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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 4577277" data-attributes="member: 3146">Not quite. The tempest gains his bonuses in light armor or chainmail. I expect chainmail to be the default choice.And, despite the common presumption that the tempest fighter sacrifices defense for offense, he actually has better defenses than the typical 2handed weapon fighter. Chainmail=+6 armor. Double-sword defensive property +1. Two Weapon Defense (bonus feat) +1. Thus, the default AC of a tempest fighter in chain mail is 18. The default AC of a great weapon fighter is 17 (10+7 for scale armor).The tempest fighter also has the option to go for a higher AC with light armor and maxed dex (18 starting dex +hide armor yields a base AC of 19 equal to the sword and board fighter), but I do not anticipate that happening frequently because of the attraction of getting marked scourge+Pitfighter double wisdom damage on every hit. At that point, the double sword tempest technique fighter only needs to get his starting wisdom to 15 via level bumps and from then on he will qualify for heavy blade mastery at level 21 with no further increases, leaving all of the rest for wisdom.This also enables the tempest fighter to handily solve some of his stickiness issues with Heavy Blade Opportunity at 11th level. His single opportunity attack may be less threatening than a great weapon fighter, but dual strike is going to be more threatening--especially with Marked Scourge.</blockquote>

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