title. So i had this mod that rebalanced magic and dual casting, i dual casted ice storm at this apprentice conjurer who was warding. My ice storm was 56, and dual casting it (with the mod) made it 56x3=168 damage.

And the ice storm dissolved on contact with the apprentice conjurer's ward. On adept difficulty. Which is ridiculous. And no, it wasnt out of range, i was practically attacking him at melee range. I've had this happen before when another mage's ward blocked my 168 damage fireball (dual casted).
Does anyone have this problem? I had to kill the guy by hiding and summoning a frost atronach to wallop his [censored].

It's probably caused by the mod you're using.

Are you parsing your game? Please tell me you're not.

Sure it's not the mod that improves the ward?

from my experience, it seems like npc wards will stop your spell no matter what. If the spell was big enough it pops the ward as well, but it gets stopped all the same. I dont think its a numbers thing.

It could be that even if damage exceeds the HP of the Ward, it will still block all of it (and be destroyed in the process).

My advice, and feel free to ignore me completely : don't worry about numbers, just enjoy the added challenge. At least it's a change from the innumerable 'Skyrim is too easy on master' threads.