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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4500077" data-attributes="member: 40961">I think your feat gets the job done.  Maybe not the way I'd do it, but it gets the job done.Its a little clunky mathematically.  Let me see if I can think up something that takes less thinking.......A warlock with a 14 Int will have an acceptable AC if he pumps Int.  If he doesn't, he falls behind by 3 over the course of his career.  He won't fall behind at all until level 8.So... what about a paragon tier feat that boosts AC and which has prereqs that will be essentially unattainable for a star pact warlock who chooses to pump Int instead of pumping both Con and Cha?Sideways PathsParagonPrereqs: Star Pact Warlock, Con 19, Cha 19When you gain concealment due to your Shadow Walk class feature, you gain +4 to all defenses instead of +2.  At level 21, you gain +5 instead.I really like this option.  Con and Cha of 19 are close to unattainable at the paragon tier without putting some of your discretionary points into both stats.  Even a half elf would have to buy 16s in both stats, costing him 20 of his initial points and sticking him with an Int bonus of 12.  He could do it more easily if he waited for this feat until epic, but that's probably fine.Making it a paragon feat handles the timing issue pretty well.  The curve isn't quite as smooth, but it should be smooth enough.  Its a little frontloaded at the paragon tier, but who cares.Best of all, its elegant to tie it to an existing class feature.The biggest danger is that players will see it and not understand that it patches the AC issue and opens up a dual-path star pact warlock option.  They'll think its just some fancy benefit.  So they'll take it and continue to whine anyways about not having a free AC bonus to fix the fact that they're not pumping Int.But I still think its a cool feat.</blockquote>

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