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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8245185" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Yeah, those things aren't quite as common in our games, and when they are a ranged character usually deals with that threat while the character with the shield deals with the ground units. Or they swap over to a bow or something, and don't swap back until the fight is overThe thing is though, the exact same benefit and rarity (+2 AC) is given to fighters via +2 shields. No attunement. Go up a single Rarity level and you can get +2 Armor, with no attunement. Or if you are a spellcaster, a Staff of Power which gives a +2 AC for attunement... but also +2 Attack, damage, spell attack, a series of spells, charged attacks, ect ectWhy is this item which is a special item for about three classes so much worse than comparable items? You are right, characters who can't have armor have precious few ways to increase AC, unlike people with armor, so why is their practically unique AC increasing item WORSE than magical armor? Especially since all of those items I mentioned, say if you were a Hexblade and could use the staff, armor and shield, STACK. While the Bracers of Defense explicitly can't stack with armor, and taking up one of three attunement slots means it could easily be abandoned for a better item.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8245185, member: 6801228"] Yeah, those things aren't quite as common in our games, and when they are a ranged character usually deals with that threat while the character with the shield deals with the ground units. Or they swap over to a bow or something, and don't swap back until the fight is over The thing is though, the exact same benefit and rarity (+2 AC) is given to fighters via +2 shields. No attunement. Go up a single Rarity level and you can get +2 Armor, with no attunement. Or if you are a spellcaster, a Staff of Power which gives a +2 AC for attunement... but also +2 Attack, damage, spell attack, a series of spells, charged attacks, ect ect Why is this item which is a special item for about three classes so much worse than comparable items? You are right, characters who can't have armor have precious few ways to increase AC, unlike people with armor, so why is their practically unique AC increasing item WORSE than magical armor? Especially since all of those items I mentioned, say if you were a Hexblade and could use the staff, armor and shield, STACK. While the Bracers of Defense explicitly can't stack with armor, and taking up one of three attunement slots means it could easily be abandoned for a better item. [/QUOTE]

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