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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BobTheNob" data-source="post: 5902588" data-attributes="member: 82425">The shield bonus's get pretty big. I remember this from the Infinity engine games. The only time I ever had a 2-handed weapon weilder in those game was BG2 and thats only because there happened to be a really top notch Holy Avenger in that game, otherwise I wouldnt have bothered.Why? Well, when shields give massive AC bonus's you end up saying "Am I really willing to give up my +5 tower shield for 8(9?) points of AC just to do a little more damage?". Well, without an absolutely AWESOME two-hander to justify it, almost never.Lets face it, once you have a +5 longsword and a +5 twohander, the damage difference between them is negligible, and giving up 8-9 points of AC for that is just not going to happen.I acknowledge alot of this discussion comes down to the difference in damage output of 1-handers vs 2-handers and how 5e will handle that, but without that knowledge I wouldnt be jumping the gun on how much AC a shield should offer.</blockquote>