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 Absorb decreases damage then heals life equivalent to that damage decrease, after resistance has been applied. 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. The net result depends on current life at time of healing: actual healing = min(maximum life - current life , total damage absorbed), so maximum healing only occurs when current life ≤ maximum life - total damage absorbed. There is a ceiling of 40% Absorb, so there can never be a net life gain from % Absorb. Thus it performs a similar function to resistance, so when current life ≤ maximum life - total damage absorbed, effective percentage damage decrease as a result of resistance and percentage Absorb is as follows: Percentage damage decrease = Resist + (100-Resist * Absorb/50) 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% So for example, Resist 75% and 20% Absorb can reduce damage by 85%, equivalent to Resist 85% (so 20% Absorb is equivalent to +10% Maximum Resist with Resist +10%). However, when Resist -125% is applied, Resist 85% is decreased to -40%: when applied to Resist 75% and 20% Absorb, it is decreased to -50%, increasing damage from 15% to 150%; 150% damage can be decreased by 20% Absorb (30% damage) then equivalent healing (30% damage) is applied, decreasing 150% damage to 90%; 90% damage is equivalent to Resist 10% (or (75-125) + (100-(75-125) * 20/50) ). Some more examples: Lightning Resist 75%, 20% Lightning Absorb and Lightning Absorb +20 would apply to 60 lightning damage as follows: LR 75% decreases 60 to 15 20% LA decreases 15 to 12 (-3) LA +20 decreases 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% decreases 180 to 45 20% LA decreases 45 to 36 (-9) LA +20 decreases 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)