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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 4726260" data-attributes="member: 82106">Note also, though a few posters sound like they have forgotten this, the spirit companion is a conjuration, it does NOT provoke OA. It is a spell effect, not a creature and thus technically is neither an enemy nor an ally. It also cannot be used for flanking for essentially the same reason (there are powers that modify this though).Given that area and ranged attacks cannot affect the spirit companion either, it really is not likely to be targeted all that much. In most combats the enemy gains relatively little by attacking it. At best they do a small amount of damage to the shaman, probably a good bit less than their attack would do to some other party member, and cost the shaman a minor action, which probably isn't a big deal.The only times I can imagine a spirit companion being attacked is possibly if it is positioned in a spot that the enemy really needs it to go away from RIGHT NOW (remember it will likely be right back there next round). Other than that monsters may randomly take a swing at it when they have nothing better to do or to try to get it out of their way so they can move, but that's about the size of it. So really the thing is hardly a vulnerability to the caster at all.Note that not only could you have chain proficiency, but you could also pick up parrying dagger. Technically it probably doesn't count as a dagger implement (only rogues can treat it as a dagger according to AV) but you can always try to get your DM to give you that one <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Failing that you can always pick up light shield proficiency on top of chain proficiency. It has the same str prereq and gives you another point of AC and maybe more importantly a point of reflex, which you'll also be hurting for.</blockquote>

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