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<blockquote data-quote="auburn2" data-source="post: 8251789" data-attributes="member: 6855259">That would be great, but this is a long thread and early on Chas pointed out that he draws his weapon ahead of time and has the wizard or another character open the&nbsp; door so he can go in with weapon drawn.&nbsp; If the door opens and the enemy is 50 feet away he is either dropping his sword or losing an attack .... but then they are never 50 feet away in his games either.RAW you can not cast the shield spell while wearing plate and holding a sword unless you have the warcaster feat or subtle spell metamagic and use sorcery points.Further if you sheath your sword at the end of your turn to allow shield spell then you can't get an AOO with a weapon.Either way your fighter is giving up a lot to be able to do this - either an ASI or the ability to do effective AOOs.With Warcaster, this is a viable EK build, the problem I ran into though is he does not have enough slots to rely on that super high AC.&nbsp; He ends up running out of spells, which both means he no longer has the 25 and he doesn't have many other spell options.&nbsp; In my experience bladesinger is better at this because she has a lot more spell slots and spells that give further defensive boosts (prot from good and evil, blur, haste ....).I'll buy that, I do place more value in stealth than in AC.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="auburn2, post: 8251789, member: 6855259"] That would be great, but this is a long thread and early on Chas pointed out that he draws his weapon ahead of time and has the wizard or another character open the door so he can go in with weapon drawn. If the door opens and the enemy is 50 feet away he is either dropping his sword or losing an attack .... but then they are never 50 feet away in his games either. RAW you can not cast the shield spell while wearing plate and holding a sword unless you have the warcaster feat or subtle spell metamagic and use sorcery points. Further if you sheath your sword at the end of your turn to allow shield spell then you can't get an AOO with a weapon. Either way your fighter is giving up a lot to be able to do this - either an ASI or the ability to do effective AOOs. With Warcaster, this is a viable EK build, the problem I ran into though is he does not have enough slots to rely on that super high AC. He ends up running out of spells, which both means he no longer has the 25 and he doesn't have many other spell options. In my experience bladesinger is better at this because she has a lot more spell slots and spells that give further defensive boosts (prot from good and evil, blur, haste ....). I'll buy that, I do place more value in stealth than in AC. [/QUOTE]

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