Really simple. Hybrid crit bonus from the daggers, and you use elemental weapon as your spammable. I didn't even have to watch the video to know that.

Dual daggers for the critical chance. The bonus from that makes up for the lack of raw damage from using a flame staff. If your class spammable is terrible just use Elemental Weapon as the spammable.

Passive Skills

Dual Wield Expert
Increases Weapon Damage and Spell Damage by 6% of off-hand weapon's damage.

Ruffian
Gives you a 15% damage bonus when attacking stunned, immobilized, disoriented, or silenced enemies.

Twin Blade and Blunt
Grants a bonus based on the type of weapon equipped: Each axe increases your Critical Damage done by 6%. Each mace increases your Armor Penetration by 1650. Each sword increases your Weapon Damage and Spell Damage by 142. Each dagger increases your Critical Chance rating by 812.

magicka dual wield was pretty popular back in... idunno... 2017 ? That meta has return anyhow.

mocap wrote: »

magicka dual wield was pretty popular back in... idunno... 2017 ? That meta has return anyhow.

Have 2 Mother's Sorrow Golden Dagger in the Bank from that time - have cost a fortune.

I might try a mag sorcerer with dual wield, i wonder if it's a huge dps loss...

Actually it is a DPS boost as long as you are in melee range. That, however, is the problem in most cases besides parse dummies. You are losing flexibility (= light attacks) in dynamic fights.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/550927/pc-mac-patch-notes-v6-2-5-markarth-update-28

All Light, Medium, and Heavy Attacks now dynamically scale with your highest offensive stats.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/564242/pc-mac-patch-notes-v6-3-5-flames-of-ambition-dlc-update-29

Daggers now grant 1.7/3.4% Critical Chance per dagger, rather than 2.5/5% Weapon Critical Chance.

Now U32 made DW light attacks even stronger by hybridizing damage, penetration and crit chance on item sets and armor passives. Back in Markarth patch staves also had their light and heavy attack damage reduced by 10% and this is one the things that killed heavy attack builds. Staff passives are pretty bad for classes that utilize a lot of AoE attacks. Daggers provide universal bonuses and make it easier to stack spell damage, which is also relevant for people who use proc sets.

perfiction wrote: »

Ruffian
Gives you a 15% damage bonus when attacking stunned, immobilized, disoriented, or silenced enemies.

This is misleading. The complete tooltip says: "While using Dual Wield attacks:". It works only for weapon abilities like active skills + light and heavy attacks. It's irrelevant in boss fights anyway, since nearly all bosses are immune to these status effects.

I have used them on a magplar (I have also used 2H) for the crit passive, as others have said correctly.
IMO what you miss in sustain (OFC HA do not regen Magicka) outbalances any crit gain you may get.
Math and parsing are one thing; actual fight quite another one.

francesinhalover wrote: »

LashanW wrote: »

Also your light/heavy attacks now scale with your max damage stats. So you don't lose dps by using physical weapons on a magicka character.

is this really true?

I might try a mag sorcerer with dual wield, i wonder if it's a huge dps loss...

Yeah I may try this on my NB. I'm a stam player who is trying to learn to mag so a hybrid setup could be a nice option.

LashanW wrote: »

francesinhalover wrote: »

LashanW wrote: »

Also your light/heavy attacks now scale with your max damage stats. So you don't lose dps by using physical weapons on a magicka character.

is this really true?

I might try a mag sorcerer with dual wield, i wonder if it's a huge dps loss...

There's only a dps increase if you can stay melee to your target all the time

Example parse,

Build,

Goood gawd your weaving average is impressive. I got 92k with staves on a sorc and a weave average of .08 something, and roughly 8 missed LAs.