Thank you for your response. Taking into account item bonuses and level 3 magic barrier already learned the resistances are negative 35. I have no experience with hexediting. I can roughly piece together what to do but I am not certain of the location of the resistance values and how exactly to affect the desired change. Due to my uncertainty, I will try your suggestion of sequential save-edit-save cycles (learning and removing skill points from magic barrier) and see if the resulting
resistances increases are persistent. Thank you again for your advice
