damage taken goes to mana

[ThatWasShockin]

Could someone explain how this works to me.

[pedu]

A percentage of the physical damage you take is added to your mana pool. It doesnt take away damage.

ex:

You get hit for 1000 damage. With 50% dr, and 14 dr you take 486 damage. With 50% damage to mana your mana pool gaines 243 mana. But you still take 486 damage.

[thegiantturtle]

You get hit for 1000 damage. With 50% dr, and 14 dr you take 486 damage. With 50% damage to mana your mana pool gaines 243 mana. But you still take 486 damage.You'd actually take 493 damage and gain 246 mana. The straight dr (commonly called pdr) comes before %dr:(1000 - 14) * (1-.5) = 493

[batuchka]

Well i had a funny experience in 1.10 with my stun-bash barb. I used a nightsmoke belt which had 50% dtm. The thing is i was always warcrying packs and using stun combat skill on individual targets such that that dtm was worthless cos most of the time every monster is very likely looking dumb stunned and not inflicting any damage on me hehe Or with really strong baddies i howl and bash the dangerous superunique to death :P