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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Ben" data-source="post: 1007099" data-attributes="member: 1396">Has anyone used those armor feats and dex is damage bonus feats?  Are they balanced or do they horribly wreck the typical tank?  Lets say a 1st level human fighter took all 3 of those armor feats (by my calc he could unless some prereq's are missing)  and he had a 16 dex he'd have an AC20 at first level with no movement penalties, etc.  At 8th level he'd have AC25 if he managed to raise his dex to 18 with stat raises (still no magic dex enhancer).  If he took the other dex feats and use a +1 rapier he'd have +13 to hit and do 1d6+5 damage (without weapon focus and spec)A standard armor weilding full plate guy with a shield would have AC21 at first level (full plate and shield with 12 dex if he could even find full plate).  At 8th level lets assume he's walking around with +2 plate and +2 shield that's AC25 and if he's using a +1 longsword he's doing 1d8+5 too.  They look relatively balanced on a quick calculation.  One PC uses up 5 feats (3 armor feats, 2 weapon finese feats) the other PC uses up 10,000gp worth of magic armor.  I don't know about the armor feats though, can you still use a shield?  What about large weapons?</blockquote>