Need informations about reflected damages

[AndrewTilley]

Perhaps this will help clear up some things:

@AndrewTilley

5.23 Reflect Damage

Reflect damage has many unique traits that set it apart from all other types of damage in Last Epoch. Unlike hit damage or damage over time, reflected damage does neither and instead directly reduces health and/or ward without going through the full damage calculation. As a result of this, reflect damage itself cannot be reflected. Reflect damage will also not apply ailments or leech health. However, it can still proc on-kill effects if it kills the attacker.

Reflect damage doesn’t have a damage type tag, it is just simply ‘damage’. If an enemy deals fire damage and has high fire resistance, the reflected damage won’t be affected by the enemies fire resistance because it no longer has a damage type tag. In fact, reflected damage will ignore all enemy mitigations except for more/less/increased damage taken modifiers (e.g. 30% more damage taken) and adaptive boss mitigation. The list of enemy mitigations that are ignored include; resistances, armour, endurance, block, dodge, glancing blow, as well as the damage reduction enemies gain from area level (which is substantial at later levels).

Reflect damage comes in the form of either flat “X Damage Reflected to Attackers” or “X% Damage Reflected”. These stats operate independent of each other and one does not scale the other. The “X% Damage Reflected” stat is calculated after mitigation, so it only reflects the percentage of damage received after all forms of player damage mitigation have been calculated.

For example, if you have both “20 Damage Reflected to Attackers” and “50% Damage Reflected” and you receive 100 damage (after all your damage mitigation layers have been applied) you would reflect 70 damage (20 + 50) back to your attacker.

Reflect damage cannot be scaled, so it’s unaffected by all modifiers (i.e. increases to global damage, specific damage types, etc). Currently, the only exception to this is the Thornshell shield, which increases flat “X Damage Reflected to Attackers” per Attunement.