it was a few months ago but i remember experimenting with my first and second forms where an extra 30 dam would be a sizeable damage boost percentage wise and not seeing anything noticeable in terms of damage noun change.

I mean the system is set up to discriminate between dam from gear and dam from affects so it would not be at all surprising for score to show a damage increase and mechanically there not be one because of whatever causes gear + dam to be ingnored.

I could be wrong but I made my offense/offense felar evil outlander shifter specifically to try and leverage + dam from affects into greater damage output and I did not notice much difference even in idea circumstances (beefed up druid frenzy, aristea, feral growl, tripple stacked ignite, bestial fury)