Armor vs resistance

[Omega Blue]

Say some enemy tosses a 100-point lightning bolt at you.

You have a steel plate armor that gives you 11% lightning resistance. So, would the lightning bolt be reduced by 11%, which gives it a strength 89 attack, then subtract your armor value (say 20, from various sources) from it, making it a 69 point bolt at the end?

[Final Master]

Currently, armor only effects 'physical' attacks, meaning it only reduces melee attacks - and if I remember correctly, only melee attacks that deal physical damage.

[Sirrocco]

Armor affect missile attacks as well. High armor makes archers a lot less of a threat. I believe that it affects elemental attachments to melee damage, but I can't say that for sure.

In those cases where a resistance and an armor both apply, I believe that the armor applies first - in fact, I seem to recall someone mentioning that armor applied even before the damage multipliers for enemy skills.

[Final Master]

I thought ranged def was the equivalent of armor for missile style attacks.

[Sirrocco]

Nope. Ranged defense is the equivalent of defense for ranged attacks.

[Hachem_Muche]

Armor does work against most elemental melee attacks. For example. red dragon hatchlings will hit you for 0.00 fire damage if your armor is high enough.

[Final Master]

Man, I totally screwed up with my responses on this thread. I obviously have not been paying as much attention in game as I thought I had been.