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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nai_Calus" data-source="post: 5055333" data-attributes="member: 79670">Yes, exactly, it wasn't a feat tax because it was Deva-only. If it HAD been open to everyone it would have been a feat tax. Deva-only was IMO the only reason that it didn't get hate for being such.And yeah, the errata was too slow. Pre-errata I bemoaned IW being Deva-only because I personally felt it to be a big enough issue to be *worth* a feat tax on. (I still bemoan it, but at least it's not as bad.) I dunno if they just took forever to catch on or what, but urgh. You really don't see how not losing 3-5 AC while unconscious on top of the 5 you lose by default would be somewhat of a deterrent to the DM, who instead of CdGing you while you're down, by a lot, might decide to hit someone who's still up and doing damage instead? If you're down but only by 5 like every other Defender would be, say you're L2 and you've got 21 AC normally with ISW, you've still got 16 AC and there's a somewhat reasonable chance of you actually being missed, DM will probably go for the conscious guy still doing damage who has, say, 17 AC. If you're down by 9 due to losing your warding, you've got 12 AC and chances are really good that he's going to hit you period, giving him no real reason to look elsewhere instead of potentially getting rid of that annoying guy who's usually a big bag of too much AC and getting in the way of killing the squishies. What anyone else's AC is while unconscious is irrelevant in that situation. DM's only going to care that right now you'd be so very easy to get rid of.</blockquote>

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