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.
ZOS_AmeliaR wrote: »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.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?
ZOS_AmeliaR wrote: »So, for example, the “Silver Bolts” ability causes more damage when you spend a point in Stamina