Ideas
This first screenshot is from my (ally code: 958-429-689) GAC battle vs MINIJenoke (ally code: 582-361-943) on 7/26. His rey was taking considerably higher damage than anyone else. I can't fully explain this, because the damage reduction is also applying to barris who had naturally taken a turn at thus was at low TM.
I will follow this comment with another screenshot as it does not want to all attach in one, it shows that even this type of behavior is inconsistent because sometimes people at lower TM will take full damage. Overall this level 6 is deeply bugged and it appears whatever fixes were made to prevent situations that happened with this effect in other factions (ie, Krr taking 1 damage against an SLKR that was hitting for millions) have broken the DC at a core level including it's functionality leaking into other factions.