With a 25% bleed bonus and a huge DoT at no damage cost (rip plasma) it easily tops most magics in stats. Let’s compare it to magma, a very similar magic in mechanics:
Magma
0.925x damage
0.4625x DoT
0.6x speed
Acid
0.9x damage
0.45x DoT
1x speed
It has literally the same stats and mechanics as magma, but it has WAY more speed. Not to mention the acid bleed bonus doesn’t remove bleed, while magma does.
Yes, I weighed that in too. From what I could tell, the clashes were pretty similar (with magma coming out on top by a little bit) and I did weigh in its other interactions, and it seemed to me like Acid actually had the better interactions.
Thats uh… not how it works. All stats are not the same in practicality, destruction is more of a problem than a blessing in a lot of situations (getting fined for hitting anything in a town). Having a low destruction magic and using weapons whenever u need something to explode is much more practical.