135 weapon damage scaling

[kehn]

if you think a 10% dps increase from a single piece of gear isn't huge you're insane.

is not "a piece of gear" is the weapon, where the damage comes from

If secondary stats are "irrelevant" then I would like to see documentation that shows a relic with, say, max vit/skill speed melds as opposed to ss/crit ss/det crit/det stacking up.

secondary stats doing little to no difference is common knowledge, you can do the testing yourself or google it.

As some others have said, the increase isn't linear by percentage but by raw numbers. If it was linear by percentage that'd be exponential growth. About 20 DPS is common for every 3 weapon damage. So the 5 weapon damage and 40 DPS increase is normal. Back in the day going from relic to zenith was something crazy like 20%. This is also because as the weapons grow so do all of our other gear.

Also, x5 weapons usually had 2 wd over x0 weapons, the last tier had only 1 wd.

i was actually looking at weapons right now and they seem to go up 3 wd every 5 ilvls i guess is a different system than i expected.. case closed :P.

pd: thanks for the intelligent response. those are lacking in this forum