how is the damage from unstable/volatile familliar calculated: spell damage or regular damage?

wookiefriseur

Congrats to your tripple post combo @ZOS_AmeliaR‌
Other mods manage a feat like that in locked threads only.

Further more you now are our official theory crafting contact in the forums.

Thanks a lot for your infos.

99LukeKBub17_ESO

one more question for you @ZOS_AmeliaR

can you confirm this for me?

Gix wrote: »

Because the familiar is a spellcaster, he deals magical damage. You can only boost his damage output by increase your magicka pool, but you can certainly increase it's effectiveness by decreasing your opponent's spell resistance.

my whole point to this thread was to find out if lowering my opponents spell resistance would increase the damage my summons do to them. or should i focus on lowering their Armor rating?

thanks again so much for the responses, you've been a huge help to me and everyone else (high-five)

Kingslayer

ZOS_AmeliaR wrote: »

Kyosji wrote: »

So, for a sorc, a crystal blast will be based off my maximum Magicka, but my destruction staff skill like wall of elements is based of maximum Stamina, correct?

This ties into what's clarified a couple posts above. Both of these spells consume Magicka, so they both scale up in damage with increases to Max Magicka. Apologies if previous posts about this were confusing.

You say spell damage increases when max magicka does yet when i use a buff nothing changes?.

Grithok

ZOS_AmeliaR wrote: »

So, for example, the “Silver Bolts” ability causes more damage when you spend a point in Stamina

Silver bolts has two damage components.
The first is a physical attack that scales off of stamina.
The second is a 5% chance to proc magica damage which scales off of your own max health.