Mitigation types

[Supersnow845]

Between defense up and damage down I've been told that the latter may not work on attacks that involve bosses using adds, like Shadowed Messengers in P11S.

That is correct, I guess that does count as a point of difference, damage down on the boss only works if the boss actually does an attack, something like the icicles in junction shiva in E12S doesn’t originate from the boss so only defence up works while boss damage down doesn’t