Summon Thorn Totem
Summons a totem that fires thorns at nearby enemies. You can have a maximum of two thorn totems by default.
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Totems scale with your minion or totem stats, not your stats.
Added minion spell damage applies at 100% effectiveness for the Thorns fired by the Thorn Totem.
Thorn totems have 120 base health and last 6 seconds by default.
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Skill tree: Summon Thorn Totem
The skill tree as it appears in game. A specialized skill gains one point per level up to level 20; the number on a connection shows how many points the previous node needs.
Hover or tap a node for its description. The number on a node is its maximum points.
All nodes as a list (24)
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Forested Expanse
max 4
You can have additional Thorn Totems active, but Summon Thorn Totem costs more mana.
- +1 Maximum Thorn Totems
- +25% Mana Cost
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Grove Mind
max 1
You summon your maximum number of Thorn Totems at once in a ring around the target location, but your maximum number of Thorn Totems is reduced and Summon Thorn Totem costs additional mana per additional totem summoned.
- Totems Summoned In Ring At Location
- -1 Maximum Thorn Totems
- +15 Mana Cost Per Additional Totem Summoned
Requires 3 points in Eternal Forest
Thorn totems that would be created in innaccessible locations are not created at all, but still increase the mana cost.
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Memories of Eterra
max 4
You regain mana when a Thorn Totem dies or is unsummoned.
- 3 Mana Gain
Requires 2 points in Totemic Wisdom or 2 points in Forested Expanse
You can only regain mana from Thorn Totems that were summoned directly.
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Totemic Wisdom
max 5
Summon Thorn Totem costs less mana.
- +15% Mana Efficiency
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Venom Tipped Thorns
max 4
Thorn Totem hits have a chance to poison enemies.
- +25% Poison Chance
Requires 2 points in Totemic Wisdom or Pillars of Heorot
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Rotten Core
max 1
When Thorn Totems die or are unsummoned they release a Poison Burst, which deals a small amount of physical spell damage on hit and inflicts poison.
Thorn Totem gains a Poison tag, but this does not affect the damage type of Thorn Totems' other abilities.- Poison Burst On Totem Death
Requires 3 points in Lasting Affliction
If you have the Pillars of Heorot node, 100% of Poison Burst's hit damage is converted to cold.
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Lasting Affliction
max 4
Poison and Frostbite inflicted by Thorn Totem last longer.
- +12% Poison Duration
- +12% Frostbite Duration
Requires 2 points in Venom Tipped Thorns
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Pillars of Heorot
max 1
Thorn Totem's thorns gain a chance to freeze and 100% of their base physical damage is converted to cold damage. Consequently its damage now scales with your totems' increases to cold damage instead of physical damage.
All poison chance is converted to frostbite chance for Thorn Totems.
Thorn Totems have additional cold resistance.- 100% Base Physical Damage -> Cold Damage
- Poison -> Frostbite
- 30 Freeze Rate
- +25% Cold Resistance
Requires Winterwood or Venom Tipped Thorns
Freeze rate grants a chance to freeze based on the enemy's health.
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Frost Attunement
max 1
Thorn Totem has a higher chance to freeze enemies, and a greater chance to freeze enemies for each point of Attunement you have.
- +25% Freeze Rate Multiplier
- +5% Freeze Rate Multiplier Per Point Of Attunement
Requires Pillars of Heorot
This scales with your attunement, not the attunement of your totems.
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Winterwood
max 5
Thorn Totem deals additional spell cold damage, including its own thorns.
- +4 Spell Cold Damage
Requires 2 points in On Astral Winds or Pillars of Heorot
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On Astral Winds
max 4
Thorn Totems deal more spell damage (multiplicative with other modifiers), but their projectiles travel more slowly.
- +25% Spell Damage
- -10% Projectile Speed
Requires Torrent of Thorns or 2 points in Winterwood
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Torrent of Thorns
max 3
Thorn Totems have a chance to release twice as many thorns with each burst.
- 7% Double Projectiles Chance
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Titan's Bane
max 1
Thorn Totems fire only one thorn with each burst, but they have massively increased cast speed, are more accurate with their thorns, and their thorns' hits deal more damage to rare enemies and bosses (multiplicative with other modifiers).
- Single Projectile
- 100% Increased Cast Speed
- +80% Accuracy
- +10% Thorn Hit Damage vs Rares and Bosses
Requires 2 points in Lethal Thicket
Torrent of Thorns can still double the number of thorns in each burst to 2.
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Spriggans' Wrath
max 4
Thorn Totem's thorns can pierce enemies up to a maximum
- 1 Maximum Enemies Pierced
Requires Titan's Bane
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Ancient Power
max 4
Thorn Totem deals more damage, but has less cast speed (both multiplicative with other modifiers).
- +25% Damage
- -5% Cast Speed
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Impale
max 3
Thorn Totem's thorns have a chance to deal double damage on hit.
- 17% Chance For Double Damage
Requires 2 points in Ancient Power or 2 points in Shred Armor
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Shred Armor
max 5
Thorn Totem hits have a chance to shred enemy armor.
- +20% Armor Shred Chance
Requires 2 points in Impale or 2 points in Winged Thorns
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Winged Thorns
max 3
Thorn Totem's thorns travel faster and farther.
- +20% Speed and Range
Requires 2 points in Frenetic Attunement or 2 points in Shred Armor
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Frenetic Attunement
max 3
You summon Thorn Totem faster and all Thorn Totems have increased cast speed.
- +10% Summoning Speed
- +3% Thorn Totem Cast Speed
Requires Oaken Protection or 2 points in Winged Thorns
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Oaken Protection
max 5
Thorn Totems have more health (multiplicative with other modifiers) and additional physical resistance.
- +20% Maximum Health
- +10% Physical Resistance
Requires 2 points in Ancient Power or Frenetic Attunement
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Guided Thorns
max 1
Thorn Totem's thorns now seek nearby targets, but Thorn Totem has less cast speed (multiplicative with other modifiers).
- Homing
- -20% Cast Speed
Requires 3 points in Oaken Protection
This doesn't change the fact that multiple thorns cannot hit the same target
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Eternal Forest
max 4
Thorn Totems last longer and have more health (multiplicative with other modifiers)
- +1 Duration (seconds)
- +15% Health
Requires 2 points in Forested Expanse
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Lethal Thicket
max 4
Thorn Totems have an increased critical strike chance and deal more damage (multiplicative with other modifiers).
- 50% Increased Crit Chance
- +5% Damage
Requires Torrent of Thorns
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Nightshade Briar
max 1
Thorn Totem's thorn hits deal more damage per stack of poison on the target (multiplicative with other modifiers) up to a maximum.
- +4% Hit Damage per Poison
- 80% Maximum Damage Bonus fixed
Requires 2 points in Lasting Affliction
At 20 or more stacks this grants 80% more hit damage.
If you have taken the Pillars of Heorot node, this node's effect depends on the number of Frostbite stacks on the target instead of the number of poison stacks.
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