[2020] Questions Thread - March 03, 2020

No. It can't be local because it can't be worked out on just the item - the value depends on the player holding it. Local modifiers apply entirely on the item, and thus are in effect even before you pick the item up.

For future reference, local modifiers will usually change something in the values shown above mods on the item, and usually make those values display in blue rather than white - because they're applying on the item and changing those properties on the item. So if you compare two weapons where one has a local damage modifier (including quality) and the other does not, you'll see the value near the top of the weapon for it's damage includes the effect of the local modifier. Anything which changes an item's base values that way is a local modifier.

Spellslinger only does anything with the Weapon's damage, which is the damage values shown on the weapon item. These are affected by local modifiers. These values are what becomes your base attack damage when you equip the weapon.

Non-local modifiers don't change those values, so have no interaction with Spellslinger.

To my knowledge, local damage modifiers will always change the displayed values (outside of cases where other modifiers make such changes irrelevant - quality won't change the displayed physical damage values on Storm Cloud, because increasing no damage doesn't cause any change).

But in that part of my post I was talking about local modifiers in general, there are some non-damage local modifers that do things weirder than just changing the values of an item - for example local modifiers that change what sockets the item has/can have.