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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 7639695" data-attributes="member: 2525">LOL. Saelorn, the medium armor guy will HAVE A HIGHER AC THAN THE LIGHT ARMOR GUY until level 8 at earliest. Thereafter, they have THE SAME AC. The light armor guy NEVER exceeds the AC of the medium armor guy. A Bard just needs a 14 Dex to match the AC of the light armor wearer for the entire adventuring career. That's it, all they need is a Dex of 14, and they will always be at or higher than the AC of the light armor wearer. They are not leaving any AC on the table by doing that, and given how point buy or standard array works, a Dex of 14 is perfectly reasonable and doesn't take anything away from what they were likely doing all along.  They can taek Charisma ASIs at level 4 and 8, while your light armor guy would have to take Dex ASIs for level 4 and 8 just to catch up to the medium armor guy.I suspect the disconnect here is you are misremembering the armor AC numbers and think light armors start higher than they do, or else that medium armors max out at lower than they do. I think you should look above in this thread, or check again. Your math is off.For someone claiming to be optimizing AC, you're doing a terrible job at it. Medium armor IS THE OPTIMIZED AC. Light Armor is SUB-OPTIMAL. It never exceeds medium armor, and takes more resources devoted to it to just get it to equal medium armor. I say again, I think you are misremembering something. Or else you think a Dex of 14 is somehow a huge devotion of resources to PC classes who have medium armor proficiency (all of whom would likely already be choosing a 14 Dex, as a secondary stat).</blockquote>

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