Melee Damage MitigationFollow

I asked this same question for hours and finally got a response...

Damage mitigation takes a percentage off of the damage range. So let's say for example I hit a target with a weapon that does 100-200 DMG. Damage mitigation takes a percentage off of the difference which is 100. Mitigation 1 = 40% off, Mitigation 2 = 60% off, Mitigation 3 = 80% off.

SO let's say you have ranged mitigation 3, and I hit you with my 100-200 scatter pistol. You would take 80% off of the range between 100 and 200, leaving you with 20. This means I can only hit you for 100-120 points of damage.

One more example so it totally makes sense...

Sword = 50-100 DMG, against a melee damage mitigation 1. We would take 40% off of the difference between 50 and 100, which is 40% of 50, or 20 points. We subtract the 20 points from the max dmg, and now my sword hits this person for a damage range of 50-80

As far as I understand, it works like this...

Defense mod>>Mitigation>>armor/resists.

The defense +# determines your likelihood of getting hit, and a high defense mod means you will rarely get hit. Following this, the damage range, if you ARE hit, will be reduced by mitigation, giving you a range of damage that you can be hit with. Following this, the value of the damage has the % resists of the armor you are wearing applied to it.

So, example time again. I fire my scatter pistol with 100-200 damage at a character with ranged damage mitigation 2, and he is also wearing armor with a 30% acid resist. Let us ignore the ranged defense mods, because we are ASSUMING that this attack connects. The 100-200 range is now reduced to a 100-140 damage range, so let's assume we hit for 130. This 130 damage hits the armor with a 30% acid resist, so we take 30% off of our total hit value, leaving us with 91, which is the final damage done to the character.

The only reason I am sure of this is because as of yesterday I was clueless about how mitigation interfaced with defense mods and armor and how they worked mathematically, so I searched all through the dev tracker and game guides on the official forums and found all this info from the horse's mouth.