Best I can tell, the order in which they were placed on a target determines which one triggers first. But there are still some idiosyncrasies that aren't quite so easily to define.....
1. If Shielding Hands is placed, followed immediately by SoA, I assume Shielding Hands reduces it's damage first, followed by SoA. But what happens when the target takes damage less than the amount Shielding Hands reduces (like a hit of 8 damage). Shielding Hands will obviously reduce that damage to 0, but will SoA count that as a "hit" and increase its damage reduction of the next hit to 10 even though it didn't do any damage reducing? Or will SoA's damage reduction stay put at 5 for the next hit.
If it does count that as a hit, then the order in which they are placed makes no difference. But if it doesn't count that as a hit, then it's much better to place SoA before Shielding Hands I would think.
I ask this question because my hero/henchie monk/s and/or I sometimes overlap these 2 skills.
2. What happens when you cast RoF on a target who already has SoA or Shielding Hands on them? Does RoF only reverse the damage that makes it though SoA/Shielding Hands (which might be 0 in SoA's case)? Or will it reverse the damage before the damage reduction from SoA/Shielding Hands is calculated?
If the former is true, then casting RoF on a target with SoA on them would be pretty pointless.
I ask this question because heroes/Lina sometimes like to cast RoF as a heal on targets already enchanted with SoA/Shielding Hands.
3. What happens when you cast SoA/Shielding Hands on a target who already has RoF on them? If RoF triggers and reduces the damage taken to 0 before any damage reduction from SoA/Shielding Hands, then the same question as #1 applies: does SoA count it as a "hit" and increase it's reduction of the next hit by 5 even though RoF reversed the entire hit?
4. When casting RoF/SoA/Shielding Hands on a target who already has Prot Spirit on them, I assume Prot Spirit will always reduce the damage to 10% max health before anything else is calculated. But what if Prot Spirit happens to be cast after RoF on the target with 500HP who then takes 100 damage (with RoF @ 11 prot). Will Prot Spirit still trigger first, reducing the damage to 50 before RoF reverses the rest (target takes 0 damage)? Or, since RoF was cast first, will RoF reverse 63 damage, leaving 37 damage which makes it though Prot Spirit (target takes 37 damage)?
I ask this question because if the latter is true, then I need to stop casting RoF --> PS on targets in trouble and instead cast PS --> RoF.
Sorry for the long, complicated post, but I'm having trouble finding conclusive answers to these 4 questions on the battlefield.
Any help would be appreciated.
