You do not necessarily need to take the damage for this to proc. Works with absorbs too.
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Focused Will triggers from crits that are fully absorbed. However, for non-crits, any damage that is absorbed will not be considered for triggering this. (That means only if the non-absorbed damage exceeds 10% of your maximum health, you will receive FW.)
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Tooltip
Melee attacks against you cause you to gain Focused Will, reducing magic damage you take by 5% and physical damage you take by 15% for 8 sec.
Spell facts
Datamined from the current retail build. Numbers that scale with level or stats are shown at their base value.
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