Elemental damage means nothing, other than meaning the 10% damage proc on weapons doesn't work properly (and Elemental Exposure), it won't convert skills and it won't benefit from +elemental% damage.
As far as I understood it, this was the case before the hotfix (fire damage weapon making use of Magefist when using Bash). They "fixed" it such that skills always overwrite the weapon's element. Would've been a much better wording, in my opinion.
I'm looking for some info about elemental damage.
After this hotfix:
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/10004140329
are skills such as http://us.battle.net/d3/en/class/barbarian/active/bash benefitting from +X% fire damage if I have a fire weapon?
Because I tested but it seems that now Bash (without runes) coverts all damage to be physical.
So.. is the type of damage of a weapon useless? (except for abilities like: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/class/wizard/passive/elemental-exposure )
As far as I understood it, this was the case before the hotfix (fire damage weapon making use of Magefist when using Bash). They "fixed" it such that skills always overwrite the weapon's element. Would've been a much better wording, in my opinion.
Much appreciated!