Talk:Fire (upgrade path)/@comment-83.252.152.138-20150127134101/@comment-4511886-20150129223059

You're forgetting about two important things. Scaling and split damage.

I don't know what weapon you're checking, but most Fire weapons don't have that high base damage compared to their +15 variant. This means that the split damage would reduce your damage output by a lot, due to your attacks passing through two defences, rather than one.

Scaling is an extremly important factor for +15 weaponry. Higher base damage and stats leads to more scaling, ending with some weapons having up to one or two hundred extra damage from scaling.