Quote Originally Posted by Shieun View Post
One is element based, the other is character. Both does different thing in the attack formula, but it's best if you can get both as close as possible.

If your weapon grid is weak, character attack will be better than elemental attack. If your weapon grid is over 100% assault, then elemental attack will be better than character attack.
Character attack and elemental attack bonus are separate terms in the damage formula, so they're actually completely independent of each other. What this means is that the relative gain from character attack depends only on the existing character attack bonus, and elemental attack on existing elemental attack bonus. Elemental attack is generally superior simply because character attack is available from more sources right now. At low character attack, elemental attack will still be better--simply because buffing from 0 is more effective than buffing a low number that's greater than 0.