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So if you have multiple mana flask effects on you (because you've used multiple mana flasks, or used one mana flask multiple times in quick succession), they will queue

Queueing is the same thing regardless of whether the other effects came from the same flasks or no. Enduring Flasks do not queue.

It explodes as soon as the maximum is reached, allowing you to start the next set of 20 immediately. This change is primarily to prevent it being able to deal so much damage at once that it overflows and can't deal the damage because the number is too big to calculate.

You can only ever benefit from a single flask effect of any given type at a time.

So if you have multiple mana flask effects on you (because you've used multiple mana flasks, or used one mana flask multiple times in quick succession), they will queue up in order of recovery rate - the fastest-recovery effect will be active, and the others will be inactive - and while they're inactive, their duration does not expire. They just patiently wait their turn to apply. Most things don't do this, it's a behaviour that pretty much only applies to flasks.

Recovery effects from mana flasks with the "Enduring" mod no longer queue like this - they instead follow the default effect behaviour in PoE where if a stronger effect exists, the weaker one is inactive, but it's duraiton is still ticking down.

If you look at a wand (or any weapon) item, in the base properties section above the mods and requirements, it will show that weapon's damage values. If you equip that weapon, those values are your base attack damage (for that hand). Those numbers are what Spellslinger cares about. Local modifiers can affect those numbers (making the physical damage display in blue if modified, and adding values for other damage types).

For clarification, is it always true that any hit whose base damage is not a damage number listed on the gem, or a damage number listed on your weapon, secondary damage? Or is that just a rule of thumb?

(Shield Charge and Spectral Shield Throw immediately come to mind as semi-exceptions, but they override "off-hand damage" which then presumably counts as attack damage.)

I should probably have worded that in terms of Main/Off hand damage - you are correct that the shield skills deal attack damage.

Outside that case, I believe this is currently true, but not necessarily a rule. A skill could have an amount of base secondary damage on it's gem to use for secondary damage hits, in theory. Explosive Arrow's explosion before it was reworked used to be secondary damage that had an amount per arrow on the gem.

It seems unlikely we'd do that for a spell (it would seem to serve no purpose), but the base value being on the gem is som...

Or is there something that allows attack damage to apply to something that isn't an attack? Hmm.

There is not (and for technical reasons quite probably never will be). Stuff like making spell damage modifiers apply to attacks is straightforward, going the other way is not, in general.

Default Attack is an attack skill.

All attack skills deal attack damage, but some of them will also deal non-attack damage.

There are four kinds of damage in PoE:

• Spell Damage (dealt by spells, base damage comes from gem)
• Attack Damage (dealt by attacks, base damage comes from weapon/unarmed)
• Secondary Damage (hit damage which isn't either of the other two, stuff like corpse explosions are generally secondary damage)
• Damage Over Time

They have no overlap, no damage is more than one of those things.

So Prodigious Defence applies to attack damage specifically, which is damage from hits that is based on your weapon.

Advance Guard applies to any damage dealt with an attack skill, even if that damage isn't attack damage - it could be secondary damage (the corpse explosion on infernal blow, which is based on the enemy's life, not your weapon), or damage over time (such as if the attack ignites an enemy). Both of those would be example...

The mine throwing time is not a nerf, it's just how throwing additional mines has worked since 3.8.0. All sources of additional mines in the game should already have that reminder text (which did get missed and added late, but has been in for at least a little while).

AW is a spell, costs mana and hits

Animate Weapon is a spell and costs mana. It does not hit. It creates a minion, which has an attack skill. The minion will hit things with its attack skill, but that skill is not Animate Weapon.

Yes

You are correct. A single Varunastra satisfies the requirement, regardless of what you do with your other hand in the meantime.

It might be possible, but would certainly not be easy. Removing one item can't change which skill/support groups are in any other item, and the system depends on that to some extent - it means skills only need checked in relation to the specific item you do things with.

No, you'd need to support the curse skill to affect it's AoE with a support gem, which is not currently possible with the ring.

I believe it uses the base radius of the skitterbot aura (30), rather than base curse radious (22), but all modifiers on the curse gem will apply, just to that different base value.

It doesn't? I'm not sure what stats on that item you expect to have an interaction. Asenath's Gentle Touch only does it's thing with non-aura curses.

Yes, it is your curse skill.

The socketed curse is inherently your skill, as you have the ring equipped. The aura is put on the Skitterbot, but it's appling your curse skill - which means that skill is based on your stats.

This is not correct

That modifier does not change the wand's damage, it has no interaction with Spellslinger.