I thank my friend John for these funny comics.

The magic resistance and weakness bug is present on every version of the game, post 1.2.

I wouldn't bother with making a new gear until they patch the game back to how it used to be, since now the only viable builds are Stealthy with tons of HP and a shitload of healing potions. 

To all: 

There's a fun challenge now, for those who are on the final boss of the main quest. Since there's no resistances for it's breath and meteor attacks, try putting the difficulty on Master, no healing potions, no restoration perks, initial healing spell only xD. I've had quite a few laughs fighting it that way, especially since I boosted my HP to 500 and still every breath attack was a OHKO

For those with the PC version, here's an unofficial workaround for the resistances bug from patch 1.2: http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1288179-wipz-skyrim-script-extender-skse/page__st__100__p__19565933#entry19565933.

It's nice to finally go up toe to toe with an Arch Necromancer and soak up ice blasts and fireballs like a boss again

You are joking? Already prepatched PS3 version looked somewhat bad, and they made it even worse?

What the hell. The patch is joke - fixed one thing broken 3 more....

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(from http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-11-13-skyrim-triple-format-comparison-gallery-comparison-gallery
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-face-off-skyrim )

I wonder if they actually fixed anything... Just had to quit again due to the game getting completely unresponsive again in Solitude. Less then 1 fps. Before that I was putting items away on the manequin in my house in Solitude, manequin went invisible. Put books on the bookshelf, bookshelf won't work anymore, books disappeared.

I managed to finish the thief guild quest line by a hair. The resistances bug made it almost impossible to get through 1 of the rooms on the final quest where you get spammed by magic attacks. Dead before you can count to 3. Greater ward did nothing, potions nothing, my 80% magic resistances ignored. Only spamming fast heal and running like hell worked. Used up my entire 600 magicka bar even with the vastly reduced cost I can cast fast healing at. The difficulty is totally inconsistent now.

After a fresh restart I can walk for maybe an hour before it gets choppy again.

Meanwhile I started a new char, see how far I can get in the main quest while staying lvl 1. Apart from having to run from a frost troll it's all very easy. Draugr death lords that can now 2 hit kill my lvl 51 char, are easily dispatched by my lvl 1 char with a crap bow. World levelling is awesome...

Oh well it's still fun to play when it works. Couple more days and I should pass my Oblivion play time.

Edit: next glitch. ps3 is currently checking and restoring the filesystem after the game locked up again and I had to shut the ps3 down with the power button. Is that standard since 4.00 or did something go badly wrong?

It happened after I had to walk back to Solitude since the "you cannot wait/fast travel when guards are after you" message would not go away even though I was far beyond Morthal already. The guards were paitently waiting outside Solitude for me to come back... I get the option, I'm with the guild look the other way 600 ish gold, pay of fine 40 gold, WTF? -> so I pay of the fine it loads and puts me back into Solitude, then I pull up the map and the game locks up.

Solitude is a pain in the ass.

the patch has made the game run a little more smoothly, still experience some hiccups here and there


also I'm looking for a good one-handed sword; hard to believe i'm still using the skyforge steel sword, I enchanted it with fire and my attack for one-handed weapons up 60% so I guess that's what's been keeping me afloat.

How much smithing do you have? Dwarven and Elven swords are better than Skyforge and you only need 30 of Smithing to get them. Also, you can try to find the Ghostblade on Ansilvund Excavation. It's at 9 base damage, does 3 points of extra damage ignoring armour ratings and it's improved with Ectoplasms (you'll need Arcane Smithing - Smithing 60 - to be able to improve it though).

it's somewhere in the low 20's...looks i got some training to do...

There's a cheap way to increase Smithing, if you're interested: 

For only 1 Leather and 2 Leather Strips, you can spam forge Hide Bracers to increase your Smithing to whatever level you want. I don't recommend doing this often, as this can overpower your character way too much.