Hey guys currently running pretty smooth game of mainly skyre+ deadly dragons with a few other mods its simple. But to me it seems that magic resist gear does exactly squat. I was testing it against an elder dragon and i take the same damage naked then when I put magic resist gear on. What does defeat damage well are Wards. They work really well. What's the deal here? My 90% resist ward makes every breath do as much damage as my girlfriends attempt at a punch yet magic resist gear (85%) does zero! I ended up killing it at least (barely lol).

I remember an old play through (like a month ago) where I did not have skyre on but I did have deadly dragons and resist gear worked well.

Mods list (how do you do a spoiler hide on an iPhone?)
PS on the old play through. I never fought an elder dragon. Does deadly dragons make their breath unresistsble with gear? Making you use wards against them?

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I can't speak for SkyRe (don't use it), but using elemental & magical resist gear is the primary way to mitigate damage from DD. So either you have some sort of conflict, SkyRe (or another mod) is reducing the effectiveness of resist gear, or you simply don't have enough resists. Usually 70% is around the ideal level to comfortably fight a Dragon at higher levels.

Ya my resist us definitely at 85%. If you look at my mods Skyre is the only thing that changes combat etc. everything is else is patches or armor mods. And the wards work well. It's got to be skyre.