[Bruno]

The problem is that Armor Divisor overrides the "stops one point of basic damage" part of the sentence - it doesn't stop as much. Therefore the question of whether that impacts how much is ablated.

If the attack has an armor divisor because it melts holes in things, that certainly sounds like it should still be doing horrible things to the armor. But if it has an armor divisor because it's out-of-phase or partly made of weird exploding neutrinos or otherwise exotic and noninteractive, the argument that it should still make proportional holes in the armor starts looking weaker.

But you pay the same for both versions, and if anything the magical phasing attacks would seem to be the one that should be MORE expensive, and yet they seem to be less effective (philosphically - at the moment both cases are indistinguishable in the rules).