Something about that damage type...
Fire does more damage. Unless of course you're fire armor. If it was standardized farmers would just give their customs another attack to bring them up to 100%, and everybody else would have reduced rewards for their fire attack customs or would have to make them much more dangerous for everyone who isn't using fire armor.
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No they wouldn't because it breaks their design for their enemies. I'm also not buying that damage should be rated higher. Sets have varying bonuses and fire's bonus just happens to be damage. The engine should not be valuing that more than everything else, especially since you can make far nastier enemies if you use debuffs.
Anyone else find it rather interesting that various fire powersets on customs have higher alpha point values? Considering it has no debuffs at all, it speaks a lot for how it's so popular and things could could be better reigned in by better standardizing it against other attacks.
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