I would say that you could have Maelstrom cast via an idol proc, but that’s not the idols he’s got in the build planner.
Edit: Ice Thorns has a 40% chance to be cast when hit with the nodes that the OP’s taken.
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The Spriggan healing and damage aura comes from the Spriggan companion.
And as @Llama8 pointed out the Maelstrom can come from an idol proc which i was using before the build was complete. I changed it to minion bleed idol instead, and didnt remove the maelstrom skill as there really arent other skills that we can benefit from.
Ice Thorns is just a bit extra defense.
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I guess I just thought the spriggan aura was the skill you use when out of spriggan form. I didn’t know you get the damage buff all the time while your spriggan is out while still being in spriggan form.
The Spriggan companion has both a passive heal over time (the aura) which is always turned on, and gives damage too when specced into it (the damage speccing is for the vines, as we dont benefit from it).
It also has the active heal which you are right we cant benefit from as we cant press it when shapeshifted.
Btw, if you really wanna use another skill instead of Maelstrom, you can spec into Serpent Strike to summon a Serpent pet (doesnt count as a companion), put on a polearm, go to a low level area to summon it. However i dont bother with it as this spec isnt that heavy into minion health/dodge etc, so it might die quite quickly in higher areas, and its quite bothersome to respawn it, so i wouldnt recommend it, but its an option 
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Updated the OP with a new skill instead of Maelstrom which wasnt used (Thanks to @war1ock for the idea)
It is a nice build, I’ve just unlocked Spriggan form, but it’s a bit frustrating that sometimes the vines don’t attack mobs that come into their range (there’s a bug about it somewhere).
Thanks, ye dont know if its a bug or intentionel that monsters that arent on the screen or somewhat near the vines when spawned wont get attacked by them. I have a feeling its intentionel to prevent one from spamming 50+ vines (for example in arena) before the mobs arrive.
I hardly ever notice that anymore tho (the vines usually fast kills everyting on the screen, and then i move forward to next screen and place near mobs, kinda hard to explain), but i think you wont notice either when you get used to the placement of the vines.
Once in spriggan form, are you still using wolves now? I can’t figure out how to keep the howl on autocast in spriggan form as it autocasts the spriggan abilties instead…sorry still a noob lol!
Yes i use it in spriggan form, but we cant use the howl autocast here, only the howl it has a chance to cast when encounter bosses (if specced as shown in the link).
There is the same behavior with Drain Life in its casted form. Sometimes you cast it close to a mob and it does not drain. And if you cast in on ground and a mob goes through it, it does not drain.
So this may be a general intentional behavior for area-wide skills.
There are a few bug reports for it though the devs haven’t replied to them.
Thanks for the quick reply! I hope the devs really know they have a gem here and that they keep adding quality content. I assume that the Spriggan aura effects don’t need to be autocast either based on the build or is there an idol synergy I missed? Great build!!
Np, yes the spriggan companion has both a passive (healing over time) and an active heal. The passive one is always on, but the active one we cant use.
OK…so silly question then…why spec into the damage aura? Is it a part of the passive once specc’d? That would make sense. Thanks!
Yes the damage specced skills is part of the passive aura.
I gotta share this! So I have built 7 other toons, and this is the first one that smoked Lagon, first try, with crap resists, with ease. I took Spriggan as soon as I could and took bear at 51. About to start monoliths and I am so pumped, this will be my first max level toon. Thank you so much for this build and your time!
And one last totally selfish question…any loot filter for this for endgame? 
Good to hear you like it 
Loot filter : Spriggan Vine.zip (997 Bytes)
(Im by no means an expert on doing loot filters, and there might be a way to do it better, but thats what i got. Also you should look it through to check if it fits you, as there could be other variables/items you want or dont want, this is just my personal preferences.)
That’s super cool of you!
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Off topic, but, loot filter won’t work for me. Can’t load what you sent me and then the screen bugs and I can’t close it? This happening to anyone else?