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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FrogReaver" data-source="post: 7797864" data-attributes="member: 6795602">So going back to the shield vs mage armor question.  I'm going to assume shield only provides an estimated +3 AC bonus because you will only use it on attacks that are sure things and oftentimes you just don't know the attack of the creature your fighting to enough certainity to take advantage of it all the way to the +5 range.Even in this situation:  If you face 3 attacks total on different rounds of the adventuring day then mage armor only has about 6.075% higher chance than shield to deflect more attacks.  However, you have a 61.4% chance of not needing benefiting from shield or mage armor.  That's an extra spell slot 61,4% of the time, except that you would have needed to already cast mage armor but you didn't already have to cast shield.I'm coming around to shield being generally better.  It isn't strictly always better but I think a strong case can be made that it's generally better.</blockquote>