Talk:Prisoner's Chain/@comment-81.207.99.58-20160729183436/@comment-4511886-20160729225701

I think absorption reductions are applied before armor values, and then the awkward caps on absorption does some work to skew the results. However, absorption boosts apply after armor, with some form of exponent that reduces the effect the higher the current absorption is.

It's mostly just guess-work based on observations, but it could be a good lead if you're trying to figure out how to calculate this stuff.