Damage taken as

Not to be confused with Damage conversion or Damage taken.

Damage taken as is a mechanic that allows damage from one damage type to be taken as another damage type.

Mechanics

On the receiving side, damage may be taken as a different type. This is done before any sort of mitigation. It is important to note that this is not damage conversion. The shifted part of damage does not retain its original damage property so it won't get mitigated either twice or by the more favourable method. For example, if some of the incoming damage is shifted to or from physical, the after-shift value is used in the armour calculation.

Damage taken as is calculated simultaneously, this means that the incoming damage can be shifted to any other type of damage. For example has #% of Fire Damage from Hits taken as Physical Damage, this modifier wouldn't have worked if it was a converted to-process.

Since damage taken as does all calculations simultaneously this also means that the initial damage can not be shifted any further.

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For example with and Avian Twins Talisman with #% of Fire Damage taken as Lightning Damage equipped the incoming physical damage will be shifted to fire damage but the fire damage cannot be further shifted to lightning damage. Because both of these operations would be performed simultaneously on the initial physical damage hit. So we'd be trying to take fire damage as lightning damage before any fire damage exists.

Initial hit: 100 Physical Damage 0 Lightning Damage 0 Cold Damage 0 Fire Damage 0 Chaos Damage	⇗	20% Physical Damage taken as Fire Damage	⇒	100 * 0.80 = 80 Physical Damage 100 * 0.20 = 20 Fire Damage
	⇘	50% of Fire Damage taken as Lightning Damage	⇒	0 * 0.50 = 0 Fire Damage 0 * 0.50 = 0 Lightning Damage

Note that damaging ailments are based on damage being dealt, not on damage taken. Changing what type damage is taken as has no effect on them. For example, when you have x% of Physical Damage from Hits taken as Fire Damage and physical damage is dealt to you, the converted fire damage never ignites you even if you have +100% chance to be Ignited. Non-damaging ailments such as shock or chill will still be applied upon converting the incoming damage to lightning and cold damage respectively.^{[citation needed]}

This mechanic is useful against elemental penetration, especially against many boss attacks like Atziri's Flameblast (10% Fire penetration) or The Shaper's projectiles and bullet hell (25% Cold penetration), because for example if you have 50% Cold damage taken as Fire, then with a 1000 Cold hit and 75/75/75 res you would only take 500 * (1 - 0.75) + 500 * (1 - 0.75 + 0.25) = 375 damage instead of 1000 * (1 - 0.75 + 0.25) = 500 damage. If you manage to convert 100% of the penetrated element into another element then you can completely nullify the effect of penetration (in the above example, a 1000 Cold hit would be taken as a 1000 Fire hit and mitigated with 75% Fire resist, resulting in 250 final damage taken).

Related items

Talismans

These talisman basetypes can also have Damage taken as:

Mods

Essence

• The can reroll a body armour into a rare with the guaranteed mod .

Synthesis implicit

The following Synthesis implicit mods can only be found on Synthesis unique items, or on rare/magic/normal item if the league has mechanics to drop/acquire :

Drop-only mods

• The Redblade warbands can drop helmets with the mod .

• The following mods can only be found on helmets from specific Delve areas:

• The following mods can be found on helmet in a chest of level 3 incursion room Crucible of Flame (there are additional way to acquire league-specific item including rare items with incursion mods).

Legacy

The following Incursion mods can only be found on legacy items in the permanent leagues:

Passive skills

There are passive skills that related to Damage taken as:

Timeless jewel passives

• Divine Flesh (from ) gives All Damage taken bypasses Energy Shield, 50% of Elemental Damage taken as Chaos Damage, +5% to maximum Chaos Resistance.
• Tempered by War (from ) gives 50% of Cold and Lightning Damage taken as Fire Damage, 50% less Cold Resistance, 50% less Lightning Resistance.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.10.0	Physical Damage taken as Chaos/Fire/Cold/Lightning modifiers are now mutually exclusive. The "of Puhuarte" modifier now grants 3 to 5% of physical damage taken as an element (from 9 to 10%). it if you'd rather be taking more physical damage.
3.6.0	You can no longer roll or craft more than one "X% of Physical Damage taken as Fire/Cold/Lightning" mod on a single item.
Unknown	Introduced to the game.