Okay, would be helpful if someone confirmed this because I am myself confused, but based on my limited testing the quality of weapon changes the health/stam/magicka gained from eaten food (when its eaten with that weapon, wont affect already applied buff).
I did all the basic things like reloading ui, game and even tried dmg on dummy if it changes (it did).
So far this is the outcome:
- If food is same quality as main hand weapon, user receives the stated stats
- If food is of lesser quality than main hand weapon, the stats received are higher (about 3.5% on purple tri stat food with golden weapon)
- If food is higher quality than main hand weapon, the stats received are lower
Wouldnt be surprised if the level scaling somewhat was behind this, but it definitely did the same thing in vet dungeon, in overland and inside house.
For reference, these are health pool numbers on gearless argonian with max CP (so 20% buff from CP, 9% from racial) for purple tristat food with blue, purple, gold weapon -> 20597, 20768, 20941