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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mengu" data-source="post: 4723227" data-attributes="member: 65726">It's 3 feats (4 if you want specialization), and you qualify for it very easily if you are a Con based barbarian. You are not exactly improving on your role in the party, but if you're human and have the extra feats for it, I think it's a decent approach, if you spread out the feat acquisition a bit. You could start with chain and a superior weapon, that's helping your defense and your role. Then at second level grab scale. 4th level maybe a barbarian feat or a racial feat, or weapon focus. 6th level you could upgrade to plate. Not a bad plan. If he's obsessed with plate I guess he could be wearing it at level 2 as a human barbarian, but I'm not too fond of builds that ignore their role with feats. For high AC, the Half-orc can almost compete with plate. You can fairly reasonably start with 16 Dex, which puts you at the same level as scale, and you also end up with considerably higher reflex defense. The advantage of the plate build over this, is that you can focus more on Constitution, and dump dexterity.</blockquote>