And this fight is certainly not commonplace in what happened when we fought toe to toe. That was one hell of a final spray of iceneedles to take away 50% of my hp and lucky that spellbane just did nothing.

you don't need as much save vs spell gear if your spellbane gives you -21 svs on average and bless/warcry is another 14, and resist magic and resist arcane and the bonus save chance from spellbane, but the RNG can decide to just flick you the bird still as shown above.