Talk:Nightwatch Napalm/@comment-5030262-20170225203303/@comment-4448946-20170226155549

You're not confusing yourself, the terminology is just a little wonky. The 'base' in base damage makes it sound like the unmodified damage of the weapon, however mods like Serration and Heavy Caliber increase base damage.

Whenever a mod refers to base damage it uses the after mods base damage. So, the value you want to look at is the weapons damage with ONLY base damage mods on it. Any damage from elemental mods, even if those mods make blast damage, will not increase this mods damage.