Physical Resistance Rating

Overview
Physical Resistance Rating (abbreviated PRR) is a form of damage mitigation that was introduced with Update 14.

It provides a percentage reduction in physical damage (bludgeoning, slashing, and piercing), and is granted through multiple sources (items, feats, enhancements) and stacks with itself. Multiple effects granting an Enhancement bonus to Physical Resistance do not stack. Character sheets show the Physical Resistance Rating of the player next to the elemental resistances.

PRR is applied after damage reduction. The PRR is applied to the damage that passes through the DR and is always rounded down. As such If a player would take 20 damage before DR or PRR and has 10 DR and 60 PRR (37.5% reduction), the result is:
 * (20 - 10) * 37.5% = 3.75 rounded down to 3
 * 3 damage is resisted

Formula
The formula for calculating damage mitigation for physical damage was changed in Update 23. The new formula is: 100/(100+Rating). Incoming damage is multiplied by this number.

Example: A character is hit for 100 points of damage.
 * 0 PRR takes full damage, 100 points.
 * 20 PRR takes 16.67% less damage, 83 points.
 * 100 PRR takes 50% less damage, 50 points.

Items

 * Physical Resistance Rating offered by armor type / docent body feat / shield type:


 * Note: Stacks with the Sheltering enhancement
 * Note: PRR bonuses from armor only apply to armor with which you are proficient


 * See Category:Sheltering items
 * Enhancement bonus:
 * items with the Sheltering enchantment (up to +45)
 * items augmented with a Sapphire of Physical Resistance (up to +16)
 * Slave Lords Crafting items: Prefix(Blue) slot can have +12(Heroic) or +45(Legendary) Sheltering augment
 * Artifact bonus:
 * Planar Focus of Prowess grants +15 PRR when in a set with a Planar Conflux.
 * Slave Lords Crafting: Slave's Endurance Set Bonus grants +1/+2 PRR (Heroic) or +2/+4 PRR (Legendary). Values are for 3-piece/5-piece sets.
 * Ravenloft item sets
 * Insight bonus:
 * item with Insightful Sheltering (such as, up to +5)
 * item with Insightful Physical Sheltering (up to +22)
 * Quality bonus:
 * item with Quality Physical Sheltering (up to +11)
 * Luck bonus: Unbreakable Adamancy set bonus, +5
 * Mythic bonus: Mythic Boost items (on armor, shield, boots, back, head, neck, wrist), up to +4
 * Reaper bonus

Feats
Fighter
 * Heavy Armor Training +3
 * Heavy Armor Combatant +6
 * Heavy Armor Master +9
 * Heavy Armor Champion +12

Heroic
 * Ever Watchful - bonus equal to the number of Religious Lore feats you have, situationally
 * Greater Rage +10 when Barbarian raging in medium armor
 * Natural Fighting +4
 * Shield Mastery +3/+5/+10 when using a buckler or small shield / large shield / tower shield
 * Improved Shield Mastery +5/+10/+15
 * Two Weapon Defense +5 when you wield two weapons (not unarmed/handwraps)

Past lives
 * Past Life: Purple Dragon Knight: +3, stacks 3 times
 * Epic PL in Divine sphere: +3, stacks 3 times per type, up to +27

Destiny
 * Deific Warding +10, up to +30 situationally
 * Dreamscape +15 situationally
 * Guardian Angel +PRR equal to Wisdom score, situationally

Epic
 * Epic Damage Reduction +10

Legendary


 * Scion of Elysium +25 for summons / hirelings
 * Scion of Limbo +30 situationally
 * Scion of the Plane of Earth +20
 * Scion of the Plane of Fire +10

Monk stances
 * Lesser Mountain Stance +3
 * Mountain Stance +8
 * Greater Mountain Stance +12
 * Ultimate Mountain Stance +15

Bladeforged enhancements

 * Communion of Warding +4/+8/+12 Physical Resistance Rating

Deep Gnome enhancements

 * Hardy Nature +1/+2/+3

Dragonborn enhancements

 * Harder Scales +2/+4/+6

Deepwood Stalker enhancements

 * Survivalist I-III: up to +12 in light armor

Eldritch Knight enhancements

 * Improved Shield improves the Physical Resistance Rating by 3/6/10 while under the effects of the Shield spell.

Henshin Mystic enhancements

 * Each core enhancement grants +3 PRR.

Pale Master enhancements

 * Bone Armor improves the Physical Resistance Rating by 3/6/10 while under the effect of Shroud of the Zombie, Vampire, or Lich.

Ravager enhancements

 * Ritual Scarring improves the Physical Resistance Rating by 1/2/3.

Sacred Defender enhancements

 * Sacred Defense: +10 Physical Resistance
 * Improved Sacred Defense - Durable Defense: When in Sacred Defense, you gain +5/+10/+15 Sacred bonus to Physical Resistance Rating.
 * Redemption: +5 Physical Resistance
 * Glorious Stand: +5 Physical Resistance
 * Eternal Defender: +5 Physical Resistance
 * Harbored by Light: You gain +10/15/25 Physical Resistance Rating.

Shintao enhancements

 * Iron Skin improves the Physical Resistance Rating by 5/10/20.
 * Meditation of War improves the Physical Resistance Rating while under Mountain Stance by 10.

Sorcerer (elemental form)

 * Elemental Apotheosis: Fire, Air, Water: +20
 * Elemental Apotheosis: Earth: +25

Stalwart Defender enhancements

 * Stalwart Defense stance improves the Physical Resistance Rating by 10.
 * Improved Stalwart Defense - Durable Defense improves the Physical Resistance Rating while on Stalwart Defense Stance by additional 5/10/15.

Tempest enhancements

 * Cores: 2+1+1+1+1+1
 * Dervish (capstone): +10
 * Improved Defense: +1/2/3
 * Improved Parry: +3/6/10 while dual-wielding. (This bonus does not apply when fighting unarmed/with handwraps).

Thief-Acrobat enhancements

 * Spinning Staff Wall: Activate to gain 50 PRR for 20 seconds. Cooldown: 90 seconds.

Warchanter enhancements

 * Rough and Ready improves the Physical Resistance Rating by 2/4/6.
 * Ironskin Chant provides +6 Music bonus to everyone around
 * Warmaster (capstone): +15 Music bonus to single ally

Warforged enhancements

 * Adamantine Durability +4/+8/+12 Physical Resistance Rating
 * Memories of the Last War: +8 Determination bonus

Warpriest enhancements

 * Wall of Steel +3/+6/+10 Physical Resistance Rating
 * Sanctuary For 20 seconds, you gain +20 Sacred bonus to Physical Resistance. (Activation Cost: 10 Spell Points. Cooldown: 1 minute)

Epic Destinies

 * Audience with the Queen (Shiradi Champion tier 6): up to +100 situational
 * Damage Reduction (Fury of the Wild tier 2): up to +6
 * Ephemeral Evolution (Primal Avatar tier 1): up to +15 situational
 * Heavenly Presence (Divine Crusader tier 5): +10
 * Heed No Pain (Unyielding Sentinel 4th core): +10 and extra +20 while in Unbreakable stance
 * Improved Combat Expertise (Legendary Dreadnought tier 2): +20 when Combat Expertise is active
 * Legendary Shield Mastery (Unyielding Sentinel tier 2): up to +15 when wearing a shield
 * Master's Blitz (Legendary Dreadnought tier 6): +30
 * Sigil of Spell Warding (Magister tier 1): +15
 * Standing with Stone (Grandmaster of Flowers tier 4): up to +15 when in Mountain stance

Monsters with PRR
Monsters usually don't have PRR. Some enemies in the newer content have PRR, such as Abishai or Erinyes. When you fight such enemies, you get yellow numbers indicating reduced damage. The same yellow numbers are used for damage reduction, causing frequent confusion (for example ).

Player characters have a few options for reducing enemy PRR, for example:
 * Banishing Arrows
 * Devour the Soul
 * Legendary Dust weapon
 * Taint the Aura

It is not clear if PRR can be reduced below zero.