Questions about Damage Reduction

[XCodes]

1) When you have both Damage Reduced by X and Damage Reduced by X%, what gets applied first?

2) I know Damage Reduced by X% mods are capped at 50% for characters, but what about Hirelings?

3) Can you exceed the 50% Damage Reduction cap with Fade?

4) Can a combination of 50% Damage Reduction and static Damage Reduction reduce an attack's damage below 50% of it's normal damage?

5) In what order are Magic Damage Reduced by X, Magic Absorb, and Resistance applied?

[sequoia]

1) DR by X gets applied before DR%. For this reason, it's pretty pointless to try to stack them. Reducing 100 incoming damage by 75 and then reducing it by 75% is not worth the effort (the latter part).

2) dunno :(

3) Doubt it, but can't say 100%

4) Definitely, you can actually completely reduce incoming damage to near zero. Integer damage reduce is much more effective for PvM, DR% for PvP. This is the basis of SSoG's Abbott build.

5) shrug

[stephan]

1) http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=552199&highlight=order+damage+reduction

2) Hirelings have the same caps as normal characters.

3) Yes and no. No, you can't have more than 50% effectively, but you can stack %DR like you do with resistances (against amp or decrep). Although, this doesn't have anything to do Fade in particular.

4) Yes.

5) see 1.

[XCodes]

That's what I thought... well, that shoots my ideas to hell. =/

Thanks anyway.