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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 8306270" data-attributes="member: 7030563">Absolutely you can.  As a matter of fact you can do it with a 10 constitution and d6 hit dice. Try a bladesinger! That character will outlast anyone in melee and after 10th level he can outlast most martials even if the enemy starts throwing save for half damage spells.In general by mid levels most enemies will have to roll a nat 20 with disadvantage to hit an optimized bladesinger in bladesong.  With things like bracers of defense and a ring of protection you can push your effective AC to 30 AND at the same time impose disadvantage with protection from evil or blur while you have 3 duplicates running around with mirror image.I have seen multiple bladesingers at my table go several levels in a row without getting HIT one single time in melee even though they were in melee every single fight.  Before 10th level breath weapons and such can hurt them, but absorb elements goes a long way to mitigating even that.Now it is a specific build to do that and such a character  is not going to be able to do a lot of damage and can't really afford to use spells for damage if they are playing the defender role, but they can do it EASILY.  The only thing close is a barbarian and he better have some healing between fights.</blockquote>