Searing Bond

Searing Bond summons a totem that creates fiery beams between the caster and each other totem he controls. The beams continuously cause fire damage to enemies that pass through them and enemies that stand too close to you or the totem. 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 modifiers. However increased spell damage modifiers do not.

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 Flammability 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 Iron Commander bow 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.

Gem level progression

Level				Mana Cost	Fire Damage per sec	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	12	21	14	18	N/A	0	0
2	15	25	17	19	N/A	15249	15249
3	19	30	21	20	N/A	41517	56766
4	23	35	24	21	N/A	81983	138749
5	27	41	28	23	N/A	147968	286717
6	31	46	32	25	N/A	250557	537274
7	35	51	36	27	N/A	405086	942360
8	38	55	38	29	N/A	447718	1390078
9	41	59	41	31	N/A	615318	2005396
10	44	63	44	33	N/A	834639	2840035
11	47	67	47	35	N/A	1570760	4410795
12	50	71	49	37	N/A	1633987	6044782
13	53	75	52	39	N/A	2151030	8195812
14	56	79	55	40	N/A	2812189	11008001
15	59	83	58	42	N/A	5099360	16107361
16	62	87	60	44	N/A	9400731	25508092
17	64	90	62	46	N/A	15273366	40781458
18	66	92	64	48	N/A	26286582	67068040
19	68	95	66	50	N/A	62890590	129958630
20	70	98	68	51	N/A	212046017	342004647
21	72	100	70	53	N/A	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	N/A	53	N/A	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	N/A	54	N/A	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	N/A	56	N/A	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	N/A	58	N/A	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	N/A	59	N/A	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	N/A	59	N/A	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	N/A	61	N/A	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	N/A	62	N/A	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	N/A	62	N/A	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	N/A	63	N/A	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	N/A	64	N/A	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	N/A	65	N/A	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	N/A	65	N/A	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	N/A	66	N/A	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	N/A	67	N/A	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	N/A	67	N/A	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	N/A	68	N/A	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	N/A	69	N/A	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	N/A	70	N/A	N/A	N/A

Alternate skill effects

Name	Cost	Description
Green Searing Bond EffectGreen Searing Bond EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Searing Bond beam becomes green.	25	Replaces the standard effect on a gem with a green beam. Preview

Monster stats

Totem

Resistances:

• Normal: {{#ask: Monster resistances#MinionTotem|?Has lightning resistance in normal difficulty|?Has cold resistance in normal difficulty|?Has fire resistance in normal difficulty|?Has chaos resistance in normal difficulty|format=template|template=SMW resistance row|mainlabel=-}}
• Cruel: {{#ask: Monster resistances#MinionTotem|?Has lightning resistance in cruel difficulty|?Has cold resistance in cruel difficulty|?Has fire resistance in cruel difficulty|?Has chaos resistance in cruel difficulty|format=template|template=SMW resistance row|mainlabel=-}}
• Merciless: {{#ask: Monster resistances#MinionTotem|?Has lightning resistance in merciless difficulty|?Has cold resistance in merciless difficulty|?Has fire resistance in merciless difficulty|?Has chaos resistance in merciless difficulty|format=template|template=SMW resistance row|mainlabel=-}}

Level	Life
12	161
15	208
19	288
23	385
27	502
31	652
35	832
38	990
41	1178
44	1393
47	1643
50	1928
53	2260
56	2643
59	3081
62	3583
64	3957
66	4368
68	4821
70	5312
72	5853
74	6444
76	7088
78	7793
80	8564
82	9405
84	10322
86	11327
88	12421
90	13615

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Searing Bond.

Note that helmet enchantments are no longer obtainable since version 3.23.0 and can only be obtained in permanent leagues as already enchanted items from before this patch.

Name		Labyrinth	Stats	Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Searing Bond Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	25% increased Searing Bond Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Searing Bond Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	40% increased Searing Bond Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Searing Bond Totem Elemental Resistances 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	24% increased Searing Bond Totem Elemental Resistances	helmet 100
Enchantment Searing Bond Totem Elemental Resistances 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	36% increased Searing Bond Totem Elemental Resistances	helmet 100
Enchantment Searing Bond Totem Placement Speed 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	40% increased Searing Bond Totem Placement Speed	helmet 100
Enchantment Searing Bond Totem Placement Speed 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	60% increased Searing Bond Totem Placement Speed	helmet 100

Version history

Version	Changes
2.1.0	Damage has been increased by 10%. It now grants an additional totem without drawbacks.
2.0.0	Skill duration reduced to 8 seconds. Now increases totem life by 1% per 1% quality (was 3% per 1% quality).
1.2.0	Damage at all levels has been reduced by 18%.
1.1.0e	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.
1.1.0	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.
1.0.5	Searing Bond no longer stacks damage from multiple beams. The damage of Searing Bond has been increased by around 400%.
1.0.0	Mana cost reduced.
0.11.3	Increased its damage and made it more likely to hit monsters standing quite close to the totem.
0.11.0f	Fixed a crash with Searing Bond when used with other totems.
0.10.6	Searing Bond has been added to the game.