Searing Bond - Path of Exile

Searing Bond is an active skill gem.

Summons 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.

Spell, Totem, Fire. Level: 1–20. Cost: 18–51 Mana. Cast Time: 1.00 sec. Requires Level 12.

+1 to maximum number of Summoned Totems
Totem lasts 8 seconds
Deals (32.2–3899.6) Base Fire Damage per second
Modifiers to Spell Damage apply to this Skill"s Damage Over Time effect
Summons a Totem which uses this Skill

Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

Name	Additional Effects From Quality	Weight
Searing Bond	(0–20)% increased totem life	50

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Related Gems

Name	Additional Effects From Quality	Weight
Searing Bond	(0–20)% increased totem life	50
Anomalous Searing Bond	(0–40)% increased Totem Duration	100
Divergent Searing Bond	(0–20)% increased Damage	100
Phantasmal Searing Bond	+(0–2) to maximum number of Summoned Totems	50

Level Effect

Level	Requires Level	Strength	Intelligence	Cost	Deals 32.2 Base Fire Damage per second	Experience
1	12	21	14	18	32.2	15,249
2	15	25	17	19	43.9	41,517
3	19	30	21	20	64.8	81,983
4	23	35	24	21	94	147,968
5	27	41	28	23	134.3	250,557
6	31	46	32	25	189.5	405,086
7	35	51	36	27	264.9	447,718
8	38	55	38	29	338.7	615,318
9	41	59	41	31	431.4	834,639
10	44	63	44	33	547.5	1,570,760
11	47	67	47	35	692.8	1,633,987
12	50	71	49	37	874.1	2,151,030
13	53	75	52	39	1100.1	2,812,189
14	56	79	55	40	1381.5	5,099,360
15	59	83	58	42	1731.1	9,400,731
16	62	87	60	44	2165.1	15,273,366
17	64	90	62	46	2510.9	26,286,582
18	66	92	64	48	2909.8	62,890,590
19	68	95	66	50	3369.6	212,046,017
20	70	98	68	51	3899.6
21	72			53	4510.1
22	74			53	5213
23	76			54	6022.1
24	78			56	6953
25	80			58	8023.5
26	82			59	9254.4
27	84			59	10668.9
28	86			61	12294.1
29	88			62	14160.7
30	90			62	16303.8
31	91			63	17491.5
32	92			64	18763.8
33	93			65	20126.7
34	94			65	21586.6
35	95			66	23150.2
36	96			67	24824.8
37	97			67	26618.2
38	98			68	28538.6
39	99			69	30595
40	100			70	32796.7

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, Despair 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 Support 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 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.

Item acquisition

Searing Bond can drop anywhere. Drop level: 12.

Recipes

Searing Bond can be created from the following recipes:

Amount	Part	Description
13	The Cataclysm	Random corrupted level 21 Spell gem
6	The Fox	Random level 20 gem
8	Dying Anguish	Random level 19 gem with 19% alternative quality
8	The Hook	Random corrupted level 21 gem with 23% alternative quality
3	Gemcutter's Promise	Random gem with 20% quality
1	Gemcutter's Incubator	Random gem with 1–20% quality
1	The Void	Random divination card set exchange

Quest reward

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

Class →	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
Quest ↓	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
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 ↓	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
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	Level	Labyrinth	Stats	Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Searing Bond Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	25% increased Searing Bond Damage	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Searing Bond Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	40% increased Searing Bond Damage	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Searing Bond Totem Elemental Resistances 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	24% increased Searing Bond Totem Elemental Resistances	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Searing Bond Totem Elemental Resistances 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	36% increased Searing Bond Totem Elemental Resistances	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Searing Bond Totem Placement Speed 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	40% increased Searing Bond Totem Placement Speed	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Searing Bond Totem Placement Speed 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	60% increased Searing Bond Totem Placement Speed	helmet 100 default 0

Alternate skill effects

Searing Bond has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Effect(s)
Arcane Tome Totem Skin	Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes an Arcane Tome.
Darkshard Totem Skin	Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes a darkshard totem.
Dragon Totem Skin	Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes a golden dragon.
Eagle Guardian Totem Skin	Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes an eagle guardian.
Green Searing Bond Effect	Your Searing Bond beam becomes green.
Olmec Totem Skin	Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes a carved stone totem with two faces.
Pylon of Pain Totem Skin	Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes a Pylon of Pain.
Tiki Totem Skin	Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes a coloured totem that has carved tiki designs.
Twisted Skull Totem Skin	Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes a twisted skull totem.
Ziggurat Totem Skin	Your Spell or Ballista totem becomes an ancient ziggurat.