Damage Soaking

Damage soaking is an damage system whereas normaly, before the update. You would have hit the first hit also the blue hit

It displays as a defence icon.

Some armour has an amazing ammount of damage soaking, E.G Ganodermic is the best mage soaking armour on runescape, with ganodermic armour you can go up to around 65% chance of soaking damage.

With the damage soaking hit, you can see yours hits of over 1000 while they are only at 990 hp, for example, with dharok you hit a 990, Then the player soaks 100 damage, that is 1090 hitpoints showing what dharok is REALLY capable of.