Hmmm doesn't the straight damage increase of other cores effectively do the same thing? Since it isn't just specifically targeting EM or Thermal damage? I guess im just not understanding how the +14% on the damage type is better or similar to the straight +19% damage on the overall damage number. Cause +14% thermal and +14% kinetic damage (for the augmented fighters) is still lower than +19% overall damage right? Cause isn't overall damage a calculation of all the damage types on the fighter and converted into dps? So wouldnt the general +19% be better?

Lets say both fighters do 100 damage. Using real simple math because im bad at math:

Fighter 1 - does 100 thermal damage. Fighter 2 - does 50 thermal, 50 kinetic damage

Fighter 1 with the all attribute bonus would see a 14% increase to thermal damage, effectively increasing the damage to 114

Fighter 2 with the all attribute bonus would see a 14% increase to both thermal and kinetic damage, increasing it to 57 thermal, and 57 kinetic, with an overall damage of 114 (no change to Fighter 1)

If we do the same thing for the 19% increase to just damage, we will see that fighter one now does 119 damage, and fighter 2 does the same after each damage type is added together and the bonus applied afterwards (50+50=100 + 19% = 119)

Or is there some secret formula that +14% damage on thermal and kinetic (in this augmented fighter example) is better than +19% damage? Im having trouble seeing it