The Spirit Realm

start with the basics, all shaman need those

I was just looking at Ancestral Guard and it made me think. If you have all of your damage mitigation AA's you should be mitigating around 25% of incoming damage already...if you max Ancestral Guard, shouldn't activating it put your damage mitigation close to 100% until the 5000 hps of damage is absorbed? Or does it count the 75% after the 25% has already been knocked off, so you are only getting 75% mitigation of the 75% that you would have normally taken. For example if you should have gotten hit for 1000, damage mitigation AA's would knock that down to 750, then AG would knock it down to 187 or so?

I have a feeling it is the latter. It would be cool if all mitigation modifiers were added up and calculated at the same time though