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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turtlebuster" data-source="post: 5959656" data-attributes="member: 6696221">^Sure, to gain +3 shield bonus to ac they have to be in one of 12 adjacent tiles. But lets say that they aren't and that a large sized tank like this is threatening a knot of enemies around him. If the rogue/ninja is flanking one of those enemies he would at the very least gain a +4 sacred bonus to ac from the domain feat, +3 deflection from Shield of Faith and all enemies threatened by the tank would take a -4 on attacks towards him. +11 effective ac for the rogue is fairly solid and that is basicallt worse case. The rogue is a tumble sneak attacker so if he didn't want to full round he can end every other turn next to the tank for the additional 3 shield bonus, 1 dodge from  white raven defense. Now the deflection bonus he may have from his own ring right now, but even still thats one item that doesn't need to be focused for future gp expenditures. Saving a whole party from buying +whatever rings could translate to some unforseen bonuses. Probably not, but it DOES scale by cl, the domain feat bonus scales by ecl so those 2 are worth it purely for never having to trade them up or out.</blockquote>