Damage Mitigation Question

Texecutioner187

I've been reading up on damage mitigation overall and wanted to understand further where it all came from and how it worked. I feel like this will be a thread that will warrant @paulsimonps chiming in at some point lol.

I understand blocking mitigates 50% of the damage, and resistance accounts for approximately 15% each 10k resistance... So assuming you're blocking with resistances capped, you're at approximately 75% mitigation (I'm using this calc: https://jscalc.io/calc/fiasVNPSGsOdmsF6)

So a 100k hit with resistance capped while blocking will only do 25k damage based on the above formula(if correct). I have a few questions based on the preceding information:

1. How is Stamina consumption calculated for blocking?
2. Is there a cap to damage mitigation?
3. If there is no cap, what are additional ways to mitigate 100% of the damage? I assume there has to be some sort of cap otherwise everyone would be mitigating 100% of the damages...
4. Is there anything else I'm missing when it comes to general damage mitigation and factors that impact it? I know there are formulas out there, but I've been unable to follow them precisely enough to understand what they are referencing. (Once math started using letters, I just gave it up altogether ).

paulsimonps

1. Current block cost formula:

BLOCK COST=(Base*((100-CP)/100)*((100-#Sturdy*Strength of Sturdy)/100)*((100-Fortress)/100)*((100-Alteration Mastery)/100)-(#Enchants*Strength of Enchants))*((100-Defensive Posture)/100)

Base cost is currently 2160 stamina or magicka, also for this obviously Fortress would be swapped with Ancient Knowledge if you use a Frost Staff, which is 30% while Fortress is 36%

2. No, damage mitigation is calculated in such a way that you can never reach 100%. However you can get really close, but doing so is not easy and not really suggested, as well it usually only lasts for a little bit with the help of ultimate's or proc sets.

3. There is a list of mitigation sources here:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/279426/damage-mitigation-explanation-and-list-of-options/p1

I know I have not updated it recently but 99% of it is accurate, only really the resistance list that is out of date as far as I know, will get around to that eventually.

4. The formula in my thread should be easy enough for you, just replace the words with what the percentages of all the things are, or any other number that should be in its place.