Damage reduction

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Noob question, do damage reduction talents affects only Auto Attack dmg or affect both ablity and aa dgm?

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Armor that doesn’t specifically say AA or spell damage tend to be both. Like Garrosh’s trait, it’s flat armor to any damage.

If it blocks AA, the talent/trait/ect. will tell you it blocks a percentage of AA. Like Block talent on multiple heroes.

Same applies to Spell. Like spell armor.

If I remember correctly, percentage base damage will not be reduced by any thing. Like Malth or Greymane bullet.

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Debuffs will specify whether they reduce just spell power or damage in general. If it says it reduces spell power it only affects abilities, but if it says it reduces damage then it affects abilities and AAs.

I’m not sure if “spell power reduction” also reduces healing output, but I don’t think it does (but I kinda think it should).

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If it says damage reduction and nothing else assume all damage.

If it’s not all damage, it’s going to specify as spell damage or basic attack damage.

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Damage reduction affect everything but %damage if i am not wrong.

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  • Armor: all damage except percent damage
  • Physical/AA: AA damage
  • Spell: damage from abilities (“spells”)
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spell armor reduces the purple numbers
physical armor reduces the orange numbers
armor reduces all colors of numbers
% health damage is the exception. nothing can reduce that.

some weird cases where that matters:
physical armor will reduce the damage of some of mieves talents
spell armor will reduce that one orphea talent that makes her aa do spell damage.

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I think spell power does reduce healing, at least I remember hearing that, it could have been changed and I over looked it.

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It does. That’s why Mind numbing agent on Ana was so strong in the beginning. Enemy healer had a permanent 75 % heal penalty.

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Also combined with overdoes effecting grenade to also apply 2 stacks along with dart did not help.

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Just put it this way if damage or armor didn’t have a specification of being effective against spell or physical you can straight assume that it affects all damage.

It’s either physical, spell or both.

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Changed wording for clarification purposes.

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Morales has one of those talents, when you hit a grenade the enemy deals a flat 30% less damage. Both physical and spell, since it just says “damage”.