Quote Originally Posted by Phreak View Post
It's all in your head unfortunately, I've tested this several times across many different classes with/without them wearing armor/buffs etc. I always take damage equal to what they were taking prior to using cover on them.
Last time I can remember randomly testing it was in WP last week with a SCH buddy - on the Stalker, because that's about the only time in regular gameplay that I encounter an event where hate runs wild and I can't just use Provoke instead of Cover.

I definitely took less raw damage than they did, but I can't recall offhand if that was due to Blocks/Parries kicking in rather than Shield Oath, extra passive +Defence or any active cooldowns. I suppose it could be coded to treat the damage from Cover as a raw HP decrease unaffected by resistance buffs (like Bloodbath's raw HP increase unaffected by healing buffs), but that seems a little odd to me.

We're doing Coil tonight, but we should have time afterwards for me to double-check this for both Physical and Magic damage.

(I hate to be someone who states the equivalent of "Pics or it didn't happen", but the amount of times I've seen people state they've used the Cover + Hallowed combo makes me wary to just take your - or anyone's - word for it...)