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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thels" data-source="post: 940002" data-attributes="member: 12176">It's all a matter of counterweight... Better protection or better damage. Although doing more damage sounds cooler than having a higher armor, a higher armor can have great use.You could sacrifice a lot more for additional armor. Take Expertise for example. An additional 25% of the time you'll miss, but you get +5 armor back for it. With 3e you can have your armor go through the roof without even needing magic that it ain't even fun.Take a halfling, get a dex of at least 16 so you have max dex with breastplate (or 18 and max dex with chain shirt). Take a large shield and get expertise and dodge.+1 racial+5 armor+2 shield+3 dex+5 expertise+1 dodge+2 defensive fightingArmor Class 29 at level 5. Heck, it even allows you to have armor class 25 at level 1 (26 if you go full defensive). Of course your hits totally suck, but who cares. The idea is that you hold off the bad guys while your friends prepare some moves and/or spells to finish them off.Not enough? Sidestep to Sorceror for one level and get that shield spell. If you got that dex of 18 or higher, the shield spell offsets the bonus of your armor+shield together. They say it gets nerved to +4 in 3.5e, but that's not really true, since armor and shield will be different bonusses, so it'll stack up with your armor bonus. It might even stack with TWD, since you don't need to hold your magic shield in your hands.Another option is to get a level in rogue, and get tumble at 5 ranks early on. Raises your defensive fighting by another point. This one ain't worth it IMHO, since you could still take tumble the normal way from level 7.Now consider that that armor is without full plate or magic items, as well as without any PrC or Feat not found in the PHB. Add those and armor gets insane very fast, so that monsters hit you only on a natural 20 and never critical you. Could be really worth it if you can stand the idea that you're not the one doing the killing.</blockquote>

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