Light/Heavy attack damage.

Mobius0

Since light and heavy attacks will now scale off of your highest stat, does that mean that magicka light/heavy attacks will become "magic" damage, like staves?

Sahidom

Whoops! Good question, that would be awesome to have a conversion for melee weapons.

Gilvoth

thats a Good question

Jodynn

Everything still restores the same thing

Mobius0

I guess to be more specific, will things like spell pen, +spell damage, +Magic damage (like War Maiden bonus.), affect L/H attacks if Magicka is your highest stat when using a non-staff weapon?

Vevvev

I'm more curious as to whether this means someone building like a glass cannon will get more or less damage out of light attacks. What's the scaling like?

Jodynn

Vevvev wrote: »

I'm more curious as to whether this means someone building like a glass cannon will get more or less damage out of light attacks. What's the scaling like?

My burst damage when trying out a parse was less than a staff by about 10~20k

Mobius0 wrote: »

I guess to be more specific, will things like spell pen, +spell damage, +Magic damage (like War Maiden bonus.), affect L/H attacks if Magicka is your highest stat when using a non-staff weapon?

Good question.

Gilvoth

its been several days with no answer on this question.
i hope we find the answer to this question.
its really not fair this is happen.

Rex-Umbra

Some one test it

MashmalloMan

I've already answered this extensively with others in the thread here:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/546678/all-light-medium-and-heavy-attacks-now-dynamically-scale-with-your-highest-offensive-stats#latest

Some TLDR:

Damage, Crit and Max Resource dynamically scale. Penetration does not. This is exactly how ultimates and dynamic scaling class skills behave (Streak, Shade, Ritual of Retribution, etc).

Light/heavy attacks do not update their damage type based on highest stats, thus they continue to look for their specific damage bonuses through CP, sets and passives. Physical damage needs physical penetration, Piercing CP and Mighty CP as an example.

Sets like Automaton (+400 physical weapon damage) only buffs stamina weapons.

In no CP, while avoiding sets like Automaton for a mixed build, you're light/heavy attacks will be very comparable with only the weapons passives coming into play, of which actually do scale pretty well for the most part. Maces/Daggers/Axes don't work well. DW and 2H have higher base spell damage than Destruction staves. Etc.

And finally, yes, weapons still continue to return the resource pool their based on.

MurderMostFoul

MashmalloMan wrote: »

I've already answered this extensively with others in the thread here:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/546678/all-light-medium-and-heavy-attacks-now-dynamically-scale-with-your-highest-offensive-stats#latest

Some TLDR:

Damage, Crit and Max Resource dynamically scale. Penetration does not. This is exactly how ultimates and dynamic scaling class skills behave (Streak, Shade, Ritual of Retribution, etc).

Light/heavy attacks do not update their damage type based on highest stats, thus they continue to look for their specific damage bonuses through CP, sets and passives. Physical damage needs physical penetration, Piercing CP and Mighty CP as an example.

Sets like Automaton (+400 physical weapon damage) only buffs stamina weapons.

In no CP, while avoiding sets like Automaton for a mixed build, you're light/heavy attacks will be very comparable with only the weapons passives coming into play, of which actually do scale pretty well for the most part. Maces/Daggers/Axes don't work well. DW and 2H have higher base spell damage than Destruction staves. Etc.

And finally, yes, weapons still continue to return the resource pool their based on.

Perfect summary