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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fba827" data-source="post: 5176676" data-attributes="member: 807">it really depends on the DM and campaign.If you take a spread of the monsters in MM1, there is a slightly higher percentage of monster attacks that attack reflex (someone on these boards did a break down of that).  However, MM2 does balance it out a little (no hard evidence of this second sentence other than read-through observation on my own).BUT, if your DM likes to use lots of undead or devils or some other theme going on, then all MM1/MM2 generalizations don't matter since all the other monsters are less relavent if not irrelavent.So the question is, is there a particular theme in the game so far?  Are you fighting lots of goblins, undead, devils, evil mages, priest cults, etc ?  each of those groups tend to go for one type of non-AC defense over another.Monster roles play in to this too, if there is a particular type that shows up a lot in what your DM likes to use... (based on observation only)  skirmishers seem to go after a lot of ac and refelex, butes and soliders seem to go after a lot of ac and fort, controllers seem to go after a lot of for and will, etc.</blockquote>