Searing Bond

Searing Bond is a spell skill that summons a totem that creates fiery beams between the caster and each other totem under their control. The beams deal fire damage over time to enemies touching it. Totem range is 100.

Skill Functions and Interactions
The beams will only link between adjacent totems and the caster if they are within a certain range from each other. If a pair of totems are placed too far apart, or the caster moves too far away from a totem, or the path of a beam is obstructed by something like a wall—those links will be broken.

Fire damage dealt over time by the beams is considered burning damage, and therefore benefits from increased burning damage modifiers. The damage of the beams is also affected by increased fire, elemental, and totem damage passives, as well as damage over time and spell damage modifiers.

Searing Bond does not hit, so "on hit" and "on crit" effects never apply. This includes which has no effect on Searing Bond damage, however it will benefit from other changes to monster resistance such as  and Elemental Equilibrium.

The additional totem provided by the skill increases the maximum number of Searing Bond totems, it does not stack with similar totem limit increases of other totem types. Only the highest number of the totems of one type counts as the global maximum number of summoned totems.

For example, taking an Ancestral Bond keystone increases the maximum number of Searing Bond totems to 3, and using an with 400 dexterity will allow you to summon 4 Siege Ballistas. Maximum number of totems in this case will be 4 (the highest of a single totem type), and only 3 of them can be Searing Totems. Attempting to summon a Searing Bond with 4 Ballistas out will desummon one Ballista.

Version history

 * Now deals 29.4 fire damage per second at gem level 1 (from 23.6), up to 2459.5 fire damage per second at gem level 20 (from 1755.6).


 * Now has alternative gem quality.


 * Modifiers to spell damage now apply to the damage over time effect.


 * Damage has been increased by 10%. It now grants an additional totem without drawbacks.


 * Skill duration reduced to 8 seconds.
 * Now increases totem life by 1% per 1% quality (was 3% per 1% quality).


 * Damage at all levels has been reduced by 18%.


 * Reduced the damage of Searing Bond (by 28% at gem level 1, tapering to no change at gem level 20). Because most support gems don't affect Searing Bond, it's still quite powerful, especially when socketed in items that grant additional gem levels.


 * Adjusted the PVP scaling of Righteous Fire and Searing Bond. These have only been conservatively adjusted. A more thorough adjustment to PVP scaling of skills will be ongoing throughout 1.1.x.


 * Searing Bond no longer stacks damage from multiple beams. The damage of Searing Bond has been increased by around 400%.


 * Mana cost reduced.


 * Increased its damage and made it more likely to hit monsters standing quite close to the totem.


 * Fixed a crash with Searing Bond when used with other totems.


 * Searing Bond has been added to the game.
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