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Message: <blockquote data-quote="comrade raoul" data-source="post: 2728040" data-attributes="member: 554">Quoted for truth. Unless you want to do damage as quickly as possible, a -5 to attack for +5 to AC trade is almost never harmful, and sometimes helpful, when you're trading attacks with a single opponent, and is almost always very helpful when you're being attacked by multiple opponents. Increasing the marginal benefit of the trade by another +5 unqualifiedly breaks Combat Expertise.For balance purposes, this trade should be evaluated as granting shield users an additional +4 or +5 bonus to their AC. Only use this version of Combat Expertise if you think shield users need such a large boost; I think it's pretty clear that they don't.</blockquote>