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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kraydak" data-source="post: 4172640" data-attributes="member: 12306"><p>The thing is, the devs are making noises about gear being less critical.  If you are budgeted a 1AC/level in gear (whether that be in magical pluses or base value is immaterial to this), you *cannot* afford delaying upgrading.  Worse, if the AC increase is coming from armor type rather than enchantment, you need to dump your old suit, basically every level.  It is much harder conceptually to turn steel full-plate into mithril full-plate than to turn +1 armor into +2.  What you are suggesting is on the outer edges of plausibility.  I'm not willing to entirely discount the option, but it would be *wierd* and very counter to other 4e design decisions.</p></blockquote><p></p>