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Message: <blockquote data-quote="monboesen" data-source="post: 2069134" data-attributes="member: 4647">I did adress the touch AC mistake already, it is as pointed out 19 in humanoid or wildshaped form. Thats still 9 points better.But the animated shield is cheaper. The Wild one will provide 1 less AC for the same price.As for the dragonhide breastplate.Thats straight from the SRD.So our 11th level druid must have somehow aquired the skin of a COLOSSAL dragon. Thats either a Great wyrm Red dragon, Great wyrm Silver dragon or a Wyrm/Great Wyrm Gold dragon. Sorry but thats not bloody likely to ever happen, at least not in my game. Those big bad boys don't just fall over dead when sneezed at. There sure ain't going to be a market trading in Collosal dragon hides anytime soon either. I'm guessing the somewhat cheesy ironwood approach is more likely. That means a Ironwood breastplate which I also covered in that comparison. That leaves druid1 and druid2 with the same AC. But druid1 has a far better touch AC and his armor is always on and never cause penalties or movement reduction, has both hands free and so on. In addition he has saved 10.000+ gp.Still a very good deal.In fact comparing to regular armor is not really the right thing to do. The closest thing the to monks belt is a deflection bonus to AC. Deflection bonus applies in the same situations (I think). Our druid1 at 11th level would have to burn (7*7*2000) 98.000 gp for a comparable deflection bonus. Thats 59.000 gp saved.The 15th level one would have to spend (9*9*2000) 162.000 gp for a comparable +9 deflection bonus, He just saved 113.000 gp.So AC deflection bonus by SRD is very expensive. Could it be that I'm not the only one who thinks touch AC and easy to wear armor is worth something ?</blockquote>

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