DamageStage

Remarks

Doc 28 § Combat's own list, and the order is the whole of the opinion: Compute → Crit → Mitigate → Absorb → Apply → React. A game inserts a rule at a named point rather than replacing the pipeline — G-Q4, decided in favour of extensible, because a wholesale replacement gets a game a pipeline with none of the tested edge cases and no way back.

⚠ Absorb after mitigate is not arbitrary. A shield that soaked the pre-mitigation number would be worth several times its face value against an armoured target and nothing against a naked one, which is not what anybody writing "absorbs 500 damage" means.

Fields and properties (6)

• Compute

  What the ability is worth, before anything happens to it.

• Crit

  Whether it crit, and what that multiplies it by.

• Mitigate

  What armour, resistance and reductions take off.

• Absorb

  What shields soak, out of what is left.

• Apply

  What actually happens to the target's health.

• React

  What the world does about it: threat, procs, interrupts, death.

Used by (13)

• BaseDamageRuleVixen.Gameplay.Combat
• CancellerVixen.Gameplay.Combat.Tests
• CriticalStrikeRuleVixen.Gameplay.Combat
• DamagePipelineVixen.Gameplay.Combat
• DamagePipelineTestsVixen.Gameplay.Combat.Tests
• HalverVixen.Gameplay.Combat.Tests
• HealthRuleVixen.Gameplay.Combat
• IDamageRuleVixen.Gameplay.Combat
• NumberedVixen.Gameplay.Combat.Tests
• RecorderVixen.Gameplay.Combat.Tests
• ResistanceRuleVixen.Gameplay.Combat
• ShieldAbsorbRuleVixen.Gameplay.Combat
• ThreatRuleVixen.Gameplay.Combat