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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.

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Blasphmey does not currently act like a meta gem, it acts like (and is) a regular support gem. It does nothing at all by itself, and just applies changes to each supported skill individually.

It will likely be reworked to a meta gem in PoE2, but that will involve a significant change to it's functionality, including probably making it a skill-support, like Spellslinger will be and Bane already is.

There will be no actual Meta Gems until PoE2, but Bane was the first skill-support added to the game.

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.

We prefer to use the wording referring to not having items equipped, because this is more intuitive that it works when you have items that are disabled (disabled items are not equipped), in which case the slot is not empty. This is particularly relevant to use with Dancing Dervish.

Quivers are not shields.

It works the same as WoE - "Counts as Dual Wielding" means that you will alternate between main and off hand hits, with the base off-hand damage being copied from the base main hand damage (since you don't have an actual off-hand weapon to draw from). Hollow Palm Technique does the same, so it is the only way to have base off-hand unarmed damage values.

Unfortunately "neither" is explicitly for two options - it would be explicitly incorrect here.

I've made an issue to review this and see if we can come up with a wording that is still correct but people find less confusing, hopefully while still fitting the constraint of not being too long (which was the original reason I didn't just push the whole thing through De Morgan's law).

If you have any of gloves, main hand item or off hand item, then you do not have "no Equipped Gloves, Main Hand Item, or Off Hand Item" and thus do not meet the requirement.

For a real-world example, if you see this sign

, you don't get to carry a sword onto the property and say "it's fine because I have no firearms". "No x or y" means not having "x or y".

Disabled items are not equipped.

"or" is the grammatically correct word here. "no x or y" means you do not have "x or y" - having either an x or a y means you don't meet the condition of "no x or y".

Conversely, if you have x but not y, then you do not have "x and y", so a "no x and y" condition would be met despite having one of the two (because you don't have both).

"And" would mean it's only referring to all of them, which is incorrect because the "no" mean's it's talking about what you can't have - you can't have any of them ("or"), rather than can't have all of them ("and").

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No and No. Added passives are never within radius of anything (and thus nothing is ever within radius of an added passive).

Literally none of the stuff that handles distances on the tree can understand things being added to it - it all relies on the base tree and precalculated info.

Base Totem Placement speed for placing Ballista Totems is 350ms.

Yes, that fundamentally works by changing the affected passive to have an extra stat that makes it be allowed to allocate without being connected.

The reason is more fundamental than that. No jewel can affect any socket other than the one it's in. That's just fundamental to how jewels and sockets work. That doesn't and never has meant that the sockets aren't passive skills.

Jewel sockets are and always have been passive skills. At the time we first added them to the tree, they were specifically Notable passive skills, although I believe that's no longer the case.

They are allocated on the passive tree and have passive skill popups when you hover them, showing you what stats they grant (which will be no stats unless a jewel is socketed into them). They're passive skills. They've never not been passive skills.

Intuitive Leap does not affect them because a fundamental property of jewel sockets is that they cannot be modified by any jewel except the one in that specific socket.

Added passive skills are never considered to be within radius of any jewel. There is reminder text on all the cluster jewel stats that add passives clarifying this, which will be visible in-game.

Yes. The Damage-per-second of each ignite is calculated separately, then they are summed, then the exploding arrow applies one ignite with the total ignite damage per second, using it's own stats to work out the duration of the applied ignite.