well, again if that is the case it is still rather useless when u have the equipment we have imho. unless if i'm not reading it right.
say for example hammers AUL adds 20x5.2 = 104 pts into your attack regardless of which hammer you use.
when you start out, you use a say iron hammer with 312 attack. so your attack become 416, which is an increase of 33.3%.
but now, having hunted everything to the brink of extinction you are using a devil's crush - 1040 attack. The increase is now a miserly 10%

And its a +20 skill. I'm not sure about others, but personally i would think that stuff like evade, earplugs, tremor resist ie, that cannot be replicated by having better numbers more useful.
Mebbe I am wrong though, cause most players seem to cherish their AULs.
Added on August 18, 2010, 3:37 pmbtw, that's not damage. that's attack power.
This post has been edited by madmoz: Aug 18 2010, 03:37 PM