I wanted to dedicate a thread to this, because the other thread I started might not catch the attention of Zmax folks. It appears as though, after the damage is absorbed, the remaining damage might not be mitigated by your armor/spell resistance. I just got Sun Shield, and some of the hits I am taking are taking too large of a chunk of health for it to be absorbed and mitigated by passives.
I don't currently have the means to test this, so can Zmax look in to this, and possible have players test it and see what they come up with? This could be an issue with all absorb shields after the patch, so wouldn't hurt to test them all, however, it makes sense that Sun shield is broken altogether since it was just recently reworked in the last patch and there seems to be other issues with it as well.
Edited by Troponin on 14 August 2014 21:27