How does fire absorb work?

[Tok]

How does fire absorb work?

I found a 15% fire absorb ring, how does it work? If i have 75% fire resistance, what would happend when i got hit by fire?

 

[krischan]

Re: How does fire absorb work?

1. Apply resists
2. Apply % absorb on the remainder.
3. Apply fixed absorb on the remainder.

For example, 800 damage gets reduced to 200 from 75% res. The remainder is subject to 15% absorb which will negate 15% of 200 = 30, making it 170 damage and if the character survives that, he will be healed by these 30 points.

% absorb is capped at 40% while there's no cap on fixed absorb.

 

[Pitboss_2000]

Re: How does fire absorb work?

http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/basics/resistances.shtml

Scroll all the way down to get to 'Absorb'.

Or, from this thread:

Actually absorb is occurs before the damage is taken, and absorb takes part of the damage and converts it to health.

For example if you take 1000 fire damage and have 40% fire absorb:
100 fire damage – 40% fire absorb = 600 fire damage
40% fire absorb = 400 life

The problem is if you have max life when take the hit, the damage absorbed will “overflow” and you end up just losing 600 hit points.
If your current life is (max life-400) then you absorb 400 points and lose 600, ending up “losing” only 200 health points. In this case absorb works at double rate, ending up reducing damage twice the amount of absorb.

If you add 50% fire resist then the damage = 500 ; 40% absorb = 200; damage reduced by absorb = 300 ; damage taken = 300 -200 = 100

In the case of % absorb, a mid % resist necessary to fully exploit the benefits. On the other hand , + xx absorb is best used when you have a high % resist.

 

[Tok]

Re: How does fire absorb work?

Ah, so then it isnt super good, thanks for the info.

 

[lumpor]

Re: How does fire absorb work?

If you have low resists and you can get it cheaply, it's good