I find my Mage to be quite powerfull i can summon powerfull things a can deflect spells with ease, i can one shot most people, but i also notice i can also be one shotted if im not carefull due to my low health, do many other mages have this issue?

i have this issue with 600 AR and 500 health sometimes....I hate the new archers since the 1.3 update.

never been killed with a single shot. but I imagine that it will happen if you play on a high level and never level health. pure mage characters are a bit weedy.

I noticed somthing diffrent about the archers, where can i find info on 1.3?

Well, on my first mage, I felt rather weak. Mages were definitely overpowered in Oblivion, but they are underpowered in vanilla Skyrim. I could hurl ten fireballs at a bandit and he would just keep fighting, whereas I could only take a few swings of his sword before running out of health. Most of the time, I found myself running around in circles, waiting for my Magicka to recharge.

That's why I love being a PC player. I got a balancing mod and now I can play on higher difficulty than before and still be a lot more powerful. Yes, I still have to watch out for archers, mobs, traps etc, but I like the tension as well. Gotta keep alert.

Draugr deathlords can be funny sometimes

On my first and only mage I did get one shotted often.

There is a site, i reallyhave no idea if it is something that changed with the 1.3 update, it could have been 1.2, but ever since the 1.3 update, i have gotten one shotted by draugr deathlords......and this is with legendary glass armor, 600 AR, and 500 health....I was like WTF?! Then sometimes they can hardly dent my health....it confuses me.

Yeah, it has happened a couple of times. Has also happened to my warriors to be one shotted by powerful mages when magic resistance is low. Kinda to be expected I guess, and I have no problems with it. A mage requires quite different playstyles, for obvious reasons, and I do everything to get any ranged fighters out of the way first, then run away from the rest

the difference between 600DR and 667DR is 30% less damage.

Its weird somtimes i feel like the most powerfull creature in existence, then i get chopped by some bandit....

BALANCE YOUR GAMES BETHESDA

No freaking way! I'm playing on master difficulty with less health and about 700 armor. . . Archers barely nick me. And they didn't hit that viciously when I only had 600, either. I wanna hear how this is possible!

the armor rating is capped at 560, where 80 percent of all physical damage is blocked. So thee is no way i should get one shotted...ever.

Thats what im saying, sometimes it happens, and sometimes they hardly hurt me, perfect example, got unrelenting forced 3 against a wall today, landed, one arrow from a draugr, dead, reloaded, same draugr, same bow, he shot me, a CM of my health was gone...seriously....wtF?!

Mind boggling. His bow is clearly touched by the forces of pure chaos.

SHEOGORATH!

Armor cap is at 667. Depending on how you arrived at the armor rating, it could be that 567 hits the cap too, but is by no means a given.

you can one shot with a mage? are you using mods or playing on a low difficulty?

also, if my warrior wouldn't have the shield perk + magic resist enchants he would get one shotted by this huge ice spell from npc mages

I found I don't really need any magic resist enchants. With over 300 HP there aren't any spells I've encountered that will one shot you (on master). Dragon's breath can come very close, possibly even doing it, but you watch your HP deplete over a period of seconds. I maxed smithing, enchanting, 1 handed, armor, and got high restoration. Long before my HP bar is a concern, I can just heal damnge off. I wait to cast heal when I feel like flirting with death a little more. Gotta love the paladin route and grand heal! : D Well, it's really more of a battle mage since I'm wearing ennchanted gear that's well smithed.

duel wield stagger perk problem solved unless you are a little slow and do not move and cycle targets

mages are supposed to be one-hit killed, that is always a given, what is annoying, though, is when your a heavily armoured beast of a man and you get killed by a single arrow (although i have not had it happen to me, i imagine it would be annoying)

Never happened to me either. I can't wrap my head around it with AC as described above. Doesn't mean it's impossible, though. : p