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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8806185" data-attributes="member: 93670">No not really because it's AC on demand when your own ac fails & does it at no meaningful cost.  Bounded accuracy & monster tohit is tuned so monsters don't hit reliably at all & there's no iterative attack penalties that make some attacks extremely likely to hit.It wouldn't be a big deal if it went back to 2e or 3.x style because there would be an action cost before the attack it blocks or a ticking clock if it gets cast before the combat.  The 5e version uses a reaction, there are very few reactions a player could take & very few of those are things likely to compete with shield making it a no action cost since the reaction is almost certain to go unused anyways.[spoiler="2e shield"]Shield(Evocation)Range: 0 Components: V, SDuration: 5 rds./level Casting Time: 1Area of Effect: Special Saving Throw: NoneWhen this spell is cast, an invisible barrier comes into being in front of the wizard. This shield totally negates magic missile attacks. It provides the equivalent protection of AC 2 against hand-hurled missiles (axes, darts, javelins, spears, etc.), AC 3 against small device-propelled missiles (arrows, bolts, bullets, manticore spikes, sling stones, etc.), and AC 4 against all other forms of attack. The shield also adds a +1 bonus to the wizard’s saving throws against attacks that are basically frontal. Note that these benefits apply only if the attacks originate from in front of the wizard, where the shield can move to interpose itself.[/spoiler][spoiler="3.5 shield"]278 Shield Abjuration [Force] Level: Sor/Wiz 1 Components: V, S Casting Time: 1 standard action Range: Personal Target: You Duration: 1 min./level (D)  Shield creates an invisible, tower shield-sized mobile disk of force that hovers in front of you. It negates magic missile attacks directed at you. The disk also provides a +4 shield bonus to AC. This bonus applies against incorporeal touch attacks, since it is a force effect. The shield has no armor check penalty or arcane spell failure chance. Unlike with a normal tower shield, you can’t use the shield spell for cover. [/spoiler][spoiler="5e shield"]S h i e l d1st-level abjurationCasting Time: 1 reaction, which you take when you are hit by an attack or targeted by the magic missile spell Range: Self Components: V, S Duration: 1 roundAn invisible barrier of m agical force appears and protects you. Until the start of your next turn, you have a +5 bonus to AC, including against the triggering attack, and you take no damage from magic missile.[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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