Factor in differently or stack

Forestd16b14_ESO

OK I looked high and low on the forums and searched on google for a hour even ESO academy wasn't much help to answer my question....

Does hardy/elemental defender damage reduction factor in before resistance mitigation or does it just straight up stack with resistance mitigation.

So say got 30K resistance that's 45% mitigation and if you have 48 points into hardy which will reduce physical damage by 15% and you get hit by a 10K attack. Now would that 15% factor in first reducing the damage to 8500 and then resistance mitigation activates reducing that 8500 to 4675 or does hardy/elemental defender just stack with what ever mitigation you already have turning that 45% to 60% mitigation (which isn't real cause Wrobel logic).

davey1107

I haven't calculated this, but in the recent patch notes they specifically say they want percent buffs to be additive and not multiplicative.

Sharee

Hardy/elemental defender reduce the damage done to your shields, so they have to be calculated separately from normal resistances (normal resistances do not reduce damage done to shields).

lolo_01b16_ESO

All different sources of mitigation stack multiplicative or at least used to do it before the last patch, but I assume they didn't change it. Everything else would be stupid as it would allow people to get 100% mitigation.