Ability descriptions are not complete and are misleading

@GladOS-013: "No skills in game give an indication of actual damage that will be done. (...) There is no expectation that the baseline for each skill starts at the same damage range."

Except that there is no indication in game that the baseline damages would initially differ. All that is stated is that an Ability will deal the Physical damage.

And if you look at the Stats of a character, there in fact is a section called Physical Offence with an entry Damage. It outright states that this the value that is used by the Physical damage dealing abilities, and it's indicated nowhere that this value may be changed on a per ability basis.

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1. Take an ability. It says it deals Physical damage.
2. Look in the stats of the character. It says how much Damage of Physical Offence the character deals.

There is nothing stating anywhere that this is not the number you should be using when reasoning about the abilities. So when you take two Abilities, as per OP Crossfire and Assign Command, when you're going off of purely the game documentation, there is nothing clarifying that these two abilities may be different damage-wise. An average player's reading of the abilities and character stats will make it seem like Assign Command is simply Crossfire without the 30% damage boon and with granting of the Command buff, when in fact Assign Command on its own is 2.5 more potent.

@GladOS-013: "The “inaccuracies” you describe are entirely based on incorrect assumptions you have made. "

The incorrect assumptions of being able to read what's on the tin, so to speak? How is one ability dealing over twice the damage than another with no documented difference not inaccurate? It absolutely is misleading.

You're basically saying that reasoning about abilities without using extra-game tools is pointless, because an ability may in fact be significantly weaker than what is documented.

@GladOS-013: "There are many factors that impact the damage a skill will do."

Of course there are. I never claimed there weren't; we're talking about baselines here. And for each of these variables factors you mention, they're documented in game. This relic level will give you this much offence, this mod will give you this much cirtical damage, this character lead will give you this much offence, etc.

@GladOS-013: "They [developers] are providing no guidance on [baseline damage]."

Except that theyre explicitly is a Physical Offence: Damage stat in the character stats, and the ability says that will deal Physical damage. Nothing indicates that this could discretely vary as a baseline, and that's what is misleading. Again, we're talking about the baseline. Critical Damage, Target Defence, etc etc can all modify the final value, but as a baseline there is no indication that the value would vary, especially as wildly as it is in the OP example used.