I'm starting this thread because I don't believe anyone has truly worked out the formula for how avoidance and mitigation are calculated and how they can affect reactives and healing spells. I would like to hear anyone's theories about how these two elements affect the role and effectiveness of the healer classes. Your theories do not have to be set in stone and you do not have to have exact formulas. Just a few statements based on your personal observations is fine.
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One thing I've found in observation is that ward damage absorption is calculated before Mitigation but after Avoidance. When getting hit, I constantly see it absorbing horrendous amounts of damage. When the ward drops, the average damage I recieve is nowhere close to what the ward was taking. I don't know if this is completely true, since when I cast the ward on others, their own statistics do seem to get calculated before the ward. Has anyone else noticed anything similar to this?
Edited, Tue Mar 22 03:06:09 2005 by mageofrage