I have This weapon below, and it has "Fire Damage". My build is all Physical damage. I want to roll the Fire Damage for Physical damage, however that's not an options.. Is it regular damage, or how does this work?
Diablo III – Understanding Weapon Damage and Physical Damage for Demon Hunters
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Yes, they are. The easiest way to check this is to find a weapon with a socket, since you can manually add +min and +max enchantements to them. Now add a Ruby to it (enhances damage by a certain range). You will see the DPS go up in the item tooltip.
Also, it worked the same way in Diablo 2, so it's likely that they simply just left it the way it was.
I finally noticed a pattern with the corrupted angels that explains the damage reduction I was seeing.
When a corrupted angel first takes damage, it gains a shield that reduces all damage of that type by ~66%
In the screenshot below, you can see one angel has a reddish shield. The shield was not there until I attacked it with a fire-based attack. The other is a little harder to see but it has a shield tinged with blue. I hit that angel with a lightning attack.
My additional fire attacks on the red-shielded angel did about one third of normal damage, but the lightning hit for a normal amount. However, the blue-shielded angel took roughly one third of the lightning damage, but took the full force from the fire attack.
So if you are progressing through Act 4 and having a tough time on these creatures (especially champions), the answer is to hit them once with a secondary attack that deals a different element than your primary damage dealing attack. They'll shield against it, and your normal attacks will deal full damage.
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+X-Y Damage is indeed Physical damage, but you shouldn't care anyway.
For several patches, Blizzard has gradually removed the interaction between weapon bonus element and skill element. Currently weapon element does not matter at all.
Every skill converts all weapon damage to element of the skill. The only point in rerolling is increasing the +damage roll range itself, and you can pick any element that rolls.