Enemy
The Rotwood Ancient
God of the Wild Growth
- Boss
- Act 1
- Melee
Act Boss
Elderhusk held the office of the Wild Growth when the Skyroot was young and green, and grew forests for the realms below. When the wheel was nailed his roots went on searching, and on this mountain they found only graves, so graves are what he grows on. He sends bramble surges through a band, smothers it in spore clouds and raises creepers from fallen climbers. His canopy is the darkest place on the root.
All that climbs must take root. Feed the barrow.
Level 1 to 36
Attributes
Health (HP)- 3500 9450
- 9450 at level 36 +5,950 from level 1
Mana- 1000 2225
- 2225 at level 36 +1,225 from level 1
Attack (ATK)- 72 219
- 219 at level 36 +147 from level 1
Armor- 45 101
- 101 at level 36 +56 from level 1
Magic Resist- 35 70
- 70 at level 36 +35 from level 1
Attack Speed- 0.8 1.22
- 1.22 at level 36 +0.42 from level 1
Move Speed- 2.8 m/s 2.8 m/s
- Fixed Fixed
Attack Range- 1.8 m 1.8 m
- Fixed Fixed
5 skills
Skills
Skill I
Bramble Surge
Active 
AoE
CC
- Cooldown
- 8s
- Cost
- 70 mana
- Cooldown
- 8s
- Cost
- 70 mana
105 physical damage within 3.5m and a 1.5s root.
367.5 physical damage within 3.5m and a 1.5s root.
Bound to the divine office of Wild Growth, Elderhusk channels the ancient hunger that once shaped vast primeval forests across the low realms. The towering rotten treant slams his gnarled wooden fist into the frozen turf, cracking the mountain rock. Jagged black briars and thick thornwood vines erupt in a sudden violent wave, snaring foes in tight wooden cages and crushing their limbs under barbed bark.
Skill II
Choking Spores
Active - AoE
DoT
Debuff
- Cooldown
- 12s
- Cost
- 80 mana
- Cooldown
- 12s
- Cost
- 80 mana
A spore cloud deals 25 magic damage per second within 3m and 25% weaken for 4s.
A spore cloud deals 87.5 magic damage per second within 3m and 25% weaken for 4s.
Rooted above forgotten mountain tombs, the ancient god breathes rot through thousands of years of accumulated decay. Elderhusk shudders his mossy timber torso, opening rotten fissures along his wooden ribs to vent a vile miasma. Swirling clouds of pungent purple and sickly yellow spores billow outward in a dense mist, smothering intruders and leaching the strength from their weary muscles.
Skill III
Petrified Bark
Passive 
Buff
Passive: below 50% HP bark hardens: +30 armor, +20 magic resist and 10% less damage taken.
Passive: below 50% HP bark hardens: +30 armor, +20 magic resist and 10% less damage taken.
An instinct bred from nine centuries of mountain weathering teaches the old titan to turn wounds into petrified stone. When heavy blows split his trunk, grey sap oozes from the cracked seams and solidifies instantly into black mineral plates. His wooden frame thickens into an impenetrable shield of fossilized bark, deflecting steel blades and absorbing hostile sorcery without yielding an inch.
Skill IV
Creeper Sprout
Active 
Summon
- Cooldown
- 18s
- Cost
- 90 mana
- Cooldown
- 18s
- Cost
- 90 mana
Raise 2 Bramble Stalkers for 20s.
Raise 2 Bramble Stalkers for 20s.
Driven by an unceasing urge to spread wild graves across the cliffs, Elderhusk quickens the rotten soil with corrupted barrow vigor. He drives his root-clawed feet deep into the loam, sending pulses of emerald blight through the stone. Tangled briar stalks burst from the ground as bramble stalkers, shambling masses of rotten wood and barbed black thorns. The blind creatures lurch forward with twitching branches, whipping their thorny lashes to snare fleeing climbers and drag them into the undergrowth.
Skill V
Wrath of the Canopy
Ultimate - AoE
- CC
- Cooldown
- 38s
- Cost
- 240 mana
- Cooldown
- 38s
- Cost
- 240 mana
Ultimate: ancient roots crash upon every enemy: 110 physical damage and a 1.1s stun.
Ultimate: ancient roots crash upon every enemy: 660 physical damage and a 1.1s stun.
The primal fury of the Wild Growth awakens when insolent climbers threaten the darkest sanctuary of the Skyroot. Elderhusk rears his massive wooden crown skyward, casting a suffocating twilight over the battlefield. Colossal black roots like ancient pillars rip through the stone ceiling and smash down upon all foes, shattering the mountain terrace under splintering timber and leaving the broken band stunned in the dirt.
Four views
Character sheet
Appearance
The Rotwood Ancient is a colossal divine boss and god of Wild Growth, a fifteen-foot-tall primeval treant rooted into ancient barrow tombs. He has an immense gnarled trunk of rotting black timber, deep hollows in his wooden face burning with ancient emerald essence, and an overarching canopy of weeping blackthorn branches and strangler vines. His body is armored in thick plates of petrified black bark that harden into fossilized stone when damaged, overgrown with grey lichen and cemetery weeds. He attacks with massive root-tendril arms that smash the ground to erupt bramble surges and raise blind briar stalkers, while fungal vents along his wooden ribs discharge thick spore clouds. Pulsing veins of emerald sap glow within the fissures of his trunk. Palette: petrified bark black, deep moss green, spore yellow. Silhouette hook: an enormous, gnarled treant titan with a wide weeping canopy of tangled thornwood branches.