ZOS really needs to update the tooltips.

Light and Heavy attacks regardless of weapon type scale off the highest of your offensive stats. Have more max stam and weapon damage than max mag and spell damage? It'll scale off the higher combined stats and ignore the other regardless of weapon equipped.

And yes it takes max magicka and spell damage and combines them to get offensive power. Every 10.5 max magicka is roughly equal to 1 spell damage, but it's easier to stack spell damage than it is to stack max magicka after ZOS did all these hybridization changes. Keep in mind magical damage shields still scale off max magicka exclusively.

Thanks for the replies, but I still cant reconcile a seeming contradiction:

I mean is it really the highest (i.e. 1 stat only) or a combination of 2 stats ??

i.e. (1)
"Light and Heavy attacks regardless of weapon type scale off *the highest* of your offensive stats"

versus:

i.e. (2)
yes it takes max magicka and spell damage and *combines* them to get offensive power

then which is it ??

Ah ok ! Got it now 😁ty ty