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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 6392944" data-attributes="member: 6716779">Ding ding. You can invest in AC if you feel it matters, personally I would rather be a better bard. I would rather penalise the opponents attacks on me rather than worrying to much about my AC since we are theory crafting AC 15 being the limit. Our bards AC is 17 from mage armor and a ring of protection+1 and 16 dex. Cutting words, the diviner forsee ability, and the light domains flare ability can all help. How useful AC will be will depend on party composition, magic items, feats, party size and how other PCs have built their character etc etc etc and to many variables. I would not say AC doesn't matter but I would not focus a huge amount of effort towards it. The lore bard in my PC party is 1/6 PC and getting to her via the other 3 spell casters and fighter+polearm+sentinel feat can be difficult and even if you KO her there are 5 other PCs to deal with including a wizard and 2 clerics. Its not really the lore bards job to be on the front lines most of the time and AC 15-17+ d8 hit dice is not really that much worse than anyone else in the party at lower levels. I had a deadly encounter on Thursday night, 2 Hill Giants (intelligence 5) and a frost giant. The bard used hypnotism on one of the giants which flunked the save while the other 5 wailed on  the other 2 one at a time. The war cleric ate the critical hit and went down, the sentinel fighter locked one of the giants down, the bard hid behind one of the other PCs for a +2 cover bonus to AC and any rocks lobbed at here reduced the giants attacks per round by 1 each and would have to get past cutting word+ diviners foresee ability. So even if the rocks hit said bard she just reduced 6 potential attacks to 2 potential attacks. Thats assuming I as the DM meta gamed creatures with an intelligence of 5 knowing how to break concentration spells. Even if they tried they have to hit AC 19 + cutting words+foresee. I think she used vicious mockery after that and let the damage dealers do their thing.</blockquote>

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