» Fri Dec 03, 2010 7:37 pm
Remember that 50% resist + 50% resist = no damage. 50% resist + 50% reflect/aborb = half the damage, half the time. On the other hand, if weakness to frost is thrown at you (and I'm not sure if anything will do that), your resistance would always drop if that's all you have, whereas you get a chance to reflect or absorb that spell with the mixture.
IIRC the weakness spells do appear in leveled lists of spells that enemies can have, but the random nature of the lists means that they will rarely have both a frost damage and a weakness to frost available. They may be using a weapon with both enchantments, to which your defense is staying out of range!