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<blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 5747028" data-attributes="member: 35909">Umm...as a switch hitter it's incredibly suboptimal, but you want a switch hitting xbow user, so I guess it's about as good as can be.&nbsp; Saving a feat on crossbow master helped, but waiting till level 10 for IPS is pretty painful.I'd drop the armor down to a +1 and with the money saved make the buckler +1 (so you end up with the same AC), get a +1 cloak of resistance, and still have 1000 gp to spare.&nbsp; Really, don't invest too much into the armor in general, you're going to want to switch it out for mithral breastplate / celestial armor / mithral chain shirt after a while anyway.&nbsp; Even now it's blocking off some of your dex bonus (still better overall than chain shirt, so good call, but it has no place in your arsenal within the next few levels).Realize going melee means taking a -1 to hit due to buckler and losing its AC bonus...again, switch hitting&nbsp; = bad idea. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />How attached are you to that animal companion as opposed to say...a more optimal one?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="StreamOfTheSky, post: 5747028, member: 35909"] Umm...as a switch hitter it's incredibly suboptimal, but you want a switch hitting xbow user, so I guess it's about as good as can be. Saving a feat on crossbow master helped, but waiting till level 10 for IPS is pretty painful. I'd drop the armor down to a +1 and with the money saved make the buckler +1 (so you end up with the same AC), get a +1 cloak of resistance, and still have 1000 gp to spare. Really, don't invest too much into the armor in general, you're going to want to switch it out for mithral breastplate / celestial armor / mithral chain shirt after a while anyway. Even now it's blocking off some of your dex bonus (still better overall than chain shirt, so good call, but it has no place in your arsenal within the next few levels). Realize going melee means taking a -1 to hit due to buckler and losing its AC bonus...again, switch hitting = bad idea. :) How attached are you to that animal companion as opposed to say...a more optimal one? [/QUOTE]

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