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<blockquote data-quote="BluejayJunior" data-source="post: 8137606" data-attributes="member: 6918769"><p>But your problem is still players maxing out AC to break the game, not the shield spell itself. </p><p>Without magic items, the highest AC you can get is 20 (plate + a shield). The Shield spell boosts that to 25. And that is limited by the number of spell slots, so only available for a set number of rounds per day. And to get access to it and increase spell slots, you are not improving in your other class. </p><p>I have never seen (or heard anyone else talk about) the extreme AC optimization that you apparently have. But that problem still comes from your game/players. If you are seeing this often, your game has too many AC increasing items. I don't enjoy playing with the type players who want to optimize to that extreme (but to each their own, there is no badwrongfun). If your players are okay giving everything to one character to make them impossible to hit, then that just hurts the other characters.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BluejayJunior, post: 8137606, member: 6918769"] But your problem is still players maxing out AC to break the game, not the shield spell itself. Without magic items, the highest AC you can get is 20 (plate + a shield). The Shield spell boosts that to 25. And that is limited by the number of spell slots, so only available for a set number of rounds per day. And to get access to it and increase spell slots, you are not improving in your other class. I have never seen (or heard anyone else talk about) the extreme AC optimization that you apparently have. But that problem still comes from your game/players. If you are seeing this often, your game has too many AC increasing items. I don't enjoy playing with the type players who want to optimize to that extreme (but to each their own, there is no badwrongfun). If your players are okay giving everything to one character to make them impossible to hit, then that just hurts the other characters. [/QUOTE]
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