It gets more damage.
First off, let me apologize for not being clearer with my question.
"It gets more damage."
Is that on top of the base Defender scale damage with bonus damage as a replacement for the usual increased secondary effect (which, in this case, there is none)?
Or is it just the result of fire normally doing more damage than other comparable attacks for the same AT?
Or is it that there are increased DoT's as a secondary effect?
For instance, (ignoring actual numbers just for the sake of simplicity) say a Defender's base damage for an attack is 80% compared to a blaster's 120%.
Rad Blast for Blasters does 120 (100 damage x 120% scalar) theoretical damage plus a little Debuff
Rad Blast for Defenders does 80 (100 damage x 80% scalar) theoretical damage plus a bigger Debuff
does that mean:
Fire Blast for Blasters does 120 (100 damage x 120% scalar) theoretical damage
Fire Blast for Defenders does 80 (100 damage x 80% scalar) theoretical damage plus 10 damage (for a total of 90) as an arbitrary bonus since there is no debuff
or just
Fire Blast for Blasters does 144 theoretical damage (120 damage (because fire attacks simply do more damage) x 120% scalar)
Fire Blast for Defenders does 96 theoretical damage (120 damage (because fire attacks simply do more damage) x 80% scalar)
--- My Mains ---
Nrg/Nrg Blaster - 50
Fire/Axe Tanker - 41
Claws/Invul Scrapper - 50
Earth/Emp Controller - 50
TA/A Defender - 50
Peacebringer - 50
Warshade - 50
Fire/Dark Corrupter - 50
Nrg/Nrg Brute - 50
Blade/Regen Stalker - 50
Ice/Ice Dominator - 50
Thug/Poison Mastermind - 50
It gets the added DoT to put it as more damage. That's about it.
So like your example, instead of a debuff it gets 10 more pts of damage (or whatever it really is number wise).
BrandX Future Staff Fighter
The BrandX Collection
fire doesn't get any kind of bonus on defenders compared to other ATs.
Forgive my weak Search skills. This seems like something that should be easy to find, but I have had no luck.
Fire for Defenders. Other secondaries have increased debuff compared to the same attacks used by other ATs (presumably a trade-off for lowered damage).
What does fire get?
Thanks,
--- My Mains ---
Nrg/Nrg Blaster - 50
Fire/Axe Tanker - 41
Claws/Invul Scrapper - 50
Earth/Emp Controller - 50
TA/A Defender - 50
Peacebringer - 50
Warshade - 50
Fire/Dark Corrupter - 50
Nrg/Nrg Brute - 50
Blade/Regen Stalker - 50
Ice/Ice Dominator - 50
Thug/Poison Mastermind - 50