Merlin's mindless attack and classes

[zephyr1]

In past discussion about how Merlin’s Mindless Attack worked, it was concluded that it’s equivalent to the normal slash attack of the defender:

@Kerridoc

To help clarify, the attack triggered by Mindless Attack is the same “slash attack” a hero makes when the timer over the little sword in the lower left corner of its icon clicks down to zero. It’s a straight single-target attack at 100%, modified by whatever buffs/ailments are on the target. What’s confusing is that the mana drops to zero, making it seem like it’s the special that is being cast.

BTW, it’s great fun to see this result when the afflicted hero has Wu’s buff on and the unfortunate target has a defense debuff. Merlin makes me LOL.

Based on that, it seems like it would be the stats of the afflicted hero, not Merlin or his class upgrades, that would determine the strength of the attack.