FIELD GUIDE 01 · BEGINNERS
Wandering Bands beginner guide: build your first band
At a glance
- Class families
- Footman, Archer, Mage and Rogue each have their own promotion path
- Recruit
- Read each recruit’s skills in the Tavern before choosing
- Before departure
- Check equipment and class restrictions
- Watch for
- Change one choice at a time; one result does not prove a setup works everywhere
In this guide · 6 sections
To build your first band in Wandering Bands, compare recruits in the Tavern, read their skills and check their equipment before choosing a dungeon. Review what happens on the journey, then change one choice for another attempt. Keep the destination fixed so you can compare your next attempt.
Compare the four class families
Wandering Bands starts with Footman, Archer, Mage and Rogue class families. Each has its own promotion path. Footman advances to Man-at-Arms before branching into Sergeant or Shield Sergeant. Read each branch’s skills before committing to it.
Read recruits before choosing
Recruit adventurers in the Tavern. Read each recruit’s active and passive skills before deciding who joins your roster. Ask what the band needs: protection, damage or support. A class name alone does not explain every skill on that adventurer.
Check equipment before departure
Inspect each adventurer’s details, then check equipment and class restrictions. Read an item’s effect as well as its primary stats. Keep a useful alternative when it addresses a different weakness.
Review one journey at a time
- Choose an available dungeon and note the classes and equipment you send.
- Review which adventurer falls first and whether the band finishes.
- Try one defensive change if someone falls early, or one damage change if the band survives but struggles to finish.
- Attempt the same destination again before changing another choice.
These are questions to investigate, not a promise that a change will win. One result does not prove a setup works everywhere.
Leave room for discovery
Read the descriptions and conversations you encounter. Wandering Bands hides references in its world; noticing something familiar is part of the adventure. This guide leaves those discoveries to you.
What next
Use the band composition guide to investigate survival, damage and equipment choices. Before changing devices, read the cloud-save guide.
