Intercept Strike is triggered by an ally taking physical damage.
Which step of the attack/damage oder of operations does that fall under? Dp you wait until damage amount is known and being applied? Or does the reaction come earlier, when amounts aren't known, but the type might be?
When you take the damage in their stead, you gain resistance to all damage. Does this mean energy damage too, despite the trigger limitation? For example, an ally is attacked by a flaming longsword. Since it's dealing physical damage, it qualifies to trigger your reaction (or at least I hope it does). Once it is diverted, you apply your resistance once to the physical damage and again to the fire damage. Is that right?
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I would assume for the first, it would need to be after the damage is known. Much like the similar trigger on a shield "You would take physical damage...". Both for symmetry with shield block, and because you won't always know they take damage until resistances/weaknesses are applied, which requires know the original damage.
On the second, I would guess only the slashing damage is resisted as "You gain resistance to all damage against the triggering damage equal to 2 + your level."
And the only damage that triggers your reaction is physical. You would likely require Intercept Energy for it to reduce the fire damage.
What happens to the other types of damage?
Does the Guardian only get the triggering damage? Does the energy damage eg fire damage of a flaming sword stay on the original target?
Do abilities that trigger on a hit trigger on the Guardian or their ally?
If the strike does persistent damage does the Guardian get it? At least they are probably immune to it.
Looking forward to official answers, as it might resolve some of my long standing questions about the whole damage procedure.
Help please I would like and answer to this. I really don't know which way I should be playing it?
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I definitely agree that Intercept Strike, as written, is ambiguous (it also intercepts more than just Strikes, which is misleading). The way I've run it, you specifically just take the physical damage, so the ally still suffers any non-physical damage and other effects from whatever it is that hit them. As written, both the base ability and Intercept Energy seem to work really poorly with mixed damage types, as it looks like you only absorb the triggering damage, with can be either physical or one specific energy type, but I've ruled in my tests that Intercept Energy just lets you soak up all of the damage types that can trigger your Intercept Strike in one go.
I definitely agree that Intercept Strike, as written, is ambiguous (it also intercepts more than just Strikes, which is misleading). The way I've run it, you specifically just take the physical damage, so the ally still suffers any non-physical damage and other effects from whatever it is that hit them. As written, both the base ability and Intercept Energy seem to work really poorly with mixed damage types, as it looks like you only absorb the triggering damage, with can be either physical or one specific energy type, but I've ruled in my tests that Intercept Energy just lets you soak up all of the damage types that can trigger your Intercept Strike in one go.
Well I agree that that is what Intercept Strike says - it just seems irrational and at odds with the name of the ability.
I guess I'll have to go that way too.
I'll also allow Intercept Energy to do both.