• Brinerot: (gloves)
• Mutewind: (boots)
• Redblade: 10% of Physical Damage taken as Fire Damage (helmets)
• Renegades:
  • Betrayer's: Damage Penetrates (6 to 10)% Fire Resistance (weapons)
  • Deceiver's: Damage Penetrates (6 to 10)% Cold Resistance (weapons)
  • Turncoat's: Damage Penetrates (6 to 10)% Lightning Resistance (weapons)

List of unique items

Main page: List of warband uniques

Version history

Version	Changes
2.4.2	Warbands members now drop their signature items already identified.
2.0.4	The rate of spawning Warbands has been increased. It's now up to twice as high in some cases (such as leaders and Chaos Warbands).
2.0.1	Introduced the Chaos Warband Renegades. Added three new Unique Items and some new weapon mods that can drop from the new Warband Renegades. Warbands no longer leave footprints behind them.
2.0.0f	Fixed a bug where Warbands in Maps were using location information from Merciless instead of the correct Map information.
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.
2.0.0	Introduced to the game.