tbone503 wrote:Can anyone tell me what the difference is between Elemental Damage and Innate Elemental Damage?
I assume you're talking about elemental damage on weapons/skills that apply elemental damage to weapons and not about elemental spell damage so here I go:
elemental damage such as +100-1000 to lightning damage is a bonus that in addition to your weapon damage is applied to the enemy based on the weapon damage % of the skill you're using. If a skill has an 80% weapon damage modifier, the lightning damage will only be 80-800. It can be affected by -enemy resist to improve its effectiveness even further.
Innate elemental damage however increases the total amount of all elemental damage on your weapon attacks.
To use the example above, let's say you have 25% innate elemental damage. That means that the weapon that added 100-1000 damage now adds 125-1250 damage. And that again is dependent on weapon damage modifier, so if you have 80%, you'll only get 100-1000 damage after those calculations.