It's supposed to be absorbing 40% of damage over 11,000. It seems to be only mitigating about 18% of damage. I went into Sul, stripped all my damage mitigation things off and the max hit was 19871. I popped Dichotomic shielding on and the max hit was 16323. 16323 / 19871 = .821. Proficiency is definitely working. The max hit went from 19871 to 14555 which is about right in line with what I expected. Anyone else test Dichotomic out?
sounds like it works correctly based on your numbers. 19871-11000 = 8871 x 0.6 = 5322.6 + 11000 = 16322.6 40% reduction is only applied to the amount of dmg over 11k.
Ah yeah, I wasn't even thinking like that. Those darn threshold runes get me every time. I always forget that Nevermind then, nothing to see here people!
Curious. If you have proficiency and shining on, which is 40%, will the mitigation portion of shielding even do anything on damage >11k?
Defensive proficiency is increase Melee mitigation so it stacks with Dichotomic shielding and shining which are both absorb Melee Damage, but they do not stack. Generally the higher % is the one that counts. In this instance that would be Dichotomic Shielding. I have been to lazy to parse out threshold stacking with non threshold buffs. I cannot tell you if you get a hit less than 11k the 10% absorption of shining will kick in, or if the game still thinks you have 40% shielding from Dichotomic protecting you, though not meeting the threshold so no absorption is made.
Somebody is going to have to parse it to be sure but i suspect proficiency and shielding stack while shining and shielding do not stack. so on hits over 11k the mitigation will come from shieldings 40% and none from shining and it would be the reverse for hits lower than 11k. I'm not a warrior or I'd parse it myself.
The simplest way to test it would be to ask a cleric for a low level vie and then use shielding. if the vie fades than it was probably being used on hits lower than 11k.
