Magic absorb absorbs all kinds of elemental damage, as well as magic damage.

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There are a variety of different methods of obtaining damage reduction, and these methods can be simply grouped into several categories: Resist, Numerical Reduction, and Absorb.

Numerical Reduction is applied first, then resist, and lastly absorb (blocking works by a separate mechanic).

For PvP, resistances are often of utmost importance as well.

Physical resistance is harder to come by and is most often seen used by high-level characters.

Items such as the Stormshield, a unique shield with 35 Physical resistance, are often viewed as standard end equipment by many builds.

There is only one item in the game that provides percentage-based magic resistance: the crafted Safety Shield, which adds 5-10 Magic Resistance.

If a character has 200 fire resistance, only 75 will be effective (or up to 95 depending on items), and if a monster has a Conviction Aura that reduces his fire resistance by 75, he will still have 125 fire resistance left.

In this case, that will leave the player with exactly the same effective resistance: 75.

Likewise, if a player has 0 fire resistance and is affected by the same aura, he will receive -75 fire resistance, causing him to take additional damage from that element.

Thanks to the resistance cap, a player can never be immune to an element.

However, unlike players, monsters resistances are not capped, and therefore they can become immune to an element if their resistance is high enough.

Monsters become immune to an element when their resistance reaches or exceeds 100.

An immunity can be broken by any skill that lowers resistances, with the exception of Cold Mastery, which cannot break cold immunity.

However, when a skill breaks an immunity, it only functions at 15 effectiveness.

Since these skills function at a reduced potency when breaking an immunity, it is possible for a monster to have an unbreakable immunity.

This occurs when a monsters resistances reach or exceed 144 Cold, Fire, or Lightning resistance, 120 Physical resistance, or 114 Poison resistance.

There is no cap to how much a player can get in numerical reduction, so in theory it should be possible to acquire so much that one cannot be damaged by a specific damage type.

It is hardly practical to do so however, and would likely reduce the quality of gear so much that the killing speed of a character would be severely hurt.

Suffice to say this can be very powerful, if coupled with enough normal resist.

Absorbs can be found in numerical- or percentage-based forms.

There are four types of absorb: fire, cold, lightning, and magic.

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