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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4498623" data-attributes="member: 40961">The AC problem isn't that a 14 ac is low.Its this.There's a presumed rate of growth for your AC.  As you go up in levels, you can follow two tracks.  If you have heavy armor, you get new materials that provide very big boosts to your AC and which stack with your armor enhancement bonus.  If you have light armor, you also get new materials, but they provide only a small boost to your AC, but if you invest in dexterity or intelligence every level that small boost plus the boost from your increased dex or int will be exactly as good as the boost that the heavy armor guys got from just their metal armor.Barbarians are designed to use strength, then con or charisma.  That means that they have a difficult choice.  They can improve con or charisma, and get a big boost to their class abilities.  But if they do this they can't keep up with the AC growth rate.  They could instead improve dex or int, but if they do this they miss out on a bunch of good class abilities.Imagine if your barbarian had an armor class of 11.  That's what it would be like at epic tier if you continue wearing hide armor and don't put points into dex.</blockquote>