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).