Elemental Weapons Bonuses Return

By no means am I trying to start a flame war or a discussion about who deserves what.

I am simply calling for the clarity of the discussion of elestaff 'bonuses' and the word 'bonus'. A distinction must be made between the 'bonuses' of the elemental and the weapon speed. Weapon Speed is not a bonus but a natural attribute of the weapon. If an A/M chooses to use normal attack, it will swing at a fast pace just like a Battle Mage would. The Battle Mage is not getting a special kind of 'bonus' if you will. The Battle Mage's skills simply utilizes the speed better. The fast speed obviously affects DPM just like it would for any other class, even as minimal as the DPM boost would be. The elemental bonus on the other hand is an actual percentage bonus for a certain elemental type.

The thing is, elemental staff 5-8 are lvl163 staves, so you cant compare this with other fast weapon classes, since lvl127 weapons are the highest for non-mage classes, also other mages don't benefit from weapon speed. lvl163 weapon give much higher matt, so for non-BaM classes, they get EITHER high weapon speed OR high m.att. if BaM benefit BOTH fast speed and highest matt (the two most important things that function in BaM dpm) , then it is unbalanced or unfair to most other people. That's what they are talking about. And don't need to criticize the word "bonus", as long as you know what it means here.