Searing Bond

Searing BondTotem, Spell, Fire
Mana Cost: (18-51)
Cast Time: 1.00 secRequires Level 12Summons a totem that casts a beam of fire at you and each other totem you control, dealing burning damage to enemies caught in the beam. Enemies near either end of a beam also suffer burning damage.Per 1% Quality:
1% increased totem lifeTotem lasts 8 seconds
Deals (23.6-1755.6) Base Fire Damage per second
+1 to maximum number of Summoned Totems
Summons a Totem which uses the Supported Skill
Modifiers to Spell Damage apply to this Skill's Damage Over Time effectPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.Acquisition
Level: 12Purchase Costs

Normal

1x Orb of Transmutation

Sell Price
1x Scroll FragmentMiscellaneous
Item class: Active Skill Gems
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemSearingBond

Searing Bond 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, DespairDespairSpell, AoE, Duration, Curse, Chaos
Radius: 22
Mana Cost: (16-33)
Cast Time: 0.50 secRequires Level 24Curse all targets in an area, making them less resistant to chaos damage and causing them to take increased damage over time. Cursed enemies also take additional chaos damage when hit.Per 1% Quality:
Cursed enemies take 0.5% increased Damage from Damage Over Time effectsBase duration is (9-10.9) seconds
Cursed enemies have -(20-29)% to Chaos Resistance
Cursed enemies take (15-25)% increased Damage from Damage Over Time effects
Adds (9-46) to (12-57) Chaos Damage to Hits against Cursed Enemies
+(0-10) to radiusPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. 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 Fire Penetration SupportFire Penetration SupportFire, Support
Icon: V
Mana Multiplier: 140%Requires Level 31Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy fire resistance.Per 1% Quality:
Supported Skills deal 0.5% increased Fire DamageSupported Skills Penetrate (18-37)% Fire ResistanceThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Active Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket. which has no effect on Searing Bond damage, however it will benefit from other changes to monster resistance such as FlammabilityFlammabilitySpell, AoE, Duration, Curse, Fire
Radius: 22
Mana Cost: (24-50)
Cast Time: 0.50 secRequires Level 24Curses all targets in an area, making them less resistant to fire damage and giving them a chance to be ignited by fire damage.Per 1% Quality:
Ignite on Cursed enemies has 0.5% increased DurationBase duration is (9-10.9) seconds
Cursed enemies have -(25-44)% to Fire Resistance
Cursed enemies have +(10-14)% chance to be Ignited by Fire Damage
+(0-10) to radiusPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. 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 CommanderIron Commander
Death BowBow
Quality: +20%
Physical Damage: (33.6-38.4)–(82.8-92.4)
Critical Strike Chance: (6.50%-7.50%)
Attacks per Second: (1.37-1.44)
Weapon Range: 120Requires Level 32, 107 Dex(30-50)% increased Critical Strike ChanceAdds (8-12) to (16-24) Physical Damage
(14-20)% increased Attack Speed
(14-20)% increased Totem Life
(14-20)% increased Totem Placement speed
Siege Ballista has +1 to maximum number of Summoned Totems per 200 Dexterity
Adds 1 to 3 Physical Damage to Attacks per 25 DexterityThe Eternals commanded an army that need not eat, sleep, or breathe
without the usual depravities of necromancy. 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	23.6	0	0
2	15	25	17	19	31.4	15,249	15,249
3	19	30	21	20	44.8	41,517	56,766
4	23	35	24	21	62.8	81,983	138,749
5	27	41	28	23	86.8	147,968	286,717
6	31	46	32	25	118.4	250,557	537,274
7	35	51	36	27	160.1	405,086	942,360
8	38	55	38	29	199.6	447,718	1,390,078
9	41	59	41	31	247.9	615,318	2,005,396
10	44	63	44	33	306.8	834,639	2,840,035
11	47	67	47	35	378.5	1,570,760	4,410,795
12	50	71	49	37	465.6	1,633,987	6,044,782
13	53	75	52	39	571.5	2,151,030	8,195,812
14	56	79	55	40	699.7	2,812,189	11,008,001
15	59	83	58	42	854.9	5,099,360	16,107,361
16	62	87	60	44	1042.6	9,400,731	25,508,092
17	64	90	62	46	1189	15,273,366	40,781,458
18	66	92	64	48	1354.8	26,286,582	67,068,040
19	68	95	66	50	1542.8	62,890,590	129,958,630
20	70	98	68	51	1755.6	212,046,017	342,004,647
21	72	100	70	53	1996.6	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	N/A	53	2269.2	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	N/A	54	2577.7	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	N/A	56	2926.5	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	N/A	58	3320.7	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	N/A	59	3766.2	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	N/A	59	4269.4	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	N/A	61	4837.7	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	N/A	62	5479.2	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	N/A	62	6203.2	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	N/A	63	6599.3	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	N/A	64	7020	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	N/A	65	7466.9	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	N/A	65	7941.4	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	N/A	66	8445.2	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	N/A	67	8980.2	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	N/A	67	9548.3	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	N/A	68	10151.4	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	N/A	69	10791.7	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	N/A	70	11471.4	N/A	N/A

Item acquisition

Upgrade paths

This item can be acquired through the following upgrade paths or vendor recipes:

Amount	Ingredient	General Notes	Type
13	The CataclysmThe Cataclysm13Level 21 Spell Gem CorruptedThe mighty warriors traded in blows, the nimble archers in arrows, yet it was the brazen thaumaturgists who would bring catastrophe to all.	random corrupted level 21 Spell gem	Automatic
3	Gemcutter's PromiseGemcutter's Promise3Superior Gem Quality: +20%"I swore to use my position to help the people. What good is power when it just accumulates on the already-powerful?" - Erasmus, Imperial Gemcutter	random superior gem (Q20)	Automatic
6	The FoxThe Fox6Level 20 Gem"Masters of wit, strength and cunning. To survive the harsh winters, you must be like the fox." - Ezomyte Proverb	random level 20 gem	Automatic

Quest reward

This item is given as quest reward for the following quests:

Class →	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
Quest ↓
The Siren's Cadence Act 1	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓	✗

Vendor reward

This item can be bought at the listed npc vendors after completing the following quests:

Class →	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
Quest ↓
The Siren's Cadence Act 1 Nessa	✓	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓	✗
A Fixture of Fate Act 3 Siosa	✓
Fallen from Grace Act 6 Lilly Roth	✓

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Searing Bond.

Name		Stats	Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Searing Bond Damage 1	66	25% increased Searing Bond Damage	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Searing Bond Damage 2	75	40% increased Searing Bond Damage	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Searing Bond Totem Elemental Resistances 1	66	24% increased Searing Bond Totem Elemental Resistances	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Searing Bond Totem Elemental Resistances 2	75	36% increased Searing Bond Totem Elemental Resistances	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Searing Bond Totem Placement Speed 1	66	40% increased Searing Bond Totem Placement Speed	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Searing Bond Totem Placement Speed 2	75	60% increased Searing Bond Totem Placement Speed	helmet 100 default 0

Microtransactions

The list below shows microtransactions for Searing Bond.

Item	Effect(s)
Green Searing Bond EffectGreen Searing Bond EffectSearing Bond Skin Stack Size: 20Your Searing Bond beam becomes green.	Your Searing Bond beam becomes green.

Monster stats

Totem

Resistances:

• 40% elemental resistance
• 20% chaos resistance

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

Version history

Version	Changes
3.8.0	Modifiers to spell damage now apply to the damage over time effect.
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.