1. Apply PvP modifications. Damage is reduced to:
17% for
Player v Player
Hireling v Player
Minion v Player (player minion that is)
25% for:
Hireling v Hireling
50%/35%/25% (normal/night/hell) for:
Hireling v some kinds of bosses (not sure exactly which ones).
+200% for
Some kind of bosses (not sure exactly which ones) v hirelings
+400% for
Some kind of bosses (not sure exactly which ones) v minions
2. Handle target effects (I think). I would assume, this is where stuff like Bone/Cyclone Armor goes since I have not found it in other places
3. If target has "can't be frozen stat", set chill and freeze duration to zero
4. If target has "half freeze duration", set chill and freeze duration to half the value
5. If target has a poison shrine state, set poison duration to zero
6. If target has a fire shrine state, set burning duration to zero
7. Apply -damage to physical damage and -magicdamage to fire, lightning, cold and magic damage (there seem to be some cases, or some special monsters for which this step is skiped and also its resistance later will never go below 0, not sure exactly though)
8. Apply resistance
Take base resistance of target. Base resistance include the total of all resistance from items and skills the target
has plus any modification from outside skills such as AmpDamage and LowerResistance.
Subtract any "lower resistance" or "pierce" the attacker might have. This include Cold Mastery. Again, any cold resistance
lowering/piercing will also lower the cold resistance applied to chill and freeze duration. If there exists any poison pierce,
it applies to both the damage per frame and duration.
For a player target, apply the difficulty penalty (-40/-100 in night/hell). The penalty is half that in classic and in expansion
after the completion of the appropriate quest. The penalty is applied to all resistances (including poison duration reduction)
except physical and magic resistance.
Cap the resistance at -100% or at the upper cap. The upper cap base is 75% (except for phsyical were it is 50%). This
upper cap base can be increased to 95% through +max resistance items for all resistances except physical and poison
length duration (this includes when cold resistance is applied to chill and freeze duration where the +max cold resistance
would be applied).
If the target is Undead and the attacker is under the influence of a Sanctuary aura, the resistance is set to 0% if it is
above 0%.
As note above, for some special cases/monsters, the resistance might be increased to 0% if below 0%. I don't know
anything more about this at the moment though.
Finally the dammage is modified according to the final modified resistance value. Note that cold resistance is applied
to chill duration and freeze duration.
9. Apply absorbtion%. The absorbtion% is caped at 40%.
10. Apply absorbtion. The absorbtion is caped at whatever ammout of damage still remain. That is, you can't absorb more
damage than there still remain at this step.
