Vines

[Nebuul]

Hail Lurkers,

A few people have mentioned how good Solar Creaper is for Elemental Druids. How many of you have really played the style before? I would be surprised if you have ever played one far and would say that. I have an all Vitality, no (added) Energy one who has NEVER run out of mana (well, perhaps VERY early on, but long before Solar Creaper is even available).

My elemental druid kicked serious tail, man. He had no points invested in anything except like str 45. The rest was all vitality. His primary purpose was PVP. In pvp games, he would use his poison vine just to freak people out. All 3 vines just had 1 point invested.

He would use oak sage, which was constantly being recast so that it wouldn't slow down monsters by them stopping to attack it. That ate quite a chunk of mana.

In addition, his skills were all level 42+, and he used:

Fissure
Volcano
Moulten Boulder (only level 23)
Armageddon (pvp only vs. certain builds, level 30-ish)
(if I remember correctly, most if not all of those had static mana costs where they didn't actually increase w/skill level, but I'm not certain anymore it's been awhile)

Solar Creeper was a huge help. He had tons of fast cast (enough so that he could catch running characters with his volcano and get them stuck on it -- note that volcano doesn't start doing damage until the END of the casting animation), but no +mana per kill. Granted, with 2 soj's and some other nice items, he had a lot of mana, but eventually he would run out. With solar creeper, he never ran out.