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stick to just Solaufein. AoF + DoE + Hardiness = 85%, and if I knew the stats for the Yellow Dragon Scale I'd add them too. So, basically, all you can do is lower his impressive Magic Resistance so you can lower his impressive Saving Throws so you can hit him with a spell that won't be blocked by the Death Ward.
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OK, so if you've dedicated most of your game to making Solaufein hard to kill in melee, for the dozen rounds while Hardiness lasts you will succeed in giving him 85% damage resistance. I'd still rather carry a stack of 5 pro-mw scrolls.
Adamantium Golems have more resistance than that and they still fall to concerted attacks. Solaufein can as well -- the Eclipse fight and the Demogorgon guardians are excellent examples. A few enemies whirlwinding him (or just attacking him with high rates of fire) will suffice.
As for the magical attacks: some hypothetical PC I might posit with the Cloak of Cheese and the Belt of Inertial Barrier would be even more protected from damaging spells. Haer'Dalis in ToB starts with 15% physical resistances and can get (if memory serves) UAI. 15% + Jansen + DoE is non-trivial and doesn't rely on hardiness timing. If you look hard enough, the extant NPCs can already play these games.
I'm not going to argue that Solaufein is weak. Sure, he's strong. But so is everything else in ToB, notably including Player1! Player1 (or an NPC with that chainmail) can get immunity to all weapons for as long as it can cast pro-mw. I'd fear that more than Solaufein. Other examples abound. There are many cases where I'd rather have Keldorn's active dispel magic than Solaufein's passive magic resistance.
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You're absolutely right. Let's give every recruitable NPC 50% physical resistances,
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If you're not having fun with the mod, don't play with it.
You asked facetiously earlier why I bother with IE modding. You may want to see if you can come up with a realistic answer.