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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stoutstien" data-source="post: 8475331" data-attributes="member: 7020569">Unless you are a thief that is.On the topic at hand, AC is basically damage avoidance which is only 1/3 of the damage triangle with the other two sides of reduction and denial. The easiest way to think about it is the stronger one side of the triangle gets it inadvertently reinforces the others. For example if you have 1 AC and get attacked 5 times with a +10 attack and 5 damage per hit you could expect to take ~24 damage. If your AC jumps to 17 it goes down to 17.5 or of you could avoid one of those attacks it drops down to 19. If you do both it drops to 14. Now finally you could have something like an ally with interception fighting style that reduces one attack to 0. With all three sides it's down to 10.5. Some classes have very strong support to one side like barbarian's rage reduction and high(er) HP or artificer's high built in AC so it's a natural tendency to keep stacking in on but more often than not you get a bigger return with a little investment on the other sides.</blockquote>