PSA: using elemental attacks overrides the effective damage that your weapons do. For example, if you have a fire weapon equipped to do extra damage to plant-type enemies, using flame strike will do the bonus damage that flame strike does for being a flaming attack, but WILL NOT do the bonus damage that your weapon would have done for attacking its preferred enemy type. Essentially, if you have an effective weapon equipped, you are much better off doing non-elemental attacks like quadra strike or group strike. This would have saved me A LOT of pain in this past update had I known it sooner.