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Hello!

My character got Magical Barrier level 4.
When I take off all armour and jewelry my resistances show +5 instead of +20.
This can't be right.
My helmet got Magical Barrier +1, before I take it off my poison resist is at 65, but as soon as I put it on again it shows +60, regardless if I repeat this.

When I level Magical Barrier to 5 something funny happens:
Every time I take off and put on that helmet my resistances decrease by 5.
This goes on even with negative numbers.
Saving and loading the game restores the resistances to some positive values, but not as high as they should be; they get down to -5 as soon as I take off all armour.
It's just as if Magical Barrier wasn't in effect at all.

The game version is 1.0034A if that helps.

A couple other people ran into problems if their learned skill level and equipment bonuses for Magic Barrier added up to 5 or more.

Try using iZakaroN's SaveEditor (or from Kiya's site, with description) to unlearn a level of the skill, or switch to a different helmet. You could use also DAD's item editor on a different helmet to recreate your current one, minus the skill bonus, if you are so inclined.

You can use the save editor repeatedly to raise your resistances. The resistance bonus when learning Magic Barrier is applied immediately, so if you remove all skill points from it, load the game, max the skill, save, edit and remove skill points, load and re-learn the skill, you can slowly replace the lost resistance points.
Resistances can also be hex edited; see Some more hex offsets... (and for reference, Teleporting Anywhere, via hex editor).

Thanks a lot I'll try this.
Hmm, I feel a bit grumpy.
I spent hours on shopping for the right items to balance and boost my resistances, but that bug ruined my work.
I don't understand why, after so many bugs have been fixed even including some resistance issues, this still doesn't work right.

[color:"orange"]I don't understand why, after so many bugs have been fixed even including some resistance issues, this still doesn't work right.[/color]

The problem is fairly rare (I may have found an item with a Magic Barrier bonus at some point in my game, but not one that I ever used), and I don't think the cause was known before the last patch was released. There were a couple people who applied the patch to fix the original resistance bug that were not helped by it (which may or may not have been due to this issue), and then some time later someone experimented a bit with learning Magic Barrier and using an item with that bonus, and found the problem started when the two totaled up to 5.

When Larian was creating the patch, they may not have been able to reproduce the problem, they may not have tested this case, or they could have tested it, but something changed later may have caused this bug or negated the previous fix.