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bad sniper Jul 25, 2018 @ 9:34am
The Ice Storm spell is ridiculous..
Now this is stupid, I am Level 56 with FULL Daedric armor enchanted, which has an Armor Rating of 1012 and everysingle heavy armor perk fully purchased, and my difficulty Expert.

And yet despite all of this, whenever I touch or stand nearby an Ice Storm spell coming towards me I die INSTANTLY.. I don't even have a chance to react, or drink a potion, because I am already dead. Its really annoying, because whenever I encounter a mage or a soul stone casting this spell, I have to keep trying for 20 minutes until I finally find out a way to kill him without touching that stupid spell.

Why am I SO weak to these f**king spells? haven't got any diseases, or just anything that would give me a vulnerability to Frost in general.

Any ideas how to survive these things?
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fauxpas Jul 25, 2018 @ 9:52am 
Armor =/= Magic Resistance
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alexander_dougherty Jul 25, 2018 @ 9:53am 
What difficulty level are you playing on? because the higher the difficulty level the more damage a spell does to you.

Otherwise get the Spellbreaker shield, it should reflect spells, so they don't damage you.
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bad sniper Jul 25, 2018 @ 10:12am 
Originally posted by fauxpas:
Armor =/= Magic Resistance
Almost all the enchantments on my armor grant Magic Resistance, because thats what I had in mind so I could survive spells with it, turns out it does nothing.
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bad sniper Jul 25, 2018 @ 10:14am 
Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:
What difficulty level are you playing on? because the higher the difficulty level the more damage a spell does to you.

Otherwise get the Spellbreaker shield, it should reflect spells, so they don't damage you.

I am playing on Expert, as I said above. The Spellbreakers a good idea, I just thought that I would've been able to at least nearly survive an Ice Storm spell at lvl 55 with just armor and weapons, I might've overreacted a bit above, an Ice Storm spamming mage was pissing me off badly.
Last edited by bad sniper; Jul 25, 2018 @ 10:16am
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lordoftheapes79 Jul 25, 2018 @ 10:44am 
Originally posted by Frze:
Originally posted by fauxpas:
Armor =/= Magic Resistance
Almost all the enchantments on my armor grant Magic Resistance, because thats what I had in mind so I could survive spells with it, turns out it does nothing.
Do you have any base resistance to increase? A 200% increase of 0 is still 0.
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DrNewcenstein Jul 25, 2018 @ 12:42pm 
If you're not a Nord, Frost Magic will eat you alive.
Resist Magic and Resist Frost are not the same thing. It'd be too easy to simply say "let's make Resist Fire, Frost, and Shock, but then let's also just make Resist Magic Entirely that does the same thing and costs less and doesn't put the player in a spot where they have to choose which one they want to be 100% of!"

From what I can see, Resist Magic is for everything else besides Elemental. Magic is Magic, yes, but that's Bethesda for you.

Although carrying around 3 suits of gear for 3 different elemental resistances and swapping them out in battle seems equally stupid, but that's how they set it up.


Get good at Archery, because Melee builds against backpedaling and spell-spamming mages is as stupid as trying to punch your way out of a gunfight.
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Holy Fool Sehrael Jul 25, 2018 @ 1:11pm 
Well, I always played a sneaky marksman and it is totally overpowered from the beginning to the very end, to the point where even dragons don't mind your existence while sneaking - no matter what difficulty. Its kind of a cheat tho, once done - you can't stop there. (I honestly tried)

Anyways for the problem at hand... Do you use any mods? Maybe look at them, they may change things about magic or resistances or override something that ducks you up. Otherwise I always went well with Tri-Elementalresistance gear since I never needed anything else, given your enchanting skill is at 100 and fully developed.
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Felwalker Jul 25, 2018 @ 1:56pm 
I usually have fire frost red on boots. Fire or frost + shock on a ring and neck to even out. Rings and necklace is were I make the most swaps with def and offense enchants cuz they’re lightweight
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mrwibble Jul 25, 2018 @ 2:23pm 
Ice Storm is horrible. There's no denying it. The number of times I've had my ass handed to me by spell-flinging mages...
Last edited by mrwibble; Jul 25, 2018 @ 2:25pm
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DrNewcenstein Jul 25, 2018 @ 4:20pm 
Originally posted by LibraExAnima:
Well, I always played a sneaky marksman and it is totally overpowered from the beginning to the very end, to the point where even dragons don't mind your existence while sneaking - no matter what difficulty. Its kind of a cheat tho, once done - you can't stop there. (I honestly tried)

At least you tried. I don't find it overpowered at all; it balances the gameplay, considering Bethesda gave everyone and everything the psychic ability to detect an incoming attack from behind and to dodge without expending effort.

I do find it somewhat crazy that you can actually sneak in broad daylight, but then a good sneaker employs camouflage techniques to hide in plain sight, so it's not really all that crazy.

But part of defense is being aware of a threat. If they don't see you coming (or the arrow), they should take massive damage as punishment for relying on sight rather than paranoia.

And you don't have to sneak-attack the spamming mage, you can simply pop them while they're running backwards and spamming you. If only Shock Damage bows actually gimped their magicka so they couldn't cast such a high-powered spell...

Hmmm, sounds like a mod I need to make.
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Zsrai Jul 25, 2018 @ 4:44pm 
Get not only Magic Resist (caps at 85%) but also your Elemental Resists (also caps at 85%) up. If you have both at 85% (one element + generic Magic) you reduce damage by something like 96%.

I'm also pretty sure that if you stand in the path of an Ice Storm you will get hit multiple times... so make sure you avoid it, or at least as much of it as you can.
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Brandybuck Jul 25, 2018 @ 4:48pm 
And people still whine that magic is weak in this game. Go figure.
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Zsrai Jul 25, 2018 @ 5:00pm 
Originally posted by Brandybuck:
And people still whine that magic is weak in this game. Go figure.

Do you have this ready to copy/paste every time someone brings up the fact that Destruction sucks in Vanilla? Or are you just being a complete and utter pedant?
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DrNewcenstein Jul 25, 2018 @ 6:18pm 
Originally posted by Zsrai:
Originally posted by Brandybuck:
And people still whine that magic is weak in this game. Go figure.

Do you have this ready to copy/paste every time someone brings up the fact that Destruction sucks in Vanilla? Or are you just being a complete and utter pedant?

Destruction sucks for the Player, whether casting or receiving. It's great for NPCs, especially those with seemingly infinite magicka and no cooldown between casts, and a shorter dual-charge time.

And I really didn't want to be the first guy to say it, so since you did, I will also add that if you can't dodge a slow-moving spell like that, your heavy tank build is a complete fail.

It's not like they're hurling Chain Lightning or letting loose with Lightning Storm.

Also, Become Ethereal. Find it. Use it. Love it.
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