Return of Reckoning

Azarael wrote: ↑Sun Aug 05, 2018 10:52 am Absorbs are applied after the offensive stat is added, but before any other part of the damage calculation, including armor and resistance. This makes them very effective against significant damage bonuses on magical attacks (such as from BW and Sorc critical damage bonus modifiers) where the resistance mitigation is likely to be low because of debuffs, and the bonus damage mod is extremely high. They are also more useful if you're heavily armor debuffed. However, the more damage is dissipated by detaunt, Challenge, Crippling Strikes, outgoing damage debuffs on the target, incoming damage reduction on you, armor, resistance, etc, the worse shields become, to the point where the amount of actual damage the shield saves can be one tenth of the shield's actual value. Something like Phantom's Blade saves you about 100 actual damage per proc, for example, in most cases.

Azarael wrote: ↑Sun Aug 05, 2018 10:52 am (...)
They are also more useful if you're heavily armor debuffed. However, the more damage is dissipated (...) the worse shields become, to the point where the amount of actual damage the shield saves can be one tenth of the shield's actual value.(...)

I'm not sure if I get this right. If you have a high mitigation your shield absorbs "less" because the dmg it held back would have been heavily reduced anyway ?

And what about crits? I read several times in /ad and in some threads here, that an absorbed skill can't crit. I however have made some testing and got critted while beeing shielded. The vanilla dmg would have been absorb, but due to the crit some came through.