Actually, "black" (physical) damage wasn't the highest, I believe fire was better (although Lightning had the widest range or something) The issue was that skills were created to only convert base item damage into the rune element ... except they also changed black damage as well. e.g. a Fire ability with +40% fire damage would scale 100 black damage up to 140, while 100 lightning damage would remain 100 lightning. There was some more funky scaling stuff going on where elemental damage missed out on some other multipliers, but that's the basic concept of it.
If they do something with weapon damage type in the expansion, I hope it's something along the likes of: * Weapons that roll +damage in a certain elemental school will now convert all their damage to this school. * Skills with the 'Storm' school will do damage in this specific school on your weapon. When dual wielding, Storm skills will alternate weapons, choosing the appropriate damage school each time.
* Certain legendaries, such as Maximus or Thunderfury, can no longer have their damage school rerolled to another, to retain their unique flavor.
Actually, "black" (physical) damage wasn't the highest, I believe fire was better (although Lightning had the widest range or something) The issue was that skills were created to only convert base item damage into the rune element ... except they also changed black damage as well. e.g. a Fire ability with +40% fire damage would scale 100 black damage up to 140, while 100 lightning damage would remain 100 lightning. There was some more funky scaling stuff going on where elemental damage missed out on some other multipliers, but that's the basic concept of it.
If they do something with weapon damage type in the expansion, I hope it's something along the likes of:
* Weapons that roll +damage in a certain elemental school will now convert all their damage to this school.
* Skills with the 'Storm' school will do damage in this specific school on your weapon. When dual wielding, Storm skills will alternate weapons, choosing the appropriate damage school each time.
* Certain legendaries, such as Maximus or Thunderfury, can no longer have their damage school rerolled to another, to retain their unique flavor.