bracers of armor and armor magic special abilities stacking??

[patch]

hello all

It states very plainly that the AC bonus from BoA and armor do not stack, however what about the special abilities? ie if you have spell res on a BoA +2 and shadow leather armor +1 would that come out to be a AC +2 with spell res and shadow figured in? any comments would be appreciated. or a source to read up on.

 

[Greenfield]

Bonuses of the same type don't stack. Bracers of Armor +2 would give a total AC bonus of +2.

Leather Armor with Shadowed on it would also have to have a +1 enhancement (you can't add magical properties to armor without it already being at least +1). So your Shadowed Leather Armor would give an AC bonus of +3.

Bracers would be useless, except against non-corporeal attacks.

But let's pretend that we were comparing the Shadowed armor to Bracers of Armor +3, to make it an even comparison.

Your total AC bonus would still be +3. If the Bracers were AC +4 then they would be the clear winner, and the AC bonus would be +4.

Other properties of the armor, however, would still function since it isn't the magic armor that's negated/ignored, just its AC bonus. The Shadowed property would still function normally. There's nothing there that stacks with it.

 

[Sekhmet]

Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: Your grammar is off, but you have the idea. Greenfield clarified perfectly well. If you have Bracers of Armor +8 (the highest) with Spell Resistiance, and Shadow Leather Armor equipped at the same time, your total armor bonus would be +8 (the bonus of BoA), you'd have both the Shadow effect and SR effect active as well.

Greenfield is also correct in noting that, in your original example. you'll have AC+3 (Shadow Leather Armor is better than Bracers +2 against everything but incorporeal attacks), Spell Res, and Shadowed.

 

[patch]

Thank you both. just to recap the total AC is which ever is higher( when i made the example i was driving using my phone, didn't have any books to look at exact numbers) and the magic properties stack. P.S. i know my grammar sucks i'm a math guy.

 

[Sekhmet]

Yep.