Ok, so… maybe I was wrong here, and BM Hunters aren’t fucked up the ass. Because Spirit Bond still exists.. but has been moved to the BM Artifact Weapon; Titanstrike. I also have a second pet, giving me two pets in combat. 🙂
So let me explain what lead up to this. I was leveling my Monk as usual, and I kept noticing the number of low level Hunters running around with their pets. Puzzled me quite a lot. But what made me go “WTF” was seeing a Level 103 Hunter with their pet. I tried to ask “how are you surviving”, but never got a response.
Made a thread to ask, what the hell is up with all of these Hunters. Plus telling them what I was told, that if you went Marksman, you’d lose your pet.
The responses were typically unhelpful…except one, who says the artifact weapon uses Kill Command to heal the player of a percentage of its damage. Also mentions that I “would get it early on”.
That helped boost confidence in me to try once again, and it’s a good thing I did. And to spare what happened to start the Legion questline, I’m just going to say that I’m currently in Stormheim trying to survive the best I can. The quests make very little sense to me, but I don’t care as long as they get me to Level 110.
Seems I’m going to need over 300 Artifact Power to unlock this new form of Spirit Bond. Kind of clueless on how to get more power; never gets explained in the game. With that being said, I don’t know how I’m going to get it “early on” as that person claimed in that response.
But from what I’ve seen so far, they’re found in Treasure Chests and by completing major quests. And the way I’ve seen it work, the bar has to be filled and moved over to the next level before I’m allowed to get another ability added to my weapon. First time it’s 300, then 375 and so on, and this gets longer and longer.
I have yet to see why I’m even collecting Honor Resources. I heard that it’s supposed to give more artifact power (probably after a certain time).