Quote Originally Posted by Donjo View Post
Oh, good. You've almost figured it out. Activating Rampart(20% damage reduction) reduces the severity of attacks, but it's not the only thing that makes attacks less severe. All of this does too:

Shields(Known as Damage Absorption, as they are functionally just a chuck of invisible HP added on top of your current total.)
Blocks/Parries
Defense
Raw Health

Anything you can apply to yourself that makes an attack less likely to kill you is Mitigation. To put it in another term that people like to use, anything that increases your Effective HP is Mitigation. Damage Reduction is merely part of the equation, not the entire subject.

I understand your stretch of the word. But you contradicted yourself.

Mitigation can been see as reduced damage or reduced % of health. But mitigation is always a reduction.

I am in the reduced damage corner like most people, but of course you could stretch all boundaries of eHP to make your argument make sense.