You know what would really solve the OP's original complaint? A mod that changes resist magic back to working how it did in Morrowind, minus the protecting against diseases (since there is a new effect for that). Back then it didn't protect against fire, frost or shock, so those resistances were still useful.



Is there a mod that does this? If not, is it even possible to change how Resist Magicka works?

It is possible using available techniques, but would require you to change nearly every spell and magic effect in the game. The level on incompatibility that would cause is pretty severe. Someone may have attempted it even so, but I'm not aware of it.

Okay, if what you're thinking of is more elegant than the following, I'd like to hear it. All I can come up with is using AVUncapper to prevent Resist Magic from ever hitting 100%, and then doing a bunch of math and adding Weakness to Elements effects to counteract any Resist Magic on an actor.

Actually, I was mistaken. There is no way to do this with existing techniques (ordinary mods, scripts, etc.).

I do not completely understand the game mechanics, and as such my questions may sound incredibly, incredibly stupid. But...

With the AV Uncapper Settings, a decay of 1.85 = 84.28% actual resist at 100% in-game resistance. Correct? And I can't break the 100% in-game resistance cap unless I uncap the max resistance, correct?

Does AV Uncapper resistances affect ALL resistances, or just those brought on by magic/enchantment effects? I know potions can become pretty overpowered as well, which is why I've been avoiding heavy use of Alchemy.

Your numbers are correct. With the decay rate at 1.85, 100 points of Resist XXX will reduce damage from XXX by 84%.

The "cap" on resistances is that you cannot block more than 100% damage (which makes sense). You can have as many points in a resistance as you like, so long as the damage blocked never is greater than 100%.

There are several different categories of resistance, which I won't go into here. At the moment, AV Uncapper affects all resistances except Resist Disease and Resist Water Damage (this isn't used in the vanilla game anyway). A future version will affect these two as well. The only kind of resistance that would come into alchemy, though, is "Resist Poison", which AV Uncapper generally makes weaker. AV Uncapper will not make poisons or potions any less powerful. If that is something you want, you should look into one of the many great alchemy mods available.

Are you sure? I was under the impression that it's used to give certain Daedra immunity to the lava in Dagon's plane. Not that I've verified this directly, but it should probably be checked before the 100% behavior is eliminated.

Of course someone would have to specifically activate diminishing returns on RSWD for it to matter, so now that I think about it, this isn't your problem.

As far as I can tell, 'ResistWaterDamage' is used by no vanilla scripts, and only one vanilla spell ('AbImmuneToWaterDamage'). The spell itself is not used by anything, so there should be no actors in the vanilla game with this effect.

Edit: It's actually used by two spells, the other being 'SESheogorathImmunity'. However, the effect on that spell has a magnitude of zero, so even assuming Sheogorath casts it there are still no actors in the vanilla game with this effect.