Damage modifications

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3. In which order are Energy Shield, Bone Armor and Cyclone Armor applied?

All I know is that they all seem to take effect before resistances.

4. How is piercing resistances of immune monsters handled?

There are four skills which can break immunities: amplify damage, lower resists, conviction and decrepify. In each case, they have 1/5 effectiveness against immune monsters.

The resistance piercing effect, from cold mastery and from -% resistance items, has no effect on immune monsters. However, if the immunity was broken by one of the above, they'll work normally. The effect is always a straight subtraction.

5. Are there effects that prevent Amplify Damage and Lower Resistance and other skills from piercing immunities?

Since the effectiveness is reduced to 1/5 against immunes, sufficiently high resistances will let immune monsters stay immune. For example, amplify damage is -20% against PIs, so anything with 120% or more physical resistance will stay immune.