Blood Link

Witch skill · Blood line · tier 3

Beta 0.7.2

The scythe lodged in its chest opens a wound that will not close.

It is only used in combat once it is placed on the hero's active bar, and its 8 s cooldown is before cooldown reduction.

Values by rank

Blood Link scales with Bleed. Its value at each rank is 24.8 + 7.1 × rank:

Rank	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Value	31.9	39	46.1	53.2	60.3	67.4	74.5	81.6	88.7	95.8

The value is the game's internal number for this skill.

in combat = round(value × skill power × max(0.35, hero damage ÷ 600))
hero damage = Attack + all elemental damage
skill power = 1 + 1% per point in the other Blood skills + 2% per rank of each skill that boosts it

The damage factor has a minimum of 0.35 and no maximum. A hero with 600 damage and no line mastery or synergies gets the listed value; how it becomes damage or healing per hit depends on the skill's type and timing.

How to unlock it

1
Rank 5 in Life Drain Tier 1 of the Blood line.
2
Hero level 12 at the earliest There is no level requirement, but a hero gets one skill point every 2 levels.
3
One skill point per rankUp to rank 10.

Rank 5 in Blood Link opens Blood Burst.

Mastery and synergies

Line mastery: every point in the other Blood skills makes Blood Link 1% stronger, up to +40% with all of them at rank 10. Its own points do the same for the rest of the line.

Blood Link has no synergies: no skill boosts it and it boosts no other skill.

Blood line

Skill	Tier	Type	Cooldown	Scales with
Life Drain	1	Sustain	None	Lifesteal
Blood Flight	2	Buff	14 s	Haste
Blood Link	3	Damage over time	8 s	Bleed
Blood Burst	4	Direct damage	6 s	Chaos Damage
Blood Ritual	5	Ultimate	16 s	Lifesteal