I find damaging fractures way too punishing being just a step up from minor fractures. And having destructive fractures feels almost irrelevant. Most of the time losing just 2 tiers per affix would already render an item completely useless.
I would like to suggest destructive fracture be what is the current damaging fracture and for damaging fracture to be revised to a lower penalty, e.g. reduce by 1 - 2 tier per affix.
I agree that the damaging fracture is the exact same as destructive fracture, whenever a have a damaging fracture I just shatter it (it is the only āgood sideā from damaging, you donāt completely lose the item so you can still shatter and get a few affixes back). Anyway this is a good suggestion !
Oh right. I didnāt know why I didnāt think of this when I was mulling over the purpose of destructive fracture. Currently though, I donāt think any single affix is rare enough for me to feel slightly better about salvaging a few shards. Perhaps there would be much rarer shards in future.
Though even if there is a purpose to destructive fracture. Iāll like to see two tiers of damaging fracture. A random shot at breaking 1-5 tiers per affix feels way too much!