Absorb

Diablo II Notation Basic Class Skill Item Ally Quest Area Monster Tale Attribute Unit Animation Attack Damage Death Crushing Blow Enhanced Minimum Maximum Adds Damage Damage + % Damage to Demons to Undead Deadly Strike Magic Fire Lightning Cold Poison Skill Damage ATD/ATLD DR/MDR Resistance Maximum Enemy Resist Immune Absorb Sunder Magic Absorb Fire Absorb Lightning Absorb Cold Absorb Percentage and then integer Absorb are applied after resistance when calculating damage. Damage equivalent to percentage Absorb is subtracted from damage remaining after resistance. Damage equivalent to integer Absorb is subtracted from damage remaining after percentage Absorb. Healing equivalent to total damage absorbed is applied. Damage remaining after percentage and integer Absorb is applied. Net result depends on current life at time of healing: actual healing = min ( maximum life - current life , total damage absorbed ) Maximum healing only occurs when current life <= maximum life - total damage absorbed. There is a ceiling of Absorb 40%, so there can never be a net life gain from percentage Absorb. Thus it performs a similar function to resistance, so when current life <= maximum life - total damage absorbed, effective percentage damage reduction as a result of resistance and percentage Absorb is as follows: Resist % Absorb % 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 -100 -80.0 -60.0 -40.0 -20.0 0.0 20.0 40.0 60.0 -75 -57.5 -40.0 -22.5 -5.0 12.5 30.0 47.5 65.0 -50 -35.0 -20.0 -5.0 10.0 25.0 40.0 55.0 70.0 -25 -12.5 0.0 12.5 25.0 37.5 50.0 62.5 75.0 0 10.0 20.0 30.0 40.0 50.0 60.0 70.0 80.0 25 32.5 40.0 47.5 55.0 62.5 70.0 77.5 85.0 50 55.0 60.0 65.0 70.0 75.0 80.0 85.0 90.0 75 77.5 80.0 82.5 85.0 87.5 90.0 92.5 95.0 80 82.0 84.0 86.0 88.0 90.0 92.0 94.0 96.0 85 86.5 88.0 89.5 91.0 92.5 94.0 95.5 97.0 90 91.0 92.0 93.0 94.0 95.0 96.0 97.0 98.0 95 95.5 96.0 96.5 97.0 97.5 98.0 98.5 99.0 Lightning Resist 75%, 20% Lightning Absorb and Lightning Absorb +20 would apply to 60 lightning damage as follows: LR 75% reduces 60 to 15 20% LA reduces 15 to 12 (-3) LA +20 reduces 12 to 0 (-12) 15 (3+12) healing applied 0 damage applied Player with 45/100 life would be healed for 15 ( min ( 100-45 , 15 ) ) life, resulting in 60 (45 + 15 - 0) life after damage applied (+15 life). Player with 90/100 life would be healed for 10 ( min ( 100-90 , 15 ) ) life, resulting in 100 (90 + 10 - 0) life after damage applied (+10 life). LR 75%, 20% LA and LA +20 would apply to 180 lightning damage as follows: LR 75% reduces 180 to 45 20% LA reduces 45 to 36 (-9) LA +20 reduces 36 to 16 (-20) 29 (9+20) healing applied 16 damage applied Player with 45/100 life would be healed for 29 ( min ( 100-45 , 29 ) ) life, resulting in 58 (45 + 29 - 16) life after damage applied (+13 life). Player with 90/100 life would be healed for 10 ( min ( 100-90 , 29 ) ) life, resulting in 84 (90 + 10 - 16) life after damage applied (-6 life). Reference Resistances (Arreat Summit) Special Magic Effects (Arreat Summit)