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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JonnyDoH" data-source="post: 4735752" data-attributes="member: 82923">Ah, okay, I see your point now, and perhaps I missed it from the earlier posts.  You bring up a very good point; I concede that scaling AC is valuable, and I can recognize the need to boost that up... eventually (when levels and feats permit that luxury).  However, too often players get it in their head to boost that right away-- at the expense of their characters' specialties in the now.The end effect being that you'll have a first level character clad in chain mail but unable to use any of their class abilities because their primary stat is too low.  What's the use if your single Defender dies because the one roll you needed for your protecting strike to save him missed by two points?  Sorry, I've been there.  Better to have everyone specialize in their chosen abilities in the outset, and then generalize as time allows you.  That caveat needs to be added to the whole "Shaman needs more AC" thing.<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=";)" />...Hmm.  In analysing the Protector Shaman's later abilities, it seems as though he has some daily and encounter powers that help make up for the unscaling AC as well.  Not enough to count all the time, but possibly enough to counter a volley or two from those hypothetical gangs of enemy archers.  Check out:  Winter Wind Spirit (L7, Encounter), Rockshield Spirits (L10, Utility/Daily), Fateweaver's Shield (L16, Utility/Encounter), Ironborn Spirit (L25, Daily)</blockquote>

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