spirit bond?is it worth it?Follow

When you go past 2k rating, you start getting longer and longer fights. High healthpools like any high rated PvPer also improves Spirit Bond's uses. Let's take 14k health as an arbitrary value for his health pool. That's 280 health every 10 seconds. Through a minute of fighting, this translates to 1480 health per minute. Now add in the armor and resilience of a PvP geared Hunter and you can see that this will make a valuable contribution to a long fight.

Now, for anyone in the lower ranks (1800 and lower) or for anyone that mostly PvE's, Spirit Bond isn't worth it at all. In shorter fights, those two points will be better spent in either Health Pool talents or Damage talents. In PvE, a bandage will be enough to make SB useless. For a raider, Spirit Bond is laughably poor as talents go, because you really want to focus purely on damage.

So for higher end PvP (arena, that is) you want to consider Spirit Bond. For anything else, skip it entirely.

Yeah, I personally wouldn't specc Spirit Bond at all, no matter my rating/health pool. But for some people it is a decent talent, if their playstyle and skill is suited for it.

But that is also the only place Spirit Bond has a place in any Hunter build.

I'd be surprised if many high rating hunters actually pvp with a BM spec. I suppose in 2v2 it might be viable but I always thought in the end MM won out. At any rate, I haven't pvp'd enough on my hunter to get to that point.

Spirit bond is the biggest waste of a talent point or two. Its useless in every way possible even leveling up. Bandaging should be used if needed, hunters can grind all day you should not get hit only your pet. spec imp mend pet and heal him forever good game. Animal Handler is a way better way to spend your talents.

I would have to pretty much agree, however it was not always that case. Back in the good old day its PVE applicability was actually fairly helpful. This was before they introduced your pet being dismissed whilst you mounted....

God I miss the days of riding along with my pet running at my side... : (

Anyways, so previously this skill was ticking all the time, even while riding from mob to mob, place to place. It really helped reduce the amount of down time one had to top up your health. Now however, practically nerfed.