I know what happened, I'm just saying that it makes no sense...
Pure damage is way more important than DPS in the first place, especially in higher difficulties when you can't just stand there and shoot.
And especially for those who don't have perfect connections, so can't do 1/3rd of a second stutter step. (Funny to mention that I havn't seen any youtubers playing that well, if you have <100ms ping and don't stutter step properly then I feel like the good connection is wasted on a bad player...)
By the way what is the order of operations on damage calculations?
( Base damage + elemental bonuses + flat item bonuses ) * attribute bonus
or does attribute bonus apply to only a subset?