I understand where your coming from with this suggestion, but it would probably be more work than its worth and might not be entirely possible without bogging the code down with too many hooks.

At least not in its current format. You'd have to get rid of a lot of the unique damage messaging and turn it into something horribly generic and then it'd work out.
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