Quick Facts

Screenshots

Videos

Spirit Bond

Spirit Bond
Requires Hunter
Requires level 45

While your pet is active, you and your pet will regenerate 2% of total health every 2 sec.

Spell Details

Duration

n/a

School

Nature

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Mod Stat (Spirit)
Value: 1

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Dummy (127)
Value: 10
Server-side script

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Mod Stat (Spirit)
Value: -1

Flags

Guides

Hunter DPS Guide
(Beast Mastery,
Marksmanship, Survival)

Hunter Pet Tanking

Warlords of Draenor
Hunter Changes

Comments

Comment by Ashkb

is it really every 2 sec in the beta because that is a little oped.

Comment by McLockhart

This post was made with soloing old raids in mind. I realize that this talent may have other uses, but other users could probably contribute way better than me when it comes to PvP for instance.

Unlike its counterparts from Cataclysm and earlier this talent no longer increase the healing done to you and your pet by 10 %. However the 2 % health every 2 seconds is now way better than earlier when it was 2 % health every 10 seconds.
Should you compare it to the talent in the same tier, Exhilaration, this talent allows you to regenerate the same heal over a period of 30 seconds. And unlike Exhilaration it does not have a 180 second cooldown but it isn't instant.

A good choice of glyph to use with this talent would probably be Charred Glyph.

Combining this amount of passive healing with the signature shot of Marksmanship, Chimaera Shot, your health will most likely stay high in most raids. Examples would be soloing Malygos in The Eye of Eternity where Survival specs to my experience have a harder time surviving at level 85 soloing.

Comment by doubleclick777

You can use spirit mend while stampede is on and you get 5x spirit mends, but this spell wont stack on stampede

Comment by Guggaman

I found out that the companion Wanderer's Festival Hatchling acts as a pet for this ability, giving both you and the minipet the Spirit Bond buff. Which means that if the hunter's pet would die in battle, you (the hunter) would still be affected by this buff if you had Wanderer's Festival Hatchling summoned.

This is probably a bug in the game and will surely get an adressed fix soon.

Comment by Oblite

Thought that I would give my two pence to anybody who wanted it.

While leveling my hunter, I struggled to choose between Iron Hawk and Spirit Bond.

I did a bit of number crunching, This is what i came up with;

100,000/100 = 1,000.
1,000 * 3 = 3,000 (Spirit Bond Heal)
3,000/10(Aspect of the iron hawk) = 300.

300 * 100 = 30,000. (Amount you're being hit for)

(Replace the 100,000 with your health.) if you are being hit for more then the number above, Aspect of the iron hawk should displace more damage then Spirit bond.

If you are being hit for less than the number, Then Spirit bond can be more useful.

If this helped even one person, :') Epic.

Edit: Skills changed, Calculations changed to suit. .. (Before patch 5.4, I worked out 13,350 to be the number to beat. This has been improved upon significantly and makes Spirit Bond more appealing)

Comment by gkwardog

dose anyone know if glyph of the animal bond would work with spirit bond so would work out to be 13% healing done ever 2 secs? or am i crazy lol

Comment by CodeDmitry

Makes affliction warlocks sad.

Comment by myrkat

For those wondering about taking
Spirit Bond vs. Exhilaration
Healing Over Time
(as of 6.0.3)

Minutes of Encounter: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Spirit Bond (both): 0% 60% 120% 180% 240% 300% 360% 420% 480% 540%
Exhilaration (pet): 100% 0% 0% 200% 0% 0% 300% 0% 0% 400%
Exhilaration (you): 22% 0% 0% 44% 0% 0% 66% 0% 0% 88%

Assuming healing is needed immediately (minute zero) and without any healing or haste buffs; Exhilaration on a 2-minute cool-down (and requires 1 GCD to activate each time).

Basically for encounters lasting longer than 3 minutes, Animal Bond appears a better choice - not only that, but it's a passive (which is always a plus) and heals BOTH of you for that amount. Of course, if burst healing is needed less than every two minutes, and sacrificing one GCD is not an issue, than Exhilaration may be the better choice.

Also note that Glyph of Animal Bond does not appear to affect either talent, unfortunately (need confirmation on this).

Spirit Bond

Buff

Spell Details

Guides

Related

Contribute