I'm a nord, I have the 50% resist elemental damage block perk as well. I am fighting a Briarheart at level 24. His ice spell just took off a about 2/3rds of my health. Is this glitched or something? Not even dragons blast me for this much.

What difficulty are you playing on? I find it only to be an issue when it comes to Master or Legendary. The mid-range spells are available to boss-casters REALLY early and that can really screw you up. I tend to get 100 Alteration on melee characters purely for the 30% absorb chance of Atronach and the 30% magic resistance perks. It's well worth it if you can find a way to train.

I still play a Frost Mage that does the same thing to NPC's.

Any Mage that can cast an Adept Spell will cast it at least Once in Combat, and the Adept Spells all have an Area Of Effect. AOE Spells ignore Wards, and do not need to be accurate to be effective. The Frost variant has an "effect over time" added as the "cloud" passes opponents, which makes it especially effective.

I also use Alteration on all of My characters because the Perks have been responsible for My characters surviving Mages.

This it it. ^ Mages are glass canons. They deal HUGE amounts of damage but have generally speaking less health than otother archetypes.

A shock, damage magicka or absorb magicka enchantment is your first solution to stop them from spamming adept Spells.

Your second solution are potions. Same effects as before plus a damage magicka regen effect. Damage magicka regen potions are always at 100%. Only the time raises when you raise an alchemy level.

Third solution: When you are hit by a storm, move sideways. This way you can prevent to be hit twice or thrice, which is exactly what is happening to you. That cloud will continue harming your character as long as you're in it. When you can't move sideways, use Become Ethereal.

Good luck!

Not glitched at all -In fact, be glad he wasn't using lightning. Welcome to the level where the "stronk nord who trusts only in his steel" just doesn't cut it anymore.

Time to get serious son

Plus the fact that npc spells scale unlike ours which means they hurt a lot so he better start researching enchnating and up that magic resistance.

Ha ha. That made me laugh. Son, there are many methods to defend against mages- atronach stone, lord stone, alteration perks, potions of resist element, poisons of paralysis, wards, distract them with conjured creatures, use archery from a distance and float like a butterfly, or sneak attack those [censored]es!

If he's patient and doesn't want to turn to the cheapo crafting, just keep an eye out in the stores for magic resistance rings, and amulets. Do the quest in Riften for the temple of Mara and that will net you I think it was 15 percent magic resistance. There is also the lord stone if you don't mind taking it as your sign for an additional 25 percent. Should be able to stack enough resistance to take the bite out of enemy mages if you don't want to turn to magic.

And by the way, if you think that's bad, don't even try Meridia's quest for dawnbreaker. You want frost magic? I got your frost magic right here!!!