How does crit works?

[Kaeldrick]

and absorb nullify crit dmg. Armor or resistance wont stack with absorb but toughness does.

This is not entirely true, let me correct a bit :

The mitigation sequence is as follow :

Toughness > Absorb > Dmg multipliers (crits and dmg reduction in %) > Armor / Magic resist > Guard

Toughness and absorb are efficient by reducing the damage part wich will crit, but will not completely avoid critical hits unless you absorb the whole damage (where the remaining damage is zero, thus cannot crit), but they cut off damage by a fixed amount (the main stat contribution to damage is equally neutered by same amount of toughness), while armor and resistances will cut remaining damage by a percentage.
Then the effective damage is applied to you, or split in half and applied (without further mitigation) to you and your guard.

Absorb is very efficient against high crit% and high crit damage, like sorcerers, since you will effectively multiply the absorbed amount of damage by the %crit damage (ie. with a 200% crit damage, your effective absorb value is doubled against all critical hits).

Thank you! I've been looking for the formula after the change on absobtion last year iirc.

[daje88]

Thank you all for the replies!