Elemental Damage

[Matin]

I will now explain the resistances:
How does partial resistance (pr) work?
Partial Resistance (pr) is how much damage will be subtracted from successful hits made upon the character by the listed attacktype. For non damaging attacktypes, the resistance value affects saving throw and reduces duration. Higher values are better.

Why do I still take damage despite my partial resistance?
Certain attacks (spells, weapons, monsters, et al.) have more then one attack_type. For instance, Comet has the attack_types of Physical, Fire and Weaponmagic. Now, lets say your character gets hit by the Comet spell. Your character has a Armour score of 70 (30% of the Physical damage still get's through) You're wearing Dragon Mail +3 (allows for 40% resistance to Fire, so 60% of the damage gets through) but you have no protection from Weaponmagic - so you take 100% of the damage from that. For simplicity, if the Comet spell is capable of 100 points of damage, your character would lose 100 life points. What if you had resistance to Weaponmagic as well? The total damage would be reduced as well via an equation that is too complicated to list here.