mithral breastplate vs. adamantine chain shirt

[Scion]

oh, and I cannot think of any way he will get his adjusted Dex score above 18, without spending a couple of ability modifiers on Dex, which is silly. Oh, and I guess being reincarnated as an elf, but, uhh, let's not count on that.

enhancement to dex, inherant to dex, and, if you can get away with it, reduce or compression (a double compression would be very interesting for an AC boost! Such an item would be costly, but it could be possible to have a constantly active one if you try hard enough.. talk about a boost to your hide check!).

 

[Bad Paper]

Here's the thing, though: why spend 4200gp on mithral breastplate when you can just spend 1100gp on mithral chain shirt? Is the extra +1 AC really worth that trade-off of the -1 AC penalty?

 

[HeapThaumaturgist]

I'm currently playing a Bbn1/ClrX of St. Cuthbert ... (he's a little hot-headed at times).

I'm sort of in the same boat. With Barbarian speed + Divine Vigor, I REALLY like my 50' movement rate. My big-nasty combat mode, currently, involves Enlarge Person + Rage + Bull's Strength + Bear's Endurance, etc etc, so my AC goes down to something like ... 10. It's an all-or-nothing build. I can get a cleave off of a Strength-Smite with a 30Str doing something like 2d8+24 with P.A. and Brambles.

Me or Him, basically.

But I'm contemplating if I want a Mithril Breastplate (keeping my big movement) or an Adamantine Shirt ... I just sort of conned the Rogue out of a +1 Mithril Chain Shirt, but I'm contemplating giving it to him. At higher levels I'll need huge amounts of spells to get my AC up to anything remotely looking like a miss-chance. I figure I'll do better to try for Stoneskin and Protection from Arrows from the Wizard and hope I can obliterate the enemy before he can whittle me down.

Worked pretty good so far.

--fje