Spellslinger - Path of Exile

Spellslinger Spellslinger is an active skill gem.

Reserves mana based on the supported spells to cause those spells to trigger when you fire projectiles from a wand attack.Supports spell skills that have no reservation. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.You will trigger spells when you fire wand projectiles.

Trigger, Spell. Level: 1–20. Cooldown Time: 0.60 sec. Cast Time: Instant. Requires Level 24. Reservation Override: 30–25% Mana. Cooldown Time: 0.60 sec.

  • This Skill"s Mana Reservation is the total of the Mana Reservations of Supported Skills, and cannot be further modified
    Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.
Reservation Override: 30–25% Mana
  • Cooldown Time: 0.60 sec
    Supports spell skills that have no reservation. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
    Trigger Supported Spells when you fire Projectiles from a Non-Triggered Wand Attack
  • Supported Skills have (0–38)% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate
  • Supported Skills have Added Spell Damage equal to (60–174)% of Damage of Equipped Wand
    If two Wands are Equipped, each contributes half as much Added Damage
  • Supported Skills deal (31–37)% less Damage with Hits and Ailments

    • Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

    NameAdditional Effects From QualityWeight
    SpellslingerSupported Skills deal (0–20)% increased Spell Damage50

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    Related Gems

    Level Effect

    LevelRequires LevelIntelligenceSupported Skills have Added Spell Damage equal to 60% of Damage of Equipped Wand
    If two Wands are Equipped, each contributes half as much Added Damage    		#% increased Cooldown Recovery RateSupported Skills deal 37% less Damage with Hits and AilmentsExperience
    124586037118,383
    2276466237175,816
    3307172437254,061
    4337778636359,090
    5368384836498,508
    63990901036682,057
    74296961235921,777
    84510210214351,727,879
    94810910816351,138,877
    105011311418341,368,233
    115211712020341,638,338
    125412112622341,956,648
    135612513224333,655,184
    145813013826333,017,327
    156013414428337,793,914
    1662138150303215,206,031
    1764142156323226,185,582
    1866146162343262,755,923
    19681511683631211,877,683
    20701551743831
    21721804031
    22741864230
    23761924430
    24781984630
    25802044829
    26822105029
    27842165229
    28862225428
    29882285628
    30902345828
    31912375927
    32922406027
    33932436127
    34942466226
    35952496326
    36962526426
    37972556525
    38982586625
    39992616725
    401002646824

    Spellslinger is a skill gem that causes the linked spell to be triggered when the user fires a projectile from their equipped wand and adds the wand's damage to the spell. The linked spell reserves mana while active.

    Despite the fact that this gem can support another skill gem (as Spellslinger Support), it does not have the Support gem tag.

    Skill functions and interactions

    The gem has two functions:
    As Spellslinger

    • Reserves mana based on the supported spells to cause those spells to trigger when you fire projectiles from a wand attack.
      • This Skill's Mana Reservation is the total of the Mana Reservations of Supported Skills and cannot be further modified.

    As Spellslinger Support:

    • Supports spell skills that do not reserve mana. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
      • Trigger Supported Spells when you fire Projectiles from a Non-Triggered Wand Attack
      • Supported Skills have Added Spell Damage equal to (60-174)% of Damage of Equipped Wand
      • If two Wands are Equipped, each contributes half as much Added Damage
      • Supported Skills have (0-38)% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate

    Lastly, a mana reservation overrides the supported active skill. The active skill part toggles the mana reservation on/off.

    The active skill supported by Spellslinger can be triggered when using the basic attack with a wand equipped or while using a wand-based skill with a wand equipped.

    • You link Spellslinger Support to one or more spell active skill gems like a standard support gem. Those spells become unavailable for normal use.
    • You have to turn on the active skill part of the Spellslinger gem, which reserve mana like aura, herald or aspect skill to activate the function of the Spellslinger Support part of the gem.
    • The default mana reserve of the Spellslinger skill itself is 0%. For each active spell linked to it, you will reserve an additional (30-25)% mana (or even less), depending on the gem level of Spellslinger. The base reservation value can be seen in the "Spellslinger Support" section of the Spellslinger gem tooltip in-game. If you don't have enough mana available to support all linked spells, the Spellslinger ability will not be available.
    • Despite the gem claims the amount of mana reserved cannot be further modified, it can be modified by the lab enchantment, mana multiplier from support gem, and increased Mana Reservation Efficiency from passive skill and jewel implicit, etc. The wording and cannot be further modified probably refer to the mana reserve cannot double-dip, as sources mentioned above. Mana reservation efficiency only affects linked skill gem but not Spellslinger (which is the sum of mana reserve of the linked skill gem despite not actually reserve twice).
    • With the Spellslinger is active and reserving mana, if you fire a wand projectile, every linked spell triggers simultaneously.
    • The Spellslinger effect applies a 0.6 second Cooldown to linked spells by default. Spells with their own cooldown period that is longer than this (such as Cold Snap) will use their own cooldown, and your wand will just fire its normal projectiles during this time. For zero cooldown spells with a Casting Time (like Ice Spear or Freezing Pulse), they instead inherit the 0.6 second cooldown of Spellslinger; even if you can fire your wand faster than every 0.6 seconds, the linked spells will not fire until Spellslinger's cooldown is done and the wand will just fire normal shots. Attack and Cast speed modifiers do not affect cooldown. Cooldowns are shared between multiple instances of the same spell linked to any Spellslinger gem.

    Real Cooldown & Cooldown Threshold

    There is an internal cooldown to how fast spells can be triggered.

    Currently, the cooldown is 600ms, however:

    • Servers do not calculate the game in real-time but divide it into chunks that are calculated at once.
    • One of these server calculation steps is called a tick. A server tick has a duration of 33 milliseconds.
    • The status of cooldowns is only updated once on each server tick.
    • Due to the limitation to server ticks, cooldowns are effectively always rounded up to multiples of 33ms.

    The thresholds in the table below are meant to be upper limits. If you stay below them, you do not need to increase your trigger rate. However, it usually is an efficient DPS upgrade, but going above them is something you must not do.

    If the attack you use to trigger your spells is just slightly too fast and your spells are still on cooldown, you can lose up to almost half your DPS.

    Level Cooldown
    Rate    		 Effective
    Cooldown    		 Attack
    Rate
    1 0% 627 ms 1.59
    2 2% 594 ms 1.68
    5 7% 561 ms 1.78
    8 14% 528 ms 1.89
    12 22% 495 ms 2.02
    16 30% 462 ms 2.16
    21 40% 429 ms 2.33
    20+ 52% 396 ms 2.52
    20+ 66% 363 ms 2.75
    20+ 82% 330 ms 3.03
    20+ 103% 297 ms 3.36
    20+ 128% 264 ms 3.78
    20+ 160% 231 ms 4.32
    20+ 204% 198 ms 5.05

    Cost

    Triggered gems cost mana, the mana cost is the same as the triggered spell mana cost multiplied by the mana multipliers of the supported gems.

    Item acquisition

    Spellslinger can drop anywhere.

    Recipes

    Spellslinger can be created from the following recipes:

    Amount Part Description
    13 The Cataclysm Random corrupted level 21 Spell gem
    6 The Fox Random level 20 gem
    3 Gemcutter's Promise Random gem with 20% quality
    1 Gemcutter's Incubator Random gem with 1–20% quality
    1 The Void Random divination card set exchange

    Quest reward

    This item is given as a quest reward for the following quests:

    Class → Witch Shadow Ranger Duelist Marauder Templar Scion
    Quest ↓
    Lost in Love
    Act 3    		 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗

    Vendor reward

    This item can be bought at the listed NPC vendors, after completing the following quests:

    Class → Witch Shadow Ranger Duelist Marauder Templar Scion
    Quest ↓
    Lost in Love
    Act 3
    Clarissa    		 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓
    A Fixture of Fate
    Act 3
    Siosa    		 ✓
    Fallen from Grace
    Act 6
    Lilly Roth    		 ✓

    Threshold jewels

    The following threshold jewels augment Spellslinger:

    Item Limit Radius Stats

    Related helmet enchantments

    The following helmet enchantments affect Spellslinger.

    Name Level Labyrinth Stats Spawn Weighting
    Enchantment Spellslinger Cooldown Recovery 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth Skills Supported by Spellslinger have 20% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate helmet 100
    default 0
    Enchantment Spellslinger Cooldown Recovery 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth Skills Supported by Spellslinger have 30% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate helmet 100
    default 0
    Enchantment Spellslinger Reservation 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth 20% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency of Skills Supported by Spellslinger helmet 100
    default 0
    Enchantment Spellslinger Reservation 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth 30% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency of Skills Supported by Spellslinger helmet 100
    default 0