Damage modifications

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1) Is a little confusing if you don't space it out.

1. Apply PvP modifications. Damage is reduced to:

17% for
Player v Player
Hireling v Player
Minion v Player (player minion that is)

25% for:
Hireling v Hireling

50%/35%/25% (normal/night/hell) for:
Hireling v some kinds of bosses (not sure exactly which ones).
This is the percentage of of their real damage they do to act bosses (what I understood from PK).

+200% for
Some kind of bosses (not sure exactly which ones) v hirelings

+400% for
Some kind of bosses (not sure exactly which ones) v minions
Prime Evil's for both, I suspect (this I haven't seen discussed though).

For a player target, apply the difficulty penalty (-40/-100 in night/hell). The penalty is half that in classic and in expansion
after the completion of the appropriate quest.

You mean after completing Atma's quest it's 0 / -20 / -50 in the appropriate difficulty, not +10 per difficulty quest made?!?!

As note above, for some special cases/monsters, the resistance might be increased to 0% if below 0%. I don't know
anything more about this at the moment though.

Static Field + Conviction, and crushing blow?

10. Apply absorbtion. The absorbtion is caped at whatever ammout of damage still remain. That is, you can't absorb more
damage than there still remain at this step.

Ah, this I found to be true (not that you'd be wrong ;)) when trying out plain absorb for resist auras, I only absorbed 2 damage (because I had max fire resist) vs some fire spell.