...but destruction staff abilities already are elemental damage The damage of most destro skills is defined by the staff type, whereas Force Shock is all 3 elemental damage types. They're not magic damage skills and they do not get buffed by stuff buffing magic damage skills.
I think it's fine as it is, they're plenty op as is. Plus if you made elemtal damage also count as magic damage this'd likely buff sorc/templar/nb dps skyhigh as half/most their skills are magic damage ones with some elemental in the mix.

Oakmontowls_ESO wrote: »

The only difference between magic damage and elemental damage is that only magic damage is boosted by the new war maiden set. Besides that they are identical in terms of being boosted by cp and spell damage/magika.

Well any set buffing specifically magic damage would not buff elemental and vice versa, so that's something to keep in mind. Nor would a proc set proc'ing off magic damage proc off elemental, etc.

However, all magicka costing skills get buffed with max magicka and spell damage(with exception of shields and I think pets, unless they fixed pets ignoring spelldamage completely).

They did change the cp so that ele and magic damage is the same star so this buffs both now, yeah.

As others have said are they not already elemental damage based on the staff type equipped?

I'm, happy with things how they are now.

Wizball1987 wrote: »

Its odd that the skills say magik dmg until u slot them

Probably because the element isn't determined until you equip them to a destro staff.

"Magic damage" is a lousy name because it's inaccurate

On the other hand, "Otherwise uncategorized magic damage" would be a lousy name because it's too long.

Not sure why they don't have Aedric damage type, since most templar skills seems to be alluring to that. I was looking at this one page on UESP: http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Special:EsoBuildEditor I noticed that Magic damage doesn't have a resistance listed. This is reminding me of Holy damage from WoW, which when there were resistances you could build into, Holy was not one of them, thus bypassed all damage reductions. There already is Daedric/Daedra damage, which does the same thing, so I don't see why there isn't a parity here.

Edit: I am aware that this isn't specifically for damage staves, but the poster above me got me thinking about this.

IronCrystal wrote: »

Magic damage and elemental damage are different.

That's my point. There is no resistance stackable for Magic damage, is there? Then what I am suggesting would be simply a flavor modification to something that already works this way.

IronCrystal wrote: »

Pretty sure Spell Resist covers both magic and elemental damage.

Nevermind, what I suggested would only work to confuse more than add any sort of flavor. I just found it odd when some tooltips talk about Holy, but have no indication that it is such and instead classify it simply as Magic damage. Perhaps it's for the best..