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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 7036964" data-attributes="member: 12731">I must say, I realize people like the classic approach of sword and board, but really, I don't see the use case in 5E. Thanks to Shield, an Eldritch Knight already enjoys a ridiculously high AC. In my experience, the number of times you're encountering a baddie big and bad enough for it to easily hit AC ~24 can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Building your character to be effectively unhittable by almost everything simply sounds like an ineffective approach, not to mention boring. As I see it, that extra AC is simply not necessary (unless you play with a killer DM and a considerably more difficult campaign than published campaigns), and you are much better off doing more damage (and thus killing the enemies faster).An Eldritch Knight isn't doing badly if it spends all its spell slots on Shield. A semi-permanent +5 AC bonus is good on a wizard, but it's all but broken on a fighter that already has good AC.</blockquote>