Solar Creeper

Summon a vine that eats corpses and replenishes your mana.

Solar Creeper is the Druid's level 24 vine (Summoning tree), requiring Carrion Vine; it unlocks nothing. The table calls the skill "Vines" and the summon "vinecreature". It is the mana twin of Carrion Vine: a single summon that follows you underground, eats the corpses around it, and returns a share of your maximum mana for each: 4% at level 1, 23% at level 20, one percent more a level with no cap in the row.

The numbers

• Mana Recovery Rate is Param5 (4, "Manasteal % baseline") plus Param6 (1) a level. The row's comments say both must match the VineCycler row's Param1 and Param2: the vine casts a separate "VineCycler" skill (sumskill2) at the Solar Creeper level, and this row's copy of the numbers is what the tooltip prints.
• Mana to cast is 14 at level 1 and +1 a level (lvlmana): 33 at level 20.
• The vine's life is calc1 = Param3 (20) × (lvl − 1), as a percentage over the base; the Basin's D2R table prints 165 at level 1 and 792 at level 20. Its level is calc2 = ¾ of your character level + the skill level.

The recovery line reads lvl, so +skills from items raise it: 33% at level 30.

The Basin's page records the older value for comparison: in the 1.10–1.13 era the return was min(1 + [7 × [110 × lvl ÷ (lvl + 6)] ÷ 100], 8), 2% at level 1 and 6% at level 20, so the current straight line of 3 + slvl is almost four times it at 20.

How it works

The vine moves at a walk (the Basin lists velocity 7) and consumes corpses within a 6⅔-yard radius of itself; each corpse returns the percentage of the caster's maximum mana, per the Basin. The vine also has "Vine Attack" (sumskill1) at its own level, with no damage columns in this row. The return is a share of maximum mana, so it grows with Mana from gear and energy, and it is independent of Regenerate Mana and Mana after each Kill, which it stacks with.

What the vine is not: the Basin says it cannot be damaged while underground, auras, buffs and debuffs do not apply to it, Knockback does not apply and it cannot be put into hit recovery. Its drain effectiveness is 0%. The row carries no damage, no poison and no synergy.

Only one of Poison Creeper, Carrion Vine or Solar Creeper can be out at a time; summoning another vine dispels the one you have.

Synergies and +skills

No synergies: Solar Creeper neither gives nor receives one. The only lever is the skill's level, which +skills from items raise.

Against players

Solar Creeper never touches a player; it eats corpses and restores your mana. See Player versus Player for how your own hits are cut, and note that a duel produces no corpses for it until something dies.

Build notes

• One hard point is 4% of maximum mana per corpse; each further point adds one percent, so most builds take the point for the prerequisite chain and let +skills raise it.
• Its cast cost climbs to 33 at level 20, the highest of the three vines, but it is paid back by the first corpse on any pool above 150 mana.
• The vine competes with Carrion Vine for the same slot: life or mana, not both.