Solar Creeper

Besides providing mana, this vine can be used to clear enemy corpses, so they cannot be resurrected.

Patch 2.4

Blizzard wrote:

Solar Creeper

• Min Life and Max Life values are averaged to always be the same, accurate to the tooltip

• Mana recovery has been reworked to be +3% Mana baseline with +1% Mana per level, instead of using a diminishing calculation ranging from 1%-8%

The description of this skill is somewhat misleading, as it shares its wording - but not its effect - with

Warmth and

Meditation.

Whereas

Warmth and

Meditation increase the rate that mana naturally repleneshes from the baseline of 0.83% of the character's maximum mana per second,

Solar Creeper refills the indicated percentage of the character's maximum mana whenever the vine consumes a corpse.

To elaborate, a slvl 1

Warmth - which provides " mana recovery rate: +30%" - would increase the natural rate of mana regeneration to 1.083% of the character's maximum mana per second.

By contrast, a slvl 27

Solar Creeper - which also purports to provide " mana recovery rate: +30%" - would return 30% of the caster's mana each time a corpse is consumed.

With the Insight Runeword providing an almost endless source of Mana, this vine probably isn't worth investing in.