Like they said, maximize your lightning resist, if the pally has a -175% conviction, you must have 75%+175% LR to get the most from your resistance. Likewise, you can use some maximum resist uppers to help lower the damage(Tgods, iratha's set, darkglow,guardian angel). If you are looking for absorb, go with the highest % absorb you can get, vs a number absorb.
Lightsaber goes a long way, it will effectively make you take 50% less damage from lightning
(25% of the damage is added to health from absorb, and that healing knocks off a coresponding 25% from the damage total).
For those unsure of how th absorb works, try it on a barb dual weilding lightsabers- he is 100% immune to lightning. I've tried it, he was immune to conviction LEBs. I'd assume that you must have enough initial health to surive the reduced blow, before the healing comes into effect. for example if an attack would have done 1000 damage, a lightsaber will reduce it to 750 damage, then add 250 pts to your life, netting you 500 damage total.
EDIT: Oh yes, before someone informed puts up a good order of calculations, I'll just mention that absorb definitely seems to go AFTER resists for me. A tgods or blackhorns(both have +20 lightning absorb), will make you immune to lebs and mslebs in hell, but a conviction leb will still waste you. I take that to mean that resists are taken into acount first.
Lightsaber goes a long way, it will effectively make you take 50% less damage from lightning
(25% of the damage is added to health from absorb, and that healing knocks off a coresponding 25% from the damage total).
For those unsure of how th absorb works, try it on a barb dual weilding lightsabers- he is 100% immune to lightning. I've tried it, he was immune to conviction LEBs. I'd assume that you must have enough initial health to surive the reduced blow, before the healing comes into effect. for example if an attack would have done 1000 damage, a lightsaber will reduce it to 750 damage, then add 250 pts to your life, netting you 500 damage total.
EDIT: Oh yes, before someone informed puts up a good order of calculations, I'll just mention that absorb definitely seems to go AFTER resists for me. A tgods or blackhorns(both have +20 lightning absorb), will make you immune to lebs and mslebs in hell, but a conviction leb will still waste you. I take that to mean that resists are taken into acount first.