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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4129427" data-attributes="member: 40961">That might be true, with a sufficient number of incoming attacks.  See previous posts about when +3 AC is worth the same as a reroll.Lets say your opponents are about to attack you, and somehow, magically, you know what their attacks will be.  They will attack once for 3d10+3 damage, which will hit on an 11+, and four times at 1d8+1 damage, which will hit on a 13+.  Apparently the first attack is a daily power like the pregen Fighter's or something.Overall, your expected damage that you suffer is 9.75 for the first attack, and 2.2 for each other, for a total expected damage of 18.55.  Not a good round for your character (for simplicity I ignored critical hits, they don't change things much).If you have +3 AC on you from Shielding Smite, this shifts the odds.  Now you suffer expected damage of 12.325.What if, instead, you have a Wizard ready and willing to cast Displacement on you?  Well, that makes things a bit tougher, because lets say the Wizard isn't going to waste his per encounter Displacement on you for a measly 1d8+1 damage.  But if you get hit with the big attack, he'll use it then.Your expected damage is a little more complex to calculate, because there are some conditions involved, but the net result is 13.675, with a 50% chance that your wizard ally never had to use up his Displacement power because the big attack missed on its own before he decided whether to expend his ability.  In my view, the latter piece of information makes Displacement win the comparison, even though a slight edge goes to Shielding Smite in terms of damage prevented.  Maybe it doesn't to you, but it does to me.Now, I can construct examples that make this change.  I could have all of the attackers attack versus Reflex, rendering Shielding Smite useless.  I could have one gigantic attack and no little attacks, making Displacement better.  I could have 10 ranged attacking minions try to pepper the character all at once, making Displacement useless.  I could do a lot of different things.But I chose this example essentially at random.  The 3d10+3 ability is about what I remember the pregen Fighter as having for a daily, so it served as a benchmark, and 1d8+1 seemed a fair "generic average hit" type number.  It seems fair.</blockquote>

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