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<blockquote data-quote="DanMcS" data-source="post: 1869311" data-attributes="member: 6530">What level are they?&nbsp; At high levels, AC is basically good for keeping the enemy mooks and secondary iterative attacks from hitting you; you can never keep up with the main bad guys' main attacks.&nbsp; To put it another way, a fighters of a given level can always hit with his first attack.&nbsp; In our last game, I had a monk that (through the vagaries of a Deck of Many Things) ended up being 5 levels higher than the party, and higher even than the main bad guy.&nbsp; Had an obscene AC, and it just didn't matter.And for many types of bad guys, AC is irrelevant.&nbsp; Wizards hit your saving throws, not your AC.&nbsp; Harm is a touch attack.&nbsp; Large monsters that grapple use your touch AC.&nbsp; CR-appropriate monsters have high BAB and strength and can hit you anyway.I always found con-buffing items to be more relatively useful than AC buffing items.&nbsp; When the enemy is hitting AC 30 on his touch attack, my AC didn't matter, but my hit points kept me in the game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DanMcS, post: 1869311, member: 6530"] What level are they? At high levels, AC is basically good for keeping the enemy mooks and secondary iterative attacks from hitting you; you can never keep up with the main bad guys' main attacks. To put it another way, a fighters of a given level can always hit with his first attack. In our last game, I had a monk that (through the vagaries of a Deck of Many Things) ended up being 5 levels higher than the party, and higher even than the main bad guy. Had an obscene AC, and it just didn't matter. And for many types of bad guys, AC is irrelevant. Wizards hit your saving throws, not your AC. Harm is a touch attack. Large monsters that grapple use your touch AC. CR-appropriate monsters have high BAB and strength and can hit you anyway. I always found con-buffing items to be more relatively useful than AC buffing items. When the enemy is hitting AC 30 on his touch attack, my AC didn't matter, but my hit points kept me in the game. [/QUOTE]

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