Elemental reduction against hits not working in trial of Sekhema?

I'm playing druid, presently level 84.

Here's the scenario:
I wear veil of night which brings my base HP up to 2474, and I have 1517 energy shield but I have NO elemental resistances. Thus I have been stacking armour with '%of armour applies to elemental damage'

I have 4621 base armour looking at character stats, I have 64% elemental reduction against hits.

While in combat, I get up to 10 stacks of scavenged plating very quickly, which brings my armour to 6470 (65% reduction in endgame areas) and my elemental reduction to 71%.

I also slotted a relic that gave +25% defenses. I didn't note the exact amount of mitigation in the first floor of a level 80 trial but it should be higher than noted above.

Well, I went to the 2nd room of the first floor and was killing the rares in a a cauldron area. Easy kills honestly... I was not injured in any way, until a single non-elite bat demon thing got off a fireball breath attack at close range. It instantly one shotted me. I mean 3000+ life and 1700+ ES instantly purged. I even have a chest piece that makes 10% of damage taken come from mana before life, and my mana was down by more than 500. My honour bar barely moved due to 74% honour resistance, but I simply fell over dead from the damage.


Either that fire orb breath attack is not coded as a hit (as non-hit damage like burning ground isn't affected by armour) or the trial is simply not calculating the reduction properly.


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This might explain why a single hit from the twin golems on the second floor also one shots me whether its cold or fire. Fire typically triggers my ignite charm if I survive the hit but the cold hit absolutely demolishes me.

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Another hypothesis: Although my character sheet shows () for all resists, perhaps on the back end, monsters in sekhemas are hitting me as if I have the resistances on my gear, which equates to -40%, meaning a 40% increase in damage taken if the helm's 'no resistances' were ignored.